skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The query explicitly didn't include "Despite asking you about your preferences, I have no interest in why you prefer it so please refrain from commenting on that. Please don't waffle or ask me anything back, simply provide me with the title, and I will have all the information I need", so I don't think it's "disordered expectations" to assume that message wasn't conveyed by the question...

Neurotypical communication 101 is that a casual conversation question about your favourite things is probably a cue for you to be enthusiastic and effusive about things you care about rather than a prompt for you provide names only, especially if the interlocutor is unlikely be evaluating your preferences using their own expert knowledge of the field. Sure, if nobody else steps in to provide further context any [neurotypical] interlocutor ought to be able to continue/rescue the conversation by asking followup questions about what happened in an episode and what is it about that episode that you like, but staccato answers offering a bare minimum of information is a communication preference (occasionally appropriate, more often not) rather than something inherently demanded by the question.

(I'd agree that people probably judge responses slightly differently if they already know the person on the other side of the conversation is autistic, but in a situation like this it can work in their favour, since if I assume the person providing only names, titles and one word answers to my open and friendly questions is neurotypical, I'm going to assume they're subtly signalling that they dislike me...)
> It would be trivial to use a different index type which introduces the opposite bias, but they don’t.

What would be an example(s) of this different type of index? Do you know of any (online?) resources that explain these differences about different types?
Everything Is a Remix [video]
If only. Palo Alto is one of the few cities fighting the state’s efforts in this regard. It’s really shameful.
The CIA is not authorized to operate domestically, counter-intelligence is the remit of the FBI.
Read that link carefully: only automatic plan regression is available in SQL Server, not the automatic index tuning portion. The index tuning portion only applies to Azure SQL DB.
Rightyho, now for all the other things, like rightyho. Or a thousand other smallish things that are hard to write the way I want to.
that is used for a sovereign wealth fond. Norway produces less oil than the us.
A friend of a friend who is an ornithopter mechanic says it has something to do with unobtanium. TBH, I thought it was boring, so I quit listening, and this spicy bird was telling us about her desert religion thing.

I was a bit drunk on spiced rum.
> We have a surplus of generalists who still do not understand the body systematically

How is this synonymous with not specializing?
Drag works the same way, which is why a pickup truck can stop from 90 mph relatively quickly
All the more reason it was so predictably unwise to have given the bad guys a new force multiplier.
1. some people turn JS off

2. it slows down page rendering
Fun with AI Embeddings in Go
The classic reminder of asymmetry in these situations is: "a ski resort is a place full of young women looking for husbands, and husbands looking for young women."
Right, but the US has 60 times as many people. Norway's per capita oil revenue is very high.
I've been using Python since 2.x and I have to admit which each new release I toy with leaving this language behind. Type hints are the latest warts in what should have been a beautiful language. I tend to agree with Charles Lesleifer and others here. Python3 is a mess. https://charlesleifer.com/blog/what-happened/
“The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life."
- Paul Morphy
> Like, there's a reason you see Paw Patrol merch on every other kid everywhere - they release a highly addictive animated show for kids, and kids do the rest.

> The reason this doesn't work with devs is because unlike parents of kids, people with spending authority usually don't care, as devs are a cost centre and a number on a chart, not people generating value.

Perhaps the reason why this doesn't work with devs is that typical devs are much worse marketers than typical kids. :-)
Check out the movie "Perfect Days"
> Your comment is downright petty and silly.

And contains some irony.
We’ll, that would help their agents afford rent I guess
In those days SF was a bedroom community for Silicon Valley. SF still had a thriving art scene and was worth living in — I made that commute for a while, thankfully carpooling with Larry McVoy.

Then in the same dot com boom…well that is well documented. People say SV grew up the peninsula and absorbed SF, but I prefer to think of it as SF was sacrificed as a honeypot.
It's not hyperfixation exactly, but a requirement for an ASD diagnosis is some forms of "Restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities" (from the DSM-V).
That is broader problem to solve, not taking account any civil infrastructure the houses will be bought by corporate rent company and renters will be charged "fair price" - pretty same as now (not long ago the was article with discussion about rent price fixing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39575803 )
No one will rent to you if your rent would be 80% of your income anyway.
Monomyth
So not free speech?

Says you'll ban porn. Porn is free speech.

Says you'll ban spam. Unwanted commercial solicitation is free speech.

Says you'll ban incitement to violence and harassment. That is also free speech.

All that "free speech" means is that the government can't take a priori action to prevent it from happening. But there can be consequences.

All the popular platforms are free in that sense already. You will just have a boundary somewhere else for what you consider worthy of consequences.

Which is fine. I don't actually believe anyone enjoys a completely unpoliced platform. But maybe don't be so quick in saying you'll give a voice to the deplatformed, when you're a platform yourself and will ban people too for not adhering to your own speech police.
Show HN: Stack, an open-source Clerk/Firebase Auth alternative
Hey HN! Happy to finally launch Stack. We made it because we like to put apps into production quickly, and authentication & user management was taking up way too much time.

We have components like <SignIn /> and <AccountSettings /> that automatically adapt to whatever theme & design system you're using. Check the blog post to see the example with Radix UI and Joy UI.

Also, there's an admin dashboard for monitoring and editing accounts. Stack is 100% AGPL/MIT-licensed, so you can self-host it.

Cheers!
I think the more interesting question would be, who is willing to trade peace for that? I think that it would be far harder to accept being shot at on the warfront than a world with no Internet.
> It sounds like you have experience working with EHR development?

Not first hand, but I followed it quite closely when we as activists tried to prevent Finnish healthcare from getting an Epic based system (that turned out to be exactly the disaster we predicted).
NB: Here's one of many articles about this:
"The hottest trend in U.S. cities? Changing zoning rules to allow more housing"
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/17/1229867031/housing-shortage-z...
Like he said, supply and demand. You are still at the mercy of what the customer is willing to pay. The customer will not pay an infinite amount, even for healthcare services.

But it is undeniable that doctors are paid considerably more than most other jobs. This is why.
No people ate more meat and animal products.

https://twitter.com/Outdoctrination/status/16948423262110437...

https://twitter.com/Outdoctrination/status/16948423228723817...
This is common practice across the US and the rule-of-thumb 40x generally tries to take most cases into account. i.e., 40x after taxes and other typical debt levels is "risk appropriate" for landlords... Though don't get me started on how this reduces landlord risk to a level where they should not see profits...

It does seem odd though when you consider one person with 40x may have a completely different net than another.
I agree that you can’t conflate a strong economy with one worth living in. But OP was saying that we should invest in education for economic growth, and that doesn’t make sense. There’s trade offs to be made between growth and quality of life.

It’s not true Scandinavian countries have more spending power. The OECD keeps very detailed economic data. The US has the highest PPP disposable income in the OECD: https://www.statista.com/statistics/725764/oecd-household-di.... It’s about 67% higher than Sweden and Denmark.

Now you might say, but Swedes and Danes live longer and are happier. That’s true! But as far as I can tell, Americans would rather live shorter lives and have more TVs and trinkets. My parents came back from traveling in Australia. My mom was ranting for weeks about how small and close together the houses are and nobody can get really rich. We are immigrants from a third world country. All of my family members that have come here think that “making it” means living in a McMansion and driving an SUV. I don’t know if it’s something in the water, or the people who come here are just that way, or maybe a bit of both. But it’s worth contemplating that Americans are making rational choices based on their particular utility functions.
> Summarizing is pretty rock solid in my testing

Yet, for some reason, ChatGPT is still pretty bad at generating titles for chats, and I didn't have better luck with the API even after trying to engineer the right prompt for quite a while...

For some odd reason, once in a while I get things in different languages. It's funny when it's in a language I can speak, but I recently got "Relm4 App Yenileştirme Titizliği" which ChatGPT tells me means "Relm4 App Renewal Thoroughness" when I actually was asking it to adapt a snippet of gtk-rs code to relm4, so not particularly helpful
Try doing the same routine but drinking water instead, i suspect it's the walking.
Yeah <iostream> has terrible performance, and also I find the use of a map rather than an unordered_map a bit suspect.
We can afford to fund wars (while the military industrial complex gets rich) and bail out banks who sell junk mortgages (so bank shareholders get rich) and we can afford to house illegal immigrants (some of whom are enemy invaders, enjoying hotel living because it's the same cost of living as a crap apartment) but we can't afford to give the people who protect us a fair living wage (a lot of whom go into private security which is a national liability because it forces operators to go after the money just to be able to eat)

This country's priorities are all bass awkward and it's the government's fault. What do lawmakers even do?
Staring at screens all day is weirdly taxing.

My wife used to have a much harder job than mine. Social, active, moving around, thinking on her feet, lots of prep, high stakes sometimes, somewhat abusive environment. She left it for WFH and a non-programming computer-heavy office job.

After a couple weeks, one day she said to me, “Now I understand why you’re so worn-out after work hours”

I’ve felt a lot more refreshed and ready to do stuff after working physical jobs or (especially) lightly-physical jobs that involve little or no computer use, than after a day of cushy office work.

It’s not the sitting. Standing desks and walking breaks don’t help much. Computer work is just bizarrely draining.
So these guys are just dumping confidential tax documents onto OpenAI's servers huh.
Being a doctor is not a reliably ultra-high-income job, and many people don’t consider the slog of med school, an internship, a residency, and an eventual possible job at a hospital to be worth any amount of money.
> If CO2 was really a problem, we have the technology to easily pull it out of the air and store it: trees.

It's not in any doubt that CO2 is a major problem leading to climate catastrophes (or at least catastrophes for how and where humans currently live). However, trees could be part of a solution in capturing CO2, but humanity is reducing the number of trees, so that's not really going to help matters.

https://ourworldindata.org/deforestation
"solved" by optimizing the outcomes to whatever biases are trained into the model? Please think through this type of thing for one minute before proposing robocop + judge dredd as a good future.
That's yes difference that it's short time relief. And you're already caring about the problem now. In fact, it's even possible that you can be caring about that because you've had a Big Mac to reduce your stress. In the context of this discussion, drugs mean something preventing you from doing this. The Big Mac is just junk food.
In ClickHouse you could do this with a materialized view provided the specific_date_time_value is on some boundary like hour. If it's not you could union the results from a small fraction of the source data that does not fit the time slot you chose with the materialized view. I would also construct the ORDER BY in the source table to box the device data by hour or some other time increment.

Either way this would be extremely fast and would consume minimal memory. ClickHouse was designed for this kind of use case.
> the real problems in Brazil

You can't just say something like that and not elaborate. Tell us about the problems of our country.
> Trump has thankfully not been able to do much, however the Bush family has.

Not true, ridiculous statement.
I don't think it's unfair to expect adults to be able to afford a 1 bedroom with no roommates
I had the exact same experience, when I went to a chess club for the first time. I realised that to keep pace with those guys I’d have to spend more time than I was willing to on getting better.

Especially with MMR based systems. No matter how good you get your win/loss ratio will end up around 50%.

So you have to ask yourself why you need to keep getting better. To me It’s really about finding a level of “good” that you can maintain comfortably, while maintaining interest.

And also realise that games aren’t vocations. It’s fine to play a game until you stop having fun, then stop playing the game.
Drag is insignificant compared to brakes, unless you're going very very fast.
And on top of it that’s a paycheck to paycheck lifestyle. Forbid wanting to have a 401k or some savings, afford any amount of travel or continue education…
Yeah. For 2024, a newly promoted Supervisory Special Agent (which, as the name suggests, is a supervisory position requiring years of experience as a Special Agent) in NYC makes about $150K including locality adjustment. That's probably ballpark for base salary for a new-promote (3 YoE) associate at a Wall St bank.
And the financial insecurity that comes with it makes them a lot more susceptible to bribery.

Great.

On the other hand, it is absolutely insane that the minimum needed to cover a family of 4 is around $150,000. At what point do we accept that the greed the current economic model creates is pushing price inflation beyond unsustainable levels, and at what point do we stop this circus before everything collapses and we, as a society, loose everything we have? This really reminds me of [0]..

[0] https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/tom-to...
I agree with replacing a desktop (or laptop) with an Android device for professional work is nonsensical (I hate having to type on a phone), but the majority of people are not professionals.

For a not-insignificant proportion of the population (which heavily overlaps with the dispassionate technology users), media consumption on a mobile device covers their needs (and for things like 2FA, not having a mobile device is an issue), so their laptop/desktop (Windows or Mac) ages out of support and eventually is no longer used (and given the costs of mobile devices, they're not likely to buy a replacement laptop/desktop). Some might use a work/school device, but now what they get is based on their work/school provides (and if ChromeOS is good enough and much cheaper to run, then users won't have a choice). Also BYOD policies generally work against Windows, as a sufficiently large Apple contingent will push moves away from systems that only work on Windows. I would be expect Windows usage to settle to at least 3 times MacOS usage (given Window's better legacy and meeting the needs of white-collar professionals more, and desktop gaming), but my feeling is we're going to see less traditional general-purpose systems (which is somewhat sad), and a bigger divide between those who use desktops/laptops and those who don't.

I would still suggest you have self-selected: if the programming languages and the tools you use (and the kind of projects you work on) are effectively Windows-only, naturally you're going to be happy on Windows (and there's nothing wrong with that). But it's worth remembering that for other ecosystems (e.g. Python since you brought it up), running those ecosystems on Windows is second class (whether that's caused by Microsoft or by the ecosystem), or, because Windows is not UNIX, practically not possible at all (and some of the UNIX software I run for work predates the NT kernel, to be clear).

My only issues with Windows are: 1. how much random junk there is now (advertising in the start menu, really?!?), which I feel is a negative for Microsoft (let Google do that, and catch the flak for it); and 2. having to use it (and wasting time on it) when it's obvious it's the wrong tool for the job (e.g. trying to use an ecosystem where Windows is a second class citizen).

Finally, I do think it's somewhat sad that there's less interaction and knowledge sharing than there could be between Microsoft's ecosystem and those ecosystems outside of it, both could benefit from it (e.g. I hear about Blazor, and it sounds cool, but how would I use it from (C)Python).
How does it compare to Google Photo search? I search things like 'whisk' with success regularly... though to be fair not as random as whisk, but things like "steering wheel"
> You’re telling me that an organization that has zero incentive to be efficient with money is being penny wise and pound foolish?

All of these pay limits are capped by Senator's pay of $180k ish.

No Senator (or House Member) is going to vote for typical FBI agents to have higher salaries than themselves. What we're seeing here is the American people refusing to give pay-raises to our executive class / leadership class, and then the natural degradation of our leaders and pay-scales all the way down the chain.

We're well past due of giving Senators / House members a proper pay raise. Maybe then we'll actually have smart people running for these important positions again.

> The people who make these bad decisions aren’t wasting their own money - they’re wasting the money taken from you and I by force. They have no incentive to stop wasting it.

No Congressman or Senator will think that FBI pay raises would be fair, when they themselves aren't allowed a pay aise to a sufficient level.

Top end executive level FBI (ex: FBI Head) will be close to Congressional pay or maybe just a little above that.

Then, the rest of the GS scale builds down from there. By the time we get to starting salaries, its insufficient.
NYC Council approves plan for $780M soccer stadium, affordable housing
Exactly. Regulations have made it so expensive and difficult to build housing in many parts of California (and other major cities in the US), that the demand outstrips the supply and it leads to unaffordable housing.

I keep seeing memes about housing costs in the 1960s being so cheap. I also wonder what the housing regulations were at this time. I'm guessing pretty light compared to now.
#7 Is usually not so black and white. This is most difficult when the buying product is already in-house and you are looking to replace it or add new functionality.

The problem I have with #7 is the ROI on build vs buy. And, at what point do you determine this?

First, buying a product with very high integration cost is still "building". So I need developer time for integration, time that they could spend on something else or the product itself.

Hopefully this would come out during a POC integration, but then we still need developer time to execute.
> as you would probably take offense to me quoting WWII dictators even if the quote makes sense for the topic in isolation.

Of course I wouldn't take offense to that. I will accept wisdom wherever it is to be found, even if it's from Hitler himself. I care about the merit of ideas, not the merits of their sources.
No, no, no. Everything has been outsourced because taxes and bureaucracy have gone through the roof. We need to reduce taxes. One we can do that is by getting rid of medicare (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40028963).

We need to move away from socialism and towards more free-market and liberals policies. Socialism is the greatest source of our problems.
> It's not in any doubt that CO2 is a major problem leading to climate catastrophes

There's actually a lot of doubt regarding that

> but humanity is reducing the number of trees, so that's not really going to help matters.

Sure, so if the CO2 nuts were really serious about helping the planet they'd be organizing to plant massive amounts of trees. Not standing in the middle of highways yelling at people.
I created this project to virtualize the services I use and chose to experiment with thin client Futro S920.

I started by adding two disks in raid with ZFS until I eventually added a 2.5Gb/s network card.

This is a cheap build to test and host small home services with Proxmox and LXC containers
That’s an Azure SQL thing, not MSSQL.
> I thought net neutrality was about ISPs trying to get netflix, facebook etc to pay them extra not to throttle.

It was mostly. Basically in the USA it costs money to peer with people, and even more money to put edge caches inside the ISP's network (because that means the ISP can't charge for peering.)

This pissed of a bunch of rich web firms, so they poured money into pro net neutrality publications. (also a lot of anti copyright stuff as well, so they didn't have to pay content creators, but thats a different topic)

In the UK, peerings is much much cheaper because of LINX and other peering exchanges. moreover, having an edge cache inside your network saves you cash as you don't need to spend as much arranging upstream peering. (It might save money on transfer between last mile and the core network, but I'm hazy on the costs there.)
libsystemd is not being used by systemd itself.
Housing theory of everything[0] strikes again.

Situation: Housing demand outstrips housing supply.

First order effect: housing prices go up

Second order effect: your FBI agents are now experiencing financial instability and worries

Third order effect: your FBI agents are now more susceptible to bribes

[0] https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-every...
Wow.. amazing
Show HN: My Biggest SideQuest So Far
Hey HN,

I started SideQuests last year and built it from scratch. It's an experience-sharing platform encouraging users to get outside and interact with their communities.

6 brutal months of basically solo dev and now we're here, testing with about 300 users, with an iOS app on the near horizon.

I built SideQuests because social media platforms are destroying our minds and culture. SideQuests is my attempt at shifting how we share and interact with each other's experiences.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated, as I am new to this world and just trying my best :)

Simon
I guess all those pesky scientists are in on this control scheme, must be so as governments pay them in many cases. Only big oil fights for our freedom to stop this.