skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think the problem is the algorithmic or chronological feed.

I think the problem is that short form content simply should not exit. I don’t care what people eat for breakfast, or reading the same motivation quote over and over again.

I want to have discussions, with different opinions. And current microblogging platforms do not provide that. Hence it doesn’t matter who “wins”. IMHO they are all net negative for humanity
+1 for Zulip.

Still some warts, truthfully, but the core of it is just better for finding information and structuring things.

Integrations are also easier.

Definitely one of my more controversial additions to my company, but the pure volume and quality of conversations would he impossible otherwise. You would be required to wade through a lot of irrelevant dialogues otherwise.
I would hardly call people like Amy Barrett, Kavanaugh, Alito, etc as uneducated, but believe what you want. It's true that the lower your income, the more kids you'll have. However, again, there are several subgroups where that's not really true.
It has had a real time, chronological feed since day one i.e. Following.
Distributed startup founder here. We love Figma, keep in touch with Gather.town, and have been very happy with Flat.app for keeping us from Asana/Slack hell.
Many people hold worldviews which are ontologically incapable of co-existence with other viewpoints. By reducing discourse to intergroup sparring and affinity signaling, the intermingling of various such extremists only solidifies the status quo.
>My first impression is that like with HTMX, it's for a style of web apps that has few uses nowadays.

What do you mean? I see nothing common with HTMX. It feels more like old PHP5 projects, where they mixed business logic with controllers, database access and template rendering all in one big soup.
Or it's the drivers are not "focused, alert", because of the auto-pilot.
There are some left leaning media outlets, no doubt. But there is nothing, NOTHING, that compares to the propaganda machine that is Fox. Nothing.
Google Search serving up malicious sponsored ad pretending to be Maps
I follow a bunch of people on X who seem thoughtful but with whom I typically disagree with. That's useful for self-correction and avoiding group think. I also try very hard not to react negatively or dramatically.

I believe it's a mistake for the owner be so busy with his own platform but I don't follow him or any famous people. That helps too.
I just got new garage doors installed with new openers, and I saw that the openers support myQ, and that my car does too, and I thought "sweet, I'll be able to open and close the garage from my car without any extra hardware".

Turns out myQ charges a subscription fee for the privilege of using this feature.

I could install an opener like this one, but it still wouldn't solve the in-car integration side of things. Anyone know of any clever workarounds for this? Seems like maybe I could MITM the myQ service since my car and garage would both be on the same WiFi when I'm home, but I don't know if there are OSS replacements for the myQ server software.
That depends on what you use as criterium to decide which platform is ahead. For me the best criterium is how much diversity of opinion - the only type of diversity which really matters - is allowed on the platform and how much real interaction (i.e. not just shit fights) between those groups occurs. Currently X comes out on top in the former category while none of them scores anything worth mentioning on the latter.
The principal driver of voter enthusiasm, or lack thereof, is the candidates.
I would wager that most people don’t want to use public transit regularly. I know I certainly don’t.
GitHub: https://github.com/opengarage

Website: https://opengarage.io/

Looks to be related, opensprinkler: https://github.com/opensprinkler
There is a way to coexist, without it being a constant ideological battle all the time. If we can talk about the things we DO agree about, it makes it easier to talk about the things we don't. That's only possible if we're in proximity to one another.

Hiding in our own echo-chambers does not solve any real problems, and it creates new ones.
Based on my interviewing, there's a ~25% likelihood that you're flat out lying, and a ~75% likelihood that you're overstating your skills.

The number of people with impressive looking resumes, and good command of the jargon, but who still can't successfully code hello world is shocking.

I don't believe you (general you, not just the parent) can even code until you demonstrate that to me, or until the industry comes up with a reputable way to tell me that you can code. Until then I'll be making sure you can at least write code that compiles and finishes a brain-dead simple task.
This was our original focus and remains core. Currently, you can create and share unique links across channels for different purposes. In the medium term, we'll introduce disposable 'aliases', which are designed to be throw-aways, like Fastmail’s "masked email".
Gemini is actually good for audio transcriptions, I tried other AI tools that were much worse.

I didn’t find another good use of Gemini, but the audio transcription combined with the summaries were great. Best I’ve seen.
> It seems people have a burning desire to live the rural lifestyle, though, even in so-called cities.

I just want like... to not be stacked like a sardine for $3500/mo. I would gladly take a rural lifestyle if I could find a job that would support it.
An anecdote:

Me and my wife live in Canada, with universal healthcare, and pay around 250k in taxes annually.

We also have fertility problem. Our treatment costed over 100k so far and (yes, $100,000), all out of pocket. Worse that that, for some treatment (egg donation) we had to go abroad because laws in Canada prevent it! Somewhere I read 10% of families struggle with similar problem, and I'm sure many are not as lucky as me to have the means to spend this much.

After spending so much, we finally could have our first child. But it's really hard to continue for the second one. The main problem is cost and traveling abroad.

At the same time, I see govt spend so much effort for LGBTQ gender change and similar treatments.

With such upside down policies, news like this is no surprise at all.

Im liberal in most policies, but this in and of itself is enough to vote against liberals/dems.
I don't even have a garage, but I run the media tech at German university. I wouldn't care for Alexa, but having actual remote control (and monitoring) over things can be incredibly useful. Not that useful that you have to have it at any cost, but still useful.
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> It’s like the bar exam for lawyers.

At least lawyers don't have to take the bar every other year for the rest of their careers.
Many of us simply don't want to live in expensive urbanized environments (especially in more desirable ones)--at least at many points in our lives, so yeah no.
I think those sorts of publishers should have a script that posts notifications to all sort of places automatically.

RSS in the large is a nightmare. My agent YOShInOn lives on the wrong side of an ADSL connection and has all its RSS fetching done by

https://superfeedr.com/

which I like operationally. I'm following about 110 RSS feeds which cost 10 cents/month each. I like having a simple AWS Lambda that puts the notifications in SQS and then fetching them at my convenience later. It's a steal for a feed from MDPI that has 1000+ papers a day or arXiv or The Guardian but not affordable to follow 2000 independent blogs which I would like to do. The poll and poll and poll some more and poll again and maybe poll too fast and waste resources and other times poll too slow and not only get content late but miss it entirely situation is just not cool. I could write an RSS poller but it would be slowing down my internet connection or adding to my cloud bills and would need maintenance.
It does seem clear to me that the solution to "self driving cars that rely on an interconnected communication network to maximize driving efficiency sometimes run into jaywalkers and bikers" is banning jaywalkers and bikers for many car first people. Probably will lead to even more cultural divide between sun belt and non sun belt dwellers. Even my city of chicago which is easily top 5 best city for non car transportation in the US is very pro car politically. I could easily see the city government going for the ban all non cars from streets route
It's simple memetic pressure. We've made out getting pregnant to be a bad thing. My wife and I married somewhat young, but hardly extraordinarily young -- age 22. When we conceived the first time, I remember going to the drug store with her to buy a pregnancy test and feeling ashamed at 23 to buy a pregnancy test -- ashamed that I got my wife pregnant! But it's simply due to the social conditioning that we're subjected to as teenagers. There's a weird American puritanism about sex, and it doesn't come solely from the religious right.
You could definitely convince people to have more children by offering significant tax/money incentives.(2k/month per child would certainly be a policy that had a very significant effect on fertility.)
I understand why you might want to rate limit my comments, but why did you also revoke my article submission privileges...?
> While certainly true that having healthcare is life-saving, it's not a requirement to have children. Pregnancy is not a disease, and results in a natural birth the vast majority of the time. Left on its own, this will naturally happen enough to replace the population.

Where healthcare access is limited, maternal mortality increases, impacting the total fertility rate (which accounts for infant mortality). I do expect people who want to have children to migrate to where they can obtain maternal and reproductive healthcare whenever possible, but if they don't, the evidence shows higher death rates of both mothers and infants. Citations below.

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/12/1128335563/maternity-care-des...

https://www.marchofdimes.org/research/maternity-care-deserts...
Aside from the personal details (name, address, etc), they can collect pricing info on houses, run analytics, and swoop the deal with a slightly better offer or better yet, sell it to wholesale buyers, reits, and whoever is interested in stealing the deal.
And all USG vehicles to be replaced with Teslas to save money on gas /s
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Your desire to not be inconvenienced is not as important as the lives of other people who are being killed unnecessarily for it.

That being said, to be clear, I don't think we need to make driving illegal or whatever. I think a TON of people would happily not be saddled with the expense of owning a car or the task of driving if there were reasonable alternatives on offer, which in the few pockets of the US that actually have decent mass transit, is broadly the case.
Work samples are a trap. Real problems are always way more hairy than contrived ones, which is not appreciated by people who were just introduced to the problem 30s ago. Since you wrote it while trying to actually accomplish something rather than polish up a perfect little nugget to impress someone, you probably spent way less time per line.
What's wrong with ruby in this case? Ruby in 2024 can easily handle an app like this.
Not even remotely farce. I hope the rest of the world is taking notes...
Yes but there was a “student driver” sticker on the back so it’s all good.

Jokes aside it would be interesting to filter by demographic too.
Par for the course on HN. You just gotta have thickskin and learn to acknowledge the comments without wholesale accepting them. Some nitpicks are great, some are flat out stupid. When it's your product you have the benefit of deciding which is which for your product (and accept the consequences, of course).
I wonder what percentage are autopilot driving into things?
President Lyndon B. Johnson once said

> If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.
A huge part of California's population is non-conservative children moving away from conservative areas. Sounds like more of the same to me.
like maple syrup...
Actually shows how seriously impressive the Accessibility features in macOS is (they are even better in iOS)
That's because these three methodologies test different things. Take-home is the best representative, but it's heavily skewed by the prize. Whiteboarding only test for algorithms knowledge and a bit of problem-solving. Paired programming relies more on communication. And the last two add time pressure that rarely exists in real world scenario.

The fact is, it all depends on the person you need and the team they will be slotted in. But it seems that the ones who know the criteria is rarely involved in these matters.
I've been learning Postgres and SQL on the job for the first time over the last six months - I can confirm I've learnt all of these the hard way!

I'd also recommend reading up on the awesome pg statistics tables, and leverage them to benchmark your things like index performance and macro call speeds.
Reminds of SmallTalk / and Lisp's - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp_Interface_Manager

There was even a story, that (at least for Common Lisp), you can start from almost blank state, but have an exception handler installed (that can continue), so as you go you live-edit and add pieces missing, or if code crashes change.

This is all good, until nowadays, where you really want to know what's deployed in production, and not just the last stuff I've live fixed.

I mean, I guess both have values tbh, but hard to pull two models like this and use... bit like - debugger or printf statements (or both!)
Follow the link to the underlying study https://www.iseecars.com/most-dangerous-cars-study#v=2024

While the linked article is playing up the tesla angle (and so may be thought to be manipulative) the underlying study does not seem to be unusually focused on tesla, it's simply listing the results of a fairly straightforward analysis. I also have no reason to doubt it as I more or less expected tesla to have bad fatality rates compared to class (although I guess I wouldn't have expected them to be quite this bad - I thought they'd be bad compared to other luxury vehicles of similar weight size and price, not absolutely bad compared to most cars).

But you can find the underlying numbers and critique them if you have reason to think they might be wrong. E.g. if you believed the claims that autopilot was safer than human drivers and was saving lives, you might have expected to see a sign of that in this data (I didn't).
Bluesky looks promising. In my bubble it seems like a lot of artists have been moving to it after some Xitter fiasco with AI training or whatnot (idk, I don't keep up with those news).

But, this:

> Radically open

> I think some might be surprised to learn how open Bluesky is. It’s trivially easy to grab an export of any user’s data. It’s also a core assumption of the service that all the data (aside from out-of-protocol stuff like DMs) is completely open.

I'm still skeptical of Bluesky having "won" until the average user is completely aware of things like this. I fully expect that there will be some drama about this openness at some point in the future.

When this happens, we'll see if people go back to Twitter again (how many times has it been already?); or if they embrace this new social network where your art and posts can be scraped waaaaaay more easily than in Twitter, so they're probably more likely to be used for AI training anyway.

Until conversations about these topics happen between non-tech users, I'm mostly just watching how the situation evolves.
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FWIW, pex now also has options to unzip the archive to a cache directory on startup (I believe this happens by default now, but am not at a computer to confirm), to side step the zipapp limitations that you reference.
Slack / IM often

Use video chat for meetings (encourage camera on but don't require it - management should lead by example)

Be kind. Reach out using other forms of communication (like snail mail) if you want to encourage each other with thank you notes, etc.

Use some kind of shared wiki for long term 'shared ownership' documentation. Don't be afraid to lead by example. Don't be obtuse. Give visual examples of processes, technical components, etc.

Lean into visual examples everywhere you can (screenshots, mock-ups, diagrams, etc).

In video chat, screen share and encourage use of annotations when discussing things. (Zoom has this feature and it's awesome)

Use an agile cadence. Encourage people to share questions / concerns at story grooming sessions (which should be regular). Also encourage feedback at retrospectives (which should also happen regularly). Managers should lead by example in blameless retrospectives and lean into positive feedback.

If you're a team of all dudes (or any one thing), you have a blindspot with perspective. You should rectify that.
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US Drought is so severe only significant rainfall will help break the trend
Perhaps we can even do away with transformers and use a fully connected network. We can always prune the model later ...
Interesting paper exploring possible causes: https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.36.1.151
Installing a drive-by-wire kit on a car sure isn’t hard. Self-driving would be a bit trickier, need a sensor suite and some OSS like ROS2 or the like.
> The fishermen were unaware of it until they were contacted by the US Coast Guard.

Can someone explain this to me? Does the US Coast Guard have a (radio) base in Norway? Do they phone them?
They’re actively censoring liberals. First amendment rights my ass.
Aha, agreed that they are not offering anything for the use case of standalone communities. I wish they would, and I think the architecture is there for it, it's just that no one has used a relay in that way yet. I /might/ take it up myself in the next year or two, really I just want phpbb to have a second renassiance - special interest, user moderated forums like reddit but each community able to fork off to their own infrastructure if there's some schism re: moderation or otherwise.
Ah the Disney approach.

Bold strategy Cotton.

Owner did the smart thing and listened to the constructive criticism which made me feel infinitely better about using his tool.

Which I will now do, and would not have before. I am also his exact customer.
I thought this noteworthy because butter is made from milk as the sole ingredient
There is always a need for _some_ secrets to be kept. At the very least from external adversaries.
Wood is secondary xylem produced by growth from the vascular Cambium. (Sometimes? I think the issue is that there’s more than one definition of wood depending on context …?). Growth rings?

But palm trees aren’t truly trees, right ? Just called trees…. They’re more of a tree like shrub? I think.
Tesla is a memestock. There's no reason it should be as high as it is; the fundamentals aren't that great and Musk is a danger to the company whether he's in or out of government.
A few things help me:

Get used to the idea that someone isn’t necessarily there when you message. Try to predict when you’ll need to talk to someone and send the message with the info you need.

Document. Everything. Confluence needs to become your best friend. You and your colleagues rely on this information to keep up on things they might miss.

When you’re planning work, especially with lots of uncertainty, optimise to be inefficient. It’s better to start with 20-person calls at the start of a big project and cut them down later than to have 3-person calls and realise you missed critical people 2 weeks before your target date.

On the flip side, once you know what you’re doing, keep your status checks lean. Invite only the leads you need and write down the outcomes to share with the wider team.

Be willing to change your communication habits as you grow. A weekly all-hands is fine for a 10-person startup. It’s a monumental waste of time when you have 200 people across 5 departments.
Looks like a normal (frozen) frog to me
If they came out and said it, I don’t see the problem. LLM’s aren’t the solution for a wide range of problems. They are a new tool but not everything is a nail.

I mean it already hands off a wide range of tasks to python… this would be no different.
Teen turning e-waste into working technology for overseas charities
Thanks! I can see how on-device can be appealing, especially for the editor with a local model transcribing the media files to text.
So are you wanting to vote against transgender healthcare? Or against universal healthcare as a whole?

Wouldn’t it be better to vote *for* additional rights rather than *against* someone being helped?

Rising tide vs bucket of crabs, after all.
TL;DR: Rubber. Industrial adhesive. Nobody knows why this is there or who is responsible yet.

> I’m quite confident that the sample that I handled was PVA butylene rubber,” [Dr. Kozak] said in a phone interview, describing a mix of synthetic rubber and polyvinyl acetate, known as PVA. That polymer, he said, is “the active ingredient in white glue — the kind of white glue you have at home is a very dilute, kid-friendly version of this stuff.”

> Globs of the white sticky substance, which have a spongy interior and range in size from a coin to a dinner plate, have been found for miles along Placentia Bay since at least September

> Dr. Kozak said that one of the first things he noticed was that the blob had “a kind of petrochemical odor to it, kind of like if you walk down the turpentine aisle of your hardware store.”
Suburbia is this thing like commuting in a car that's great as long as everyone isn't also trying to do it.
Note that C++20 introduced consteval as a means to enforce compile time computation. See https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/consteval
Sure if you want to take the absolute least charitable interpretation of what I said lol.
That's a great signal (that you have a hobby playing guitar). If the other half is also interesting, it sounds like a great portfolio.
With U.S. Energy Dominance we will win the A.I. arms race with China
Even with heavy urbanization you'll need some form of transit on top of walking. Have you ever visited any really big cities (eg. Tokyo)? Every time I'm in one, I get the impression they would grind to a standstill without their mass transit systems.
Try to reduce the number of required sync meetings in favor of async alternatives. For the required sync meetings, make sure there is a rock solid agenda and EVERYONE knows what is expected from them going in. Make sure the meetings cover meaningful material and helpful to all attendees. Encourage everyone to speak up and contribute. If you find certain individuals not contributing or not prepared, proactively have a conversation with them outside the meeting to reset expectations.

For async communication, it can still be helpful to set specific windows of time for things to get discussed. Example, Mondays 9am-Noon ET we review/discuss sprint goals. I like to record short videos with Loom to kick off discussions like this. Make sure to center these types of communication around specific tools, e.g. JIRA, Confluence, Google Docs, etc. Make sure the discussions convert to traceable decisions in your tooling.