skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to remind people that a “default” accent does not exist, and that AI-editing an accent out starts to feel a bit like dystopian identity erasure and homogenization. Even if we scope ourselves to Americans speaking English as a first language, there are dozens of diverse accents across the country.
> were charged

They were sued. That's reasonable. (SCOTUS overturned it. I don't know the relevant law well enough to comment on it.)

Criminally charging executives would be tantamount to putting Ghana's cocoa sector under U.S. sanctions.
How has algorithms and data structures helped you?
How has knowledge of algorithms and data structures benefited you in real-world projects?
I've been studying it for nearly three months, but while coding i still faced a problem that would give the click "hey i could use binary trees to solve this", but something that i actively noticed is the capacacity of understanding abstract things quicker (like OOP). so i would like to know your perspective towards this topic and daily problem that comes up at work.
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> This made our own lives easier as the training was easier

Unfortunately that works until some brilliant mba shows up with a plan to sell 100x more consulting and more training by making the product intentionally much more difficult to use.
> I’ve tried to switch away from… search

FWIW, I’m absolutely in love with Kagi. I do realize the price makes it a non-starter for many, though.
Imagine the savings if the government just ran your entire life for you...
> I loved Houston, TX

Houston is famous for its nonsensical zoning and inefficient infrastructure. It's difficult to react to Houston being "freakishly well-designed" with a straight face.

I've been to Houston and it's just a terrible place to visit, even considering the oppressive weather.
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No, that’s not how any of this works
I don't think they are comparable on the cring-o-meter

I do expect blockchain to become a thing again, but boring and without the coin over the moon. Reason being that it has some interesting things to say about managing trust in an adversarial world, and AI is going to make trust a lot harder. It will be interesting to see where and how they interleave in the coming years

AI is already providing value to people and they are more than happy to pay a monthly or per call fee. This is very different from blockchain that has yet to find a sustainable business model
I’d really love to hear you describe more of this WFH desert devoid of fulfilment, and the living water of communal work. It’s kinda fascinating.
Few people would pay for that though, which is why it's not disclosed. This entire "business model" is based on deception. That it: it's fraud.
> Ever been up on a roof when it's over one hundred degrees outside?

Yes, I absolutely have, on multiple occasions. It's truly no fun.
Precisely an implied part of my point was, server-side caching, DB replication, CAP, etc are all relatively well-understood problems.

One can solve those without reinventing the database, as the article denounces.
Gorgeous little car! Reminds me of the sports cars of the 50's and 60's. But they apparently dropped the hub motors.
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But will people use them?
You think Russia wouldn't invade Ukraine if NATO said no to their membership? You're so naive.
> It's a pity that we don't have more community/volunteer organizations in our country that can get this kind of work done. It's something that's going to be ridiculously expensive and time consuming to have professional crews do. But the majority of the work involved is not particularly difficult or hard.

Interesting idea. I think this would increase civic pride a lot in the US. However, I can't imagine the unionized plumbers present in most of the cities that have lead pipes would be particularly happy about it - they're probably looking forward to a guaranteed job for a few years.
> What does YAGNI even mean if it can stand in opposition of DRY? If it just means "you don't need to do that," and "that" can mean whatever you want, then it's not a useful guiding principle.

> YAGNI is about functionality, DRY is about structure.

I absolutely see where you’re coming from and I agree, the reason DRY caught on and YAGNI hasn’t is indeed the vagueness of YAGNI. But I would equally argue that the simplicity of DRY is what gets you in trouble if you over-optimize for DRY regardless of context.

DRY can be about functionality: if you’ve already implemented a feature, even if it’s a library maintained by another team, as long as the tests encourage your use case, you should re-use existing functionality over creating yet another abandoned half-baked attempt at something.

YAGNI, by opposition, might suggest that the effort spent learning the other team’s library and maintaining a connection to what might be brittle code is itself overhead. A similar debate can be found in using an npm library. DRY would argue if you already use the library, keep using it. YAGNI would argue if the library is only used in one place, rip it out for simplicity and replace it, especially if the code is old.

Taken to extremes, DRY is how we end up with a left-pad module on npm while YAGNI is using padStart built-in to modern JS. Likewise taken to extremes, YAGNI may result in missing functionality and unmaintainable spaghetti code, while DRY is one possible approach to taming complexity in codebases. Both are essential principles, neither actually more important than the other.

I agree with JUCS, but it’s even less defined than YAGNI ;-)
Co-founder GPT – Evaluate compatibility with potential co-founders
This is a GPT that asks two potential co-founders 10 questions compiled by YC and then evaluates their compatibility score. It has an external memory and stores all the responses, so they can be retrieved multiple times. Just make sure to write down your id once it's generated. To take it out for a spin, you can try matching with me. Just answer the questions and then give the GPT my id when it asks: tom8opot8o.
The US has been at war for a long time though. Iraq, Afghanistan, Somali pirates... Ukraine and Israel are some of the proxy wars we have a hand in (how much is up for debate). While what you say is true, weapons do get tested in the field and that wins.
This is very exciting, I really love the LoFi (Local first) wave.

The need to write the reducer in Rust for now is a big bummer. Rust is cool, but JS is easier to get started quick.

ElectricSQL is an alternative which is cool too.
A little bit on why this peak is so hard. First off highly recommend watching Meru(mentioned on the NYtimes article) as the conditions look very similar on both mountains(Meru - being 21k feet), with Jammu being 4k feet higher in elevation.

Judging from the pictures of the climb you have very steep walls which are not entirely ice/snow or all rock, but a mixture of both which means you need strong skills in both rock climbing routes 5.9+(grading for rock climbing, this being very difficult) and dealing with snowy alpine conditions and using ice climbing axes as well as crampons. My guess is they switched footwear from boots with crampons to rock climbing shoes based on the conditions of the wall.

So you have all the skills above and now you have to deal with extreme cold and weather conditions that are positively artic(-30 to -40f at nights). In addition you are at a zone where if someone makes a mistake and gets seriously hurt that person most likely is dead and it could lead to the others in the party also dying, its why picking your partner is really really important.

Lastly the biggest elephant in the room - elevation. Despite how fit you are and well trained this can be a complete blocker, some people just get altitude sickness above a certain height and have to turn around to lower elevations.

So you are doing a route like climbing el capitan but at 20,000+ feet, and unlike el capitan you have ice and snow as well as weather which is never seen in yosemite, so hope this illustrates how difficult this summit was. Hats off to all three climbers and hope that frostbitten finger makes a recovery.
It’s not about fields. Everybody knows fields affect particles. This is about the gravitational potential.
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The aspect of military usage of AI seems definitely in scope for HN
I think this is completely wrong from ChatGPT...
Amazon Hires Elon Musk's SpaceX for Three Rocket Launches
If you want new data, you just fetch it again from the server, and the server returns inherently-fresh data, reasonably fast, along with the HTML fragments necessary for a re-render (over ajax or websockets)
Yea, 100% agree. I'm starting to figure out what that looks like in this issue: https://github.com/orbitinghail/sqlsync/issues/19
There's a wonderful series of books by Carlos Ruiz Zafón with this as a plot device; in the series, the "Cemetery of Forgotten Books" exists as place where forgotten books are treasured, adopted, and remembered.

https://www.amazon.com/Cemetery-Forgotten-Collection-Prisone...
We're already choking under that. It's why so few houses are being built for example. The NIMBYs just delay it forever.
I thought it was the BIOS that was the compatibility issue. That's one of the few proprietary parts IBM had when they released their PC. Clones were built on a reverse engineered BIOS that, for a while, wasn't quite right. I vaguely recall 90% PC Compatible computers or something like that.

Halt and Catch Fire covers this. I could be wrong though.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543312/
> Any company that contracts with the government will require a 4 year degree and it is a hard requirement.

If you're talking about the US government, this isn't true. It is true for certain specific types of contracts, but not most of them.
The UX itself isn't good anyway.

I tried to use this is to create a travel itinerary, TBH, it is the wrong interface for this task, it is slow and it is full of useless information. Ain't good.

The most useful one is probably the PDF reader plugin but now that is part of ChatGPT itself.
I hope to gain wisdom from all political perspectives. Also, I'm from Chicago, and my link was from The Guardian.
I threw Turbo on a static site and did a little preloading and it seemed to work great. https://videovillage.com
> They are clearly responding to the article

FWIW, OP posted a comment on a message board for said article. Per my reading, they seem to be talking generally about sex work rather than the specific sex-work-fraud as mentioned in the article. Surely the comment is at least vague enough that it could be taken either way.
What a nice headline to say that more elderly are killing themselves because their savings have been fed to the bone-grinders and they don't see a way to continue; it's the silver linings that count.
The Mathematician Who Taught 20 Years of Unpaid Classes Because She Was a Woman
I'm afraid that comes off like "If the speaker let it happen it's okay," which just rewards pushiness.

As I understand it, conference talks deliver their message first, THEN have a Q&A at the end where details can get sussed out or corrections issued. Lennart's time to complain or correct was after the talk.
This sounds like it is a good first step and I appreciate someone is trying to tackle a problem that bilks people out of billions a year. Another thing that would help is hitting at the sources of revenue for these criminals. My mother was bilked of Amazon gift cards after she was told she had her identity stolen by Indian scammers and had to provide restitution. She was panicked that her identity was stolen and called me. The first thing I said was did they request gift cards? And of course that answer was yes. This was after she sent them $1500 and they wanted more.

Perhaps there should be some warning that is required before a gift card purchase that warns the purchaser of scams. I know some stores are doing this now when they see someone buying a bunch of gift cards, and sometimes preventing victimization. But perhaps legislation is needed here due to the scale of loss. I am not in favor of a nanny state, but sometimes people need to be told things.
This complaint demonstrates the greatness of democracy, doesn't it?
Yes, thank you, that is the article.
Mech.E + Econ here. As I recall after Intro to Micro and Macro, it was all calculus and statistical modeling.
“It would be unfair to the population to run the risk of the project not being approved simply because it was written by artificial intelligence,” he added.

Then why not just write it yourself?
And theft murder has been a thing for as long as there have been people, as have all sorts of bad things. So what? We can just do anything?
The DoD often goes overseas. Most navy ships are built in Italy (the big ones are built in the US, but most are smaller). Even when things are built internally, the DoD often looks to various allies for critical parts.
Not really. We’ve turned most cities into ghettos to store poor people, so you need to either be connected to get into the better public schools, or have the cash to go private.

The countryside is similar.
What kind of YoE are you looking for? I know a new grad who would be a good fit.
You're welcome! And I'm glad you enjoyed it. Once I thought of that title I had to use it.

My only saving grace is that technically I didn't make a new DB - just using good ol SQLite. Mostly. :)
I think this is one of those times when my Mom, understanding my desire to be understood and to ask questions about motives and related understanding, would observe the, oblivious to me, effect of inflaming the conversation and say, "Charles, this is not the time." :-)
I generally agree with the thesis here that "users and business are under-represented by people that are building and maintaining software", but the greater-than comparison over simplifies it, right?

It's something like "Net revenue" and "net user happiness" trump "code prettiness". Additionally, in the "maintainer > user" scenario, is it all maintainers? Is it one particular maintainer that has strong opinions (maybe which don't reflect what the business cares about)?

I'd suggest to replace the inequality mentality with an optimization problem, like:
Find a version of the code that maximizes user happiness and minimizes maintenance cost.

If there are two solutions that give roughly the same values for the above, then accept either.
This looks to me like the effect of a non-technical user using a CMS and hitting "enter" twice in the edit box after each paragraph. There's no "style" being used - it's probably a purely human enforced convention.

(there are tags, there are <br>'s between each paragraph inside the <p>)
Child labor tends to go away with the increase in GDP.
Appendix A: "Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users."
Sounds like a fun exercise to challenge Rivian's patent with prior art perhaps.
I'm genuinely curious how many people in the open source community are pouring their sweat and blood into these projects that are, at the end of the day, enabling guys to transform their macbooks into insta-porn-books.
You might be seeing the updated color scheme (https://blog.google/products/maps/google-maps-october-2023-u...). My understanding is that the new scheme is intended to better match the real world: roads are grey (!), water is a different shade of blue, parks are a different shade of green, that sort of thing. If you're not seeing it yet on iOS yet you should expect it there too (eventually).

(Disclaimer: Work at Google, but not on Maps.)
Any, none, or all of the above plus sponsorships, ads, competition winnings etc. If an athlete is sponsored they might get a lot of gear and travel paid for along with maybe a cash stipend.

There is a whole spectrum of what it means to be a "professional"
Send in the lawyers, they'll be the only ones laughing all the way to the banks.
it honestly seems like the board isn't a good fit, and they tend to have crazy mental breakdowns that caused the entire company to lose stability

i agree sam is too smart for them, they need to replace the board
Funny! Nice idea.

If this were done as an animated SVG, then it would be quite easy to have this embedded so it is always up to date.
okay that's very clever
CEO and employees are the ones that build the company.

In many places the role of the board is just to fire / hire the CEO. In some orgs they have more roles: getting financing, customers, audit, agreeing on certain things (e.g. investments, or contracts). Sometimes the board also has more prerogatives.

But in general the role is a more ceremonial role that once per year chooses the audit firm (one of the big 4 companies.. so not very hard), maybe makes some obligatory resolutions, like confirming the audit result. Their biggest power is to remove the CEO and choose the CEO's compensation.

Getting a seat on a board of a public company is like free money. Most boards dont meet often. Typical boards in companies represent the shareholders (aka remove the CEO if they want to do something crazy), while in non profits they are usually there to find financing or networking.

So yes, you can get very far with a bad board, because most boards are quite inactive. The members read some documents, maybe sometimes request some data - and that's all.
No, we have standard signs so that everyone knows what it means, they aren't opportunities to display how progressive you are.

As a simple example, could a cyclist use this crossing? If someone comes to that conclusion and gets ticketed/ runs over a blind person, is the sign doing its job? What about LGBTQ speed limit signs that colour blind people can't see?

Traffic signals are designed for _everyone_ blind, deaf, children, the elderly, the 50% of the population that is less intelligent than average.

You could say "where's the harm", but where's the harm in having a simple picture of a green person walking, it isn't meant to represent every single group, (it doesn't represent anyone, it's green!) it's meant to be clear to every group.
what? are you not aware of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, supplied by China and North Korea? (Ukraine JUST blew up a supply railway between China and Russia today) And Iran supported Hamas distracting that war effort?
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Maybe re-read Stiray's post?
There is an interaction here between the "what gets measured gets managed" principle and the sunk cost fallacy.

The problem with databases is actually complexity. Any individual feature is more or less safe, but around the time reliability, caching and indexes get matched together there is a complexity explosion and it doesn't (normally, anyhow) make sense to implement a domain-specific DB (call is a DSD?).

But, around the time a company has invested in implementing those 3 features and discovered that it has sunk a lot of resources into the DSD, is politically averse to recommending it be stripped out and there is a high real cost to taking out the tech debt in one go.

Really the problem here is SQL's syntax. If using a basic relational database was a pleasant experience that involved some familiar C-like syntax instead of broken English people would be more tempted to go with a DB instead of rolling their own. The NoSQL databases were a good step in that direction, but then they by and large overfocused on big data instead of everyday usefulness. Things like Redis took hold which is nice.

Making it easy to run SQL is a reasonable approach, but the problem is that the good databases - I like postgres - are SQL native and it is hard to get efficiency without speaking the DB's language. We really need a PostgresPostSQL database that is a perfect postgres clone but primary parser supports a language with good syntax.
There were loads of VCSs that operated this way. And I don’t miss them one bit.
The problem Israel has is that negotiating with some people they select to make a deal won’t make other people think it’s right and accept it.

You need far fewer than 10% if a population to cause havoc for decades to come. I’m not condoning it, but the reality is that unless settlements are moved and Israel takes some bitter medicine this will reoccur in 10 years time when the next round of radicalised people come of age.

Remember, Netanyahu had been actively using Hamas as a way to divide the Palestinians and make 2 state solution less likely. the approach of Israel over the past 20 years doesn’t make the attacks right or justify them, but it made them more likely because it has humiliated a large enough population living very close to them and left them with no other effective options beyond nonviolent resistance. I wish they had chosen that, but it’s easier to say than live with.