skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was glad to see such a clear, actionable mission statement. At companies I've worked for, the mission statements have been either absurdly broad or completely incomprehensible, and as a result most employees (quite rightly) ignore them.
Same. Including weird audio clicks during supposed 'sleep' (already happend during heavy load while awake). Then one day this summer it just died without any recourse.
With a request body you can also rely on all the other standard semantics that request bodies afford, such as different content-types, content encoding. Query parameters are also often considered less secure for things like PII and (less important these days) query parameters don't really define character encoding.

But generally the most important reason is that you can take advantage of the full range of mimetypes, and yes practicality speaking there's a limit on how much you should stuff in a query parameter.

This has resulted in tons of protocols using POST, such as GraphQL. This is a nice middle ground.
Yep, I get it. This is all true. What I'm saying is that, in my opinion, it's also bad and those people (and perhaps you) ought to choose a better path. I recognize that many of them won't. There are lots of things I think people (including myself!) ought not do, which we still do anyway.
On the other hand, kale is goitrogenic. With two little kids I like to make sure they get a good mix of vegetables which aren't all from the cabbage family. I'm lucky living in California; my local Safeway has all kinds of fresh vegetables, including various (non-cruciferous) lettuce greens, year round, but in many other places in the U.S. it's just iceberg plus cruciferous vegetables for long stretches.
When I was studying in the late 80s / early 90s, the text books contrasted the "old" waterfall approach with the more "modern" iterative approach. That was long before Agile or whatever had been invented and recognised that there needed to be a feedback loop.

Trying to promote agile/scrum/xp/whatever by attacking waterfall is a straw man argument in my view because it is not comparing against what came before. That's not to say that clueless managers don't still like to reinvent and impose what is essentially waterfall.
A lot of the prodemently used programming languages and libraries have references to feces if you speak Farsi.
Hong Kong Man Faces Jail over 'Seditious' T-Shirt
On Twitter they claimed they are still supporting v2.

https://x.com/brave/status/1822690721020723700
The problem with standups is that usually the wrong people are talking.

I don't give a rat's ass about what other developers are doing. I either already know by virtue of having to work with them, or they are entirely disconnected from my work and so what they are doing doesn't really matter.

What I really need to know what the managers and executive are doing. That has the most impact on my work. Yet, strangely, they almost never want to share.
Ask HN: Alternatives to ChatGPT with Open Models?
I use the big 3 chatbots already. Since there seem to be a lot of interest and movement in the open weight world (llama and alternatives), and also companies that support inference, I'm wondering if there are any services that cobble together their own llm chatbots? Or are there resources where I can find some of the projects others (either individuals or small companies) have put together?
Curious to see what other things you will simulate in the future!

Shameless plug: recently we've built a demo that allows you to search for objects in San Francisco using natural language. You can look for things like Tesla cars, dry patches, boats, and more. Link: https://demo.bluesight.ai/

We've tried using Clay embeddings but we quickly found out that they perform poorly for similarity search compared to embeddings produced by CLIP fine tuned on OSM captions (SkyScript).
I'm a screen reader user. It's similar for me, accept if I really wanted to navigate around the ads I suppose i could. However i do have chronic migraines, so that reduces my ability to care about ads. Or X embeds, Or facebook sharing widgets. So no, it isn't just an ad thing, it's a let's not take a whole bunch of energy to navigate a page thing.
Note that I'm not dictating anything to anyone, simply stating my view about what things are or aren't good, which I'm certainly entitled to.
I don't use anything, but each time my eyes hurt, I wonder if I should: with some sense of music and tones, I often wonder if I could develop enough audio feedback to be able to do tasks like opening apps, writing, compiling, and getting feedback. I also often wonder if that is something that the visually impaired already use.
> "No one prospers without rendering benefit to others." — Tadao Yoshida

This quote describes how things should be, not how things actually are.
Oh, also, if you want a stupidly easy way to eat sweet potatoes, cut one up into bite sized chunks and cook it at 350 fahrenheit for 45 minutes or longer (it won't burn easily at that temperature). No need to remove the skin, but wash it first. They aren't bad even plain. This is an easy no-preperation-necessary to get at least 1 veggie.
Not everyone's good at languages. I really appreciate it when people write simply, so I only have to look a few thousand words up in the dictionary to understand it.
Oracle, it's time to free JavaScript
> you have to dump it somewhere

You don't. Solar panels are more than happy to sit idle. "Excess energy" is an economics problem, not a physics one.
AC equipment is replaced at the end of its lifetime and picked up by professionals. That's a fact.

And as I pointed out, even if it wouldn't be picked up and leak _completely_, then it would still be 50x less than the average car owner emits in the same timeframe.

Even a single season of heating a house with natural gas already emits more than a complete leak. And who is loosing sleep about that? Maybe those who install an AC for a 20x emission reduction. Not those baselessly claiming that AC are environmentally problematic.
I propose Prepper's Paradox. I was even able to dig up an existing usage https://www.reddit.com/r/preppers/comments/1domhjt/the_dooms...
The actual killer thing would be flooding. Insurance has invested billions into trying to simulate risk here and models are still relatively weak.
Duolingo: The British Cycling Team of SaaS
> Who's buying these things?

People who think that these things say something impressive about the people who show them off? Which implies that they themselves are impressed by flash.

I do think there's a cultural aspect in play, but I haven't nailed it down. I've seen this a lot in business -- people who are trying to wine and dine me by showing up in an absurdly expensive car, wearing expensive clothes and jewelry, taking me to expensive restaurants, etc.

It always leaves a bad taste in my mouth (if they so easily blow that kind of money on things that don't actually matter, I suspect that they spend too much money on other things that don't matter in the business as well). You want to impress me? Dress like a normal person, pick me up in a budget car and take me to coffee.

But I've noticed that this is more likely to happen with people from the eastern US (and SV) than from the west.
So, you always go to the library for every problem you have where you need a detailed guide?
It's also consistent with their other socials which is probably why they did that rather than ask the DNS people for the other Duolingo br domain to add it.
Many of the folks who get worked up about issues in history like this are likely themselves wrong, but in a different way, about what it “really was” back then.
Perhaps he means allcaps family name followed by normal case given name.
Is the plan to expand from weather forecasting into climate simulation? Given the complexity of the finding initial conditions on the earth, a non-physical (or only implicitly-physical) model seems like it could offer a very promising alternative to physical models. The existing physical models, while often grossly correct (in terms of averages), suffer from producing unphysical configurations on a local basis.
Person 3 (me): what's your proposed alternative - considering all stakeholders?
A Query Acceleration Path for Analytics in SQLite3 (2022) [pdf]
Huge as in 50 kB? Fine. Huge as in 50 MB? Well, pass it through maybe if your NVMe device is running out of space.
Another source, for academic writing, is jstor.org. A lot of the older stuff is free with an account. It presents as if you need a current educational affiliation, but not so for a basic free account.
That is not how the hacker was caught.

He was caught because he uploaded all of the stolen data but accidently included a directory of all his passwords and personal information.
VPN Bypass Vulnerability in Apple iOS
Probably not, it doesn’t seem to have any direct power to just, like, blast stuff, as far as we see on the page. I think it is more like a wide-ranging enhancement to all the forces of evil if they get it. The power of every orc waking up on the right side of the bed to go do the day-to-day work of evil every morning.
Yeah you do have to reconstitute old reddit links, although I just let the script take me there. The userscript I'm using that is.
They don't like how the in-window unit ones look, and don't like how the heat pump external units look and/or don't want to pay to retrofit anything

It's pure aesthetics
Upthread, bayindirh posted half a dozen examples of financially-motivated decisions that were actively, deliberately hostile, sometimes fatal, to the customer. We're not just talking about good-enough fiddly details here.
something within the interface that more clearly illustrates their product differentiation.

nullschool is obscure enough to the general audience that when I saw it there was an immediate red flag.

If only specialized scientists can see the difference between the sites, it's a presentation problem.
Nope, in waterfall, "deliverables" might mean things like "UI design" (as a slide deck) or "database schemas" (on paper, without data) or "this microservice" (in isolation, and which you cannot run because dependencies and consumers are not implemented yet)

If you are producing anything a customer might actually before the very end of the project, it's not waterfall.
But then you don’t need product managers at all, or at least not full time.
Boom Supersonic Completes 3rd Test Flight with XB-1 Demonstrator
If a process is 98% waterfall and management blames developers for the 2% and considers it a problem to be solved rather than something to be harnessed, it's close enough to waterfall for all practical purposes. I don't believe there's a sudden transition in the cost/benefits for waterfall at 100%, in either direction. (Just as I don't believe it for Scrum.) The criticisms will apply.
The open source AI civil war approaches
ask copilot or midjourney or ... ?
Does anyone predict economy/population/... by simulating individual people based on real census information? Monte carlo simulation of major events (births, death, ...) based on known statistics based on age, economic background, location, education, profession, etc.? It seems there are not that many people that this would be computationally infeasible, and states and companies have plenty of data to feed into such systems. Is it not needed because other alternatives give better results, or is it already being done?
> Unlike POST, however, the method is explicitly safe and idempotent, allowing functions like caching and automatic retries to operate.

A shitload of answers to GET requests, although cacheable, are stale though. If you issue a GET for a page which contains stuff like "Number of views: xxx" or "Number of users logged in: yyy" or "Last updated on: yyyy-mm-dd" there goes idempotency.

Some GET requests are actually idempotent ("Give me the value of AAPL at close on 2021-07-21") but many aren't.

Stale data won't break much but there's a world between "it's an idempotent call" and "I'm actually likely to be seeing stale data if I'm using a cached value".

I mean... Enter in you browser "https://example.org", that's a GET. And that's definitely not idempotent for most sites we're all using on a daily basis.
There are some interesting combinations of Settings. You can have Terminal startup with your Windows login and always running in the background, which is essentially why the old consoles were so "snappy", the classic ConHost was always running, even when there are no console windows to display.

If you leave it always running you can also try Win+` for "Quake mode".
Sometimes if I'm running some long running task I'll do `; say finished` afterwards so I get pinged when it wrapped up.

At once point I had a slightly more sophisticated command that would check the output and say completed or failed but it wasn't much more useful.
I think the Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRACTRAN) is easier for understanding Fractan.
Over-Engineering 5x Faster Set Intersections in SVE2, AVX-512, & Neon
Product managers can then think much farther out and/or can work across multiple teams.
ACE score of 1, my parents were pretty great.

But if this test were applied to other kids, it would be off the charts. Abused and neglected in every way imaginable by my peers, growing up.

It's always annoyed me that if your abusers weren't your caregivers, your trauma is never taken seriously by the mental health community.

But it is what it is. I'm doing very well financially and professionally, I have a wife and kids, I am strong, fit, and healthy. But I have no friends, and it's impossible to relate with other people. Perpetually lonely, always the outcast, even decades after adolescence.
I am torn about the page having a scrollbar. It would be nice to be able to read the entire page without having to scroll. But you can not guarantee that anyway as the browser window might be arbitrarily small. It punishes you for not doing nothing and wanting to read the text which is the point. So maybe the page should actually ensure that there is always a scroll bar, place the statistics always below the fold.
Very very few of these people exist. They like to think that because they are very good at writing and understanding code and technology that they are automatically the smartest person in the room with every other aspect of the business. And I'm not talking exclusively about software developers, you'll find the same issues with anyone who is deeply smart and experienced at any one thing, thinking they must be smart about everything else too.

There are a few polymaths out there, yes. But only a few.
Say 32 oz of refrigerant per car, 675x CO2 equivalence, if your car AC vents all the refrigerant it's like releasing 0.675 tons of CO2.

EPA says an average passenger vehicle releases 5 tons of CO2 per year, so if your AC lasts 10 years it's about 1% of your car's greenhouse gas emissions.

Leaks in a larger building AC would be worse, but I bet all the vibration and getting banged around by potholes makes the car systems a lot more prone to leaks than a stationary unit.
You are in luck :)

https://www.cnet.com/culture/if-earth-had-rings-like-saturn-...
> Like, the part about making your co-workers feel like they're bottlenecking you; can't imagine working in an environment where everyone tries that number on everyone else. It's extremely adversarial.

See I didn’t read it that way at all. I read that as a statement of a concept I’ve always heard about when coordinating between groups. Effectively “pick a person in the other group to be your liaison and your counterpart and coordinate directly, don’t just throw stuff over the wall and hope someone picks it up”. It’s the same basic psychological concept as “in an emergency situation pick one person in the crowd, point them out and tell them personally to go call 911”. Diffusion of responsibility means people will delay or stuff will get dropped. To make things happen you have to make sure things are assigned. Surely this isn’t particularly surprising or controversial right? It’s why large teams often appoint “interrupt” workers who are appointed to specifically answer out of band requests coming in. It’s why you have an on call rotation instead of just paging the entire company if something goes down. It’s why agile appoints a “scrum master” whose singular mission is to clear up blocking issues for the team. It’s why if you don’t assign people to work on maintenance, maintenance won’t get done.

I read that part of the document as saying “if you’re in charge of producing a video due in 45 days, don’t just send a general request for someone to make a script to the writing department, pick a person and get on the same page about what needs to be done and when”
I would say that the description of dwarves as middle-sized strong men that live underground and are known for good forgery, and elves being tall, old, singing folk indeed comes from Tolkien. Previously Dwarves were imagined as magical folk with powers more close to Cinderella's God Mother, and if I'm not mistaken, Elves too (i.e. dwarves were elves really) according to Germanic mythology. For example, if you read Andre Norton's Witch World this world differs greatly from Tolkiens' - especially in this matter.
I have a hydronic heating system in one of my houses, but the electrical service can't provide enough amperage to heat the water up, so it's running on propane. Unless you're willing to spring for an upgrade to a 300A service, usually you'll have some combination of gas for heat or for water heating or for clothes drying. There are electric versions of all of these but you don't normally have enough budget on a 200A service to run them all at the same time because you also have to have budget for a lot of 120VAC kitchen and garage appliances. Houses built 20 years ago also had weird circuit configurations to accommodate separate lighting and power circuits because incandescent bulbs were so inefficient. So you'll have a bunch of lighting circuits that are only pulling an amp or two and then a bunch of appliance circuits that are pulling 10's of amps, but your panel gets filled up because of the unnecessary lighting circuits.

At least, in my experience this is how it goes as a homeowner.

So to get to an on-demand water heater you'll probably have a lot of electrical work that needs to be done(potentially thousands of dollars).
a small shopping trip with ordinary items totaling less than thirty dollars, actually. Many places of various kinds in California are not accepting cash today - San Francisco passed local law to require accepting cash as one result.
Ruthless Prioritization as an Engineer
The point of the story is fine but I guess I'm super jaded because I laughed out loud at the part when the saas company "found efficiencies" and reduced their hypothetical price.
I was talking about UX, not moderation.
AFAIK Vehicles use flexible rubber pipes because the rigid copper pipes of fixed split ACs would not withstand the vibrations of a car. The downside of these more flexible pipes is that they leak more.
Everyone with a mechanical keyboard
came to say that sweet potato has high levels of oxolates, if your gut doesn't work properly that can cause all kinds of things
Does he really not get it? really?
Of you brake aggressively and someone rear ends you, could it not also be that the person behind was too close in the first place?

Not to be rude, but American drivers are not normally considered great, and San Francisco is number 7 on the list of cities you are most likely to get in an accident in the US.

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/legal/auto-accident/cities-mo...
The author is fortunate to have so few encounters with this IRL because there is a world of difference between “I have never seen a book propose this” and encountering it in practice.

To my misfortune I have been involved in multiple ERP implementations where such require heavy customization & development of custom & bolt-on modules.

This model wasn’t explicitly presented in this visual style but it was the approach. Requirements were set nearly in stone even as business needs changed during a multi-year project. The result was systems people avoided using, creating shadow systems or surprising IT with “we bought this and need it integrated”.
His competition and giveaway videos are just the modern version of reality TV and game shows, where the draw is the horse race and human drama. You might call that "toxic, useless brainrot," but personally, I feel like such fare is about on the same level as any number of classic novels (including pretty much anything authored by a Bronte sister). Your enjoyment likely hinges on your level of empathy for the people involved, as they're thrown into complex social situations with their livelihood at stake, or whatever.
So, you can look at my comment history to find me waffling about whether every opinion ought to be prefaced with "I believe". Lots of writing advice suggests not doing that, because it's obvious from context and thus redundant, but I find that there is almost always at least one comment like this one when it is elided, which does make me question this writing advice.

Having said that, in this case, I think this is just wrong:

> "people shouldn't", which is a directive/command

I think this is a misreading of the word "shouldn't"... It does not mean "are forbidden to". I honestly struggle to see how you could possibly read it as a "directive/command", especially in a random comment on the internet rather than, like, a legal document (where it wouldn't appear anyway).

I think it's pretty clearly a value judgment, and thus fairly clear that it is a subjective opinion, as all value judgments are.
> I think it has more of a wide ranging philosophical power or something like that

The Ring was a force multiplier for Sauron (who had in effect transferred some of his power into it, for whatever reason). He could already wield extreme control over his underlings (and we see what happens when he gets distracted at the very end) and strike fear into the hearts of his enemies. All of these capabilities would have been enhanced if he got it back. He would also have been able to perceive the actions (and thoughts?) of the other ring bearers (i.e. the elves). And perhaps a load of other things that Gandalf and the other experts didn't know about (they didn't appear in middle earth until long after the ring was forged).
I mean, yeah? The standard does say *MAY* cache content. It also says the cache server should try to do semantic interpretation of the body if possible, which I think is a misstep. IMO it would be better to have canonical representations of whatever format you're using and then let the cache layer rely on hashing or similar mechanisms. More complicated edge servers/proxies is not what we want because it leads to vulnerabilities.
That sounds a bit like chess…
Where are the benchmarks that show <1ms p99 overhead? That seems intense to me.
What a great article. The quality of life in America is not great is this is a big reason why. I grew up in the suburbs and pretty much every kid had a bike and did help but stuff was so spread out it was still relatively useless and I feel like the newer suburbs that are even further out a bike would prove to be less useful.
Product Management is hosting a party...

...but the venue owner wants the staff to do insane party tricks instead of buy chips and soda

...and wants to take half the guests off the list because they invited too many people

...and wants to change the theme 12 hours before the party starts, because they're _certain_ the party goers will love this new theme (despite never talking to them)

Your job as a PM is to make sure the staff and the party goers never realize any of this is happening in the background. So they can focus on doing their job well.

And to also have a good enough understanding of what the needs of the party goers are to make sure you're throwing the right party
So? If it works for both customers and developers, then this is a huge win.