skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Its their choice I guess.

It's the lack of choice that I'm pointing out. Sheer force of will isn't going to get you employed in a completely different discipline.

Labor relations are what allow people to have the financial wiggle room in times like these (e.g., decent compensation, redundancy packages). Instead the industry overworked and underpaid the labor pool, and then dumped them as soon as they could to fend for themselves.

This is a lesson that if you work in any industry where you're liable to be outsourced or automated—ahem, software engineering—best you start organizing now, or saving your pennies if you're on FAANG wages.
We're all poor people in tiny homes who can't afford a room where we won't be -- just a room with nice things in it.
Ask YC: Are companies that are willing to move to the US/San Fran preferred?
European founder here and I was wondering if there is an official stance on companies applying to YC and their resulting location. I couldn't find a clear answer to this in the FAQ so maybe the official stance on this could be added.

Within the very thought out application to YC there are two fields to answer:

- Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?
- Explain your decision regarding location.

I do not think they would be here should location not matter.

Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel discuss on the YC podcast the importance of starting a startup in the bay area[1] (despite having different living preferences).

Tweets from SF partners[2] also ellude to a preference to founders who will move to the US/San Francisco as they believe this will result in startups that perform better.

On the flip side, Gary Tan is often complaining about the state of San Fran politics and the effect on the city (and having visited there a few times, I can see why).

Personally I can understand the benefits of a network effect and a higher concentration of investors and founders in an area however I also know that talent, connections and communities are global. Early stages of a business may benefit from concentrated startup resources but only if the founders actually engage with it. I think this is why YC is run in-person for 3 months and I do believe this will be beneficial to get a company off the ground. Long term however, I'm not so sure this is necessary.

Does YC have an official stance on giving preference to startups who are willing to locate in the US/San Francisco?

- [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqGOCF4O6ks
- [2] https://twitter.com/snowmaker/status/1769753085772169382
Caution in the Cloud: Why Thread Safety Is Essential in AWS Boto3
Sidebar, but what does "“immune” to normal refactoring" mean?
Very nice! Thank you for sharing!
Am i missing something or does it lacks pdf editing functionalities like adding/editing text or adding images?
I usually use https://smallpdf.com/edit-pdf because 99% of the times i simply need to compile fields with text and attach a png of my signature on some pages and resend the document to the organization that required me to compile it (schools, medical self certifications, governative tax entities and so on).
For those need, smallpdf is fantastic, but obviously i'd prefer an opensource or simply a self hostable solution
https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a28802
Going to have to hard-disagree on this one. Maybe it's my many years of GTD speaking, but Calendar is a sacred space for me. Nothing goes to my calendar unless it's something that has to be done at that specific date or date-time.
I want to see the real hard boundaries of my schedule, understand where the flexible space is, and juggle with that according to what life is throwing at me today.
Filling your calendar with all your todos will completely mess this up. You don't have a quick bird-eye view of what is really important to be done, and what is wishful thinking.
Not to speak of the time you will be wasting "managing" your calendar entries now.

Side-note: I don't know if anyone else feels the same, but I've grown a kind of jerk reaction every time I read or listen(YT videos mostly) someone sayying "many people have asked me about X". It's more often than not, bullshit. Nobody asked you anything, you just want a reason to speak your opinion, that's fine.
If you self-host your email, you can use "." as a delimiter instead of the "+". People would already need to know they can strip that part...
The rise in maternal mortality rates in the US is due to a change in measurement
I have a command set up that basically does this:

yt-dlp -i --format "bestaudio" -x --convert-thumbnail jpg --add-metadata --embed-metadata --embed-thumbnail --audio-format "best" -o "%(autonumber)02d %(title)s (%(upload_date>%Y-%m-%d)s) [%(id)s].%(ext)s" "https:// ... youtube URL ..."

This adds some tags and the thumbnail as cover file. It will save to whatever format the video itself has, usually .opus.
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And they're the majority of devs. The majority of everything is around the average.
Most people consider free will as an ability to make one's own decisions not coerced by someone else. It doesn't conflict with laws of physics. And even if they believed otherwise, it wouldn't mean much, as it won't be the first wrong belief about reality.
It's not a Firefox issue, it's a NoScript issue. Chrome with its market share and propensity to implement its own standards, or Safari with its market share, quirks, and propensity to implement its own standards, make much better candidate IEs.
It's all relative. When you're in your thirties, you'll panic on hitting forty.

None of it matters really. Would you rather be 25 and unhappy or 35 and happy?

Your answer may shock you! ;)
Spam filters work in 2024.

Does the fact someone independently discovers Gauss method to sum up all the numbers 1...100 today make it worth sharing?

My point is that this is a primitive and easy to break workaround and better methods exist.
Host your own OpenStreetMap tile server
> audience

Wouldn't users be more accurate?
Whereas it does cease to be tax evasion when it literally isn't tax evasion, it's tax avoidance. And then people are complaining about this as if it shouldn't be possible, when it should be the default. To owe a jurisdiction taxes you should have to be doing something in it.
Who buys the bidding procedure? Is it the main lender or someone instated by the main lender? That would certainly create an incentive for maximising uncertainty if there are other lenders the profits will be shared with.

But the mechanism mentioned in sibling comments is even stronger: if there is a clear main lender and your limit is lower than the known lowest limit of the main lender, you won't bother bidding.
Read:

The Compassionate mind by Paul Gilbert

Gilbert is a British clinical psychologist.
That's what I like about the Cybertruck, it's bold and outrageous in a new way that doesn't yet have the "asshole / mid-life crisis" connotation of "Hot-Wheels-like" sports cars (although it might be quickly gaining that connotation).

Is it beautiful? Is it well-built? This is orthogonal, I'm not making a judgement on that (although: no and no). But it's undeniable that it's fresh.

Is it optimistic? Well, it's clearly inspired by Cyberpunk, pessimism is a defining aspect of it. It has dystopian "prepper" airs to it with that ridiculous (and dangerous) armouring. It is definitely retrofuturistic. But it does have a certain positive energy of just having some fun with progress and boldly making cool new things happen.

It is a champion for demonstrating that electric can also be powerful, it challenges gas at its own game, and has self-driving ambitions.
Dr. Marc Hamilton, Developer of SPUs (Soleus Push Ups), teaches how to do them [video]
uBlock Origin can block JS too FWIW. There’s a convenient button for it in the extended menu.
New super-pure silicon chip opens path to powerful quantum computers
A better example than the double-slit experiment might be: you observe a single free neutron. Exactly when will it decay?
Thank you for sharing, I'll take a look at it.
Firefox is not at all the new IE. Firefox isn't worse at implementing the spec than Chrome they just make different decisions sometimes. People tend to see Chrome behaviour as the default of how things should be, rather than the specs.
Thanks for the feedback! Brightened the text for now on our site + landing page, but it's probably still too dark. We plan on supporting light mode soon and giving people that toggle, will keep improving in general too.
If it's free them it should say so, under what license, and provide you the original source before compilation or whatever.
Prototypal Inheritance (2008)
> and started learning Go. Which does exactly what it says it does, with no magic

Too little abstraction is just as bad as too much.
Protect Our Git Repos, Stop Foxtrots Now (2016)
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40338037

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18349991
The idea also seem to be that spam bots don’t look for `href="mailto:something"` in the DOM
Because that was home? The caves provided shelter for predators and the elements, and a fixed place for a fire. So sitting around when there was spare time, of course one would scribble on the walls.

Also, survivorship bias.
It may not have upload, but in any worthwhile collaboration solution you can literally just drag your screen recording into the rich text area of a comment and have it show up, maybe after converting it to a neutral codec. I did this in my last job with Jira, GitHub, and Slack, ez
He's done it before elsewhere and it worked?

Sees as slowing market for Tesla?
Still can't believe Atlassian paid $1B for Loom. Best of luck with your version!
>For startups, Europe’s main problem is fragmentation.

No, the problem are administrative burdens dictated from a far away place (Brussels).

>Europe acts like a network of small countries instead of one unified market.

Yes, exactly. One still has to fill out customs declaration for packets inside the EU for example. The EU is just another burden on top national administrations, we can go back to EEA and would not feel any differences (but safe a lot of money)

And last but not least, the EU is not democratic:

>>Since 1979, the Parliament has been directly elected every five years by the citizens of the European Union through universal suffrage.

BUT

>>However, it does not formally possess the right of initiative (i.e. the right to formally initiate the legislative procedure) in the way that most national parliaments of the member states do, as the right of initiative is a prerogative of the European Commission. Nonetheless, the Parliament and the Council each have the right to request the Commission to initiate the legislative procedure and put forward a proposal.
Why? What's the point?

All you're doing I making it slightly more difficult for the people that want to contact you to do so.

OCR has been a thing for years.

Just put your email out there. That's what spam filters are for.

charles@geuis.com. There. Scrape it. Spam it. I don't care.

Edit:

Yes, thank you for signing me up for the DNC (already a member), some random Trump org, something about Scientology, and another random christian-based website. Honestly, I'm kind of sad at the lack of originality given the otherwise extremely ingenious community we have here.
Can Europe's economy ever hope to rival the US again?
These companies can work on building and then actually distributing more secure operating systems. This won't fix problems like social engineering, but it will prevent/harden a ton of other attack vectors.

Since it allows much more fine grained control over data and resource access than contemporary popular systems, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security and the concept of "hollowing out the attack surface with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_privilege" can't be mentioned often enough.

Some specific projects to mention are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchsia_(operating_system) ,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genode and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubes_OS

If these don't make it to the mainstream, it is the responsibility of FAANG companies that at least the concepts/mechanisms contained in them do, in other systems. To provide the world with a secure computing substrate.
Quantum effects are everywhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_biology
https://archive.is/3dA34
Thank you, about to take delivery so this was perfectly timed for us. List is super detailed and M3 specific.
We have billions of neurons but they create one coherent experience, it would be pretty elegant if consciousness was involved here.

Basically: what is conscious is quantum, what is unconscious is classical.

Vast majority of brain activity is unconscious, what surfaces as experience is a global state of the entire system.
Even sophicasted users can slip up in the right circumstances.

Personal anecdote: one morning, whilst still quite sleepy received a very well crafted Namecheap phishing expedition. I half knew the product they were claiming was lapsed was actually fine, but I had just recently renewed so I thought perhaps there had been a problem I missed, and it was convincing enough that I clicked the link before doing the normal sanity checks. Thankfully the address it went to didn't resolve. Hopefully I would have noticed the obviously incorrect URL before I entered any details, and I have 2FA enabled, but still, I should and do know better, it was just perfect timing for a well crafted attack...
I think the confusion comes here in believing that humans have some exceptional mechanic for understanding. Ultimately human intelligence is the product of neural networks. The only thing that's separates us from ML is both scale (in terms of compute and memory) and agency, the latter giving us the ability to train ourselves. We take inputs, we output behaviors (including language). The idea that we are, in all actuality, deterministic computers is really at the heart of the existential panic around AI.
Sounds good! I might go even further and just use a custom address for each service, i.e. paypal@example.com or something.

But self-hosting email is an adventure I'm nervous to embark on.
> as little memory latency as possible

Should be "as much memory bandwidth as possible". GPUs are designed to be (relatively) more insensitive to memory latency than CPU.
This isn't an issue with Firefox, it's a consequence of the NoScript extension blocking unsafe features. The behaviour is likely same/similar with NoScript and Chrome.

Chrome is the new MSIE. In both cases, a dominant position was used to dictate web standards in an unhealthy way. Microsoft did it through strategic neglect. Google is doing it by strategic smothering. Firefox and Safari are the web's last stand against an impending Chrome browser monoculture, against Google endlessly ramming new features down our throats and declaring them "standards".
This part of the final sentence encapsulates everything: "...a lot of time is wasted in the back-and-forth."
There is no mention of the financialization of investor-owned utilities and the consequent shift away from scheduled maintenance to run-until-fail. The discussion is of things that could knock down even a properly maintained infrastructure, which is not what we have.
For those interested, there is a matching Dymaxion House on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_house
I would suggest the Baltics instead considering that they don't have a war going on right now. They are extremely beautiful during the summer.
> For reasons you can probably guess, I do not use Copilot for my day job.

Maybe I'm dumb but these reasons aren't obvious to me. Why doesn't the author use copilot at his day job?
Would you rather hire someone with poor grades who struggled to find answers on their own, or someone who had excellent grades utilizing superior resources and teamwork?

The reality is that the former student will probably never get a place at the table because they’ll get filtered out of the ‘elite’ pipeline sooner than later, and even if they do make it through, they probably also lack the same resources for your companies’s interview process.

Some people want to do it on their own and refuse to cheat. What is the best strategy for someone in that group? Is school and big tech just not for them?
Honestly, I would expect VC to be a much more impactful change to a civilization than AI. We have plenty of evidence that greed destroys culture.
It is surprisingly helpful on old legacy projects with multiple contributors. It will imitate their code style and variable naming, even if outdated or poorly constructed. Saves time looking through spaghetti code to figure out why some function wasn't abstracted or named in a consistent way.
I tried it but went back to todo list.

Managing or not managing your calendar has zero affect on the time it takes to complete the task. Managing the calendar actually consumes energy plus time that I could've used for doing the actual work instead.

Now I look at my todo list and move some things up, some things down in priority and get back at work.

Only the tasks that need to be done at the right time go to my calendar like meetings and appointments.
I find learning Klingon (tlhIngan Hol) has its benefits.

For instance

"you idiots" in English

translated to Klingon

Tlhih idiots

https://funtranslations.com/klingon
>There are lots of reasons not to do it (I sure wouldn't consider a job that required an IQ test). But there's a mythology that IQ testing is the super-effective recruiting tool that American employers are forbidden to use.

It's not illegal in the same way it's not illegal to ask the age of your candidate. It's not illegal until it is (in this case, they say their age is > 40 and now any and all actions you take are a legal landmine). The general audience aren't lawyers, so the pedant argument doesn't really mean much in most cases.

>That, or huge corporations with lots to lose are casually inviting employment lawsuits in order to run candidates through a test that doesn't predict anything.

Do you really think all employers are competent? or that companies have perfect oversight of every hiring manager? I've seen (US) postings saying "men/women only" explicitly, discouraging pregnant candidates, and posting salaries below federal minimum wage.

The best "cover" sometimes is that the hiring audience lacks the awareness nor funds to call them out.
> Don't believe me? Watch Eric Schmidt or Marc Andreessen talk about Europe.

This is like saying “Smoking is cool and good for you. Don’t believe me? Watch Big Tobacco talk about health”.

The unfettered addiction to growth and profit championed by the US is turning the world to shit faster. We need that to stop, not chase it irresponsibly and make the problem worse.

Stop treating everything like a competition while misusing the word “innovation” to justify the exploitation of other people.
On Fair use, creator rights, why OpenAI has stayed away from the music industry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSM0xd8xHUM&t=1981s
Probably because the employer doesn't allow sending proprietary source code to random internet services on an employee's whim.
Strong disagree. I have learned so many new things since I started using LLM's.
Some of them I'm actually embarrassed to admit, because I should have known about them a decade ago.

If you work in a small company and you are the most experienced developer, you don't often get feedback on how you can improve things.

The trick is, quite simply: just ask. I regularly dump some code I wrote in a language model and then ask what can be done better.

I would never do that in any online space, because first, I don't wait an answer maybe some day, I need an answer NOW. And second, I prefer to avoid being called a fool.
Except when something takes a different time than needed, it makes a domino effect on the calendar. And even if something takes less time, it has a disruptive effect on the calendar.

Writing a piece of documentation (no code, nothing can compile or crush) can not be estimated to take precisely 30 minutes. Solving a bug may take a minute or hours, in case nothing goes unexpected (if it does, it can be days or unsolvable). So, especially in the latter case, I cannot imagine how the calendar is superior to to-do lists and sprints.

In sprints, single estimates and be wildly off, but we can still work reliably with averages.
Reminds me of Idris from Whitesmiths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idris_(operating_system)
I wouldn't have believed you until I moved from ActiveRecord (Rails's ORM) to Ecto (Elixir/Phoenix's data mapping library which is decidedly not an ORM.) It's a million times better and I'm never going back.
There must be some interesting edge cases with the idea of certain numbers being even or odd. I’m not familiar with whether the underlying numeric types can accomodate these values in JavaScript, but off the top of my head - what does maths have to say about the idea of the even/odd-ness of infinity, not-a-number, imaginary numbers. And there’s always undefined too.
I suppose what I’m getting at is whether the answers to these questions are consistent between different packages and languages.
Thoughts:

1) add ffmpeg wasm

2) use ffmpeg to detect scene changes

3) you can generate nice & short social media videos based on scene changes
> in hacked datadumps

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

45 data breaches and 7 pastes

Wow, I don't know if I've ever seen a real address in so many breaches haha
I'm not sure how common 3000 sq. ft. detached houses were in grandparents' days unless they were quite wealthy.

As you say though, a lot of furniture is sort of irrelevant. I have a decent-sized house (about 2000 sq. ft.) but don't really have a good place to put a large enough dining room table for more than a small group. My parents regularly had dinner parties for a dozen people in a formal dining room.

I do have moderately-sized groups over now and then but people either eat on their laps/at the coffee table in my smallish den/living room (old New England farmhouse which has been opened up somewhat but still tends towards smaller rooms). I have a couple of big heavy pieces of furniture from my parents but they're just out of the way upstairs to essentially store stuff. The main reason I even still have them is that they're out of the way and provide some useful storage.
> We need to be clear here. If what needs to be fixed is something that will inevitably cause serious problems down the road, then it should be fixed immediately. If it may cause minor problems then maybe you should never fix it. And there's a lot in between.

I feel like a lot of conversations around technical debt miss this nuance.

There are plenty of systems I’ve worked on that have been either (1) running for years without issue or (2) deprecated and deleted without ever addressing most of the “debt” issues/tickets that my team and I created in our tracking systems.

I think a lot of engineers take pride in their craft (which is good). Until you learn that a cabinet with a rough back is still a great cabinet, you’re doomed to feel uneasy about leaving something “unfinished”. So many people feel they left some “hack” in the code they want to fix. Which is different than a bug. There are endless improvements possible. YAGNI.