skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Make it make sense.

Since you asked:

It's like having a meeting about a project whose deadline was 3 weeks ago and the team really cares about making a success of it, but the finance department has told the board privately that if the project is a success it would make most of the rest of their incredibly lucrative business obsolete, so now they need to figure out how to make the project fail slowly in a way that makes it seem to the team that they're trying their best so they don't get the blame for it afterwards.

tldr; [thisisfine.gif]
https://archive.is/xFRg6
The problem with being smarter than average programmer is that your insights will rarely ever be considered, even if they're correct, because they're new and controversial. That's because, from the perspective of an average programmer, a bad programmer who doesn't know what they're doing, and a programmer using techniques so advanced that they cannot be understood, are effectively indistinguishable, which means that average team will treat both geniuses and morons in the same way.

I feel like the collapse of the tech bro coincided with the masses going to programming, which changed the culture from promoting innovation and development, into simply following whatever best practices someone had already written, turning programming from a creative job into yet another repetitive office job. This is also, in my opinion, the true reason why salaries collapsed. Most business don't need creative specialists, they need code monkeys, and most people aren't creative specialists, they're code monkeys. So why would the salary worthy of a creative specialist even be talked about over here?
Eugene Parker and Ludwig Boltzmann are familiar with your argument, and I doubt you even have Lord Kelvin's credentials.

As Prof. Parker said, "We'll see who falls flat." (That's a paraphrase from memory; I doubt it's an exact quote.)
> the pervasive myth that conservative voices are somehow being censored or silenced, despite lots of evidence that conservative rage-bait gets disproprotionately more distribution on recommendation algorithms

It can be true that both conservative content gets more widely shared AND that they're still being censored.

There were countless high-profile conservatives banned from pre-Musk Twitter, YouTube and other social media. Likewise there's clear and obvious cases of conservative content being silenced like Donald Trump's interview on Joe Rogan kept off the YouTube trending page as the most recent example.

But these are specific cases, you claim there's lots of evidence that conservatives on the whole get more distribution. I'm not sure I believe that without seeing your purported evidence, but even if studies proved that were the case it doesn't negate the fact that simultaneously there's a large amount of conservatives being censored on top of that, preventing their distribution from going even further.
As per the central limit theorem one can approximate Gaussian with a repeated convolution with any function, box blur being most obvious candidate here. And box blur can be computed quickly with a summed area table.
You'd need firewood too.
East Asians but not South Asians are underrepresented in leadership in the US
Ask HN: Where to advertise my SaaS other than Google?
I run a SaaS that I believe will benefit from trying ads on it. However, I got blocked on Google.

First, they marked my website as compromised. I tried to remove all Javascript, run malware scanners, change IP, change server location, contact support - nothing helped. Then, they blocked my account (no idea why), so unless I create a new Google account (which might be against their TOS), I'm banned from advertising on Google.

The product is not a scam, and there are hundreds of happy customers. There are similar products that Google happily takes their money for ads.

All social media ads such as Meta, Twitter, TikTok, Reddit - are not helpful, as my main source of traffic are people who search for "How to do [what my product does]" on Google, rather than people who scroll news feeds.

It's more of a "I need a solution now" type of product rather than "oh, look another cool gimmick/t-shirt/gadget that I might buy", this is why I'm focusing on SEO and ads on Google.

But I know that Google is not the only one. So where can one advertise in order to reach search results? Preferably something you had experience with yourself.
To save anyone else the time:

> Andrew Tomazos submitted P3403, a paper titled “The Undefined Behavior Question” (which HOOBOY man we’re just knocking it out of the fucking park with possible anti-semitic dog whistles today aren’t we?)

Riiiight. To be fair apart from that their criticism of Tomasoz seems relatively justifiable, if unnecessarily angry. Tomasoz has said that "almost noone" has ever written anything productive in Rust, which is a stupid thing to say. And he thinks ChatGPT is on par with humans now, which is also pretty obviously untrue.

Idiots all round.
Show HN: Hansel – Private, low power location tracking
Hi everyone, I’m a developer who wanted to solve a gap I’ve noticed with Apple Maps. While Google Maps has the Timeline feature to track places you’ve been, Apple Maps doesn’t offer anything like it. That inspired me to create Hansel!

With Hansel, you can track your location history in the background with low power usage. It logs the places you spend time at—like restaurants, parks, or cafes—and lets you add labels to those visits. There’s also a timeline slider, so you can easily review how your movements have changed throughout the day.

Your privacy is super important to me, so all your data is stored securely in your iCloud account. No one else (not even me) can access it.

If you’ve ever wished for a personal, private, and simple way to track your location history, I’d love for you to try Hansel.

You can check it out here: https://fruitfulapps.com/hansel/

Let me know if you have any questions or feedback—I’m always looking to improve!
I guess eventually it's a trade-off between doing heavy lifting yourself and paying a little more compute and bandwidth, or offloading it to clients and wasting more energy but at lower cost to the developer. I think there are environmental arguments in both directions (more energy spent computing stuff on the client vs more energy sending pre-computed assets over the networks). I'm not sure which is better ultimately - I suppose it varies case-by-case.
I can't believe someone thought this will be a sustainable business bringing in money.
This only works if all externalities (e.g. global costs of greenhouse gas production, pollution,...) are correctly priced in.
It will tank their economies, which is why we’re paying them, basically,
...are you attacking the babyboomers parents?

And more seriously the argument is that if we on the lottery and our ancestors did the damage before we understood it, then yes, we don't get to keep the benefits from other people and have _them_ foot the bill of avoiding further damage via stifled growth. That social contract doesn't work.

Nevermind that _right now_ per capital emissions and pollution and leads to similar policy implications. It's not just our ancestors overconsuming , it's us
Just as with 3D televisions, be patient and this trend will pass.
A quick search shows that global c02 emissions are about 35 billion tons.

So the cow farts are a bit less than 8%. That isn't insignificant.
Foreign lands? We all live on the same planet.
You haven't developed a good taste in scientific art then. The jagged mosaic edges are, IMHO, the flourish of authenticity that completes it.

Rough edges—that's like rejecting a van Gogh painting because it has too much paint and looks lumpy[0]. Art is lumpy. The ones that are perfectly flat are inkjet prints.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impasto
> if the AI PC is just a regular PC with a cloud bot integrated, then ... what even is the point?

To trick people into buying new hardware, lest they get left behind in the AI race
...by what theory of justice is CO2 per land area just? You didn't will your birthplace.

I replied to the high birthrate fallacy/dogwhistle in another comment in this thread.
That last bit is correct, there aren’t many places like that in Denmark. So the original question remains, where would be a better place for them specifically to plant these trees?
BBC report including text of letter https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cje0x5j7wgjo
See https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/foursquare-releases-10...
It doesn't sound like there will be standalone Minecraft theme parks, just Minecraft rides at Legoland and other parks. I don't see why you'd be so pessimistic about that.
Absolutely unhinged rant accusing everyone of being some kind of Nazi or sexual predator. Seeing the "content warning" and design of the page should already be enough to know exactly what to expect about what you are about to read, and what kind of person wrote it.
How much of that is relevant if you're going to be using django-ninja (pydantic) and the whole app has to be async, though?

Django is fine for writing a thin CRUD layer around a database. It makes the easy stuff easy. But doesn't seem to help much for the hard stuff and often actively hinders it.

Really the main reason for Django is its ORM and migrations. It's basically the other Python ORM (next to SQLAlchemy) but, unlike SQLAlchemy, it's not designed to be used standalone. In my experience I find Django (and active record ORMs in general) easier for people to get started with, but massively limiting in long run for complex domains.
Well, yeah, that's how it works. On Earth here, we're an oasis of warm thermodynamic blessedness in a sea of frigid brutality.

Be thankful there's no humans on Uranus.
Why not? If we have Disneyland, LEGOland, why not MinecraftLand?

Minecraft as a brand is now much more than just a blocky PvE game. I have young kids and they'd love to visit a Minecraft themed park. (So would I!)

How it'll turn out in reality is anyone's guess, but it's a reasonable bet.
It says “out of whiskey, send more ASAP to the lighthouse”.
There's RStudio with its WYSIWYG "visual"[1] editor for markdown(ahem, rMarkdown or quarto, which are pandoc's markdown + extensions). It is quite feature-rich albeit I am unsure whether it supports wrapping images. I bet you can write a little inline CSS in a fenced div[2][3] for it, but it is likely not an option for casual user.
What it does support is rendering all the goodies in plethora of output formats[4]: docx pdf, html for plain documents; revealjs(html), pptx, beamer(pdf) for presentations. You can even generate websites with it
As for spreadsheets, RStudio supports both R and python which are incredibly powerful for manipulating and visualizing table-like data

I won't argue that those are easy tools to learn, but if you do, you have much more power than with MS/{word,excel,powerpoint}

[1]: https://rstudio.github.io/visual-markdown-editing/

[2]: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#extension-fenced_divs

[3]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76421783/text-and-image-...

[4]: https://quarto.org/docs/guide/
Ada has constrained range types. Idris has lots more fun stuff with types. But not very mainstream yet.
I haven't followed stories about him, but I doubt that all or even most of his stories were made up. I mean, the Korean Air (IIRC) one can't have been fudged, right?
Isn't sending both the blurred and non-blurred picture over the network the way we did it since two decades in web dev? With (many!) high resolution pictures this is definetly less performant then a local computation, given that real networks have finite bandwiths, in particular mobile clients on spots with bad wireless coverage. It is astonishing what can be done with CSS/WebGL only these days. We needed a lot of hacks and workarounds in the past for that.
Just invite both hemispheres to a party and pretty soon both LLMS are convinced of this great idea the guy in the kitchen suggested.
Dear Language Designers: Please Copy `Where` from Haskell
That there were sixty-five private jets parked in Baku says much about how seriously this is being taken.

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/11/15/did-people-have-to...
Vendee globe 2024 API is Availaible Now
Accelerated Approval: What Is It Accomplishing?
Homeless people to be given cash in first major UK trial to reduce poverty
Perhaps it's the "corporate, government and military strategic systems" doing it wrong, if they choose to rely on a hobbyist project? Not the hobbyist publishing their sources?
Thank you.

There's an interesting link in that thread to a PMTiles viewer with the data in it:

https://wipfli.github.io/foursquare-os-places-pmtiles/#map=1...
By the justice of keeping the planet from going above what its natural resources can replenish. Which, is actually the all excuse being given to take money from some people to give to other: saving the planet.

Also, they didn't will the number of relatives they have, and yet, here you are arguing that they should be entitled to the same material wealth as an individual that has a lot less of those than them.

I could even be pressed to give part of my material wealth (and of my 1.53 children) if the others were actually improving their carbon footprint, but at this point I'm just being extorted of my money to give them so that they can emit even more CO2. It's maddening, and it has absolutely nothing to do with saving the planet.
Gavin Newsom did this when he was Mayor of San Francisco and the city got flooded with homeless from all over the country
It's just quicker, simpler, easier. I don't spend hours managing containers and images so the fact I can't just launch it, do what I need to do and close it again is great. I mean the docker CLI is quite easy too, but having a UI to restart the correct database &c. is just handy sometimes.
As you appear to be the author, line 3 of the first code example has a “qsort” where a “quickSort” should be.
Ask HN: What would a social media *for humans* look like?
The problems I (and presumably others) have with social media:

- too much spam/bots
- -> it feels like the dark forest[1] is already there
- current social media platforms create echo chambers
- furthermore, disinformation is rampant
- quantity > quality, when it comes to following people
- same with likes: people are addicted to them; some base their self worth on them
- it feels like a big city; there's people everywhere but you still feel lonely

Some ideas I have:

- login based on WorldID[2] to prove human uniqueness
- twitter like system (x max characters; posts; hashtags)
- up/downvotes instead of likes
- num upvotes/follows etc. are not shown anywhere to discourage farming them
- ...

Gimmicks:

- natualistic UI; paper look; example[3][4]
- dependency graph of followers (like obsidian note graph, but for followers)[5]
- customizeable profile page (think of myspace pages)
- live cursors / other kinds of activity to indicate how other people are interacting with posts in real time
- ...

Links

- [^1]: https://de-de.world.org/world-id
- [^2]: https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest
- [^3]: https://x.com/samdape/status/1857801963317932435
- [^4]: https://x.com/_jzhao/status/1856103807903773015
- [^5]: https://help.obsidian.md/Plugins/Graph+view
Yeah, assert in a performance loop is generally a mistake.
How come they're not my words? I thought of sending them, not the keyboard. Same with ChatGPT, it doesn't do anything on its own - even if it could, it's a tool, not a person.
I prefer o1. I mostly use it as a knowledge system. Don't really care for the automatic code generation nonsense. Unless I'm really tired and the task is very simple, in which case I might decide to write a paragraph of text instead of 30 lines of Python.
My experience is that when ChatGPT fails, Claude fails too.
On some advanced coding tasks, I find ChatGPT's depth of reasoning ability to be better.
That's the reference. Brushed metal was a controversial design feature of early Mac OS X, unevenly applied across the built-in applications. (It was kind of supposed to be for media browsers, but then the Finder and Calendar and many others were also brushed metal for some reason.)

It debuted already in 1999 in QuickTime Player, years before Mac OS X:

http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/qtime.htm

The rumor was that Steve Jobs liked this style a lot, so it spread to the operating system despite the widespread external criticism (like the link above).
Am I the only one a little bit sickened that the multi-billion dollar lawsuit is to the [potential] benefit of investors, rather than the users who were harmed?
Btw any tip for a good printing service available in Europe if I were to mega-print this?
Lazygit is one of my favorite applications. I evangelize it whenever I get the chance.
Google seems to have called it quits on making its own Android tablets – again
See this as a form of brainstorming.

Next session is about ranking and discarding.
Given that most signs on the cylinders are unique it's much more likely that they represent just another syllabary of it's time, no?
Honestly, if you've had decent management 25% of the time, you're doing much better than the rest of us.

Management is hard, because it makes significant emotional demands on us, and a lot of people deal with the combination of power and emotions badly.
There's not much in so called "New Keynesianism" that Keynes would acknowledge as being consistent with his theories.

Be very wary of anything you read on /r/AskEconomics; contributors are regularly banned for asking challenging questions that point out deficiencies with the orthodoxy. It's essentially an echo chamber with the top level replies carefully vetted. What it highlights through that is the deep (and justified) insecurity that permeates the economic orthodoxy.

The Neoclassical school is laughably simplistic in its model of the world. To reduce an entire economy, with all its diversity and irrationality, to a handful of variables connected by simple relationships is frankly absurd [1], and really a reflection of economics' physics envy. They make strong claims about how the models are built robustly from micro-foundations whilst ignoring fundamentals such as irrational agents and missing variables, and blithely ignoring important problems such as the SMD result [2] which basically means only a single representative agent and a single representative commodity can be considered (I've seen models that claim much more than this, but practically the higher dimensions are immediately integrated out). That St. Louis fed model is considered advanced because they have 2 representative agents!

Moreover, the models don't maintain important invariants, such as stock-flow consistency, that absolutely must be true as a matter of accounting.

One might give some allowances for all these theoretical problems if the models validated and made reliable predictions, but when it comes to anything of importance, they're little better than a first order Markov model. It's frankly absurd, and a testament to the power of rhetoric and vested interests, that we've built so much of our political economics on such shaky foundations.

There's basically no alternative being seriously entertained in mainstream politics, even on the left, to what amounts to an academic justification for inequality, and that is why we are in the mess we are in, Trump and all.

[1] https://s3.amazonaws.com/real.stlouisfed.org/wp/2024/2024-01...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnenschein%E2%80%93Mantel%...
I genuinely don't think the word I used is comparable to asshole
I like it! Played for about 30 minutes.

Is there a way to make the mouse pointer disappear when playing? System: Windows 10 - Browser: Chrome.

Thanks for sharing!
Why don’t you just hand-write the descriptions and then your AI won’t have to.
Awesome! You really nailed it.
Nah, no money in that. It's more likely the Executive Trumposphere will try to put itself in no-oversight charge of where the supplies flow... so that they can allocate them as partisan rewards and punishments to different states.
> but rather, you should do
> magic = f.read(4)
> assert magic == b"\x89PNG", "Not a PNG file"

If the `assert` compiles out, wouldn’t -O also possibly compile the `read()` out as well given `magic` isn’t used after the assign?
Thx! Just fixed it.
To reduce curtailment, more transmission is required. However, the planning process is absolutely ridiculous, so multiple years of consultations are required before there's a chance anything might actually get built.
Respectfully I completely disagree and I think you've got it rather backwards since you've had some bad experiences (understandable).

Assert and (unit)tests are completely orthogonal and unrelated things in terms of functionality even though both are aimed at improving the software correctness.

Failing an assert in production of course sucks and is costly. But what is more costly is letting the bug slip through and cause hard to diagnose bugs, program incorrectness and even (in some cases) silent address space corruption that will then manifest itself in all kinds of weird issues later on during the program run.

The whole point of (correct) use of asserts is to help make sure that the program stays within its own well defined logic and doesn't veer off course and if it does then make that bug immediately as loud as clear as possible.

When the bugs are quick to detect and diagnose you'll learn that you have less and less asserts triggering in production and thus you end up with improved product quality.

As a general rule I'd say use asserts liberally to verify things such as invariants, post- and pre-conditions and ALWAYS have them built-in.

Finally I want to point out that using assert is not ERROR checking (file not found, IP address not resolved, TCP connection failed, system resource failed to allocate, etc.) but BUG checking.

Do not write code for BUGS.
They are working on that! But I guess there's the old trick of having a 'visibile' level at loading time that has all the shaders and variants in it so they get pre-compiled.
Maybe if it's done on a national level, and cash will only be distributed to the homeless who can prove they are citizens, that won't be an issue. Moreover they might move to areas with lower cost of living if payments do not depend on the place (a homeless does not have a fixed address by definition), thus becoming less of an issue.
> Sure it’s not the most effective

And this is the problem. I want to work from home full time. But until I can replicate all of the benefits remotely I will continue with hybrid.

This is a very emotive subject. The only way we are going to translation to a fully remote future is by accepting the limitions of remote. And then fixing them.
you hover your mouse over the icon and a tooltip appears with words. Also the menu item shows the icon next to the word.
Instead of giving cash maybe give them jobs and mental/recovery/etc help?
Would be great to see the code behind these. Is it posted somewhere?
In September, I got to pair program for two hours with the legendary Steve Yegge
A blurred image shouldn't be very much extra over the high resolution image considering it's information content is much smaller.
I wrote my own from scratch including the HTML/XML parsers. If you can't pick a reader the next best option is to write it yourself. There are countless projects on GitHub in any language.

Probably not really usable for anyone except myself but here is the code for my reader: https://github.com/vborovikov/news
+1. Working where we are most effective, at any given time, is the best defence against a mandated RTO.