skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an LLM skeptic, I will say it’s been nice for learning new languages and frameworks for a side project (e.g. learning js/react as a backend/data guy). Things I’d probably not have bothered to learn because it’s just too much work and I’ve got enough value in my current skills. I don’t find it particularly helpful in my primary languages/frameworks though.

I also use it to generate some discussion on ideas. For example, the other day I asked if to consider pro/cons of technical approach A vs B. I don’t have to trust the output, but it’s usually good enough at helping me sketch out the problem space at a high level.
REST APIS suck for nested resources. GraphQL is a huge breakthrough in managing them.

Ever seen an engineer do a loop and make n+1 REST calls for resources? It happens more often then you think because they don't want to have to create a backend ticket to add related resources to a call.

With internal REST for companies I have seen so many single page specific endpoints. Gross.

> There have been different opinions about structuring REST calls but those aren't going to cause any real forward progress for the industry and are inconsequential when it comes to business outcomes.

You could argue almost any tech solution in a non-pure tech play is largely in consequentially as long as the end goal of the org is met, but managing REST APIS were a huge point of friction at past companies.

Either it goes through a long review process to make sure things are structured "right" (ie lots of opinions that nobody can sync on) or people just throw up rest endpoints willynilly until you have no idea what to use.

GraphQL is essentially the "Black" for Python Syntax but for Web APIs. Ever seen engineers fight over spaces vs tabs, 8 vs 4 spaces, whether a space before a colon? those fights happened a lot and then `black` came out and standardized it so there was nothing to fight over.

GraphqL makes things very clear and standard, but can't please everyone.
If anyone believes people have a right to decide what information about them is made public, but believes they lose that right after death, I'd love to hear the argument for that.

For me, the basis for accepting the first proposition is that you buy in to self-determination as a value in and of itself, worth respecting not just because the person is around to stop you from doing whatever you want to them. In other words, if they ever had the right to say how they wanted to be treated, why do they lose that right after death?

As an example, if Bob one day told you that their name is now Alice, would you say "got, it Alice!" then go back to calling them Bob on the day they die? Why not? After all, what do they care, they're dead! To me, this sounds like a variation of the same argument against respecting someone's privacy after death, and bothers me for the same reason.
Getting payment is crypto is excellent if you live in a third world country like me. And a lot of services are enabling crypto payments so illegal stuff isn’t really all of it. One example is grab app which is huge in asian market. Getting payment and transferring to local currency takes about 20 mins included manual clicks for me. Comparing this to bank system which takes a week and has at least 30x cost, it is obviously a huge improvement.
I agree with this. The UI is already great, but a tree-like structure would be awesome.
I think us engineers have an inherent desire to try to innovate, and I think that is a good thing. Some problems will require a lot of wrong turns before finding the right path, but that is simply the nature of innovation
Satellites really can’t provide coverage at full 1 acre lot suburbs level density let alone NYC level density.

Starlink has ~1 million customers in the US from ~6,000 satellites so you’d think they could do 10x that with 10x the number of satellites. But much of the US is low enough density that their current constellation is already sufficient and effective bandwidth per satellite is maximum bandwidth * percentage of orbit in useful locations. Which means 10x satellites are closer to 3x useful bandwidth and it gets much worse the higher density you’re aiming for.

Ahh you might think just offer lower bandwidth per customer in urban areas, but people will pay less as the bandwidth drops and Starlink is already fairly slow.
I've taken some Meisner technique workshops, and this is what changed my view of acting:

> “Acting is the ability to behave absolutely truthfully under the imaginary circumstances.” The Meisner Technique is a brick-by-brick process designed to get you out of your head and into your gut. For that to happen, you must learn to put your focus and attention on the most important thing: the other actor."

Actors under this don't pretend, they are. A lot of actors will practice their lines with just reading and reciting, no attempt at tone or inflection -- just flat recitation -- because if you aren't responding to the other actors you are just pretending. A lot of the warmup exercises are based around just responding to the other person in front of you. And they are a great way to get better at talking to people -- that's why I took the classes. Stella Adler has a great quote: "Growth as an actor and as a human being are synonymous.”

I find it so much easier to remember lines with the other person in front of me - I don't memorize random facts well. They always have a connection to something else and I have hop from stone to stone of thoughts sometimes to remember what I was trying to sometimes.
A few things to note on Japan and kids walking around. Usually you don't see children that are less than 5-6 years old walking around doing daily errands. When it's children that are younger it's usually with the parent walking a few meters behind to monitor what the child is doing.

And, Japan had special usage phones for children that would track their location even back in 2004. I lived there back then and I know a few parents who used that for their young children. So, yes children are allowed to freely roam around at an early age which is great but Japanese parents are not adverse to tracking.
> I don't understand how it's not a win for Tesla.

It's a win for Tesla insofar as they won't have to bear the burden of transitioning to a different plug standard, and their customers won't bear the burden of consumer confusion and frustration which come with transition.

> Nobody really lost there, either

One might argue that the main losers are the charging networks which invested in CCS1 infrastructure. They'll have to work even harder to remain relevant, all while gaining Tesla as a direct competitor and having to deploy NACS across the country.
3 Phase is (normally, in Europe) 3x400V+N. Single phase is 230V.

AC chargers here (Belgium) are usually 11kW or 22kW capable (at least nominally). This is 16 or 32A. A normal household socket ciruict is 20A here, so this is not very abnormal wiring wise. Most homes are actually hooked up to three phase power, but just have a single phase meter, so an upgrade is usually affordable.

If you want to offer 11kW or 22kW single phase, you'd need 47A or 95A service, with massive cables etc. Hence why most single phase chargers are 7.4kW limited here (32A). Also: Almost no cars would even take that in on 1 phase as far as I know.

Higher amperage is what costs more in terms of losses and cables, so less amps is good.

3x230V also exists, but at least here, is being phased out.
So what are you saying? That deliberately misinterpreting and sensationalizing a clear statement is justified because of the size and success of OpenAI? There’s no good faith reading of PGs statement that implies Altman couldn’t have remained CEO of YC if he wanted to.
However, you are still wrong.
Oh I like this! Love how easy it is to dig deeper. Worth noting that free users are rather restricted in their uses of custom GPTs so probably won’t be able to dig as deeply as they’d like.

EDIT: I’ve now quizzed it about string theory, quantum mechanics, classic Roman pasta dishes, Italian wines, and sent it a picture of some poison hemlock and I think I’ve found my new favourite GPT. Great work!

EDIT 2: asked it to critique a photo I took recently and that was great too, really impressed with this.
Show HN: Calendar and Reminders –> Keyword Filter –> Nice Widget on iOS and Mac
On iOS you can only filter by Calendar, but I wanted more control to only show my important events / deadlines to keep an overview.

Thats why I made Deadlines: A widget app that syncs with Apple Calendar & Reminders and allows you to filter them by keyword (supports Regex). Staying always up to date without any extra work from your side.

Nowadays I just add #track or similar as a note to my important events and know that I won't overlook them.

Recently I just added the option to open events & reminders in any app of your choosing. Also supports custom URL Schemes and Shortcuts.

Let me know what you think :)
> Prices are a function of supply and demand, not of access to capital.

That is simply wrong.

The demand curve is the relationship between quantity bought and price. It definitely shifts with how much money people have, so in the case of houses depends entirely on access to capital.
Some of these companies love to scan your messages and content very much.
Haven't used it personally, but someone up-thread mentioned:

> Llama Coder is a better and self-hosted Github Copilot replacement for VS Code

https://github.com/ex3ndr/llama-coder

And:

> Open-source VS Code and JetBrains extensions that enable you to easily create your own modular AI software development system

https://github.com/continuedev/continue
Gentoo's packaging system is much more flexible. There are USE flags, which allow you to compile the package with whatever set of features you want.
but their site says "This website is a labor of love by Raivo's community on Github."

certainly repeating "love" and "community" while getting donated graphic design is all the proof anyone needs
Wow, that's horrible. I hope it's something reversible involving the ownership change (the app seems to have been acquired – maybe a new team identifier is preventing access to old keychain groups or something).
> beloved and so mourned recently deceased Brian Mulroney

You made me laugh here (and I don't even know if you're being sarcastic or not! :-) )

> YYZ-MTL corridor that all of the PMs except Harper (whom I dislike, but I digress) have hailed from

Joe Clark was from Alberta and Kim Campbell was from BC, though their stints as PM were too short to matter I guess. Diefenbaker was born in Ontario, but spent his childhood in and his electoral seats were from Saskatchewan. Robert Borden was from and represented Halifax.

I'm not disputing the presence of the "Laurentian Elite" or its (ill, IMO) influence, but proportionally to population the PMs haven't really been all that off regionally, especially as the population west of Ontario has only really grown in the last 30 years, especially in Alberta and BC.

>power is concentrated in the PM hands in a way unparalleled in the West

The UK would like a word. They've been lamenting the "presidentialisation" of the PM there since Thatcher took power.
>which was made -- first and foremostly -- for and by softies to avoid altercation

What is a "softie"?
Why is this a problem if you are not doing anything illegal? It is much easier to send and receive money using blockchains
Office is indeed distracting. I power through the most noisy times with white noise. I learned to enjoy it and it actually calms me a bit.
> Why don't new cardiologists enter the field? Because there is a cap of graduates that the AMA controls.

From my understanding - the choke point here is Medicare funding for residency slots- which funds most of the residencies in the US.

Now the AMA did absolutely lobby for limiting the supply in the 90s:

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/01/us/doctors-assert-there-a...

But they’ve done a complete 180 since then - but it’s ultimately up to the federal government.
> The solution is to socialize it.

Yes a bunch of countries like Singapore, Switzerland, Netherlands didn't socialize it? And their systems seem to work pretty good?
https://archive.is/nOB9m
> changes in query patterns necessarily involve the backend team,

How does this follow? A client team can decide to e.g. put up a cross-sell shelf on a low-traffic page by calling a REST endpoint with tons of details and you have the same problem. I don't see the difference in any of these discussions, the only thing different is the schema syntax (graphql vs. openapi)
To get a better taste I lower my standards a bit to the level of my equipment
Good lord that sounds terrible.

From my understanding, the repetition exercise has always been something taught to brand-new students in the first month of acting classes, to demonstrate the difference between reciting lines and saying things in a spontaneous, believable manner. As well as to teach what subtext is.

The idea that anyone would be doing the repetition exercise after their first month of acting school baffles me. It's not a technique that was ever intended for, or should be used by, professional actors, as far as I've ever understood it.
This is what self-hosted software should be. An app, self-contained, (essentially) a single file with minimal dependencies.

Not something so complex that it requires docker. Not something that requires you to install a separate database. Not something that depends on redis and other external services.

I’ve turned down many self-hosted options due to the complexity of the setup and maintenance.
Sure, CRISPR didn't exist.

Was Eugenics really discredited, or did it become too 'distasteful' after WW2/Nazis.

How can we say evolution works with selective breeding with cows, but somehow it is completely wrong and unscientific if it is humans?

I can breed bigger cows. But somehow if it is humans, then it becomes completely impossible? Suddenly breeding is un-scientific.

It really seems like the 'discrediting' is itself just that the subject is so taboo that nobody wants to argue for it.

EDIT: Also, I'm not arguing that it is practically possible. Humans would be a difficult animal to selectively breed. They don't mate well in captivity, etc... Kind of un-domesticated. But theoretically, it should be possible. And maybe they do it to themselves un-consciously. There are some theories that humans are self domesticating and self selecting.
who the fuck cares really
I'd definitely put teacher below the green tradeoff line.

As a former investment banker, investment bankers don't make that much more than everyone else. Many functions are less. Some relationship managers, some traders, some investment managers, some deal makers do. But most don't make mega money.
The hash isn't hard; storing the key both securely and in a way that prevents accidental loss is quite hard.
And unskippable ads after every third image. Then the moment you get to the final image there’s an email registration wall. It has a little X button that doesn’t work on iOS.
VC and PE are distinct. You can't just interchange the terms.

VCs invest with the hope the investee will grow quickly. PE firms do not have that hope. This distinction has a large effect on the strategies available to the investor. A PE firm for example will usually be averse to investing if they will not end up with managerial control over the investee, but a VC fund routinely makes such investments.
Similar to how using flash cards doesn’t really help in developing that deep understanding… but the action of making them sure does.
Fun facts, there is an important Islamic tradition where group of people (tens or hundreds thousands of them) called Hafiz memorize the entire Quran. If for example, God forbid, that the entire written copies either physicallly or digitally of the Quran are completely destroyed, it can be recreated completely in no time. This practice is considered a living miracle since no other holy book has this crucial feature and it is also well known that even the Pope do not memorize the complete Bible.
Sell Before Building
Sad but true I fear.
It's not about convenience above all else, it's about that practical balance that allows for the best practical security.
> They are more flexible because they are less regulated

No, because when your tooth hurts now, or you're bleeding now, or you need to get vaccinated to avoid you getting hepatitis, there's very little choice in the matter.

Healthcare is a fundamentally inelastic good. A dangerous one too, because bad quality healthcare can literally kill people. Inaccessibility of healthcare kills people too.

Look, there is no need to reinvent the wheel here. The US can look into any other developed country on the planet for inspiration. Every single one of them has a better, more accessible, cheaper for everyone involved, usually more or at least differently regulated, with better outcomes, model.

> No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
This is my exact experience with learning piano. I could autopilot through a song but if I thought too hard about where I was in the piece I would leave my flow and not be able to continue.
A few years ago, I came into the orbit of a public speaking coach, and he and I worked together for a few weeks. Your comment fascinates (and reassures) me, because he was emphatic that I had to abandon my own natural way of speaking entirely, and adopt a "persuasive persona" that sounded to me like a Saturday Night Live parody of a TED talk. This has exactly the opposite of the intended effect, because any anxiety I felt about speaking was multiplied by my anxiety about how I sounded and "staying in character". By comparison with the linked post, however, I was attempting to stay in a character that I didn't understand, with no thought given either to understanding what I was saying or, crucially, understanding who I was speaking to.

This got me thinking about the people who find value in his style, and I realized that the consistent feature was that they didn't care about understanding the material and, in some cases, were so incapable of doing so that the notion wouldn't occur to them. Not dumb, just not interested. They were simply transactional, and almost always very, very scared of talking in public, and this coach's method allowed them to get through it.

This also helped me realize that I don't particularly suffer from stage fright or public speaking anxiety, which has been a benefit, though it's important to note how insignificant that actually is. A family member has worked on stage with some extremely successful actors, and it's REMARKABLE how many of them have absolutely crushing stage fright. To me, that's more interesting than the line-learning thing: you take a person, someone most people in this thread would have heard of, and imagine them hiding out in a bathroom because their terrified of going onstage, then they get out there and utterly blow the room away. Something about pretending to be someone else unlocks so many actors.

This ties right back to my friction with this public speaking coach, because he was attempting to coach me into playing pretend, though without any empathy or understanding. So this guy is producing two categories of students: people like me who want to understand the material and the audience and simply speak like a better version of ourselves, and people who sound like they're selling you a car they've never driven but doing so competently, checking more "good public speaker" boxes at a superficial level.

I'm guessing the great actors and public speakers do both: love the material AND love the act of becoming a person you want to listen to.
Out of curiosity, what percentage of Hacker News readers own cats?
Just reinforcing to stick with as much stuff you already know since you'll be learning about other areas. SANS web application security principles are a good start: https://www.sans.org/cloud-security/securing-web-application...

Another thing to look into might be a provider like CloudFlare which will take care of a lot of things for you. You might be thinking "who would DDos my little site/app?" I don't think anything is immune and this (or other providers) at least give you time back to focus on building your app. Its probably super cheap for small traffic domains to start with too. Its okay to not know the nitty gritty details of something not core to what you're building. Think of services like that in the beginning to just purchase/subscribe to and revisit later.
Odd, I thought I saw something about React in Microsoft's communications as well. Anyway, here is the horse's mouth: https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/112521248529973776
A few things:

He's a psychologist proper at NYU, not some random journalist.

Psychology as a whole has suffered a reputational crisis.

You should listen to his claims and evaluate them independently, since they directly address your request for evidence.

Finally, the knocking of "pop science" books really grinds my gears. They are not inherently bad just because they are geared for a mass market. Technical subjects have layers of depth, and there is value in a high-level overview of some field.
I’m generally a free marketer, but have you ever gone to a private equity dentist’s office. They clearly recommend way more procedures than make sense compared to other dentists.
Pythons lay eggs.
Not really, it’s 100% business reasons. Facebook and especially Instagram used to be much more open to logged-out users in the past.
A long time ago I worked for a company that had a "cost plus" contract to build and operate a thing. I took a management class while I was there and one of the people in the class was a consultant who had been hired to map the division's revenue flow. Almost everyone there was a manager and all of them were on the edge of their seats while he explained.

Basically, you mark up the little stuff that everything is built on ($1/page for copies, for example) so the margins look smaller when you get to anything substantial. So 3.3% is a meaningless number until it has been audited all the way down to the smallest purchases.
Long-term Debian user here. Deviating from the featureset offered by the upstream package that had been stable since forever is an unexpected move. Patches usually fix bugs or improve system integration. It is not normal that running apt upgrade breaks a setup.

I don't personally use (or knew of) any of the network features in keepassxc, but this is the kind of change that you announce in one release, explaining how people that use it can keep using it, and then apply in the next release. Or, indeed, just make a second package for those who want the hardened setup.

There is an argument for the hardened version being the default, but moving from featureful to hardened is a significant change and warrants more than just pushing it and waiting for people to trip over it
Maintainers shouldn't manipulate upstream stuff like this IMO.

Arch Linux does this best.
The author's opinion is based on one intervention from one trip:

> "The version of FSD I tried in March [of 2024] was clearly not ready for driverless operation. For example, I had to intervene to prevent the Model X from running over a plastic lane divider, a mistake Waymo would not have made in 2020. So while FSD 12.3 seems superior to Waymo’s technology circa 2018, it’s not as good as Waymo’s technology at the end of 2020."
I heard there are people who memorise the Quran without knowing the slightest bit of Arabic?

True, I am doing this myself. 4 days a week and plan to continue for the next 10 years. Memorized several pages so far with a lot more to go without understanding any of it.
One thing you quickly run into with this exercise is needing to establish the boundaries around "programming language" which can be kind of fraught.

For example miniKanren is tiny and is used as a DSL, but is capable of expressing any computation so does that count? Some type systems are turing complete and a naive implementation could be tiny. Is conway's game of life a programming language. You could probably strip a bunch of useful stuff out of sqlite's sql parser and get it below 10k. etc.