skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Belgium, we don't even have swimmable pools. There are too few of them, their opening hours are worthless, going for a swim is stupidly expensive (~8eur), and many pools now require that you show them ID before you're allowed to enter. In all, it's become extremely unpleasant.

The results are as depressing as expected: more drownings (especially in the north sea) every year, and kids can barely stay afloat anymore.

There's a shortage of lifeguards, and (imo) some serious overregulation. No swimming allowed anywhere unless there are lifeguards on duty. It's a catch-22. People don't swim, so they suck at swimming, so they drown when they do swim, so we get more restrictions, etc.
> Treat it as a naive but intelligent intern.

That's the crux of the problem. Why and who would treat it as an intern? It might cost you more in explaining and dealing with it than not using it.

The purpose of an intern is to grow the intern. If this intern is static and will always be at the same level, why bother? If you had to feed and prep it every time, you might as well hire a senior.
This is a journalism industry problem, not a journalism content problem. Journalists trying to get paid more doesn't exclude Big Tech from criticism it deserves
Ask HN: How do you manage registration spam?
I've been running digital marketing on a few projects and all seem to suffer from many "spam" signups.

I can only assume the main intent is to find exploits with email and billing systems but there's a long list of other nefarious activity that could be at play.

I've set up a custom tool to monitor and prevent suspicious signups (looking at email deliverability, light identity checks and some AI with tuned prompts). Captchas don't seem to cut it as abusers don't seem to be bots.

Is this a problem other people are facing and if so how do you manage it, if at all?
Me too. I like to think that, if humans survive to reach some kind of utopian, post-scarcity state, people will experiment with building places like this, just because they can.
I think people are wrong just about as often here as anywhere else on the internet, but with more confidence. Averaging HN comments would just produce outputs similar to rudimentary LLMs with a bit snobbier of a tone, I imagine.
I posted this a while back on here, but my wife works in Behavioural Science, and wrote this about it last year https://www.squarepeginsight.com/post/the-dark-side-of-behav...
It's fine because otherwise we'd evolve into the social structure of Bonobo monkeys, where every problem is solved with sex.
Many problems stem from people not being willing to learn another paradigm of computer programming. Of course teams will split, if some people are not willing to learn, because then some will be unable to work on certain things, while other will be able to do so.

You mention performance. However, if we look at how many Python shops there are, this can hardly be a problem. I imagine ecosystems to be a much bigger issue than performance. Many implementations of functional languages have better performance than Python anyway.

There are many reasons why a company can have issues retaining people. A shitty uninteresting product, bad management, low wages, bad culture ... Lets eliminate those and see whether they still have issues retaining devs. I suspect, that an interesting tech stack could make people stay, because it is not so easy to find a job with such a tech stack.

However, many companies want easily replaceable cogs, which FP programmers are definitely not these days. So they would rather hire low skill easily replaceable than highly skilled but more expensive workforce. They know they will not be able to retain the highly skilled, because they know their other factors are not in line for that.
> I've encountered few C programmers who can predict what instructions will be emitted by their compiler.

That's an irrelevancy. Predicting those specific instructions does not preclude one from making reasonably correct judgements about a program's performance.

It is a fact that reasoning about performance of Haskell program is virtually impossible, unless you're an active ghc developer, and that's why the language remains unused for practical problems. Apart from buggy pandoc and few blockchain scams, that is.
Agreed the ordering is a bit weird. Working on figuring out a way to adjust that. Thanks for the feedback!
The thing is it might increase in cost after you've decided to use it commercially, and have invested a lot of time and resources in it. Now it's very hard to move to something else, but very easy for OpenAI to increase your cost arbitrarily. The statistics you made are not binding for them.
How far is the Diamond Age?
I asked a few “hard” questions and compared o1 with claude. https://github.com/harisec/o1-vs-claude
They’re running a business. They don’t owe you their trade secrets.
> There are very few good stories with unions but most of them are tragic especially long-term.

Since unions helped to end practices like child labor and what amounted to indentured service, I’m not sure you know what “tragic” or “long term” means.

If what you mean is more like “what have they done for us lately”, you should probably just say it and start that conversation instead
The example image is weird though. Where do you type?? I see no input field.

(I'm not a mac guy, am I just missing it?)
I goofed up. It can do 126w (not 140w) with the appropriate charger.

https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Pinecil#Power_Chart
I am a big fan of Stray! The atmosphere was both haunting and beautiful, and the emotional connection you feel as you guide the cat through puzzles, etc. Hearing about the uncertainty at Annapurna Interactive feels personal a little
> it just runs into economics, at average hourly rate we would put into it it just cheaper to buy decent espresso machine and move on.

Ha! I never thought about it this way, you're probably right on the time cost. Although, while the Decent espresso app which runs on the android tablet front end is open source, the firmware running the machine itself is not (unless I'm wrong). But given you can talk to it over bluetooth I think it fits my concept of "good enough" as the protocol is implemented in the open source app and the firmware as it stands gives you all the control knobs required to produce any result.

That being said, the reason I even considered a rewrite is because I particularly enjoy these kinds of ridiculous firmware replacements. For example, I've investigated it for the possibility of using rust to do it, it would be quite a bit of work as I would have to probably contribute to the state of the art but I've wanted an excuse for an embedded rust project and the STM32F411 (what you get in V3 by default) seems like not a terrible chip to base it on.

Gagguino has switched to STM32U585 and it seems like it's also supported relatively well in the embedded rust ecosystem.
Clearly not accurate, they've produced quite a few famous and acclaimed films based on original ideas, Philip K Dick novels & real life events.
I never took options in compensation packages as "ownership". I just see them as fancy mechanisms to give you the potential for more money without giving you more money outright.

In the case of startups, which are not yet public companies, even less so, as those shares can be dilluted, etc.

In the case of public conpanies I see them much in the same way I see shares of conpanies I buy in the stock market. I have no meaningful ownership of the company in those cases, it is just where I park some money looking for a return in investment.

A coop is actually a form of ownership, even if ironically you can't sell that ownership.
There's a difference between empty strings and Null values imo.

Just "" != Nothing

If you want to handle empty strings as a input in haskell then you have a function of type `f :: String -> b` and you pattern match on your input?

f "" = someResult
f ...

Nothing assumes a proper null in that there is genuinely nothing to work with. Still you can make a function to handle it or use `maybe`?
I think they are saying they have invented the screwdriver. We have all been using, hammers to sink screws, but if you try this new tool it may be better. However, you will still encounter a lot of nails.
He's speaking about his objective to make ever stronger LLMs: so for this his secondary objective is to measure their real performance.

The human preference is not that good of a proxy measurement: for instance, it can be gamed by making the model more assertive, causing the human error-spotting ability to decrease a lot [0].

So what he's really saying is that non-rigorous human vibe checks (like those LMSys Chatbot Arena is built on, although I love it) won't cut it anymore to evaluate models, because now models are past that point. Just like you can't evaluate how smart a smart person really is in a 2min casual conversation.

[0]: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=7W3GLNImfS
I have the same issue. it only happens on one site of mine but I get like 2-4 new accounts with gibberish as username and first and last name. Just random shit.

I don't know how to outright ban this. I do require verification of email but they never verify. They all use different IPs so they are doing proxy rotation. It was 10-20 a day now its down to 2-4 a day.
Wouldn't that put at least some pressure into pursuing other options (like mowing somebody's lawn)?
I feel the same way! Annapurna Interactive consistently published games with something special
> If you sell your body, most societies will punish you.

Why though? It is an interesting issue when you look closer. For an individual, it's more obvious - I wouldn't like to be with a prostitute because of possible hidden diseases and lack of trust - but there is no way of telling how many sexual contacts my new partner had, whether paid for or not.

But I wouldn't have any problem working with an ex-pro in the same company or team, they would be just a colleague like all the rest, and I can't imagine any adult making any immature comments about the past of any colleagues on my team.
> The point is to look at different economic systems and compare the results; not compare how they were implemented.

We never got to look at Allende's economic system and how it compares.

Politically Allende was freedom minded to a fault in the sense that the coup would have been a lot harder if he'd accepted violence. Economic freedom doesn't mean anything.
I thought this was the first one? https://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Coffee/
Exactly correct. Good time to skim https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_Run.

Years of startup problems but when it finally started humming they were building a B-24 every 63 minutes! In the meantime existing factories were winning the war.

As Americans we tend to glorify the industrial feats of WWII but the US government used a very heavy hand to pull that off. Public-private partnership is the preferred euphemism today but essentially we were a socialist economy.
Wouldn't that be an incentive towards other career paths (such as mowing lawns)?

EDIT: brace for the lawn mowing cartels led by ex human trafficking gangs.
On a more serious note, there is so much criminality involved in that field precisely because it's illegal and lucrative. You remove that and you remove a lot of abuse.
I assume you're American? The vast majority of article titles posted in non-local environments I have to figure out what country they're referring to.

Often we see "WA" news, which is just not the "Western Australia" of my country! Oh the indignation.

For clarity. I was referring to Washington.
Show HN: Waulog – A digital companion for dog owners
I've built Waulog (https://waulog.com), a web app to help dog owners track their pets' health and activities. It features:

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As a dog owner, I created this to solve my own pain points. I'd love feedback from the HN community, especially on:

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Any thoughts or suggestions are appreciated!
Ideally? Automatically answering support questions in open source discord channels, automatically taking minutes in business slack conversations.

Cynically? Your group chat is hosted by a tech company. That tech company wants to tell investors they've got an LLM, and show user counts going up. And the fastest way to boost user counts on a failing product is to make it an always-on feature of a successful product.
Learn Go and you will understand concurrency
I think it's also the question about how this type of work is viewed in society
> I would be very very wary of any device claiming it is a hearing aid that is not tuned by an audiologist

I might be wrong here, but I believe the Apple feature will do a hearing test on your phone to see which frequencies you can still hear, and then calibrate the hearing aid to only apply to the areas where it would be safe/effective to boost.

Please take this with a grain of salt, since I don't know all the facts here, but I think this basically addresses your concern.
You can get a De'Longhi Magnifica S super automatic for ~260 EUR on sale. Quite reliable. More convenient than an a Nespresso. Cheaper to operate. Less waste.
They're having a little bit of an identity crisis and chasing VSCode users in a dumb way, by imitating it right down to its UI.

If I wanted to use VSCode, I would. It's free. I pay for JetBrains tools because they're better than the free ones.

I think they're certainly making mistakes, but I don't think they're in trouble by any stretch. They've got the fully featured IDE market largely locked down.
Since all other replies are a bit too concise, I'll try and dive deeper (ha ha).

1) Naturally, rains wash out street grime and small pieces of rubbish which may easily bypass the sewage system altogether and end up in the river.

2) Cities have systems in place to treat wastewaters before releasing them into the rivers. However, these systems need to store yet-untreated water in reservoirs, and heavy rain may fill these up. Then, the only solution (if you don't want sewage to blast out sewer holes) is to release the water without treating it. In fact, one of the main upgrades made by Paris for the recent Olympics was a massive, 30-meter-deep new basin [1] built exactly to mitigate that risk.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/giant-reservoir-ready-s...
It's funny, my experience with NYT and tech has been the opposite as a minority -- probably a lot easier to get in than many would think, but talent is not the fulcrum.

"Half the staff is Jewish" made me laugh though, perhaps closer to true than false. It's funny how people call The New Yorker the pinnacle of privilege as a writer-type, and their staff writer team is more diverse than just about any other East Coast bigwig outlet.
Do you look up symbols in the IDE? What about finding all symbols in a package? I use inline IDE documentation a lot but still also use the online or offline copy of the HTML reference manual.
I wouldn't and I haven't, and I have dated a sex industry worker.

BUT

When I dated someone in the industry I quickly realized why many people avoid such workers. It's highly correlated with HEAVY drug use, severe mental illness, and sad family stories. Not challenges lot of people looking for in a relationship, especially if they want children.
not to the extent of having a video published where you have sex - to put it mildly.
How to check you're in the initial PID namespace?
While I somewhat agree with you, feminism and related ideologies created a whole new network of concepts of what is good and wrong, and these can bite you as much as the old prejudices. A good example is the Harry Potter lady: while I don't necessarily agree with her view, I do understand her concern and the right to express it - but for many people it's a criminal offense. Almost as if we replaced one cage with another.
Really?! I think putting rockets on youtube is a pretty far stretch from being a naive onlyfans creator…
that's pretty cool, hope more people will use it!
So, this is just an RL trained method of having multiple GPT4o agents think through options and select the best before responding?
I think it is the general attractiveness of para social relationships (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction). People look for personal, intimate interactions.
OF creates (the illusion of) such relationships.
Wow i never thought of that! I love this reasoning (no sarcasm intended!). Based on supply/demand, the lack of social acceptance leads to low supply which in turn makes sure the price matches the moral cost.
I honestly wished it was not (considered) degrading and just as acceptable as any hospitality service, although in my culture it is indeed immoral to take or provide sex services. Even so if it still is degrading indeed there should be a matching cost, but damn economics is a tricky one.
Its not like you have 30 competitors who can produce AH-64 Apache chopper equivalent out of blue with all support stuff required around it, its not perfect market and boeing c suite knows it very well.

Sure in 30 years they may be eventually pushed out but they can coast 2 generations of successful careers till then.
same here, i think some people are just a little too submissive and uncritical to the so called rules of society. also engaging in porn or even prostitution isn't really "selling" of one's body.
I live in Hamburg, Germany and there is a major Airbus-site nearby. By US standards these employees basically live under "socialism" and their union definitly did not hurt them in comparison to Boeing. Quite the contrary, certain safety violations wouldn't even remotely happen here, as the employees cannot be pressured into accepting them as easily. You know, when your boss can fire you with the snip of a finger and potentially your health care is on the line, it takes a special kind of guts to still do the right thing.

Unions can can be bad if abused by powerhungy people, but the same is true for literally every other organization.
I laughed a little at calling Firedancer contributors "a team at a HFT firm".

Not that you are technically wrong, not at all, that's where Jump came from. It's just that this is all completely blockchain-driven optimization, but the b-word is so dirty now that we've gotta go back to using TradFi for the rep.
Sex work will never go away. The only way forward is to make sure it can be done safely and legally.

Consider the sex workers who deal with mentally or physically disabled adults. Most people have sexual urges, and those who are unable to participate in society in the usual way of addressing their urges with a romantic partner or a one-night stand still have them. There are a good number of very professional sex workers out there who can provide these people with sex (often with specific expertise for the relevant handicaps) and generally significantly improve the wellbeing.

Are those sex workers doing something they shouldn't be doing?
It probably doesn't matter if you're a beginner.
You can actually get accustomed to the bad taste. It happened to me. But then I started drinking coffee at work again and out went my nespresso machine.
I plug my espresso machine into a smart socket, which I then switch on via an automation before I wake up, so the boiler is ready to go for me.

I do the same thing with a dumb duct fan. Turns out smart sockets can cover a lot of ground in home automation.
But that's not necessary in a language with union types of this sort. No rugs being pulled.
Just finished reading the 'Book of Why by Judea Pearl' and my own mental gap from AI to today to whatever AGI is has got wider, thought not discounting this seems like a step forward.
The non-standard grid thing was an argument against deep learning / chess / Go AIs before Alpha Zero - Alpha Go (showing self-play can adapt with sufficient runs to any grid size or "priors" in terms of rules of the game).

It was said in 2014 by a professor I learned from that clearly AI that learned a specific game was just learning patterns and memorizing rather than anything more than that, and wouldn't be able to adjust like humans could to say new board shapes, or rules. (They would later claim 1.5 years later at a lecture that "accurate facial recognition is possible. But high recall on facial recognition is impossible, making it useless for surveillance, so don't worry").

I expect the same will occur for LLMs (but maybe sufficient "chain of thought" steps rather than game runs, etc).
Major industries are economically critical for trade balance. Even if foreigners don't buy US cars, domestic buying means there's less import.

There's a limit to how long USA can print petrodollars to make up for the trade deficit. And the limit doesn't seem that far off.
The auto bailouts saved hundreds of thousands of jobs and turned a profit for the US government.
The long tail of the Internet theory says there's a market for it, but there are just so many sizes and the initial outlay is so expensive. I don't feel there's a big enough market for me to buy a bunch of TVs, reflashed them to not have adware, and then resell them.
Thats the whole point, that some people view promiscuity and sexualising ones self no differently to smelling bad, or wearing scruffy clothes, or having a negative attitude. Its just another trait which some people view dimly.
Are you saying €8 is not too expensive for a swim? That's an insane price.

Yes, the ID thing is preventing me from entering. It's not about keeping "undocumented and migrants" out. It's allegedly about keeping troublemakers out, but it's yet another pointless deterrent. There's no need to force everyone to show an ID to enter a pool simply because of a few bad apples.

I don't care about your bizarre rhetoric about "how low Europe has sunk", please take your nonsense elsewhere. We certainly don't need razor wire or security guards in pools. Though, perversely, I'm sure it's easier to convince politicians to install those than it is to spend more money on lifeguards.
And the level after that is making the distinction between "earth" and "Earth".

And before the quartic pedants say "well, all earth is on Earth", there's some in planes, on the space station and probably a few molecules scattered by impacts and human space exploration.

Quintic pedants will then question if, after being in space environments for long enough, a scrap of outgassed irradiated earth is still properly called earth? So isn't all "real" earth still gravitationally bound to the Earth?

Sextic pedants may be the first to notice everyone else has left them to squabble and gone to the pub.
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The backend doing the rendering for the 550 eink calendars that I have sold to far runs on a small, 10-Euro-a-month Hetzner server.

Low operational costs are essential for a hardware business if you don't want to burden your customers with an ongoing subscription fee. Otherwise the business turns into some kind of pyramid scheme where you have to sell more and more units in order to keep serving your existing customers.

I have a moral obligation towards my customers to keep running even if the sales stop at some point.

So I always multiply my cost for anything with 10 years, and then decide if I am willing to bear it. If not, then i find another solution.
Why? Lead solder doesn't evaporate. The risk was always in recycling and maybe eating without having washed your hands. But you don't breathe in the solder, only the flux (which is even more toxic in lead-free solder applications).
aka “Better EVs will be here any day now!! keep buying our ICE vehicles just a bit longer while we delay as long as possible”