skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll reject their rejection of #7. It's not just the "fairness" but the perception of fairness, in fact it's all about the perception of fairness.

Just for example, you see a lot of talk about fairness in college admissions. My Uni has a Lacrosse team and there are a handful of people who complain that this is unfair because poor schools are unlikely to have a Lacrosse team so players are likely to come from rich schools.

There is a much bigger movement of people who have come to believe that standardized tests such as the SAT are unfair because, fair or not, the SAT is highly visible. Lacrosse is a lot less visible and there are probably another 20-30 things like Lacrosse at my school that I only know a few of but that somebody else knows very well.

And there are a lot of things like that in the rest of life.

On the other hand there is nothing more destructive to your opportunities than the belief that everything is unfair (why try?) and that's common among many ideological groups such as incels and social justice people who take it too far. I know I've had an unfair advantage (they interviewed 4 people for the job but I was going to get it all along because I had spent 6 months scaring up the funding for it) or very good luck at certain times and places and at times I know I was on the other side (one of the people they were required to interview although they already knew who would get it.)

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Also by this argument shouldn't winners of the WSOP be the captains of finance? Shouldn't Tom Brady be president? People who are good at games are good at games not necessarily anything else.

It comes across as another handwringing article by someone who made "meritocracy" a religion despite not knowing the word was coined in a book for sarcastic use.
Open source? More like trojan horse. Nothing is "open" unless it has a GNU licence.
Depends on the person. Some people can not turn it off anyway, even with fewer hours, it always feels like you want get as much done about your projects as possible, as quickly as possible or it is kind of eating your soul and you can not relax anyway.

I would prefer a shorter period of intensive work, then no responsibilities at all, compared to some responsibilities always.
The mouse. Development of our Grandgrandfathers and still ubiquitous in usage.
This is what corruption looks like, power for the wrong reasons. Jails will make a profit, and charge inmates for the burden of making a phone call (during a time where literally every adult carries a device that can make infinite calls for no additional cost), but somehow preventing inmates from hurting each other is beyond their power.
Related reading; explains the same concept quite well IMO with NYC subway data. This is where I learned about this concept.

[1] https://erikbern.com/2016/04/04/nyc-subway-math

[2] https://erikbern.com/2016/07/09/waiting-time-math.html
For what it's worth, I took a year-long sabbatical in my 50s and did not suffer any noticeable ill effects to my career on my return. Your mileage may vary, of course.
> Or fire a 5 inch gun, you know, if that's more your speed.

Depends on what the target is.
Relevant [XKCD](https://xkcd.com/2347/)
I've read this (and similar diatribes by "real" computer scientists) before and although it's compelling - and, hell, I'd be willing to try the whole "formal methods" thing if it meant I spent less time debugging - it kind of overlooks the whole "we are successfully using computers to solve real-world problems by letting us non-mathematical 'dummies' at them" aspect. He seems to be reasoning that "yes, you're achieving results, but it would be more efficient if you spent two or three decades mastering formal methods before you produced a line of code" which sounds suspiciously to me like the way project managers reason: "yes, you can produce a program that solves the business problem if you just get started, but you would do so much more predictably if you spent 6 months 'estimating' it before you embark on a couple week's of programming".
> Seriously don't understand how Roblox isn't being investigated for predatory practices

Who gave to your kid the money to spend on Roblox?
It's a modification of the https://shadcn-landing-page.vercel.app/
Sorcerer (1977)
> I've been looking for alternatives

Just out of curiosity, is code search something you need to get bleeding edge updates? What's wrong with running the pre-rug-pull release? There even seems to be a pseudo community fork that added features: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41297879
It blows my mind the number of articles written about a specific photo or video, without embedding or linking to said media.
This was shared in a comment and has more details.

- Issue found on 3 test aircraft

- During certification tests (ie very late in the game)

- Boeing-designed thrust link is cracking (this links engine to wing). Made of titanium. There are two on each engine for redundancy.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boein...
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That's what I did here: https://www.simplecontactform.org
The presentation isn't fleshed out because we mostly use it for our agency clients but it is the most minimal version I could come up with.
You'll find lots of insights in other posts and comments on HN. Search (at the bottom) is your friend
for the team to become good writers

Everyone else is not a good writer is the subtext of your views. Expressing that subtext will not win friends and influence people.

Improving meetings through writing is the place to start. Take it upon yourself to write, edit, distribute and revise the agendas. Take it upon yourself to write, edit, distribute and revise the minutes.

Show dont tell. Good luck.
> In this specific example you do have an Undo button: the checkbox itself.

That's false. The checkbox itself is not a viable undo button under any circumstances in this specific example (i.e., you accidentally clicked but have no idea where, and let's assume you have no idea of that particular checkbox's state prior to the accident). Any adjacent checkbox would have extremely similar plausibility for a user wondering how to undo.

That said, toast is not great either, because it may disappear before the user fully recovers from their accident (say, a spilled drink). Maybe the undo button (and any async success/error labeling for the original event) ought to be adjacent to the checkbox and persist until the next action taken.
A blog post about bad UX that has a video element with controls hidden and autoplay. With autoplay disabled, it can take a while to figure out this thing is a video that just isn't playing...
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_king_is_dead,_long_live_th...!
> why we need all that growth, or do we need it at all.

Whether or not we need it, we can't have it indefinitely. So the best thing to do long-term is to rethink our economic system so it will work without it.
> you would not in front the vicar, don’t in front of the planet.

Every tyrannical government in history would love this maxim.
This is a much written about topic

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_r...

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/the-invention-...
The reason for using a single underlying thread/process is to prevent the OS scheduler from interfering with deterministic execution. You can't control how and when the OS scheduler kicks in, nor can you perfectly reproduce the clock drift/jitter between multiple cores. If the program under test spawns threads, then you'll have to emulate the execution of those threads by writing your own scheduler whose time slicing and scheduling policies are done deterministically.
Just to be clear, those are AND not OR conditions.

Definitely not trying to shed responsibility here, we messed up and we'll make sure this doesn't happen again.
Show HN: I create free code to authenticate with pininterest
It took me a whole day to figure out. I thought it may help someone here.
You say it’s more readable and I disagree with that!

Is this just fashion? Is there a way to settle it other than “I like it better?”
As long as the "toast" section is reused for many different messages, I don't get the problem? Ideally, you'd embrace that there is a common spot to see informational items. Even more ideally, you'd have a way to view all of the notifications that have been shown. (Emacs user entering the conversation...)

I confess I was completely at a loss as to what a Toast was, though. I suppose we went with that name because they pop up?
Same. Unfortunately, it's difficult finding part time work in tech right now.
Why Technological Progress Is Now Reversing
Perhaps Movies Should Make Sense
Too late to do what? Spend the 83 minutes watching a different movie?
I tried to make embeddings from my personal listening history a few years ago (https://github.com/ruuda/deepnote) with the idea that listens of music that matches well would be played in the same session, basically word2vec applied to listening history. It didn't work very well, it mostly found that tracks on albums are similar because I tend to listen to full albums. Maybe I didn't stir the parameters enough, or maybe it needs far more data. (All of Listenbrainz?) I also still want to experiment with generating embeddings for tracks just from the time of the day, week, and year. (I tend to listen to different things on a Friday night vs. Sunday morning, and I listen to very different music in summer vs. winter.) But that's for locally recommending relevant tracks that you already have in your library (for https://github.com/ruuda/musium), not for discovering new music. I already implemented a sorting mode to "rediscover" albums (albums that have a lot of listens in the past but few recently), and it works reasonably well. I expect that adding time of day/week/year will improve this a lot, but I haven't implemented it yet. I wonder how much of an improvement a transformer like in the article adds on top of that.
> If you're scared about your financial situation with over a $2M net worth either you are prone to paranoia or you're living well above your means.

As someone who was layed off and went without a job for 13 months (tech bubble), I am _always_ scared about my financial situation. Sure, if I lose my job, I have the resources to hold out while I find another, but

- It _will_ impact my lifestyle, because I'll need to be more careful about what money I spend

- It _will_ make my family unhappy, for the same reasons

- I've been in the position where it's "do we eat or pay rent next month?", and it sucks. I likely won't get back there, but the fear of getting there persists.

Look, I get it, $2M is a lot of money. But there's a fair number of people that can get to that amount (especially living in an area where a 2br dwelling is easily $1M of that), still be saving _more_ money, and still fear the idea of being out of work for months. Especially if it's a single earner household. And especially if there's children.
Trump is open to naming Elon Musk as an adviser, end EV Credits
You don't have to be on the Internet long to see flat-earthers or any number of asinine ways of thinking. You can't stretch discrete observations from a supremely massive sample size into "most people".
I think it's just a default warning; any drug can me. I am taking Sertraline for anxiety and even while I went through it with my psychiatrist about if it can be addictive (his statement was - no, not really - and for me that was true, I was able to stop taking it without any side effects), there's still that risk.

As with any medical thing, better consult it with a specialist anyway.
> What is the motivator of the primary gameplay loop?

For me, it's about my intrinsic motivation to come up with cleaner/simpler machines that are nonetheless efficient. MAMs ("make anything" machines) are a pretty damn fun challenge to build efficiently.
Every time the stock market shits itself, the large brokerages seem to "go down"
Its economically viable due to the train operators subsidizing the books with real estate. Its not viable in an of itself in japan either.
I think a lot of modern US public works fall prey to politicians who think the objective of the project is the spending of the money. That is - they push for spending on transit so they can talk about how much, in dollars, they got passed in transit funding. The actual outcomes for many of them are, at best, inconsequential.

Further cynicism could be layered in if you consider some of the blocks of donors (infrastructure contractors / RE devs / etc) and blocks of voters (union transit workers & construction workers) who are recipients again of the spending but not the outcomes.

Finally a lot of the problems come from a long gap of not doing capital projects and so hollowing out of state capacity which has been outsourced. If you outsource your planning, they are less incentivized to re-use existing cookie-cutter plans for subway stations. If you outsource your project management, they are less incentivized to keep costs down. ETc.
The obvious difference is no matter how long the county or city takes to reopen that road - you'll go right back to using it because you don't have an alternate choice.

For a website - particularly ecommerce websites - you have many choices. Rarely is a product only sold on a particular website. Being down when someone is trying to place an order can and does result in losing the sale, and potentially the customer forever. Customer loyalty is often fickle - why would they wait around for you to fix your stuff when they can simply place their order on Amazon or another retail website?
Raising the Fun Replacement Level
For txt based pdfs, doc files etc, this is super easy to do and requires very little technical expertise or configuration. Download the gpt4all client. Pick an LLM the new meta llama3 model works really well then configure the local documents plugin.

I wrote a scraper to download all of the California EdCode from the governments site, convert them all to txt docs and I can ask questions about California EdCode in plain English.

I work in a shared governance capacity that requires us to refer to the Ed code for contractual negotiations and it’s been extremely helpful.
The point is the form, not the function. Surely you've seen couture dresses that were equally cumbersome.
Oreon Operating System
The issue is that EVs require less humans to manufacture, both for battery cells, packs, and the chassis assembly. The protectionism is understandable, but the job quantities are going to decline regardless (unless very intentional efforts are made to shuffle labor around from legacy industries to the energy transition) vs internal combustion supply chains. There is a lot of work left, but labor is not fungible and a race to the bottom is not something to optimize for.
That’s a good one. I think my driving instructor told me something similar on my first lesson.

I’m talking about the brain fog more than the action itself, though. I no longer have it since I’ve been trained in emergency field medicine. That training course gave me enough exposure to stress to no longer get into this state of confusion. But I want to help others deal with it and it’s hard to find info online.
I feel like all recommendation systems already do similarity well -- and it's not what I want. True, similarity matters to some extent, but my dream is something that can accurately predict what I'd like. Often I'll only like a song or two from a given artist, so finding artists similar to this artist are often useless.

Related question: I wonder if identical twins are good at recommending each other music
No, this is about single pass compiler, which makes it fast but all references to use in current file to be defined earlier
These guys [https://www.scientificballoonsolutions.com/news/], as of October 2018, claim the world record. [edit: the site linked says Alan Adamson but an upstream post mentions Lee Meadows. That thread also credits Bill Brown as a pioneer - https://www.stratoballooning.org/membership#!biz/id/5f4d7b97...]

The world record balloon was launched on September 21, 2016, stayed up over 767 days, circled the world 35 times and traveled over 1.5 million kilometers.

Their website, still from 2018, indicates they are working on even better designs.
DOS Gaming Is Better Part XXI: The Consistency [video]
All the arguments are attempts to veil "we're not making enough money."

When companies dangle "open source" projects to get attention, or start off as open source projects then someone decides "I can make money off this", then rug pull them, that leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Sorry I don't check HN very often these days.

What I mean is by watching the IPs, I see a lot of cross-border ingress/egress when it shouldn't be necessary. It's not proof, but an indicator of probability to me, that echelon style mechanisms are being used.

If you are unaware of echelon and related programs, essentially, since it's illegal for the US (officially at least) to spy on it's own citizens without a warrant, instead they let an "ally" country like the UK spy on Americans and then "share the data", essentially another abuse of third party doctrine.

I hope that helps clarify.
Right, who cares what version of a dependency you’re using? Those numbers don’t mean anything.
I know that it's not a real post-mortem, but this is the opposite of what a good post-mortem looks like.

It includes:

* Blaming the tools (and the author)

* Not focusing on facts in the timeline

* Not considering improvements

But that doesn't make for engaging content, right?

> * At $TIME we observed HTTP POST calls failing

> * At $TIME customers reported inability to make changes to ticket prices and promo codes

> * $PERSON took the following steps to debug...

> * Root cause: an update to a vendor library resulted in cascading failures to the site

> * 5 whys (which might include lack of defensive programming, the use of a CDN without a fixed version, etc. etc.)

> * Next steps: pin the CDN version or pull the dependency into the build, etc.

Actually, that still looks like a pretty good story to me without any of the associated mania.
Late reply but here's the full error in my console

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Oh I see, the claim is “we don’t do the result filtering ourselves so we don’t know what you’re looking for” but that is done by … taking your filters and broadcasting them to everybody?

So they’ve removed the server from the filtering process but made the privacy implications far worse.
Not really. One can be civil without self-censorsing oneself. Candidness is not the same as rank rudeness.
> when mothers were at home we were all much healthier

1950s America is never coming back. It was a uniquely dominant time for the US geopolitically so of course a lot of indicators looked good. That doesn’t mean mothers staying home was the cause of it any more than men wearing suits to the office was the cause of it. Single income households have never been the norm.

Second, what you’re suggesting doesn’t make practical sense. Men with college degrees tend to marry women with college degrees. So since neither is likely to make substantially more than the other, it makes sense for both to work.

And that’s how things have been for centuries. Thousands of years even, across cultures. Women and men both worked. Usually farming, but still working. Single income household was a historical aberration.
That's a really good point. My kids have tablets but they barely carry books. They could probably get 90% of the same stuff done if they were given an eReader instead of a tablet. It would have several benefits now I think about it.

* frame rate sucks too much for tik-tok to be any good

* easier on the eyes

* useless for doing homework on, so the kids go back to paper where they have to show their work anyway.

I dunno this might be the way. Instead of artificially limiting platforms, let the platform's natural limitations do the work.
He's also done a ton outside the AI space:

https://github.com/ankane/pretender makes it super easy to impersonate a different user in a rails app

https://github.com/ankane/ahoy is first party analytics for rails

https://github.com/ankane/blazer is BI built into rails

https://github.com/ankane/field_test is A/B testing

This kind of stuff is why rails is so productive for a normal web app. Sure, there are better vendor and point solutions for each of these, but the ability to drop in a gem, do some configuration and have a 80% solution lets you ship so. damn. fast.
IMO it’s a mistake to try to draw any conclusions from skip actions or from what a user is listening to, as opposed to from explicit like/dislike actions. There are just too many reasons why someone may be skipping a track or (appear to) be listening to tracks. As a user, I don’t want to be in the position of having to fear that the algorithm will misinterpret my skipping or my letting some playlist play.
Nice! Yeah the puzzle detection works really well in your one.
I'll need to have a read through your write up to get some pointers.
That's a display of endeavour and persistence. Congratulations.
Multiplying without having a larger intermediate is much more complex than the article states. You have to use the commutative property of multiplication and split the whole and decimal parts of each number out, otherwise you're stuck with single digit whole numbers or only multiplying fractions.

So you'd take

A.a * B.b and split it into A*B + A*b + a*B + a*b

Or

out = ((A >> fixedbits) * (B >> fixedbits) << fixedbits)
+ ((A >> fixedbits) * b)
+ ((B >> fixedbits) * a)
+ ((a * b) >> fixedbits);

If you can get away with a little less precision and smaller whole numbers, you can avoid some of the multiplications by just doing this, which is quite common:

(A.a >> (fixedbits / 2)) * (B.b >> (fixedbits / 2))
> Banks don't do this well.

Exactly!

(And's that speaking as former CTO of one of the largest banks in the world.)

I was responding to:

>> "ultimate two sided marketplace"

Banks' role in anyone's attempt to solve this is why one can't forget there are three sides, not two, to getting this right. Get the right intro and a bank might even want to foot your bootstrapping bill given how challenging things can be internally.
Ah yes, I ruin it for everyone by "letting" a company with significantly more financial means "get away with" breaching contract.

Again, I acknowledged the mistakes I made in this blog, and ironically you are literally the commenter I tried to head off in my own comment on this post, but if you're choosing to blame the power imbalance on me, that's your choice and I'm fine with it.

Putting your foot down and demanding payment _does not fix the power imbalance_ by the way. Because if they continue to choose to not pay for the hours you've worked, you still have to pursue them legally. You can mitigate risk by demanding payment up front, stopping work, etc. (again, as I noted in the blog) but it does not at all mitigate the imbalance in power dynamics between a solo freelancer and a larger company.
> as long as your monopoly on violence remains intact there’s little anyone could do against it.

And now people understand why the Second Amendment exists... no?
That's a mindset problem. If you have $2M net worth, if $1M is in cash in a HYSA paying 5% APY you're making $3.5k/month on that alone. I don't know what your costs are; rent, healthcare, partner, kids, other dependents; if you caught long covid and became disabled and couldn't work another full day in your life, you'd still be making $3.5k a month. I don't wish that disability on anyone, but what helps the mental switch on what to do is to pull a years worth of living expenses out of savings into a cash account, and then just go do that for a year. Don't think about the rest of the pile, just sit with that year's worth of just living and doing no work.