skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is the same candidate who segregates rallies by race and gender.

Examples?

Edit: You gotta love the downvotes for asking for a source on such a claim. Of course, if it were so obviously happening, sources shouldn't be hard to provide. Alas.
Ah, yes, the evergreen comment that suggests it would be better if people living far from the meridian experience the joy of Wednesday turning into Thursday at some point whilst they're awake.
I see this brought up every few years but nothing ever seems to happen. I used to live not far from the Weeksville station in NC and would occasionally see flights from there. Would love to see these all over. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/weeksville-dirigible-han...
Where has the practice of putting the $ behind the value come from? I see it happening to £ too. I'm irrationally annoyed by this.
Ask HN: What are some good publicly available postmortems to read?
I'm looking to read a few (publicly available) postmortems of incidents and accidents. The domain/organization/... doesn't matter too much so long as they are insightful and there's something to be learned from reading them. Bonus points for including a quick note on why you considered them particularly interesting!
Welcome indeed. I can be cynical at times (I try not to be) but some aspects of how the pandemic played out truly surprised me. And confused me.

I like to think I know better now. But, I’m also reminded that I’m still young. I was 35, and way too accustomed to quiet Canadian life. The biggest news we saw over on this side of the country for a long time was a hockey riot, otherwise things happening elsewhere (generally speaking).

Then again, maybe the hockey riot was all I needed to know going into the pandemic, haha. I should have learned more from that.
Just because PRC didn't collapse doesn't mean PRC perform well. On the contrary, the current strength of PRC is probably a reversion to mean, what China would be like if it wasn't so mismanaged, and yet decades late from where they could be.

States can endure a lot of mismanagement. Look at North Korea for instance. What we won't know is when we hit the breaking point.

What is happening in Russia may lead to an eventual collapse, though unlikely. There are some signs of a loss of monopoly on violence as the system is pushed to its breaking point. Hopefully that won't happen, but it's a scary possibility nonetheless.
A pointer parameter can be null and it doesn't make sense for this parameter to be null, so IMO a reference is the better choice here.

A non-const reference is just as clear a signal that the parameter may be modified as a non-const pointer. If there's no modification const ref should be used.
I feel like training LLMs against LinkedIn would make them significantly dumber.
Smart TVs Are Watching You: A First Look at Automatic Content Recognition
Not at all my experience. Do you have any examples?

OP called it "clojure.async." I question how much they've really used it.
Significant part of extant, or at least longer-surviving, Matrox business once they mostly got out of GPU space was in devices like that - displays connected by long cables, things like specialized GPUs with 8P8C or fiber connectors that provided DisplayPort + USB over longer range, to connect users to computer running elsewhere.
You guys don’t have a text file full of world changing ideas you would work on if you had some runway?
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4888155-white-dudes-ha...
`TAKE LOCK ACCESS EXCLUSIVE VACUUM FULL` is just an incantation that will be blindly copy-pasted. I don't see how it would stop anyone from shooting themselves in the foot.
> some tools were written in Rust. The tools were a re-write

Some memes just write themselves.
And there's more than a 50/50 chance that if you forget to charge that $469 ring for a few days that it will brick.

Also Oura isn't all that accurate. For anyone who is interested in the wearable space I HIGHLY reccomend The Quantified Scientist[0] on Youtube. He does his best to compare wearable accuracy with real medical devices or other proven devices.

[0]:
https://m.youtube.com/thequantifiedscientist
Speaking of multipath interference, why is it that we almost never hear the effect of that? Like, aren't these waves almost constantly bouncing off of other things and being reflected? How are we not always hearing echos all the time?
Oh, man, I want one.
haha yeah, its ok for a tool its really cool honestly :p just commenting on the 'so little code' might be good to check if the x y etc. are within the screen / set resolution perhaps.
Ouch, that kinda hit the nail on the head of why I personally preferred the screen when I was growing up in late 90s and 00s. Didn’t even think of it in those terms until now, but yeah, it tracks nearly perfectly.

Even as an adult, I noticed that my (non-productive) screen consumption spikes during periods of high stress and turmoil.
> It worked, but a lot of stuff was way harder than it should be.

That's because the devs like it that way. They're comfortable with everything they learned 30 years ago and see no need for any of these newfangled usability improvements.
If the code author deems the pre-squashed commits useful, they would've split their PR into multiple PRs. I personally do this all the time: each PR has only one commit, but PRs can depend on each other.

And if the PR author deems their commits insignificant, they can feel free to make one PR and they squash & merge.
Understand that being a successful solopreneurs (or entrepreneur for that matter) isn't just about "coding a thing." When I started educating myself about how to be a solopreneur, I realized that I'd be lucky if I spent 50% of my time coding; and would more likely spend 1/3rd of my time coding.

A couple of things to consider:

- Business is more about execution than being the first to market with an idea. Marketing, customer satisfaction, pricing, reliability, ect, all come into play. Before you create, spend time looking at the "dozens of other solutions doing the same thing." You may find a weakness, unfulfilled need, niche, ect. Often times, in early markets with lots of players, the first movers have a lot of baggage that holds them back from growing.

(IE, the first movers made a lot of false starts and end up with Frankenstien products. You can "bypass" them by better understanding the market and building something with less functionality, but just enough functionality to meet most of the market's needs. This is a huge advantage because you aren't wasting time fixing a feature that only 2-3 people use, or making sure you don't break that one feature that 2 people use.)

- Look at books like "The Incredible Secret Money Machine" by Don Lancaster or "Start Small, Stay Small" by Rob Walling.

- Read through (and watch) a lot of YC material about starting a business. Although it isn't focused on solopreneurs, a lot of the concepts are very similar.

Me: I realized that I enjoy joining a company early and turning the MVP into an industrial-strength product.
I'd make the point that it can, because {cost for relaunch} = {refurb cost} + {recertification cost}.

And likewise, probability of relaunch success scales with the money and time spent on those other two.

In fact, I'd strongly argue that fuel-to-orbit is Starship's version of Falcon's "Starlink demand seeding."

It's win/win if SpaceX has a high-volume, low-payload-cost, revenue-generating demand for Starship, as it gives them a failure tolerant mission to push relaunches to failure and then use that data to improve future reuse reliability.

Of all the things SpaceX has done, getting themselves into positive-feedback flywheels has been the smartest.
Why is it called Rama? (there may be an FAQ, but I couldn't find it)
This same logic applies to every discovery in all of human history.
Right. Isn’t FM just flat out higher bandwidth? So unless it’s wasting that somehow it’s just going to carry more information. And for audio, that means sounding better.
Creating mini tools is pretty effortless with any AI code gen tool. Maintaining them, adding additional features, scaling, etc. are things that require humans.

I believe every Jr dev should be learning how to use code gen tools as they are likely here to stay, but not overly rely on them, and use them like any other tool.
I'm certainly not an expert on nuclear brinkmanship:). I only know that orbital nuclear bombardment capabilities is something that nuclear states desire but are MAD-destablizing enough to have been ruled out via treaties.

I assume the problem with subs is prompt communication. Also they are more of a retaliatory strike weapon thank first strike capability.
Where did this meme come from? I’ve seen it twice in 2 days and it’s categorically false. Has the left wing echo chamber really brainwashed itself into believing Musk purchased all his successes and deserves no credit?

Even the “he bought Tesla” meme is lame. He invested in a tiny electric car startup and built it into the massive success it currently is.
This is often the case with airplanes; it's not a new concept.
WordPress: The Drama Continues
I bought/implemented enterprise software that my team would only use 10% of despite the enterprise software sales process, vendor lock, high cost, etc. We literally did not want or care about implementing 90% of the features. I believe they were only there to justify the cost and give their marketing some fluff.

I did this a dozen times for different companies. So, I started a startup that focused on the 10% of features I had become an expert at and made it available as a self-service SaaS with a much smaller price. But then you still need to sell the damn thing, which is a drag and I don't put much effort into. I let the product grow pretty organically as users (who are SME's within departments of most companies) change their jobs and are looking for better solutions within their new employer's.

Sorry intentionally vague, not really willing to give specifics.
Sure, there's a lot of value. There's also a lot of slops and negative value. These days I don't even use wikipedia that much even though I googled things constantly.

GDP is a very gross measure of things to be sure, but also difficult to fake.
Yeah, this. Perfect example, our crazy car-based transportation network was popularized by a deliberate domestic propaganda campaign, we went from vilifying "speed demons" to vilifying "jaywalkers" because "they" told us to:

"The Real Reason Jaywalking Is A Crime" (Adam Ruins Everything) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxopfjXkArM

"Street Rivals: Jaywalking and the Invention of the Motor Age Street", Peter D. Norton https://www.jstor.org/stable/40061474

If we can convince people that it's their own fault for getting hit by cars, we can do anything.
We have done much, but there is much to be done.
Lightweight enough to be recovered via parachute system, unlike the big heavy boosters which need thrust!
In my experience, sdcard support was a really black spot for rpi. With sdcards easily getting corrupted surprisingly contrary to when using alternative embedded boards like beaglebone.

So I'm not sure that I would trust them with an upgrade where async writing is used and that there is even more chances for corruption in case of bad condition like an unexpected shutdown.
> On OpenBSD, the list of processes is mercifully short, and I can tell you what each of them is supposed to do.

I've always appreciated a very minimal system, but nowadays Alpine Linux is much better for that IMO. I'm not sure there's a better alternative if minimalism is the goal.
The idea isn't to "force" people to do anything, it's to stop PRIORITIZING those people.

Suburbs are on heavy welfare from city centers, who pretty much provide all the money. Roads are prioritized to such an insane degree that everyone suffers. The people you may identify with - low-density huge homeowners - don't realize it, but they're being heavily subsidized by everyone. Particularly those in denser areas.

People would like to live in denser areas and have it, you know, not suck ass. They would like to be able to go anywhere without 1 hour of traffic. They would like to be able to bike without risking their lives. That means SOME money given to urban sprawl and roads needs to be diverted to public transit. Boo hoo.
I think it's not the only one
> I’m confused how this is even a question.

It sure is, why would everyone or anyone be aware of AM/FM differences? Even if one is tech savvy it doesn't mean this would be something trivial to understand at glance
I recall seeing little USB lights on Amazon that accomplished the same thing for $30. Turn red when your calendar/webcam is active, green when free. Of course, I would be suspicious of the software integration privacy, but different problem.
Make it a fidget toy and you're onto something.
> The upside is Postgres doesn't have to worry about page splits, so things like bulk inserts can be much more efficient.

Not in the heap, but if you have any index on the table (I know, don’t do that for bulk loads, but many don’t / it isn’t feasible sometimes) then you’re still dealing with a B+tree (probably).

Also, MySQL still gets the nod for pure bulk load speed via MySQLShell’s Parallel Import Utility [0]. You can of course replicate this in Postgres by manually splitting the input file and running multiple \COPY commands, but having a tool do it all in one is lovely.

[0]: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-shell/8.0/en/mysql-shell-uti...
a 20 foot long Tungston rod hitting at 10km/s would release 416 gigajoules of energy. Pretty much a small nuclear bomb or about 100 tons of TNT.

It's impossible to intersept something going 10km/s.
They're not on AWS. They use on-prem and are migrating to Google and Oracle clouds.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnewman/2023/02/21/uber-go...
It's limited by physics: Recovering the rockets requires counteracting gravity, which requires energy. If the energy is needed for something else - in this case for additional propulsion - then it's not available for recovery.
As a job applicant, I wouldn't touch a site that did this. I don't want the details of my application (or even whether or not I submitted one at all) to be publicly accessible.
Nitrogen pollution and warming ocean temperatures a deadly combination
I treat PRs like the email workflow. You send a diff my way for a particular changes, I either accept it or reject it. Or I suggest modifications. Recursively. It’s the whole patch I’m interested in, not the implementation history (I’m not your tutor). Once approved, I make a commit in main for this diff.
I think the more important question is "Does Microsoft pose a risk to me as a GitHub user?" and to that, I'd answer yes.

GitLab is another option. You could use GitHub as a primary and have GitLab prepped as a fallback, and mention it on your GitHub project.
Yeah I specifically referred to the API. Without the subscription their app is pretty whack and outside of that you can only download .csv from a link.
What happens if you get rid of all the tasks for junior devs?

How do you get medium/senior devs in the future?

That pipeline is needed.
This is more for movie VFX where rendering times are measured in hours per frame on large rendering farms.
Yes, and Azov are / were only ultranationalists, not neo-Nazis; it's all very postmodern
That doesn't seem to imply what GP stated.
So the degree of authoritarian decision making felt by ‘courtiers’ within the party can vary from year to year?

I guess that is possible, but if that’s the case, wouldn’t that naturally be their goal? To concentrate power and authority in one place, or person, that they can more readily manipulate.
One sample point of one person's experience:

Product's built based on brainstorming: NEVER worked.

Product built around solution to actual problems I've experienced: Always worked, BUT may not have a large enough TAM.

The best way to actually find problems to solve is to replicate something else (as a learning process to actually find the real product you need to build), or talk to people who have problems: e.g. Try an replicate a product with relatively simple core functionality all the way-end-to-end.

During that process you'll probably discover paint point that aren't addressed by any product.

Example from building: Build some GenAI based app that allows users to upload a video and have it "horrified." There may only be a small market in that, but the framework you build to do it could be productized (or subsets of the problem). A simple to use full stack solution where folks can focus on the image / video generation model prompting fine tuning, and then one-click deploy that model wrapped in a whitelabeled ios app with monetization built-in, etc. <-- sell the shovels.

Example from talking: Lot's of buddies have challenges with bringing AI based coding tools into the organization because most don't support on-prem. Is there an on-prem solution that acts like a DMZ? That is, Cursor team could securely deploy their models to containers running on on-prem hardware (with layers of physical and software security to prevent exfiltration of the model weights), while companies can load their propriety data into another container. Win-win.
govt should set environmental engineering safety standards and then people can make their livings building things that meet them. a catalogue of designs that meet environmental standards is great.

my concern was the govt was picking favoured designers to mandate their designs instead of people innovating on what other people want. it sounded like the gov was acting like some kind of national HOA, and I would be surprised if that were the actual case. that case would be creating another generation of le courbusier and brutalist housing estate atrocities, and presumably they've learned.
It must be heartbreaking to witness that devastation firsthand
I’ve got this, just some simple JS that flashes bgcolor when the time is up, and I click to extend. I just keep a tiny thin browser on my laptop display

I set it to 15 minutes or it’s too frequent.

I’ve considered a hardware device (and have tried some) but I like to also track time in meetings, so I’d be lugging it around with me.
"New generations" being "younger than 45" ?
They traded off the expense of expending a whole Falcon Heavy against the benefit of having additional delta-V to get to Jupiter faster.
Hosted MySQL is not what I meant. That just means you're paying more to have all the same problems. The kind of cloud service I am alluding to is cloud spanner, cloud bigtable, dynamodb.
So much of my workflow has moved to Claude. I haven’t quite got into Cursor, and find CoPilot fine for simple autocomplete but I don’t want bigger changes until I’ve checked them. In fact I usually heavily slow down efforts by insisting on design discussions first, and either continue, abandon/restart chat and/or write code myself and come back when the I think the issue is LLM-friendly. But Claude works for me and edits multiple files at once, which I check. I use ChatGPT (o1 or 4o) when I don’t want to impact my Claude quota or when I think a single file change is tricky. It’s personality is now too annoying. So often it doesn’t even look at the code in multiple files I’ve uploaded, it just starts shooting off code and I have to say “look at the code”.

What improvements am I missing? Honest question.
It's not very scientific but ->

I feel I am an abstract mesh of "virtual sensory nodes" inside the network of my brain. These nodes are free flowing in the abstract multi-dimensional network - but in varying degrees of freedom. While the inner core of this abstract sensory entity is the "me" I have total perfect grasp on, the outer nodes sway here and there a little bit. When I start meditating - I start to access the information touching these outer sensors. They are by default moving "a little", I just get more aware of them. But I being the core of this entity, can easily sway them to any other place.

I guess meditation is fun.
I would suggest building something that you yourself find useful / solving a problem that you regularly face that doesn’t have a satisfactory off the shelf solution.

Note that this implies spending time in a different problem domain than just programming all day (alternately read as: have a hobby or two).

I finally have a side project with traction & paying users and it’s because sheer frustration drove me to improve an inefficient workflow in my language learning process (hobby), which turned out to not be such a unique problem at the end of the day.

(Not to shill - I was a frustrated Anki user and built this to improve my own life: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1531888719 )
I think it's more because printers (used to) print going down. I don;t see why it would matter in the least that crts draw the top first, if that is indeed the case. But for old printers where the paper is continuous, down is "forward" and there is no going back.
Wow, what happened around 1999?
Go build your own for cheaper and see if you can make a living.
Multicellular lifeforms are the machinery that microbes build to improve homeostasis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis
The rationales in the article make a lot of sense to me, and I don't really see a downside to streamlining things like that. Especially the reasoning that "everything else is free [to children]", so why run the lunch room like a business?

At Catholic school, lunch was fraught with peril for me. Firstly we had all the cute lunchboxes and peer pressure to have a good one (I got Star Wars, mostly.) Mom usually packed our lunches, and I hated Mom's food, so I grudgingly ate enough to stave off hunger, and discarded the rest (especially fresh fruit: oranges yuck!) I had no concept of this thing kids do where they trade food back and forth. In fact, I enjoyed no clique or circle of friends to eat with, so cafeteria time was distinctly unpleasant and lonely for me, and I longed to get outside, to the playground, ASAP.

We also had "hot lunch" which was fairly unhealthy stuff like Sloppy Joes. It was fresher and more appetizing than Mom's, so I sort of looked forward to it. It did cost, and we purchased little milk cartons too, and so there was definitely cash-handling involved in many school lunchtimes, on the order of dimes and quarters per day.

I don't know if 100%-school-provided lunch would've moved the needle on my nutrition at the time. But I was definitely developing poor dietary habits, and there was no sufficient adult oversight to prevent that slide.
Your commit message can be as long as it wants. If you squash twelve distinct changes you’re not going to see what part of the message corresponds to what change. Unless you invent some markup which points at the lines in the diff (but the diffs are dynamic so not something static you can count on). But at that point you’re doing so much work that you might as well use a regular merge.
Your original claim "I've not checked but this guy, and by extension the C++ standards committee who worked on this new API, are probably full of shit" was pretty extraordinary.
Then the consequence will be vastly reduced fish populations for thousands of years, which may affect human populations.
I struggle to imagine the office where this is respected.
I don’t do “free”. Free is bad for everyone: the paying customers, me, and eventually the feee customers as well
o1 seems to be better suited at many changes executed at once or larger project planning.

I don't use o1 simply because I work on one small problem at a time, and LLMs tend to go off the rails when giving multi-step tasks. o1 is not a silver bullet for this either.

Recently it doesn't seem to spend much time thinking, and honestly my results from o1 have been disappointing. I've been sticking with 4o and Claude 3.5 sonnet still.
Human sense of smell is faster than previously thought, study suggests