skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That goes for their software also, absolute junk.

Compared to what? I am a BMW owner who would never recommend this brand to anybody because of its horrible build and software problems.

Thank God for CarPlay!
TÜV should be relatively unbiased, that's literally their job. E.g. they post extensive reports on Total Cost of Ownership. Toyotas have less TCO than most VWs in those reports.
I use Fantastical as a calendar app and it has Openings feature https://flexibits.com/fantastical/scheduling (requires subscription)
"In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present,—I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world? Or have I been made for this, to lie in the bed-clothes and keep myself warm?—But this is more pleasant.—Dost thou exist then to take thy pleasure, and not at all for action or exertion? Dost thou not see the little plants, the little birds, the ants, the spiders, the bees working together to put in order their several parts of the universe? And art thou unwilling to do the work of a human being, and dost thou not make haste to do that which, is according to thy nature?"
Yeah mine is doing ok (2018 Duster). Hasn’t needed anything major doing to it other than tyres brakes and normal service stuff. Driving it to Iceland this year from UK via Norway so will probably kill it at some point.
Even scientists can't help but trusting other scientists. Nobody can rederive everything from scratch.
The current 1001 nights is Arabic and the Middle Persian one is lost. Nevertheless, it is a pre-islamic literature. Perfumed Garden is Arabic and has just been recently translated into Persian.

New Persian literature starts around Rudaki (9th century). Since Islam made sex and showing affection taboo, the tiny fraction of explicit erotica are not studied/known by the general public. Because of the taboo, majority of Persians have not ever heard their parents speak affectionately. And when we study affectionate literature in school the teachers tell us it's about the love for God, and the exams will question us about such love.
Missed a /s ?
> 4 cars in 10 years is 3 cars too many

If you’re constantly totalling them, sure. If you’re re-selling, it’s totally fine to show a preference for new vehicles. I don’t. But I also don’t care that much for cars or driving; to each their own.
The getaddrinfo interface does not expose the fd so you can monitor for readiness. Several languages have the same problem with it, some with similar solutions (go outsources getaddrinfo calls to a thread pool)
I was actually inspired by the Zircon system calls from Fuchsia, which is a capability-based system. Operating on the current process or another one is just a matter of passing the correct handle to the relevant system calls. I'm not familiar with the Win32 API, but I'm not surprised to learn that it has similar facilities (although MapViewOfFile2 appears to be a fairly recent addition).

I'm of the opinion that POSIX is a fossilized design kept on life support, no longer fit for purpose in the modern era. Modern Unix-like are trying to plug in the holes with mostly proprietary extensions and this proposal would be just another one added to the pile... Whatever the future is made of, I do hope we won't have to carry 50 years old design mistakes for another 50 years from now.
20k Bosch diagnostic tester has the Tesla service plan: https://www.automotiveworld.com/news-releases/bosch-integrat... If workshop does not have diagnostic equipment… one shouldn’t bring their car from this century there.
I've been there. The biggest struggle I had was with the constant self-doubts and cynicism. Just when you need the most motivation it seems that everything is against you. All I can say is it's normal to feel like trash during the job search and sometimes things aren't as bad as they seem. It can obviously be hard to believe that after spending like 6 - 12 months unemployed but its true. You're not any more or less as a person. The economy is just brutal at the moment.
Exactly this. My Duster cost me 6 years of Mercedes service fees to buy outright.
> You’re talking past history buying present items. It makes no sense.

The past causes the present. You can only get the present economy by developing in the past.

> seriously jumping to present day Ireland to say past colonialism didn’t benefit England in the past.

I did not use the word "benefit". I said it didn't make them rich. I don't care if it made English people slightly less miserably poor; that still makes it a bad idea because of opportunity costs from eg your sailors all dying of scurvy when they could've been inventing handwashing and toothpaste.

Though if English colonialism of Ireland results in one of them being richer than the other, that does not mean it was good for England. It can be negative-sum, and so it was.
It's mostly a tool to manage research literature. It allows you to add works you are viewing in your web browser to collections. Then, you can create bibliographies from these collections. As a researcher I use it a lot, since it makes working with references much smoother. There's also extra features like cloud syncing and most recently an integrated PDF viewer and annotator. https://www.zotero.org/
I can do that with 1 line of python:

python -m http.server 80

;-)
Merry Christmas! (And again on January 7).
> I seriously don’t think it’s worth comparing Ruby to languages like C++ and the rest.

It is worth comparing any two languages and ecosystems if they are used for the same things, in this case -- web backends.

Anything and everything that has a web backend is a fair game for comparison.
I’ve found that for basic service stuff it takes less time and cost than futzing with garages.
Incorrect.

NFTs used for pictures of monkeys etc are now effectively worthless.

NFTs as a technology, for tokenizing real world assets, is the far more interesting and useful part.

https://www.ledgerinsights.com/abrdn-tokenize-money-market-f...

Watching NFTs from afar and thinking it’s all just JPGs means you only have 5% of the story.
Of course, like I said, libertarianism is empirically verifiably right. Got it.
Would you read my sibling comment I linked, you would know that the toothpaste is not that important. You can successfully brush without it and not have problems. Yes a sugary or acidic diet is worse for your teeth.

The 4-6 minutes and 1-2 minutes interdental is based on an estimate by a professional dental hygienist. The most correct instruction of course being that you should brush your teeth until they are clean.
Here ya go: lorizzle.nl
IPC is both ISA, CPU design and software dependent. You can only use these metrics on manufactured products, not the manufacturing process itself.
> Note this is for a Ruby on Rails application. The slowness is I believe more due to the framework than the language runtime.

Hardly relevant, I'd think at least 80% of all Ruby usage everywhere is in Ruby on Rails applications.
>Who owns natural resources?

Whoever legally owns them, again. I buy a plot of land from someone else in a voluntary arrangement, its mine, because the ownership transferred from them to me with the agreement.

>Private market–based decision making fails to yield efficient outcomes from a general welfare perspective

I asked for an example. The IMF has no room to criticize private capital as having inefficient outcomes for the general welfare, considering how brutal the conditions are in countries that face restructuring, as opposed to the power of markets lifting a billion people out of poverty. Look at the time-price of goods, its very clear what affect government intervention has over your ability to aquire goods.

"Externalities are among the main reasons governments intervene in the economic sphere." - IMF

Absolutely true though, Ill give them that, government intervention is a function for externalizing the cost of buying votes with new spending plans.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38761906
If Apple made a car, I would expect "Preferences -> Logbook -> ["Show logs", "Add Service Record...", "Save in PDF"]" menu, never heard Tesla have one in Settings menu.
No. It's more like a writer describing their creative process. Knowing how someone else gathers ideas or structures text may help you improve your own writing, but that is still a very small part of publishing an original work.
Merry Christmas! Thanks again everyone on HN for being a great source of inspiration and interest
Inverse of a matrix after a row-and-column removal
Please read the sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38761906
>never had any serious issues that were not addressed immediately.

okay but how many serious issues have you had?
That's all very nice if you can charge at home. If you can't, you'll spend a lot of time waiting around.
You should look to niche down to build a Calendly that is 10x better specific group of users - it is going to be hard to make scheduling 10x better for a general audience.

Ex: I've been pretty happy with https://zcal.co which seems to target people who are looking for more personalization of invite links (I've mostly been using it because it is cheaper than other options for all the functionality I care about).
The fact that phishing and scamming are a fine, and not immediate termination/referral to the cops is embarrassing
There's also ViMusic, which is open source: https://github.com/vfsfitvnm/ViMusic/
A bit like JabRef then? That was what I was using when was in academia but that was 15-20 years ago.
I guess not, but local consumer protection laws at least provide a stick to beat trust into them when found out.
'hi, we're contacting you about a brand new insurance--' AHHHHHH----
cal.com does exactly this
This year Tesla is ranked middle of the pack by CR but '21 and '22 it was bottom 5 for reliability, not to mention that whole Rueters article from last week.

Like this isn't the data point.
>There is plenty to improve in the US, sure, but it's a better place than the majority of the world, why on the world do you think people go there in the first place?

Its a desirable place to go to place BECAUSE of prior generations rebelling against the status quo.

When the Civil Rights Act was being debated, there was a push by the south to "not go too fast". The argument by the south in 1965 was that African Americans should be grateful that we have "separate but equal" and "look how far we have come from slavery"?

[1]:https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/integration-moved-fast-m...

We are experiencing the same nonsense today. Frankly I don't think we would have as many immigrants as we do if it weren't for all of these achievements that immigrants can take advantage of on day 1.

As a child of immigrants I see a common tendency of immigrants in my communities to not rock the boat. In fact Trump has stated that he will consider deporting any immigrants who express support for Palestine. They effectively have this sword of Damocles hanging over them their entire lives. Now you could argue that since they are 'citizens' they have the full suite of rights as anyone else. They only have those rights until someone decides to test the limits and then they don't anymore.

The children of immigrants born in the country have a very different outlook. They don't have the same mentality to not want to rock the boat. They are the ones who push major reform.
"90% of everything is crap"
Well, at least the Dacia Logan parts are cheap as peanuts and readily available. Plus, the mechanics inside are simpler and you can find a repair shop pretty much everywhere.
VW don’t even support CarPlay though. I am stuck with an android POS that literally does nothing other than take up dashboard space, and a phone glued to the front of it. Can’t even listen to music as the tuner has never worked, and Bluetooth has a range of about 2cm. Dealer said it’s working as intended.
I bought a GTI in 2018 for $28k. I could fetch North of $20k for it today. Granted its light mileage (37.5k miles). It's still held its value because it was a sub-$30k popular vehicle in a good year for reliability and going into a period of car scarcity.

The big factor is how far above the $30k floor do you reach. A rav4 hybrid keeps a much higher percentage of its value than a rav4 prime.
"he who makes a beast of ones self, rids the pain of being a man"

So much to say about human behavior here... Anyways, one should try it sometime, can be liberating even in small doses.
This is for bulk senders. I imagine it's hard to negotiate a new contract with a different provider on short notice, especially if your reason for leaving is "ahh, we got fined too much for sending unwanted messages".
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all.
Isn’t Zotero already self-hosted?
Suggest passing the cost and the openai api calls through to us. eg we provide an openai api key. Just make it very easy for us to stay in control.

If your target audience is techie, you could maybe provide us a short python proxy script, that we run on our laptop, and that calls openai for you. Your website then connects to this somehow.

This would reduce load on your server, improve lag for us, and avoid cost issues for you.
Yes and no. I like paper. I love the paper
Experience. Nothing so far seems to be able
to replace it. Is this old fashioned?
I just passed my teenager years. So I
Am not that old.
There Are Plenty of Family Dynasties in Media. Why Not in Tech?
> a quadrupling in public debt since the financial crisis of 2008

It’s up less than double, relative to the economy. Given there is public and political attention on the issue, it’s not critical. (Your figure doesn’t account for intergovernmental holdings, which are closer to an accounting manoeuvre than actual debt.)

TL; DR America’s public debt is sustainable. It’s trending in a dangerous direction and will require minor (as in single-digit percentage ppint) course corrections to remain so.
Exactly like the new generation of JabRef and Mendeley.
> Co-pay is 30%

It's actually better in practice because the state puts maximum prices on all kinds of procedures, and IIRC there is also a maximum annual amount that you can be charged. IOW it's easy to ensure your care costs are bounded.
oh wow, this is the first time I've seen someone else in almaty on hn
Yeah, fundamentally it helps you manage records of documents. Of course you can also attach PDFs and full text (if you have them), but it's the record that's important.

A common use case is in academia - it helps you track your citations and then output standardised reference lists, which is a pain to do by hand.

Other tools in this space are Mendeley and Endnote.
I think there’s also a reporting bias, for example I refuse to believe that Dacias have fewer nitpicks than Alfas, for example, it’s just that Alfa owners might be more ok with ignoring said nitpicks (ask me how I know, lol).
Japan to open nursery places to all children by fiscal 2025
Off Topic;

It fascinates me how much variance there is in peoples searching skills.

some people think they are talking to a person when searching e.g 'what is the best way that i can {action}'
I think the number one trick is to forget grammar and other language niceties and just enter concepts e.g. 'clean car best'
And this is about inspection interval.
It's funny how on the desktop, Windows has more apps and developers generally target it before MacOS. On mobile, it's the opposite where developers make apps for iOS first and release the Android version months/years later, even though Android has a 70% marketshare in mobile.
Oh, heres a perfect example by the way. The government decides to subsidize corn production, where sugar would generally be in a product its now more economical to use high fructose corn syrup because the price signals are distorted. A market failure, caused by government, with the negative effects of poisoning the population and degrading the soil quality of american farmland.

Merry Christmas
I wonder if phishing simulations are allowed. There's nothing explicit in the code of conduct (at least none that I could find with a quick search). Smishing sims are a great way to train staff on phishing, and disallowing them would be somewhat antithetical to their explicit mission here of protecting they users.
Zcal.co is also my favourite calendaring app.

I include meeting links to our Whereby.com account which is by far the best video conferencing app around. No BS invitations, scheduling, codes etc. Just knock and enter the room.
By the time the invasion even remotely makes sense China would already have some 7nm or smaller fabs ready.
Looks like something that can be done with Selenium or any browser automation tool
You can use a pure ruby resolver if you want. For example https://github.com/socketry/async-dns

But that way your sacrificing integration into your system's nsswitch which may want to do something completely different with your requests.

You could also query over dbus which can be async https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/org.... (if you can depend on systemd)
A world with an America unchallenged by anything is also dangerous. Thats how we get a 20 year war with countless innocent lives destroyed, entire regions destabilized and a host of other terrible situations. The country is just that: a country, a collection of humans with human flaws. America at its best was when it was trying to prove the effectiveness of its system over others day in and day out because it was being challenged. Thats how we got a lot of the freedoms and benefits that we have now.
CIA Loses Bid to Throw Out Lawsuit for Violating Rights of Assange's Visitors
Many of these Tesla TÜV inspection faults boil down to surface rust on the braking discs. Tesla's are using regen too much, which let's them accumulate surface rust. This won't fail you in other countries, but it does in Germany since it's part of the braking system. The obvious solution would be a software update to use the breaks occasionally and intensely. I'm disappointed by the TÜV since they do not list the actual most common issues.
Suika Game: How a Japanese home projector app became a viral hit
NYU Student Owns a $6M Crypto Mine
The best way to neutralize those influence campaigns is to solve the underlying problems that cause the campaign to take root.
> I honestly think css-in-js solutions that inject styles into the document head at runtime like Styled Components and Emotion were never really sustainable or performant, and server components just revealed the inadequacy of these techniques.

Sure. But here we have one that happens to be used by most popular UI toolkits. Forget about Mantine, it feels like MUI is in every other project.

Now again anecdotally, outside of the JS community, the approach and attitude of maintaners would typically be:

- how do I make this extremely widely used package have less issues with minimal backward compatibility breakage

- can I additively introduce features that are not prone to the issues

not "I'm starting over"

Just in the article comments there are 5 other people pointing out a variety of issues with the author's new favorite choice. And they're all kinda right - all choices have tradeoffs. That's precisely why only dedication to compatibility and continuity can grow any one of them into something that is still sensible to use while acknowledging its limitations.

This is IMO a more sensible approach to software engineering

- Start with an approach that is significantly stronger in a certain aspect

- Acknowledge its limitations

- Work to ameliorate those as much as possible

P.S. the article about Emotion is also an example of how React's "no wait, this was always a bad idea because <X>" (where X in this case was concurrent mode) is causing rippling breaking changes. Again, this is their prerogative and at the end of the day, they have their own priorities internally at Facebook. But that's not necessarily healthy for the wider community.

Also FWIW, InfluxDB's approach to breaking changes has been compared to "a random npm library" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37206194

> The only data either of us have is anecdata, which is why we're kind of at a standstill here.

This discussion has been also been useful for helping me pinpoint what exactly is different about JS when I'm working with it.

I'm still hoping I was at least somewhat convincing, because I don't think this is a problem that can be tackled without wider acknowledgement from the JS community.
There is a few alternatives like getaddrinfo_a(3) but they have other downsides (fork safety concerns).

If you want more context, you can read: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19430
hey, peer here from cal.com. we have an issue where we track all individual caldav implementations: https://github.com/calcom/cal.com/issues/9990
Many services/platforms are careless/disingenuous when they claim they “train” on your documents, where they actually mean they do RAG.

An under-appreciate benefit of RAG is the ability to have the LLM cite sources for its answers (which are in principle automatically/manually verifiable). You lose this citation ability when you finetune on your documents.

In Langroid (the Multi-Agent framework from ex-CMU/UW-Madison researchers) https://github.com/langroid/langroid
we’ve implemented a number of RAG techniques: our DocChatAgent uses a combination of lexical and semantic retrieval, reranking and relevance extraction to improve precision and recall:
https://github.com/langroid/langroid/blob/main/langroid/agen...
All the code is laid out clearly so can be tweaked. We have companies using Langroid in production (e.g. for customer-support); they especially like the RAG and multi-agent features.

One of the interesting techniques in Langroid is a numbering trick for the relevance extraction stage (having the LLM extract verbatim relevant parts of passages) — instead of having the LLM “parrot” out the relevant portions, thus wasting time and tokens, we have it just spit out the relevant sentence numbers from a pre-annotated passage. We use a tool/function-call for this, leveraging Langroid’s task loop that seamlessly works for tool handling as well as sub-task handoff.

Many interesting RAG applications often require more than simple question-answering (e.g extract structured info, match doc against requirements etc) and these scenarios benefit immensely from having multiple agents (so you get separation of concerns, modularity and easier state management). Langroid simplifies this type of multi-agent setup with its unique conversational task loops, e.g
https://langroid.github.io/langroid/examples/agent-tree/

Colab quick start that builds up to a 2-agent system for extracting structured info from a document:

https://colab.research.google.com/github/langroid/langroid/b...

Among many other things, Langroid also has full support for the OpenAI Assistants API, so you could use the “built-in” RAG from this API, which is a convenience but is a black box, I.e you don’t know what retrieval algo it is using, how it is filling context, and the tokens consumed.
The headline of that article reads like Vogon poetry.
Probably this, yeah. Lease cars as part of your work comp are relatively common in the tech sector here.
Sure because there isn't any Chinese propaganda specially on western media because they aren't they rival. Literally no evidence.

Please do yourself a favor in 2024. Open your eyes. Read widely. Apply logic. There is a geopolitical clash between various players and propaganda is one of the weapons. If you
truly believe that there is a western propaganda but not the Chinese one or any other then you are just hypocrite, ignorant or bad actor.

Your comment seemed little bit offensive so sorry if I didn't get it's sentiment correctly. But ignoring this fact and using one phony study as a counter argument that it's all bs and propaganda does not exist is bizzare.
You are right, maybe we need a new term to describe upper middle class white American detached from the rest of the problems occurring in the country. Frankly, he should know better having started his early years in Newark, NJ and occasionally being on welfare.