skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I really think that was a major misstep by the project.

Oh, yeah.

As someone who has written and maintained a lot of "infrastructure-level" stuff, I have come to learn that releasing a project that serves users, or is infrastructure for other projects, is like having children.

Making them is fun. Releasing them, is a pain, but, once they are out there, it is my Responsibility to support them, and accept that they have their own agency.

I can't just go in and pretend that I'm Lord Farquaad, and treat the project as if it's my private fiefdom. It's now a public resource, and my decisions and actions affect a lot of others. I also tend to write software that supports folks with a rather ... pithy ... demeanor, so screwups can result in not-pleasant feedback.

That's a big reason why I don't mind that most of my public repos aren't popular.
Haha yup, I’m that Russ. Really appreciate your kind words. <3

I’ll shoot you an email and let’s chat!
The vast majority of people I talk to, including myself, don't use public transportation for:

1. Time. For example, my commute is 25 minutes, but 2 hours ride and three mile walk by public transport.

2. Safety, intimately tied to the homeless problem.

3. Cleanliness. In my experience, related to #2, and the fact that government institutions are incapable of caring about user experience, because they get funding regardless. Matted, stained fabric seat cushions, and dried whatever caked on the floor.

There's nothing better or remotely alluring about public transportation for the vast majority of people (as shown by gridlock traffic).
The difference is that BASIC was an interpreted language, which was considered to be necessarily non-portable and only useful for teaching and small scale systems. And in fact we have no large software written in pascal (at least the original version). Pascal was designed as a compiled language that could potentially be used to write large scale systems, but had serious limitations in this respect.
Something something Lex Fridman something.
I think that there's a greater societal problem that's causing ripples everywhere, including issues that came up in the recent election. Women are realizing that stay-at-home wife/motherhood is a really bad job. 24/7, room and board only, and are much like the company jobs of yore where if you leave or the company goes under, you may find yourself with nothing or worse, a pile of debt.

So what's happening for the first time generationally is that women don't really _need_ men. They don't need the money, they don't need the children, they don't want the loss of independence.

Men, particularly young men, are having trouble adjusting to this. They've been raised to believe that having a wife is part of the natural order of things, that being a breadwinner is part of the natural order of things. The whole 'trad wife' meme fed into this dream of coming home to a hot meal, a adoring wife, and obedient children. That's just not something that is going to happen anymore and only men are having a problem with it.

I don't have any idea what to do about it. Sometimes the response to greater women's liberation is for men to take advantage of their greater strength and size and force women back into the homes. I'm hoping that's not inevitable.
> Nobody is going to pay candidates for their time during the hiring process.

Not if they don't ask. If you asked, you'd find many who are willing.

> You are not doing work for the company when you do some test to demonstrate your skill.

You literally are, it's just not work from which they are likely make a profit. That is not the candidate's problem. This doesn't make it unreasonable for the candidate to ask for compensation.
99.9% of drivers will never tow anything in their life.
Gender affirming care, including surgeries, increases the quality of life of transgender individuals, which can help make them more productive and even patriotic members of society and which can encourage other transgender individuals and those that believe in transgender rights into the country, potentially overall improving overall throughput and profit and taxes to pay for it all.
As an aside human piloted flying taxis have been a thing for ages. They can even be quite reasonable if you get the regulators out of the way - I used one in Belize which cost about US$60 consisting of one pilot in a 4 seater Cessna (a while ago - maybe 2x now). In most countries though the safety regulations make it very expensive.
Arrrgh! I think that I may have unintentionally insulted you in about 1987 when (as a callow youth) I was trying to pick a language for an embedded/robotics system. I believe that I spoke to you on the phone about ... ahem ... C, which you answered politely but somewhat through gritted teeth...

In the end I went for C, and the OS ended up in this thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8ZEUwwOYxo&t=72s

I still cringe about that call!
Some context for others - 2015 is fairly early in Tesla's history. The model 3 didn't even exist until 2017. The overwhelming majority of Teslas on the road today are Y's and 3's.

FWIW, I've personally owned three Teslas with zero problems, but none older than 2019. YMMV.
>I think the real answer is that now people are faced with the choice and many are simply choosing not to.

It's not like they're choosing no in a vacuum. The price of housing bleeds into everything else being expensive too, especially in HCOL areas. Childcare is incredibly expensive, and in many cases it makes more sense for one of the parents to not work than to pay for it. That of course makes the calculus of having a child more complicated, let alone more than one.
you probably missed the whole point,the coding test might just be an effective way to filter out old engineers
Your hypothesis is completely unmoored from reality. The only durable correlation between birth rates and living standards is negative - wealthier people consistently have fewer kids.

https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate
If a bunch of lunatics buy the car because it is fast, and kill themselves, that doesn't necessarily affect my safety in the car if I'm buying it for some other feature and don't intend to drive it dangerously.
Thank fuck they invented steam engines and the spinning jenny before they invented football.
magic number driven design
How can I use the same ed25519 key pair for minisign and age?
Also, you have no control over decisions that any future owner might have, and you won't care because you've already cashed out.

What happens when you get hacked? Not if. To come back at someone with valid concerns with a "no, you don't understand my point of view" does nothing but a disservice to you.

Expecting people to just accept things is just not a good way to operate. When you receive push back, you need better responses than this. Will the vast majority of your users push back, sadly, probably not. However, you did post this to HN and then reacted poorly to valid criticism. Tsk tsk
This is scary. AI has become sentient so quickly?
> Not hard to notice the net on the sonar or passive listening devices surely.

Are you saying that because you know that the net makes noise?
My take is that Bluesky is a nicer place than Mastodon.

Personally I think politics are terrible on microblogging platforms for the reason that you can't say very much in 140 characters or even 1400 characters.

A common kind of profile on that kind of platform is: "There are good people and bad people and I'm one of the good people"

It is very easy to other people and share memes that build group cohesion while driving other people away. Really making progress requires in politics a lot of "I agree with you about 90% but there is 10% that I don't" or "Well, I negotiated something in the backroom that you'd really hate but headed off a situation you would have thought was catastrophic but you won't appreciate that I did it so you and I are both better off if I don't tell you" and other sorts of nuance, you don't want to see how the sausage is made, etc.

To stand Mastodon (where you would have thought fascists were taking over the world a year ago if you believed what you read) I have to have about 20 or so block rules.

I see some people with the same kind of profiles on Bluesky but see a lot less othering in my feed because the "Discover" feed on Bluesky filters out a lot of angry content. My rough estimate is that it removes about 75% of the divisive political junk. That

(1) Immediately improves my feed, but also

(2) Reduces the amount of re-posted angry political content (it's like adding some boron to the coolant in a nuclear reactor) and

(3) Since angry political memes don't work anymore people find a different game to play

My guess is the X-odus folks are less agreeable than average for the same reason why people who "left California" to go to Colorado or someplace else are less agreeable. Those who go are less agreeable than those who stay. On the other hand, a certain amount of suppression of negativity could stop it from spreading and might not even be noticed as "censorship".
BlueSky's platform choices are encouraging far more signal than noise.

X / Twitter is doing the opposite. It's rotting into a place where meaningful discussion is hard to have and you have to put up with tons of trolls / spam.
This is explicitly the opinion of some of my friends. One is the married couples broke up because only one of them felt really strongly about it. Many discuss this openly. It's weird to see this downvoted like some weird idea.
I never understood how in America, a DUI seems to be (from films etc) a relatively minor issue. In the UK you get a prison sentence, even if you didn't cause any harm (eg we're spot-tested).
Nick Mullen may disagree
Factorial macro example in C++23 metaprogramming,

#include <iostream>

consteval long factorial (int n) {
if (n == 0) return 1;

return n * factorial(n - 1);
}

int main() {
std::cout << factorial(7) << std::endl;
}

Exercise for the reader if using VC++ or clang/ninja, use import std instead.

-- https://godbolt.org/z/TWe11hM6j

Nicely put 5040 in ESI register at compile time.

Granted, C++ isn't Lisp, but already has quite a room for creativity at compile time, and C++26 might finally have compile time reflection as well.
No one is claiming this is necessary. It's a toy language built for fun.
I've never understood the argument about small towns being worse for urbanism.

Back in the day, before cars were widespread, everything had to be close by.

You don't even have to sacrifice the backyard for that, you can have a city layout that puts the houses themselves fairly close to each other, and the yards can radiate outwards. Then you connect each cluster's main street with the other ones, but unlike suburbs, you make each "subdivision" mixed-use and you allow public transit , pedestrians and cyclists to cut across subdivisions for easy access everywhere.

If anything, small towns should be urbanism done right, because they don't (shouldn't?) have the money for sprawl and they don't have all the pressures for increasing density a lot, that big cities have.
First mistake was trying to market to _students_

And yet there's something to it. Of course it's a nothing market, from the standpoint of immediate revenue. But the students will become professionals in just a few years, and if you can get them to not only use your tools, but to be thinking "this is just how its done" -- that, in theory, can help you establish your market.

This was Venmo's strategy, apparently -- there's was a completely different vertical, of course, but they went for the "long game" in this regard, and it seems to have paid off for them.
> If cars simply didn't exist, our cities would not, could never have, been designed the way they are, in any way.

Nah. Many cities long predate the car. They absolutely were designed in the same way they are still found now, aside from what are now roads were squares for people to walk in. Return the road back to being a square and nobody would be able to recognize that there was a car era. But, so long as the people want to live a rural lifestyle, good luck…
It'll be interesting if Twitter/X does drift rightward amongst contributors and still keeps its For You feed oriented toward "engagement" and view counts, whether or not it will just end up leading to infighting between far right and moderate right views.
um, that can be read both ways. they very well could be taking notes on how to move in the same direction, not the opposite
Seems flawed. Tesla Model Y was the best selling model worldwide for 2023. (I think #3 if limited to US.) The study only covers 2017-2022, but we can infer that for the entire Brand, Teslas sold quite well over at least that latter part of that period.

Now if there are more Teslas on the road vs other vehicles (note they excluded car model years earlier than 2017, another fatal (heh) flaw in the study), it makes sense they would have more fatalities.

So this should be normalized "per capita" to vehicle counts if we want to extract any brand-related causality, in the same way as the data is already normalized to miles driven.

I enjoy hating on Tesla as much as the next person, but come on.
How is California special in that regard? Many states lack the infrastructure or density to allow for proper enjoyment of alcohol.
I sincerely don't think people care. Coca Cola doesn't care either. It was cheaper for them to create, and they can now use those funds for more dispersal of the ad it self. They are just trying to get people within the first 2 seconds to think about Coke.
I'm not entirely sure an anecdote about the dangers of singling out just one variable is a great counterpoint to a criticism of the practice of singling out just one variable.
Ok, this is what you really wanted: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p091w1b3
From what I've read, myQ is pretty locked down and doesn't support local control (outside of a HomeKit device that I think is no longer supported).

I would guess that the cert pinning would prevent such MITM attack, but I could be wrong. I'm not a huge fan of Chamberlain and myQ since they are so against 3rd party use of their products [0].

[0] https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/11/06/removal-of-myq...
Bluesky is increasingly getting that way. Every time I check it this week I'm seeing new content from recognizable people. I think at some point there will be a tipping point where Bluesky will have more content and just win outside of alt right circles.
>Not providing them with grants, and thus decreasing the success in recruiting them, would lower the prestige of the university

You have a very idealized picture of what happens when a university is required to confer a certain amount of PhDs to maintain (formerly) R1 status and has to rely on F-1s to do it.
Maybe that's good when hitting a tree? Slower deceleration, less force.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42144784.

(Nothing wrong with it! It's just a bit more generic than the original topic.)
OpenAI Describes Artists' Use of Glaze and Nightshade as "Abuse"
Around where I live (greater Boston metro) most of the tech jobs are actually out in the suburbs/exurbubs. There were basically no tech jobs in the city ~20 years ago any longer. (It's mostly only changed with the establishment of of satellite offices of some west coast companies.)
VW diesel-gate

How many of the independents caught that?
Why are you using Homebridge to talk to Home Assistant? It has a built-in integration to expose devices to HomeKit.
Perhaps Musk needs to come to terms with the fact that the Teslas are not so safe. Maybe he needs to come to terms with the fact that his successful business model does not include customer satisfaction at all. Elon, just cope.
Why not discuss a problem you have? You're obviously hiring for someone to solve your problem. Looking to check if they can code (in a specific language) seems like the XY problem.
I've argued on the internet enough to know where the "source?" discussion goes. Nipping bad faith arguments in the bud is a good idea, in general, and the best way to do that is to call the argument out for what it is.

It's also a good idea not to try to start them, but I don't control your behavior. Doubling down on your bad faith arguments is not a good look, either.

If you would like to have a discussion with long-form essays and cited sources, start by bringing some. In other words, if you want other people to put in effort, put some in first.

Here's my anecdata: I have submitted 6 papers for review and had 7 reviewers request a citation of one sort or another.
Are people who wear glasses disabled? They have an impairment that can prevent them from full participation in work, family, social life. But they also have an accessible accommodation that mitigates most of the practical consequences of their impairment.

The impairment doesn't go away, but the extent to which is it disabling is a function of the individual's relationship to society. Two people with the same impairment can have different degrees of disability based on accommodation. We can both have bad vision but if I can afford glasses and you can't, only one of us is disabled by it.

This is the social model of disability, it's a well established framework that has had immense practical value in the medical treatment of a huge range of disability, including adhd and hearing loss. It's so so shitty to dismiss it as "they are wrong" when you clearly don't even know the absolute basics of the history and practice of this field.
Aquatic turtles have another brumination (hibernation) strategy. Since they breathe air, yet may get trapped under the ice for months at at time, they lower their metabolism plus have adaptations such as scavenging some oxygen from the water via rectal tissues as well as other chemical activity involving glucose and calcium.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/the-secret-to-turtle-hi...

https://wildlifeinwinter.com/painted-turtle

I have one at home in constant warm water, yet she can see the sky and decides to bruminate on her own: every year around this time, she starts napping in her under water hide for days or weeks at a time.
Exploding lots of batteries to make a dataset... Frankly, that sounds kind of fun.

That said, if what's really being detected is the swelling of the battery breaking something... Just cut out the middleman: Design the enclosure so that the broken valve completes a circuit that drives a noisemaker.

Then humans could notice it too and distance themselves or prepare a fire extinguisher. With a standard frequency or pattern, external systems could detect it in a way which is much cheaper, more reliable, and privacy-conscious.
> When was the last time you had to debug an ancient codebase without documentation or help from a team?

I wonder why the author thinks this is something unthinkable and unrealistic. Small teams with strict ownership and skilled engineers. If you join a company like that you will inevitably find yourself in that situation.
I mean, even lacking proper scientific data, ask yourself how often your brain “autocompletes” someone based on a brand or object? There’s a reason advertisers spend so much money and effort cultivating a very specific customer image: it works.

In the case of Tesla - and I cannot overstress enough how much lf this is purely subjective conjecture on my part and not a statement of fact - the image cultivated by the company and its Chief Executive is very much one of rejecting norms and expectations, fierce independence, and a hostility towards others (mostly from the Cybertruck unveiling onward). The people who relate to that brand would, I would think, be more likely to flout laws like speed limits, failing to use indicators for turns or merges, and drive more aggressively than a brand that emphasizes safety or enjoyment of experience (like Hondas and Toyotas). My purely subjective experiences bear this out, and I’m consistently rewarded giving Teslas a wider berth on the roads.

So as far as branding as an indicator of outcome, yeah, I can totally see that being a reliable indicator. I’d still be darn curious to see more research about it, though.
Decentralization feels like it's driven more than idealism/zealotry than pragmatism. In theory, I understand the appeal of owning your data. In practice, systems churn. I haven't had a portfolio in years, because I used AppEngine to host mine; they forced everyone to migrate to Python 3 after I'd built it, and I never bothered to update it. Meanwhile, everything I uttered on Facebook in college still exists. (And plenty of precious content that ended up on other services, like Qik, no longer does.)

If "owning" my data means I need to spend time learning a new format and setting up a way to publish that format on a domain I own, and then maintain it into the infinite future, the odds I'm gong to bother are very low.

The Linux chat rooms are on Matrix because highly ideological people are active in Linux communities, but everyone else just uses Discord. And even Matrix has a webapp that makes it almost as easy as Discord.
I love this idea (haven't tried it) and it seems like a killer app for AI. I can think of a lot of other things like health insurance, home owners insurance, and many other types of contracts for which an AI advisor can be built for. Imagine being able to rake over a complex document and make decisions that clearly benefit you. That's a rare privilege.
I've heard this over and over but don't see it anywhere around me (NYC, likely overeducated, doing fine but not wealthy).

I know a lot of couples that have a kid but face major financial constraints. Up and down the socioeconomic spectrum, it's expensive as hell to have a family, house and educate them, and that's a major part of the calculus for even moderately well-off families.
I see lots of complains about coding challenges but what are the suggested alternatives?

Here the article suggests "Hiring processes should focus on problem-solving, collaboration, and growth in relevant areas". Ok, but how? Problem solving is typically tested using puzzles of some kind, like... coding challenges, but apparently, it isn't the right way, so what is the right way? And how do you test collaboration before hiring? The hiring process is competitive by nature. As for growth, again, hard to test in advance.

Suggestions I have seen are:

- Interviews: great in theory, but some people are great at bullshitting, others are competent but just don't do well in interviews

- Open source contributions and past projects: great if you worked for companies doing open source before, not great if your past work is confidential

- Assignments: Hopefully paid, but in any case, very time consuming

- Puzzles, IQ tests, school-like knowledge tests, ...: like coding challenges, but worse

- Probation period: hiring someone just to fire him a week later is not great for morale

- Dice rolls: maybe worth considering

Coding challenges have a number of advantages. They are unbiased with regard to age, race, gender, religion, etc... They test a skill that is at least related to the job. They can be done remotely and don't have to take that long. Whatever replace coding challenges should meet these criteria too.
He had been "joking" about a third term already: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/us/politics/congress-reso...

So let's see if a Trump with total immunity will really leave gracefully this time.
What is the Horsepower equivalent of the Tesla power trains? Is this just because they are the new luxury sportscar and many of these drivers haven't been trough major car repairs, ever? The zero to sixty of even a basic Tesla is very quick and even with strong breaking other physical limits with turning and maneuvering can arise if some one is zooming around weaving in traffic. These stats need to be studied by age and other demographics like age, income and alcohol consumption.