skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are no "moderate" nor "progressive" parties. There's just Democrats and Republicans, which in a global context are respectively center/center-right and right. In a US context, both terms are more likely to refer to Democrats, and definitely not to Republicans. There are some other parties but they are of next-to-no consequence in US politics.

It's pretty hard to say what the terms "progressive" and "moderate" mean in a US context, but I would say that both terms exclude the American far right and populist movements, and are vague as to what they include otherwise. The Overton window has shifted hard to the right in the United States, so it's probably somewhat right of what you may expect from, say, a European perspective. A moderate will probably be sympathetic to limiting immigration, for example, a progressive is likely more in support of immigration. Both groups probably support minority rights (e.g. LGBTQ, Muslim, etc), but moderates less so.

In terms of economics, both terms and parties generally describe liberal capitalist economic policy, which is dogmatically entrenched across the US political spectrum, to the point where most Americans cannot conceptualize economic systems other than liberal capitalism. The main difference in political economic values across the US political spectrum fixate mainly on who pays how much taxes, and subsidies for liberal capitalist businesses. Progressives may be more pro-union, whereas most moderates are generally not.

Moderate and progressive groups can overlap, particularly in a politician who wants to appeal to both, usually by contrasting themselves with the right.

Disclosing my biases: I am an American leftist (or social democrat, if you prefer) living abroad, and I generally have quite a lot of disdain for moderates, particularly in the United States. I'm definitely holding my punches for this comment, though, for what it's worth.
Gathering money to hire people to write the news in San Francisco is pretty hard.

Mission Local is a non profit org in SF that has done really great work.

Many of their articles focus on corruption in the city government, for example
https://missionlocal.org/2022/08/nuru-sentenced/

You can see their funders here:
https://missionlocal.org/our-donors/
> brilliant brain geniuses

If that is ever typed seriously I don't want to be in those comments.
If local politicians don't want jerks (rich or otherwise) talking shit about them, they picked the wrong profession in the wrong country.
That ladder isn't going to pull itself up.
Your conspiracy theory is over complicated.

The entire end goal you describe can be done by pointing to the tweet and the owner of the account is known. No need for any letters to accomplish the same goal.

I can't help but think you just didn't read the article and backed yourself in corner and for no reason keep at it.
>Can't all be like Balmer "DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS" for Microsoft

Marketing/selling products to developers, or enthusiasts in general, is a loosing strategy. They're a small niche that's too finicky and very difficult to please as every one of them expects different things tailored specifically to their own weird usecase that nobody else has, they have little brand loyalty and a high skillset meaning they're likely to drop you and port their shit to the competition or build their own self hosted alternative the moment you don't please them anymore. Not worth it if you're in the business of making shit tones of money.

Making products to please the Average Joe consumers is way more profitable. That's why most niche enthusiast brands end up either going bust, or making a deal with the devil and selling off to giant mega corps, or just emulating the giant mega corps, while abandoning the enthusiast userbase that made them popular. See OnePlus, Pebble, etc.
I think the slow animation + fullscreen notification removes a good portion of the fun of the game. The stats are neat, but I wonder if using a log feed (like a killfeed in call of duty) would be a more enjoyable experience for the user. I love how fast infinite craft is to iterate through the combinations while the "allchemy" approach makes it feel like I have a crafting time attached to every new combination
Social Media Company CEOs Testify on Online Child Sexual Exploitation [video]
And yet somehow Chino XL still draws breath, and sickle cell is what took out Prodigy.
Cannot craft Pottery and Tobacco. Error.
The cause of what?
If you are gasping at this abhorrently poor taste incident, I recommend you stay far, far away from city machine politics. And again, I am not convinced either way about the sender of the postcard.
I think the AVP will really put this to the test, because especially for device like the AVP, 3rd party support is really going to make it or break it for a lot of people.
This strategy works because investors will demand that companies support a popular platform.

I don't know if this will work for Vision Pro because there's still no evidence of mass market appeal for VR or AR technology. Even Facebook's money and marketing muscle hasn't been able to make Meta VR mainstream. Nor is Playstation VR going to get widespread adoption or significant software support until Sony starts bundling it with Playstations which would be very risky by making Xbox dramatically cheaper.

I think companies are making VR devices because they're appealing to their engineering department not because they actually have reason to believe there's consumer demand for such tech. But the popular alternatives to invest in are things like crypto and generative AI that also have open questions about whether the product is actually useful to the mass market.
This is so much fun.

I was just the first to craft MUCK ASTLEY... definitely gave me a good laugh
> Mission Local is one of the best sources of local San Francisco news

OK. Maybe their coverage of potholes is fantastic, but this article is a terrible, obviously partisan hack job. Both things can be true.
My favorite combo so far was Alien + Buddha = Yoda :D
Yeah, he merely quoted a diss track that famously escalated a previous grudge to murder. Who could ascribe anything but jovial intent to that? Why should somebody as famous as Gary Tan expect to have unhinged followers who could be inspired to act?
It's not some obscure story. T.S. Eliot wrote an entire play about the martyrdom of Thomas Becket.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_in_the_Cathedral
True points, and I apologize for missing you actual point and wandering off a bit. We probably need another social model for technological development specifically- but I am not sure what it might be. If there is anything useful to salvage from my previous its that this issue has been with us for a long while.
Yeah man, housing advocates are totally known for being violent extremists, unlike the sups in SF. These people are snakes.
This looks similar: https://www.glowstoregifts.com/products/traveling-bubble-ooz...

But that says it takes 30 minutes, which is definitely slower than even my slowpoke version was at the start.
A compiler in 2024 should be able to handle a function of 100 lines. That's like 1.5 screen heights of code for me, pretty normal! I'd have some sympathy if the function was 10,000 lines, but it'll happen with a 15 line block or a 30 line block or a 60 line block.

I've written code in a bunch of languages and it's the first time that a compiler refuses to compile something, but can't tell me why or which expression is incorrect. "There's something wrong with your function" then I have to go play type checker and hover over every expression wondering what the issue is? I'm just shocked about it every time it happens.
> "Superfluids have long been considered an obvious exception to the Reynolds similitude," Dr. Takeuchi said, explaining that the Reynolds law of similitude states that if two flows have the same Reynolds number, then they are physically identical. "The concept of quantum viscosity overturns the common sense of superfluid theory, which has a long history of more than half a century. Establishing similitude in superfluids is an essential step to unify classical and quantum hydrodynamics."

"Quantum viscosity and the Reynolds similitude of a pure superfluid" (2024)
https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.109.L...
Yesterday, I read someone mock HN as "Corporate Apologism News". Quite accurate in this case.
Benefits of Technology Partners for Cloud Infrastructure Implementation
When I saw "supes" in the headline I thought it meant superintendants, as in people in charge of a school system.

Here it means members of the county board of supervisors. If you live in a place where that's not a thing, it's very similar to a city council or county commissioners in many other US places.
In America, it is a legal and popular pass-time to wish politicians would die.
> as there are those (like me) that prefer an open plan

Do you never have zoom or phone meetings?
This is from 2019 but it does still look like good information.

Although I would imagine the threat is greater now than back then, so further guidelines would be helpful even if most people are not aware of this much.

So the title could realistically be changed to "Why not to be surprised if you fail to find hidden cameras".
Indeed, but no need for everyone to care about such technical terms

Also who's farming crows?
Cancel mobs for stuff like this for Joe Average may have worked in 2018, but now are effectively over. It's equals parts a post-ZIRP cultural shift of companies no longer pretending to care about DEI, a post-Elon Twitter cultural shift for what's seen as acceptable, and a post-Oct 7 shift where, frankly, companies are now scared shitless to take political stances in general because of how sensitive the topic of the current war in the middle east is.
What a terrible human being, why would anyone want to be involved with Y Combinator or any of their companies that would put up with this sort of behavior?
Meme is one thing, a letter wishing you and your families death sent to your home address seems to cross the line. "Haha, it's all just a joke."

The person receiving that is probably concerned they've been doxxed on 4chan by now.

That sort of stuff ruins lives, people do go into hiding.

An online rant really is one thing, but when it starts to be connected to crazies sending letters to your home address - that gets scary fast.
I'm sure his company's legal staff has reminded his employees to not engage in political action while appearing to represent their company. My company sure does.
Makes it look like, or makes it clear that?
Only technical people need to know such things though, in this case, farmers
I think you can hold people to a standard of behavior, but I don't think you can hold anyone to a standard of mental health.
Nobody went into hiding. This is what I mean by "cringey rationalization".
Our Prerequisites Are Never Enough for High Risk
I can’t help but think you don’t understand how politics in this town works and probably didn’t follow this story as it has unfolded over the last few days. This isn’t the first article about the incident, which is exactly the point.
It's fundamentally the same as a job queue, but the difference is that the people writing the job are not creating a running OS process. You literally just write a function, and it gets compiled into a process owned and executed by the job system.

Why would you want that? Well, who really wants to think about the OS, or how to get their data into main()? You just want to write business logic, and FaaS lets your developers focus on that. It's a small development process optimization, but a significant one at scale if you have enough developers / unique jobs being created. And it lets platform engineers focus on the best way to shovel data into main() in your particular environment.
Ask HN: Who should be the next Google CEO?
Sundar Pichai is a resilient CEO, but his time to go will eventually come - especially with the stock down 6% as it is today. It has been said in the past that the big problem is that nobody can replace him as Google CEO...
Lawmakers Seeking to Outlaw Rent Price Fixing Reported by Propublica
Glad to hear you're enjoying it - an excellent item to discover!
Thanks! So they are the legislature of San Francisco city/county, and there are only 11 of them, so it's quite a significant position.
Such that it's already dead?
Title adjusted from "We Found That Landlords Could Be Using Algorithms to Fix Rent Prices. Now Lawmakers Want to Make the Practice Illegal." due to title character limits.
Everyone claims to wants more affordable homes, there's just a disagreement about how to best achieve it, and a certain amount of money spent on obfuscation and practically counterproductive policies (arguably on all sides); property owners are a major political force on all sides of SF politics, and some of them want to keep prices high.

The "progressives" generally want to limit gentrification, prevent renters from being evicted, and add more subsidized housing. The "moderates" generally want to make it easier to build more housing of any type. You could broadly characterize the two groups as "default skeptical" vs. "default supportive" of real estate developers.

But housing is only one point of disagreement (albeit one of the most significant), plenty of people have more nuanced positions than this, and these camps are not entirely uniform across issues. Other points of recent disagreement include Covid lockdowns, what the school board should focus on, how hard prosecutors should go after police misconduct vs. minor crime, responses to the homeless, how much power the board of supervisors should have vs. the mayor's office, ...
> ...it's a crucial pillar for our national security and maritime strength...It's a strategic move for our economy and national defense.

B...b...but I want to monomaniacally focus on short-term market prices, like they're the only thing that matters in the world! Quit cramping my ideological fixation with complicating factors!
Are some combinations just not possible, or am I doing something incorrectly here? For instance, "Dragon" and "Yin-Yang" do not seem to merge (yet logically seem ripe for combination).
A lot of kids are given alcohol as well but I'm still happy to say that as a society we understand the danger of underage drinking.
Ask HN: Finding an Old Post
I'm looking for a post from within the past 2 years that makes fun of safe agile. It was a graphic of a crashing train.
Guns are more lethal and result in more successful suicide when an attempt is made.

So yes access to guns is a problem.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/magazine/magazine_article/guns-...
Pleasing shareholders vs pleasing customers isn't a zero sum game, though.

Apple could probably make shareholders very happy and customers very unhappy, but they can only get away with that for a quarter or so. Their success has been in getting shareholders to be patient while they focus on the customer, and eventually the happy customers pay off for the shareholders.
There's tons of combinations that take forever and nothing ends up happening. That's how I got around to the comment thread (clean+satan is why I'm here): I'm waiting for the latest combination to time out
Re: superfluid quantum gravity w/ Bernoulli's, viscosity:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39139053
Show HN: Intel Clear Linux
There's no need to compile everything to be fast because it's fast out of the box. (My new daily driver)
And I wouldn't want to use dish soap on my $500+ device that isn't designed to be waterproof.
> as in system x has updated y, this triggers a function to update paths to use the latest version

This is the sweet spot. Eventing. Any kind of queue based workload, especially one with variable load is a potential candidate for FaaS kind of architecture. The alternative is a worker-pool specific the workload. FaaS just moves up the abstraction on how processes are managed to a global worker-pool.
You are thinking of gravity as a force and nothing in L1 is at risk of 'falling into the sun'. Radial forces cause orbits to be eccentric.

If you were on a space walk on the IIS and wanted to deorbit your hammer and tossed it down, it would be in an orbit with the same period as you and hit the space station at some point in the future. To deorbit it you would have to throw it backwards faster enough that its closest approach entered the atmosphere.

L1 can be thought of as a saddle shape in gravitational potential with your horse oriented in the direction of travel. With the back of the saddle giving you just enough push or pull to have the same sidereal speed.

Having a periodic oscillation to stay centered on that saddle to make sure you don't roll off the side is the hard part.

That is still a flawed analogy, but the important part is, ignoring gravity assist. The most energy efficient way to 'fall into the sun' is actually to enter an orbit way out past Jupiter and then reduce sidereal speed to hit the sun.

From earth you need accelerate a rocket to 30 km/s to hit the sun or about 100% of the earths velocity, while you an escape the solar system by just going 40% faster.
The other thing is, there's no guarantee that a CEO that genuinely wants the rank and file to ask tough questions still won't instantly fire someone for the wrong tough question. Some CEOs are all about wanting to be challenged and pushed back by their employees until someone accidentally hits a nerve on a bad day, and there's very little recourse for most employees in the US if they get fired because they pissed off the executives.
Because they're intending to be around for the next decade or more, they need to preserve their appearance of probity, and so they'll do fewer things which would make them look bad.
For Christ’s sake, the guy spells Garry with two ‘r’s, did y’all expect that he would NOT turn out to be a lunatic???
Perhaps Twitter needs a breathalyser option for the more excitable executive.
There are legal crimes, and then there are social faux pas that gets one convicted in the court of public opinion.
Adobe gave up on web design products right after they bought Macromedia.
Differential fuzzing is woefully underutilized -- our experience is that it consistently[1] finds[2] bugs that "traditional" fuzzing techniques struggle to discover, and that the primary obstacles to its adoption are harness and orchestration complexity. DIFFER goes a long way towards overcoming those obstacles!

(FD: My company.)

[1]: https://github.com/trailofbits/mishegos

[2]: https://x509-limbo.com/
They want the power, but not the responsibility.
The Vision Pro desperately needs app support to succeed. As it stands, I'm forecasting that most people will try it out for a day or two and then put it away or sell since it really can't do much at the moment. App support is extremely limited on launch day, with even the major developers like Netflix choosing to sit this round out. The steep price point of $3499 does not help indie developer exposure and the creation of specific Vision Pro apps either.

Apple really needs to justify this spending to the end user by having more convincing use cases than watching movies in it.

If I was Apple, I would offer extreme incentives for developers with a proven track record on the App Store, going even as far as offering free headsets for those who have over a specific amount of sales on App Store or apps with over certain DAU and good reviews. At the end of the day, Apple makes at least a 15% commission from sales and even if they were to give out free Vision Pro headsets, they will break even as soon as an app has sales over $23k which is not much at all.
"Left" and "right" are common parlance throughout the world. Where, roughly, "left" favours collectivism and social responsibility, and "right" favours individualism and liberalism (classical sense, not American sense).
I’m talking about gang members, not famous rappers.
because this only matters if you somehow benefit from it; either with virtue points on the internet, or political points in the media.
Agreed I've seen the following downsides first hand:
* Lack of drive and motivation about the project. This drive doesn't isn't necessary to make folks work longer hours, but simply care more about wider impacts of choices they make.
* Increased rate of depression. Human interaction and getting out of the house are important, and while in office work isn't necessary for this to occur, it's somewhat like paying off a low interest loan. You are more likely to do it and see the benefits than you are to invest the money you would have used into a higher yield investment vehicle.
* Decreased physical fitness of my peers (they eat more poorly and perhaps a side effect of depression)
* Lack of empathy for peers. Management just seems to be colder as they don't know their reports as well.

All of these have material impact on productivity, but more importantly healthy and happiness of employees themselves. The effects are not uniform, but there are tradeoffs and it's not clear to me that wfh is better for everyone.
Just hover over your last prompt and an edit icon should pop up under the prompt
Is that actually how it works these days? That any unhinged social media rant results in a firing?
Sega AI
One could make a similar argument about every other major technological advance in history.

I’m not sure why people seem to believe AI is different or special or what leads them to believe you can stop it anymore than the automated loom or the combine harvester.
Great egg. Thanks for posting
I mean AI is helping to discover new molecules, predicting protein folds, etc. Pretty sure it must already be being used to discover new materials as well, hopefully we can throw this sort of thing at it today/in the near future, too.

Humanity as the seed of an idea/initial research and AI as the army of
low-level "researchers" running billions of experiments/analysis; stuff that would take way too many human-years/would be boring as hell for a human to do.
Broadcom is a good example of successful mergers.
Our new blog is on "Tackling Flaky Tests With Cypress and Playwright through Network Synchronization".

Flaky tests are a common challenge in end-to-end testing.

In this blog we would voer the falkiness that comes when UI actions take place before the API response has arrived. We'll see how Cypress and Playwright, address these challenges.

Read the blog here: https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/tackling-flaky-tests-in-cypre...
I’ve received death threats from representatives of local non profits for advocating to build more houses in San Francisco. It’s not that surprising when people observe that the outrage over this incident is arguably insincere, even if the original tweet was inappropriate.
I think they've stopped talking about it but there used to be commentary from Google's "Better to turn down a good person than hire a bad one" logic (Or was it Facebook?) about how a C-employee can't evaluate an A-employee, and so they hire B-employees and it becomes a race to mediocrity.

My last hiring cycle I just missed working at a place with a couple guys who I dove pretty deep with on some esoteric topics over beers at a handful of tech meetups. The job req got weird and I had already accepted a position by the time it got sorted out. But lots of people have stories like that. It's one of the reasons people go to those meetups. I think for a lot of us it's being able to talk to someone who can keep up with your stream of technical talk, but the business contacts are a lovely bonus.
I may be misrepresenting, as I have used the feature only a couple of times, and not recently.

But, if you edit your prompt (or subsequent prompt), you're creating a branch in the conversation and you can switch between branches.
Regardless of whether you agree/disagree/whatever is this the kind of volatility you want on the cap table?
This isn't your neighbor, you don't owe politicians any kindness.
I was a bit bummed when Google Video was shuttered. In some ways its simple to-the-point UX was nice compared to that of YouTube, which had become cluttered pretty early on. It was also sometimes a backup for when videos on YouTube got taken down.