skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At our organization, no one squashes or rebases either. We never delete branches. It's been like this for around 15 years. Not a single problem.
The average user (non-tech oriented) doesn't really think about or care that much about openness. This is the kind of user who posts disclaimers on their Facebook wall saying that Facebook is not allowed to use their content.
yeah I think so too. Ethereum gas prices are ridiculous at times. Depending on the network traffic you can pay from 2$ to 20$ for the same transaction.
this was really helpful! thanks!
Are you saying you think the Canadian government should pay more toward fertility and less toward LGBTQ procedures such as gender reassignment? I wonder how much money the latter costs. Seems like it wouldn't be as big a cost vs fertility treatments being covered.
I have mentioned this before. The best interview I had as a candidate was - they gave me access to their codebase, explained an actual relatively small bug, asked me to fix it and left me alone (I was seated among their devs, they were minding their business, I was minding my own). I think it took me half hour or so (can't remember the exact time, it was a few years ago). I fixed it, they asked me to explain how I found the bug/fixed, they made an offer.

No talking (other than me showing them how I fixed it). No bullshit questions like "where do you see yourself in 5 years" or "talk to us about your strengths" etc.

Second best - they asked me to design and write pseudo code for a simple system. Don't worry about syntax, but make sure to follow good design practices, within reason. Gave me a pen and notepad and left me alone for an hour. I wrote it, explained my thought process, they made an offer.

Then I had shitty interviews - one very large, very famous insurance company - they had 5 rounds of interviews back to back, for a normal developer role, lol. Asked me about some obscure options for grep etc. It was an exercise in them showing off their skills (more like their memory of Linux commands) than learning about my skillset. I couldn't wait to get the hell out of that building.

Of course interviews can't be light when you are hiring for highly technical, high critical positions (like security, for example). But for most software dev positions, the formats above are very efficient. Most software devs are writing "glue" code, not rewriting some mission critical real time OS.
Eh I wouldn't call PEX proper executables that'd replace the languages above as they still need python, but I still prefer python for things like simple Qt apps even if it means using e.g. PyInstaller
But it already hands off plenty of stuff to things like python. How would this be any different.
+1 for Gather.town we've been using it for years
Three years ago I paid $47k for my deaf nephew to get implants because his fully-insured deaf parents wouldn't pay for them. Not $47k just the out of pocket ($2k-3k-ish). I paid $47k and I got a deal because it was cash.

They wanted him to live in and embrace the "deaf world".

He wanted to live in the actual real world.

They ended up nearly irreparably fucking up his life and denying him the only thing that he wanted so when he turned 18 instead of buying a new car I bought a surgery because crying children piss me off.

There is no deaf world.

There is only the world.

This entire debate is insane.

Nobody is going around telling pediatric biliary atresia patients to not get a liver transplant because of "not having a functioning liver" culture. There are an infinite multitude of analogous situations where an "x" culture or "x" world would be considered direct evidence of mental illness or cult behavior but due to the inertia of history here we are.

edit: Maybe I should have not gotten a spinal fusion because of the rich tapestry and long history of "living in constant excruciating pain due to degenerative disc disease" culture?
no. it's memetic, child having is low status in developed countries and countries closer to poverty have more children.
I don't think this is accurate. I am far far far better off than either my grandparents or parents at this age and house ownership percentages in the United States are at the high end of what we had in the 60s and 70s.

I think the real answer is that now people are faced with the choice and many are simply choosing not to.
India is turning into an SUV country
That's because most Americans haven't seen a public transport service that works well.

Visit or live in a major European city for a while and you are likely change your tune.
These kinds of people dont think rationally
As long as you have gdbserver running on the remote end, no?
Stacked like a sardine for $3,500/mo, yet still have to travel long distances to do anything. The curse of the wannabe rural city. But, as people want to (or at least want to pretend to) live in a rural area, change is unlikely.
Torque and touchscreens.
"world's"
The weird sync decisions on mobile have kept me away from LogSeq, Obsidian, and similar apps which otherwise seem very attractive. If an iOS app forces me to sync exclusively through iCloud or their proprietary sync, it isn't useful for me. I have a mix of Windows, Linux, iOS and Android, and prefer notes apps that work well between OSes.

Currently Joplin is my goto, since if fills all that plus encryption, and I'm eager to see what AnyType does in the future.
While I sympathize with your struggles to get pregnant, buying into blatant lies about me and my friends (LGBTQ+) effectively undermines the entirety of what you said. Your entire post can be summed up as, “It’s incredibly expensive and difficult for us to have children, and I think it’s better that the government hurt others instead of helping us.”

And at that point, you lost my sympathy, because the attitudes of the parents are far too easily transferred down to their children. I really hope you rethink your argument in favor of improving treatment for everyone as opposed to reducing treatment for others, medical or otherwise.
> You can load the cars with safety features, but it doesn't change the fact that these cars are very heavy

Being heavy is actually a safety feature of sort (but just for the people inside the car, it increases overall fatality).
They’ve been doing that a lot longer than three months. ChatGPT has been handing stuff off to python for a very long time. At least for my paid account anyway.
"> When was the last time you had to debug an ancient codebase without documentation or help from a team?"

I mean, even if you have a team, you are hired to do specifically this kind of work. I'm confused what OP thinks a software job is if not EXACTLY this.
OpenAI hires Meta's former Orion head to lead its robotics efforts
Care to check how much time blue collars spend swiping on their phones? On those few daily hours, what makes you think they don't have time to argue online?
I think their argument is valid because in the whole history of the world we were able to replace the population and had zero hospitals, right up to recently. So their argument stands, medical care is neither here nor there when discussing population replacement. Whoever wants kids just would do what they always did, have a few more because half will die before they hit 12.
I know people with three or four kids in the middle of Silicon Valley and I've never seen anyone talking ill of them because of that. Call me crazy, but I have a feeling that if you're a social pariah in Portland, OR then it's not because you have three kids.
People are trying to increase the potential customer base of the author by pointing out where there is room to improve. That is incredibly valuable, and one of the major reasons to do a Show HN.

That is not being a "hater".
The issue with maritime insurance, is that ocean going vessels spend a great deal of time in other countries from where the owner registers the ship, and also time in international waters, which are not governed by the laws of any country.

So you average insurance company is not interested in providing insurance.

If you want to read more about the history of martime insurance, you could start with the history of Lloyds of London.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%27s_of_London
The snippets are not false, but there's so much context missing it's easy to worsen the situation, especially for beginners which seem to be the target audience.

First, this guide should emphasize the need to measure before doing anything : django silk, django debug toolbarsm, etc.
Of course, measure after the optimizations too, and measure in production with an apm.

Second, some only work sometimes : select_related / prefetch_related / iterator will lead to giga SQL queries with nested joins all over the place, and ends by exploding ram usage. It will help at first, but soon enough one will pay any missing sql knowledge or naive relationships.

Third, caching without taking the context into account will probably lead to data corruption one way or another. Debugging stale cache issues is not fun, since you cannot reproduce them easily.

Fourth, celery is a whole new world, which requires workers, retry and idempotent logic, etc.

Finally, scaling is also about code: architecture, good practices, basic algorithm, etc

I'll end by linking to more complete resources :
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.1/topics/performance/
- https://loadforge.com/guides/the-ultimate-guide-to-django-pe...
- https://medium.com/django-unleashed/django-application-perfo...
Qtcreator is phenomenal. I don’t like using anything else if possible.
Rapidly growing new file category on Pirate Bay?
I wrote a very basic version of this for automatically removing ads from podcasts. It works exactly as I hoped, but needs a little work yet before sharing. Very basic combination of Whisper -> Gemini -> FFMPEG. Gemini is so good and so cheap (pennies) that I haven't prioritized using local models, but that should work too.
This 'it's only a meme' bit ignores the part where being pregnant has the potential to breathtakingly suck. It doesn't seem so strange that people would want to avoid that if given the option.
Nothing I just said is limited to the narrow use case of dealing with single files. If you want improvements for multiple files, then congratulations, you can have that, too!

> I want permission to [...] move/rename files [...] Anything less is not sufficient for AAA quality local-first apps.

And robbers want to be able to slip their fingers into the wallets of whomever they want. So?

Very few apps outside of file managers actually need to be able to move and rename the user's files, and it would be much better if they those that don't would assume they aren't going to be able to. You can call this a prereq for high-quality apps, and I'll maintain my view that apps that refuse to work unless you grant an overbroad set of capabilities that they don't really need are ipso facto low-quality.

Besides, if you actually want all this, then you can build an app for remoteStorage.io right now, without needing to know whether the files live on the user's disk or not—and if the user wants the storage area they connect to your app to to be backed by local files, then that's a choice that they can make. Your app doesn't need to be able to discriminate between whether they are or they aren't.
The most common scams around home buying are wire fraud - contact the buyer pretending to be the title company and steal their money. The data in a mortgage is exactly what you need to enable these scams and you're getting people to hand it to you and at the same time tell you they are about to wire money.
Been looking to connect with other signing engineers deaf or not! Seems you are one and you know others as well! Would love to connect. Dm me at contact at signsnap.me
This is exactly it. Here’s the pull request where chess evals were added: https://github.com/openai/evals/pull/45.
That's exactly what Threads seemed like when I dipped in, so many complaints about non-Meta tech companies.
You state this as if it is general truth. Somehow the article gets attention on HN.
Age comes for us all.
> not even comparable to the risk in uploading docs to a website which promises they won't share user data with anyone. This is genuinely a pro buyer tool with no association with any 3rd party.

I have no reason to think you're not completely sincere in this!

But, realize it doesn't mean anything.

Unless that promise is backed by some ironclad contract, it means nothing. Companies grow and hire new people who don't care about the original values. Or they get acquired and all bets are off. Or they start running low on cash and suddenly decide monetizing all that data is a good idea after all. Or it becomes visible enough to attract attention of the government who shows up demanding copies of data. And so on.

I've been in one or more startups where all of these things have happened.
> Have you ever visited any really big cities (eg. Tokyo)

Yes, these are the rural areas of which we speak. Everything gets spread out and then you're stuck travelling long distances to do anything, just like those who live in actual rural areas. There is no question that transportation is necessary in a rural area.

A proper urban environment, however, puts everything right there in a short distance. No need to ever travel beyond where your feet can take you. That's the whole reason for living so close to other people.

But it's clear that people want to live in (or pretend to live in) rural areas. It seems to be in our nature. As such, there is a lot of pressure to maintain the way things are. Hence the ill-conceived cries for better transportation to maintain the rural way of life instead of actually embracing urbanity.
Like the Tree Octopus?
That...is not how mortgage servicing companies operate.
Google Gemini tells grad student to 'please die' while helping with his homework
We have been using Zulip as well now for a few years. Especially enforcing topics is a big win.
Interactivity from the part of the reader
> name, address, etc

In my country all that plus your social security number and tax declarations etc are public information. What's your opinion on that?
If there are only a handful of operators in a given industry and they use the same billing format, why not?

Create a known good OCR to calculation mechanism, then generate reports based off it. If it is inaccurate, its probably a small amount of logic to fix it.

With GPT you could even get it to write the parsing logic for you perhaps, and maybe process bill data when a bill doesn't exactly match existing parser data.
> In a bigger picture, cars are a bad solution to the problem of transportation at scale

They're not a great solution to transportation at scale, but they're pretty good at small volume point to point traffic.

There's not enough people going my way on most of my trips to make transportation at scale worthwhile. Ferries work well for part of many of my trips, but I can take a car on the ferry to deal with the lack of scale on either side.

I could sometimes take a bus to the ferry, walk to light rail and take light rail to the airport. But the bus only runs during commute times, so that impacts viable flight times, and the walk to the light rail got pretty sketchy in the past several years and light rail itself can be sketchy too.

Most of my cars run fine any time of day, although peak traffic is annoying, and I'm dealing with lighting issues on one so I can't take it out unless I know I'll be home before dusk.
Misleading, article from April

Some discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40163251
> This is nice but for many people the lack of genuine social interaction is a killer.

Emphasis mine.

This difference of what people consider genuine or not, some people even including the medium itself in their definition of "genuine", sounds like another possible cultural difference that must be kept in mind when communicating with others.
Wildfires burning, oceans rising, glaciers melting, dual incomes can’t buy a home, can’t have a good quality of life without a college degree that’s ever-increasing in cost and decreasing in returns, food prices are rising, global conflict is on the rise, populism is boosting authoritarian regimes worldwide, widespread belief in younger generations that we’ll never be able to retire, cost of healthcare can bankrupt all but the richest of the rich…

“Why aren’t people having children?”

These articles were awful when it was “Millennials are killing X”, and they’re even worse now. The answers are obvious, and I’m tired of entertaining these clickbait narratives that refuse to acknowledge any of the very large elephants in the room.
If I understand correctly, what you're saying is that the tradeoff is whether or not for the child to have the disability but along with it the opportunity to gain a close-knit and supportive community with a shared language.

(Although, given the child will continue to need a cochlear implant or similar device, they'll still be disabled either way, and nothing is stopping them from learning sign language too.)
If you look at the comments under the post, the author commented 25 minutes ago (as of me posting this)

> Update: OK, I actually think I've figured out what's causing this. I'll explain in a future post, but in the meantime, here's a hint: I think NO ONE has hit on the correct explanation!

well now we are curious!
> In the US at least, the top killer of drivers are trees on the side of the road.

Do you have a source on that?
It's not, at least where I live (Portugal). For example, drinking and driving is a "contra-ordenação" up until 1.2g/L, where it becomes a crime. Same with many other things.

Possession and consumption of illegal drugs was also decriminalized, but it's still illegal (just not a crime).

Not all legal systems are the same.
having children is more potential tax revenue for the government, should be priority for all governments.
Oops, sorry, I should have investigated this more thoroughly.
How to find comfort for and include characters that don't like the spotlight? At least not during early phase/brainstorming.

I've worked with many great people that hate to handle things without their usual group first, and will stall until a reasonable approach can be presented. Which means creating shadow communication process - the more you push for "discouraging 1:1" the more they will hide.

What your organisation did with such "incompatible" people, relate them until the team left likes how they work, or were there better ideas?
And no good tools. RSS readers in 2024 still keep failing with the same failing interfaces that failed in 1999.

No, I don't want a portal with a little box for every feed I follow.

No, I don't want a listing like an email client.

No, I never want it to show me a piece of content twice unless I ask for it. (e.g. as David Byrne says: "say something once, why say it again?")

Yes, I expect to subscribe to more RSS feeds than I can read entirely so I expect it to learn my preferences like my YOShInOn agent does. In a cycle of a few days, YOShInOn might find 3000 or so articles in RSS feeds and it chooses 300 to show me which I thumbs up or thumbs down. I knew such a thing was possible when I wrote
this paper

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC387301/

but now it is not only possible but easy.
Blame your provincial government, it is their decision what gets covered or not. I doubt you're living in the Maritimes, so maybe check first before blaming the Liberals for this. FYI in Quebec, IVF is covered so it's not an impossible feat either.
Have the demographics of typical Tesla driver changed in last 5-10 years? I think it was at first wealthy environmentalists, but it shifted to be a new Yuppie mobile, and most recently probably skews to a young male crowd?
It came as a bit of surprise this morning when an radio interview with a politician concluded with mentioning her Bluesky account, not Twitter or Facebook.

Still I feel like Facebook/Instagram, and certainly X/Twitter has done a lot of damage, which has cause many of us to be sceptical about ever opening another social media account.
I think a lot of people would be happy to use it if it was convenient and reliable. I live in NYC and haven’t had to drive to/from work in over a decade. I consider the subway ride a vast, vast improvement over driving… but only when the subway works right.
The authority and requirement to operate FARS extends from US Title Code.

Aside from that misuse and intentional misunderstanding of the FARS statistics is readily used by Tesla as a justification for their FSD system.
I mean the problem isn't those who don't want to live in cities nor is it those who want to live in cities: the problem is the suburbs, which is where those two meet. People who aren't in and do not desire an actual rural lifestyle where one has a standalone home on a large plot of land in the middle of nowhere, but also don't want a condo. They want their own little plot of land, with a small yard, and a standalone home.

And like, same. That's also me.

But the problem is the actual costs of that style of home are incredibly, heavily subsidized by the cities they surround and indeed even the rural areas they border, because suburbs are just... a bad goddamn way to house people. They're incredibly inefficient, basically require your own personal car, require the most infrastructure build-out for the smallest population, require the largest footprint of services over the largest area to serve the smallest number of people, etc. etc.

And like, I don't think it's unreasonable to say if you want to live this way, that's fine, but then you need to actually pay for it. Your property taxes need to reflect how much it actually costs to serve your property, to build the huge number of roads needed to access it, to maintain those roads, to maintain the electrical grids, to maintain the water and sewage services, to bus kids to schools, etc. etc. etc.

And yeah that's going to make suburbs WAY less appealing because they're going to be fucking expensive but like, the alternative is, again, everyone wanting that, and not paying for it. The dense urban centers they surround absolutely hemorrhage money supporting the suburbs around them.
Are most people better off? Or just you? I know how a lot of people I know would answer.
> The study was conducted on model year 2018–2022 vehicles, and focused on crashes between 2017 and 2022 that resulted in occupant fatalities.

Teslas can go fast real fast, so naively this is the result I would expect given how they have filtered the data. In other words, unless they controlled for this, this would be biased by natural selection playing out.

Having said that, as someone who had a couple of close calls with the autopilot. I would love to know what percent of those crashes was with autopilot enabled.
Dumb idea: play some game together.
https://github.com/knome/metabrainfuck/blob/master/bf.cpp

It's not too bad :)
I disagree that Conservatives treat Democrats this badly. Democrats are the ones who literally invented `Cancel Culture`. Never in history have the two parties been more different.
So far ChatGPT is read-only. Do Accessibility features give write access?
regardless of the GP's humanizing use of words, the weasel comment from Google is really what was their point. of course, that's not what people here whitewashing LLMs as the greatest thing ever will want people paying attention to though, so we get comments like yours to distract.
>How can any reasonable person know if any story about Tesla (good or bad) is actually factual and useful, or is just a story told from a particular angle to manipulate the stock price for gain?

This is a data-based story. Follow the link(s) to review the data if one is unsure whether or not the reporting piece can be trusted.
Aside from the distracted driving part, which is real, there are two physical aspects of the model 3 that I find to be safety issues as well-- the two front windshield beams are thick and add a sort of blind spot, and the side mirrors don't give you great field of view.