skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish HN took place in a physical arena because it would be much easier to identify friends who are operating outside the bounds of honesty, healthy debate and Socratic dialogue - and are just here to praise corporate overlords and protect the popular narrative. This is why I make reference to being downvoted as I genuinely feel a valid criticism is being oppressed by folks with an ulterior motive.

Someone recently asked on a thread - "where have all the hackers gone?" I often ask myself the same question.
ServiceNow’s current CEO is one of SAPs former CEOs. It’s become very heavy on sales culture. On the other hand, they’ve been trying to get customers to stop customizing core functionalities and adopt the platform’s processes. That’s probably not a bad thing overall.

Specific to this thread, though, they have much broader Github integrations available as well, including using git to manage apps authored in Studio, although there are some pain points.

More broadly, I wonder if anyone _really_ wants to be in this space if they’re not developing products specifically for developers as a core line of business. Dynamics and ServiceNow and other platforms and ERPs are great for reporting and tracking, but they often work in completely different ways than developer tooling does because they’re developed for fundamentally different roles.
Why officials aren't calling this year's new Covid shots "boosters"
Creeping Thyme is a good solution.

It tolerates moderate treading (i.e. a family walking on it on occassion or kids playing but not vehicles or wheeled stuff), it uses practically no water, it grows slowly so it rarely needs to be cut, and it only grows a few inches in height at most so often it doesn't need to be mowed at all, and blooms in the spring with tons of tiny little flowers spotted all over your lawn.

It comes in a handful of varieties that all grow between 2-6 inches in height and have a variety of textures or flower colors.
and it gets a very poor return on investment because it is done inefficiently - think of the 60 foot wide roads and everything else you have seen.
> Isn't C the language (x86_64) processors are designed to be fast for?

Yup

I mean they also optimize for Java and JS and .NET and probably Swift and Rust.

But C still takes precedence, I bet
Cado-security/cloudgrep: cloudgrep is grep for cloud storage
This also reflects Britain's hands-off approach to language. If desired, the government could establish a council to police the language like the French:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_Fran%C3%A7aise

This is how Turkey ended up with its shallow orthography: the government designed a new alphabet. Before that they used Arabic.
It's Time for a Revamp
Hello this is Dev-Waffle. I'm going to create a revamp of Hacker news. I will send another Post with the url.
If you're a LinkedIn employee, or were recently laid off, please let everyone know whether you'd apply to jobs listed on LinkedIn, and if not why.
Splunk Sued over 'Frat Boy Culture,' Sexual Harassment Claims
Handy, but is it really easier to type? Or as pleasantly reminiscent of one of the first Unix commands you ever learnt, back in the days when they actually really were multiuser machines? :-)
> When you consider cost/acre and calories/acre, it is also abundantly clear that for all its flaws, modern industrial farming is a technological marvel.

Modern farming seems optimized for the wrong thing all too often: cheap calories. Calories are important (for basic metabolic needs) but not the whole story. Nutrient density and sustainable practices are worth promoting.
For that reason I would never go b2c; in a bootstrapped b2b, if you make 10m-50m/y and some unicorn comes, you can still exist for a long time and this unicorn can buy you even. In an ad based b2c, there is no way.
Well, I think it is just a clear sign of someone who is not interested in a proper discussion, and it is also somewhat insulting: To ask for a reference, when you can just look it up yourself, in about the same amount of time it takes to ask for a reference. Especially if you name your account after Gödel (it's Gödel, not Godel, by the way), then it just shows that you have no clue what you are actually talking about.
This really only works on one-way streets.
Yea, but after doing so, what you learn is too trivial to teach anyone else because there are hundreds of people near you who know way more.

But do it somewhere less advantaged and you become a valuable resource.
Why not use artificial intelligence and cameras to detect the cars, and switch signals based on that? It's 2023, and we still have the dumbest traffic lights that are time based, even in the middle of the night. We should be able to use artificial intelligence and cameras to be able to say "there's no cars come in the opposite direction, I'll turn on the left turn green light and let this car go."
I found this a few years ago at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14754762/can-gitconfig-o... and has been my preferred setup.
Everything out of an LLM is a confabulation, but you can constrain the output space of that confab by restraining it with proper prompting. You could ask it to put confidence intervals for each one of its sentences (ask it in the prompt), but those will be confabulated as well, but will give it some self doubt, as for now, it hasn't been programmed with any. Probably costs a lot more in power to run it with doubt. :)

Edit, I played around with this. It looks like GPT4 has a guard against asking for this. It flat out refused with the two prompts I gave it to include confidence intervals. Maybe that is a good thing.
I'd love to see a machine learning model trained on the resulting data of this. It'd be crazy to see if it can effectively learn and generate realistic looking video as an output.
This is in the USA? I have never heard of anything like that.

The bank would just be tasked with handling the paperwork (underwriting) of ensuring it is a conforming loan by getting an appraisal done and verifying your income/assets so they can get paid by the US government (fannie mae/freddie mac/ginnie mae/etc).

Not to mention that a lender does not get a piece of the collateral's sale price, so why would they care what improved landscaping would do to the price of the home if and when a homeowner wants to sell it?

Your scenario only makes sense if the lender was also getting a piece of the equity.
Telling jobseekers they needed a Premium subscription when they've probably just lost their job and burning through savings is not exactly a genius marketing idea.
The key sentence in TFA is "In essence, they cannot be compelled to be what they are not.". That's a highly theoretical argument and I simply differ of opinion. In essence everybody can be compelled to be what they are not, all it takes is the right circumstances and your Saint will be a sinner and the other way around.

I'm far more interested in the interplay between people and their circumstances than I am in labeling a particular human as authentic or not, it smacks of a value judgment in a vacuum, whereas IRL there is no such thing.
Yeah, but those office workers are not required to learn ML or AI engineering practises, because those office workers aren't data scientists or programmers. Using AI !== Making AI.

Now, to be clear, I'm not saying that AI won't ever become a centrepiece of most companies, I'm simply saying that it isn't at this very moment yet. Half my digital agency clients haven't even heard of Copilot, let alone would they start building AI for their customers.
I'm a little surprised Google doesn't bake all the ads directly into the stream at this point, making it extremely difficult to separate them.
What a great blog about a fantastic looking side project!
Engaged I went on reading, and stumbled on rewind.ai, that too looks great!
Privacy obviously being a crucial issue for something as potentially invasive - continuous automatic screen and audio recording - questions came up browsing the ‘Privacy first’ section:

“Encrypt your data using FileVault -
Apple FileVault works with Rewind. With it enabled your data is encrypted.”

Is there anything Rewind does to make Apple FileVault ‘work with Rewind’? Or is this the general disk encryption that works for everything and anything? Serious question. I want to use rewind but this may be interpreted as gratuitous.

Same feeling when reading “only relevant text-based data is sent to the cloud and is encrypted in transit.”

Does ‘Encrypted in transit’ refer to standard TLS encryption? Again, serious question. Rewind looks great, I just need to be able to trust it.
Mostly because of speed. Roundabouts physically force drivers to decrease speed. One may run a red light, but cement is hard to ignore.
The only use for the linkedin web page is keeping in contact with current or prior contacts. A dozen people can do that job.
> Something better has to be proposed

Absolutely! This is why I question these things. And it strikes me that seemingly some of ideas don't pass the lowest common sense bar...
since pronunciation shift, this leads to a drift from semantic (definitional) spelling.

At least when you encounter an unknown word in English you can more likely understand it even if you aren't sure how to pronounce it. Languages with periodic spelling adjustments to re-align spelling with (ever shifting) pronunciation strip this info away.

> Spelling in English is so hard we even have a contest for it, the spelling bee!

Pfui. In France there is (or was -- I no longer live there) a popular prime time spelling bee, not just for kids.
There are lots of professional journalists and citizen journalists on Twitter spaces getting much more nuanced info about articles, and viewpoints that I see in online or print media.
Qudos to the author for putting so much effort and polish into the original project. Amazing how they kept motivated for all that time without it being out there and being used.
> there exist reasons aside from nerd elitism to choose something other than systemd.

name one.
Is there no possibility that you're misinformed? No room for self reflection?
The amount of glyphosate being used in lawns is not contributing to glyphosate in water supplies. We're discussing industrial scales here.
annoyed me so much i sent scathing reply showing how a previous subscription didn't help me land a job... unfortunately it's a no reply email, doh :(
The Rotax 912 is 30k and up on its own (and made in Europe), so doubtful it’s actually much cheaper there. Probably some savings in insurance; it’s said something like half the price of a new certificated plane is insurance.
Consider the following: Society only emerged because of the ability to manufacture consent.
I agree. It can be a Q&A site where you ask a question and get an answer, or it can be an FAQ style reference wiki where all the questions and answers are perfect and people edit any answer. It can't be both, but it seems like they just can't decide which it should be.
Sorry lol just being honest. I'm ESL so sometimes I guess my thoughts don't translate the best into english but I was just saying you refuted their statement only to bolster it, which I thought was odd coming from journalist. Cheers m8
The last paragraph mentions the impending acquisition by Cisco, which could be one reason for bringing the suit now. Companies are more likely to settle legal claims when an acquisition is in process.

> Silicon Valley telecommunications stalwart Cisco announced in September that it would buy Splunk in a massive $28 billion cash deal, the largest deal ever made by the longtime tech company.

However, it sounds like he was just fired in August, so it could totally unrelated. If so, the timing will give him great leverage.
According to the linked article, it reacts with hard water minerals and forms complexes that last up to 20 years or so.
Twitter left the phase where niche hobbyist networks matter to the growth of the platform. The site is basically where the mainstream convos happen in the “normie” zeitgeist, and the surrounding din of people yelling at each other about those issues.
As a resident of SF, this was probably the best article about SF that I've read in years - it really captures a broad set of perspectives and paints an accurate picture of the landscape.
Probably they didn't anticipate the interest increases.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/12/goldmans-gs-apple-card-busin...

> More than a quarter of Goldman’s card loans have gone to customers with FICO scores below 660, according to company filings. That could expose the bank to higher losses if the economy experiences a downturn, as is expected by many forecasters.

> But another factor is that Goldman’s biggest credit product, the Apple Card, is aimed at a broad swath of the country, including those with lower credit scores. Early in its rollout, some users were stunned to learn they had been approved for the card despite checkered credit histories.

Tldr: having an iPhone doesn't mean you can afford one? :)
Maybe my primary use case is too rare to get much love, but I'm still stuck on Instapaper because so far in a decade of alternatives nobody has quite hit the mark for me; I want to be able to go into my list of saved articles and create a reading list that is going to then be read to me. They should be read in the order in which I select them. It should be that straightforward. I don't need any fancy synchronization of on-screen text with the speech etc, the whole point is for me to be able to queue up a few things and go. Should take a couple seconds.
Besides roundabouts often being bigger and more unpleasant to cross for pedestrians than an equivalent traffic-light junction, roundabouts have a sweet spot - low to moderate traffic, and sometimes heavy traffic when there's a balance of exit usage. When not all exits are used frequently, heavy traffic can starve entrance from roads whose exits are not used. Exiting traffic frees up a gap for entering traffic to use. If there's nobody exiting before your entrance, you don't get to join. Traffic lights are sometimes added to roundabouts to patch this.
It's commonly used in a renovation situation: fertilize and water well in early August to get everything growing, then hit it with two applications of glyphosate spaced about 2 weeks apart to kill everything, then scalp it as low as you reasonably can and seed with quality seed of whatever variety/varieties of grass you want to grow.

If you believe glyphosate is relatively harmless (as compared to a series of 6-10 applications of selective herbicides to achieve not quite as good as the same end result), it's easy to understand why people are inclined to declare bankruptcy on their mess of a lawn and start fresh. Applying it in August, you could have a high-quality uniform lawn by October. (If it's far from harmless, then the series of selective treatments might be better.)

Rototilling to start over just surfaces a bunch of latent weed seeds that are in the top few inches of soil always. To start over, you want to kill everything growing without disturbing the soil and surfacing the weed seeds.
> so fails to support the "i.e. we don’t really know what happened" sentiment

It's less that we don't know what's happening on a micro-level but more that it's surprising that it's producing anything coherent at all on a macro-level - especially with a (necessary) element of randomness in the process.

For most part we don't seem particularly knowledgeable about what happens on a macro-level. Hallucinations remain an unsolved problem. AI companies can't even make their "guardrails" bulletproof.
I choose not, can you convince me otherwise?
This 'rings' with me, when you have to do root-cause-analysis to find out why your phone doesn't ring.

Conceptual complexity aside, for this case I wonder if it's almost a cultural/social problem. Before ubiquitous cell phones, you could be "disconnected", and this was normal.

Now, it may seem weird to say, 'don't call unless it's an emergency'.
> Isn't basically all water outside hard water?

No, many surface water sources are soft. eg, Seattle and Portland municipal water supplies are both drawn from rivers in local watersheds, and have no appreciable mineral content.
Y Combinator Bailing, Web Summit Gonna Be Lonely
Guess by the time it starts it will just be the jihadi VCs...

https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1713937044798603313
Right? There's a reason for all those old "I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn" memes. e.g., https://i.imgur.com/hwfYhHz.jpg
The bloody nose seems more related to the extreme dry weather than altitude to me.

Surrounded by frozen water and still only able to spend 2 minutes per week in the shower is still amazing.
But also a much much shorter attention span and tolerance for BS.

If you ask the LLM to analyze those 1000000 lines 1000 at a time, 1000 times, it’ll do it, with the same diligence and attention to detail across all 1000 pages.

Ask a human to do it and their patience will be tested. Their focus will waver, they’ll grow used to patterns and miss anomalies, and they’ll probably skip chunks that look fine at first glance.

Sure the LLM won’t find big picture issues at that scale. But it’ll find plenty of code smells and minor logic errors that deserve a second look.
Actually because of these lawsuits it's becoming hard to find glyphosate in stores. Most roundup has a new cocktail of herbicides which will probably end up being 10x worse than the original glyphosate.
I've heard many times from motorcyclists that "it saved my life" because of the mental break. Then from non-motorcyclists, "you're going to die!".
It’s important to understand that dams also provide other aspects besides power generation. Many areas rely on them for flood plain management, irrigation etc. so it may be disingenuous to consider all of the negatives as a consequence of hydro power (meaning its not a great comparison)
1962 652.10

1985 1,546.67

2008 8,776.39

What years you pick changes impressions. The 70s were an economic mess though.
Is this the right list?

https://www.morningstar.com/consumer-cyclical-stocks

Looking at the biggest ones, I see a lot of double and triple growth YTD with some single digit negative growth.
Alternatives may be worse:

https://www.wur.nl/en/newsarticle/full-short-term-ban-on-gly...

Or whyelse is it still not forbidden?
Clover invades garden beds. It will choke out an edible garden and destroy the aesthetics of an ornamental garden. It will prevent seedlings from thriving. There is absolutely nothing wrong with not wanting clover to invade your garden beds.
Plus, 90 percent of what recruiters do on LinkedIn is basically already automated by LLMs.
I feel you... I'm still building a banking backend(core, accouting, clients, accounts, payments (sepa + cards), notifications (servicenow-like), sanctions screening, risk/monitoring engine, event flow, reporting), 5 years and counting... Beginning to wonder if I'm crazy or stupid to take on this gygantic undertaking.. and we're yet to design a landing page. With smth like 150k LOC...
Haven't you just described what a "community" is?

That's like saying "turns out, that lego enthusiasts was just making little buildings for each other the whole time and the general public didn't really care"
> some job applications even require it!

I've never encountered this, but if I did, I'd be pretty thankful for the advance warning that I would not likely enjoy working there.
My LinkedIn feed is pretty good, mostly relevant (semi-)technical content that helps me to stay up to date with the industry. However, I have spent quite a lot of time to make it like that by unfollowing people who post or like shit content.
Would probably be shot down or hacked/jammed by the Russians in a day or two
Also, if you try to cancel and give "too expensive" as a reason, they'll give you a discounted rate.
From what I've been able to dig up, the situation has been getting worse over time so workarounds that worked circa Samba 4.8 or 4.9 are not effective on current distros.
Rentals make up a small percentage of single family homes. Around 5% depending on where you are. Not letting black rock buy a home won't save you from the overpaid tech worker or nurse-account power couple from dropping 1.5x the listing price in cash. We know flooding supply works because we've seen it play out. Tokyo is the biggest metro area in the world, with a growing population, and reasonable rents because the government took serious measures to increase supply. Restricting demand by banning corporate investors probably won't help, but even if they did it did the effects would be minor. Focus on the solutions we know will work.
He literally cites not-recent examples (and his list is far from exhaustive) of technological skepticism in the paragraph right before. You can rebut that silly claim with his own text, you don’t even need to reach beyond it.
The problem is one device responsible for too many different things. At some point it gets confusing, and sensible "affordances" become impossible with so many modes of operation.
For what it's worth, I'm an MAU. I have deleted all the old posts that I could and continue logging into the app once a week to ensure that the account does not get deleted. I linked to my account a bunch over the years and don't want it retroactively namesquatted.
Omfg I love this

(I don't own a car)
Fight to launch spot Bitcoin ETF in the US passes another hurdle
It is quite common to have 1-2 retirees living part-time on a quarter acre of urban land in a premium location.

Not saying we should evict random people, but it is objectively a terribly inefficient allocation of societal resources. There's no easy answer.
In this case that's before the next bytecode executes. The write syscall gets interrupted and returns EINTR, then cpython checks what signal was caught and executes the signal handler, before trying to do the remaining write:

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/5f7aba938cf5007b6f954...

Here's even a test for it: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/5f7aba938cf5007b6f954...
I don't know if they're brewing for the world market, but when I was in Dar-es-Salam, I remember ordering Tanzanian beer (e.g. https://untappd.com/b/serengeti-breweries-ltd-serengeti-prem...)
> They're not. Roundabouts with any significant volume of traffic are, for the most part, terrible for pedestrians.

I don't think that's true in general [0] [1]

> Some rare but progressive roundabouts have zebra crossings on every arm which make them much better

Those are just... regular roundabouts? What would be the point on having roundabouts with no way for pedestrians to safely cross the street?

[0] https://www.fdot.gov/agencyresources/roundabouts/benefits.sh...

[1] https://www.iihs.org/topics/roundabouts
What I don't get is crop dissection with roundup and other herbicides.

They'll spray a whole field of wheat with the stuff to dry it out. It's not like you can simply wash off your flour before using it.
I greatly disagree, personally. I don't think enough desktop users gave it a chance. It certainly didn't help that good differentiating features like the better printer stack were just about murdered in their crib.

I still think there was a lot of missed opportunity in Windows 8's implementation of UWP and still wonder what might have happened had it been given more time to iterate and more time to showcase its good sides.

(Also, Fitt's Law suggests that what's good for the touch goose is great for the mouse gander. Carefully thought out "touch screen-first" interfaces can be amazingly friendly to mouse users. Desktop users have become obsessed with reducing things down to the FPS equivalent of a "headshot" target area and have forgotten what early 640x480 Windows was like when even 32x32 pixel targets were the relative size of a barn door and much friendlier to newcomers, tired eyes/arms, and anyone in some state of different ability.)
It seems reasonable that a business would accept more bloat in good times than bad. The risk profile changes when the forecast changes.