skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to share a personal story.

I’m from Argentina. When I met my current wife, she volunteered at an orphanage. Her task was to take one of the children out for fun on weekends. It seemed simple, but it wasn’t. There, she met “A,” a 10-year-old girl. Some weekends with “A” were easy, but she was generally problematic. So, as we tried to understand what was happening to her, we learned a bit about her past.

Her mother was a drug addict and a criminal. Her father was likely her grandfather and was also in jail for various reasons, including abusing her.

We were heartbroken and tried to help, but we didn’t plan to adopt her. There are many other details, but I don’t want to bore you with the horrors. To summarize, this story shattered my naivety.

However, the story takes a positive turn. When Argentina legalized same-sex marriage, two women adopted “A.” It was the first adoption case involving a same-sex marriage in our country.

Things weren’t easy for them. We’re friends now and see each other occasionally. They transformed “A’s” life for good. But it’s not like the movies. Once a child has endured such trauma, recovery can take years, and sometimes, it’s not even possible.

Nowadays, we have a president in Argentina who constantly claims to be engaged in a “cultural battle.” He’s a fan of Elon Musk and Trump. The “cultural battle” primarily involves removing sexual education from schools, removing organizations dedicated to protecting women from abuse, and portraying government spending on helping the poor as communism. He frequently uses the term “woke” to denigrate people who don’t share his views.

However, this “cultural battle” is all about hate.

The entire concept of “canceling culture,” “anti-woke,” and Mark Zuckerberg removing tampons from bathrooms are distractions.
The world is full of children like “A,” and the cost of proofreading this with AI is probably enough to feed one person for a day. I’m not trying to sit on a moral high ground while I write this from my iPad Pro. But, at least, we should have more empathy.

Sorry for my long comment, but I feel that this article from PG misses the point (ja! It’s my second time writing in disagreement with a PG article). I’m concerned about the direction that all this hate is taking here in Argentina, echoing the things that happen in the US.
> is to blame every citizen of the state of Israel

nobody has said or even implied this

> hold them all in distrust for having ever been in any branch of the IDF

nobody has said or even implied this

> that level of sweeping blame and distrust

There has not been any such thing in this discussion.

We're done here.
Or is it a subversive way of saying a supportive nuclear or extended family that invests and takes care of subsequent generations is one of the success paths?
mDNS is superior to UPnP, they just made a compounding sum of bad choices that ended up in a bad architecture. I do hope companies start learning that you can't have suit doing running an engineering company
Is google not blocked in China anymore? You might want to check in on how western social media is treated by CCP government first before making such statements.
I too use Cursor as my primary IDE for a variety of projects. This will sound cliche in the midst of the current AI hype, but the most critical component of getting good results with Cursor is properly managing the context and conversation length.

With large projects, I've found that a good baseline is about 300-500 lines of output, and around 12 500 line files as input. Inside those limits, Cursor seems to do pretty well, but if you overstuff the context window (even within the supposedly supported limits) Claude Sonnet 3.5 tends to forget important attributes of the input.

Another critical component is to keep conversations short. Don't reuse the same conversation for more than one task, and try to engineer prompts to minimize the amount/size of edits.

I definitely agree that Cursor isn't a silver bullet, but it's one of the best tools I've found for bootstrapping large projects as a solo dev.
What do you think of using the epsilon-first approach then? We could explore for that fixed time horizon, then start choosing greedy after that. I feel like the only downside is that adding new arms becomes more complicated.
Not sure why you picked 400km? All Starlink satellites are in orbits less than 600km where debris is naturally eliminated in 5 years or less:

https://www.spacex.com/updates/#sustainability

> SpaceX operates its satellites at an altitude below 600 km because of the reduced natural orbit decay time relative to those above 600 km. Starlink operates in \"self-cleaning\" orbits, meaning that non-maneuverable satellites and debris will lose altitude and deorbit due to atmospheric drag within 5 to 6 years, and often sooner, see Fig. 1. This greatly reduces the risk of persistent orbital debris, and vastly exceeds the FCC and international standard of 25 years (which we believe is outdated and should be reduced). Natural deorbit from altitudes higher than 600 km poses significantly higher orbital debris risk for many years at all lower orbital altitudes as the satellite or debris deorbits. Several other commercial satellite constellations are designed to operate above 1,000 km, where it requires hundreds of years for spacecraft to naturally deorbit if they fail prior to deorbit or are not deorbited by active debris removal, as in Fig. 1. SpaceX invested considerable effort and expense in developing satellites that would fly at these lower altitudes, including investment in sophisticated attitude and propulsion systems. SpaceX is hopeful active debris removal technology will be developed in the near term, but this technology does not currently exist.

> https://sxcontent9668.azureedge.us/cms-assets/assets/figure_...

> Fig. 1: Orbital lifetime for a satellite with a mass-to-area ratio of 40kg/m2 at various starting altitudes and average solar cycle.
Altman already spiraled down there: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_(blockchain)

> World Network, originally Worldcoin, is a for-profit cryptocurrency project that uses iris biometrics developed by San Francisco- and Berlin-based Tools for Humanity. Founded in 2019 by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, Max Novendstern, and Alex Blania, it has accumulated $250 million in funding from venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz and Khosla Ventures, as well as from Reid Hoffman.
In my last response I admitted Meritocracy is a form of discrimination (often an acceptable one).
> This is all a non-issue despite constant "end of the world" folks who never learned sysadmin and are terrified of an error.

It's not a non-issue. Yes it's not a showstopper, but it's a niggling drag on productivity. As someone who's used to the JVM but currently having to work in Python, everything to do with package management is just harder and more awkward than it needs to be (and every so often you just get stuck and have to rebuild a venv or what have you) and the quality of tooling is significantly worse as a result. And uv looks like the first of the zillions of Python package management tools to actually do the obvious correct thing and not just keep shooting yourself in the foot.
I've been doing that for the last 18 years and I started when I was older than most people here. I never liked the mandatory external monitor and keyboard at the company I was working for before becoming self employed: I preferred to look down to a screen, not up or level.
Now that there's a high profile example of it happening, though, it might become both more common and more of a negotiation tool for customers. This company has shown that it can be done, and now both Broadcomm and their customers know it, and each knows that the other knows it.

Sure, it's still a lot of effort, but, at this point, even if Broadcomm can get somebody to sign up for another year, that gives the customer a year to plan on how to jump ship next time around. And it looks like the number of people with expertise on migrating from VMWare is skyrocketing, so companies should be able to hire a team to do it...
Let's say you self-host Github. Now you are responsible for maintaining uptime, and you have less expertise with the service and less resources to dedicate to keeping it up, so it's going to be hard to match, much less exceed the uptime of Github cloud.

And it doesn't protect you from a "forced exit" either. Github could terminate your contract, and change the terms of the license in a way that you found unacceptable, or even go out of business, and being self hosted would leave you in no better position than if you had used cloud with external backups. You can somewhat mitigate this risk by self hosting an open source solution, so that in the worst case scenario, you can fork the project and maintain it yourself, but there is still risk that the project could be abandoned, or possibly have the license changed in future versions.

To be clear, I'm not saying that you shouldn't self host and SaaS is always better. But it isn't a magic bullet that solves these problems.
Depending on elevation, the type of parent storm, the ambient temperature, and other factors, the water content to snow can vary from 1:6 - very heavy chunky lake effect snow falling right at the freezing point, the kind you get wet just walking from the car to the door, to 1:12 , the kind typically seen in mountainous, more semi-arid locales. The fine white snowboarding/skiing snow. Generally the colder the air, the less moisture in the snow, same with height, unless it's precipitating out due to orographic uplift first.
One-lane road in a city means any car can block the whole road. So if an ambulance needs this road to save you, you're out of luck.
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No amount of reason will negate the fact that people like the convenience of cars.

There is a reason cars, and paradoxically larger cars are being bought in increasing numbers.

You can of course force people to give up conveniences they like, you just have to contend with the fact that the modern world makes it easy for people to move or vote with their wallet.
...and it's gone!
This is kind of like an argument-by-consequences since SF funding for transit and roads has viability problems due to SF's comparatively low residential density, as the funding from Covid, federal and then CA state emergency funding that replaced those disappear in 2025. This will cause big service reductions in SF MUNI [0], BART and Caltrain, starting this year.

And it wasn't about "the will of the Outer Sunset" [1], and some (local) people there rely on car or rideshare access, plus all the rest of us from everywhere that isn't the Outer Sunset also want to be able to drive there to visit. The existing post-Covid time-shared road/park setup on Highway 1 was already incredibly friendly to bikes, pedestrian, pets, children, surfers.
And SF Measure K only passed 54.7:45.3% [2].

> "increasing maintenance costs due to erosion are another huge reason it’s a good idea)"

You could argue the exact same that SF cablecars could be cut because they net lose money (federal subsidy), or about all of us constantly paying for the upkeep of Highway 1 down at Big Sur, which is regularly closed/subsided/storm-damaged, and costs $$$ to repair every winter, but the wishes of the (small population of) locals have to be balanced against the wishes of everyone else (CA + out-of-state residents, tourists) who use it.

In any case re the viability of transit at such low neighborhood densities, Seamless Bay Area [3] have for years been pointing out the ongoing insanity, duplication, waste, lack of ticket interoperability etc. of bankrolling 27 different agencies for 9 counties in a metro area of only <8m people [4], smaller than NYC/LA/Chicago. These operating costs are soaking up any passenger revenues, preventing it from being spent on services. SF was particularly disproportionately hard hit by the permanent Covid change of both WFH/remotework + exodus of tech employees and companies + record-high SF downtown office vacancy.

[0]: https://www.kqed.org/news/12014573/sf-muni-dire-need-funding...

[1]: "Do voters want to close S.F.’s Great Highway? New Chronicle poll shows where they stand [Prop K - 46% in favor of closure, 44% against, 10% undecided]" 10/2024 https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/1gaaj36/do_vo...

[2]: 2024 SF Measure K https://sfelections.org/results/20241105w/index.html

[3]: seamlessbayarea.org

[4]: "One journey, one ticket", key learnings from Swiss public transport" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38686115
Great! If you can, please star our repo too and you can put any questions in the discussions section. I monitor it daily.
This is maybe not unknown but often intentionally avoided by people like Graham who discuss this topic with an anti-woke bias. The exercise is to create a false origin and attack that rather than address the actual history of the term and its origin.
Yes, it was done by OP, the comment that was rightly flagged and then later resurrected:

> Just a reminder that Snyk was founded by ex-IDF Unit 8200 soldiers. I would not trust them given what we've seen Israel do to supply chains.

Given that Unit 8200 is staffed by conscripts, how is this anything other than attempting to ensure that any person who ever came of age in Israel has that held against them for the rest of their careers?

Members of Unit 8200 weren't given a choice between that and the private sector—they were given a choice between that and shooting a gun, which for a technically inclined new-adult isn't much of a choice at all. And am I seriously supposed to believe that OP would argue that choosing to be a grunt who shoots a gun at people would be the morally purer choice that would make someone more trustworthy?
I've been using the LSIO Webtop images for a few years. They're awesome for composable desktops that I run behind a VPN for a quick and easy dirty connection at home.

Combine the Webtop images by forcing it's traffic through the Gluetun [0] container and you're up and running. These Webtop containers are nice and snappy as well thanks to Kasm. Awesome OSS.

[0] https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun
If I’m reading OP’s math correctly, you’ve got it backwards. They’re saying NYC should be in practice making significantly more than $500M/yr.
That's not the comment that got downvoted though. It came later. Wasn't "you made an assumption of intent" supposed to be an explanation of why the initial comment got downvoted?

But it's also a more complicated point than you're giving credit for. That comment directly addresses lack of knowledge and accuses people of negligence, not lying. I do not parse it as an accusation of intent, and given the followup here I don't think izacus sees it as an accusation of intent either: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42669379

But even if it is an accusation of intent the only accusation is deciding to be reckless. Which seems pretty justified to me.

(And there is a flagged comment that I have a big thing to say if you make me, but I'd rather we just ignore that comment as a separate thing.)
When playing Captain Obvious (i.e. the human rubber duck) with other devs, every time they state something to be true my response is, "prove it!" It's amazing how quickly you find bugs when somebody else is making you question your assumptions.
Bubble sort is a great example because it can out perform quicksort if the input is small.
npm is rife with this activity, its like wordpress plugins
I don't disagree.

The only Meta app I use on a regular basis is Whatsapp.

But that doesn't negate the fact that maintaining a Facebook page is something a non tech person can do for free on their own reasonably well.
> If people worry that they can't keep a job or be invited to a social gathering or find a mate if they question the dogma

And who, exactly, do you think will have to worry about being stigmatized for their beliefs in the next four years? Who will be threatening them, making laws that violate their rights, pointing guns at them? Anyone who spends their time complaining about the targets of such suppression, as though they don't have rights of free speech or association, is doing a bit of dogma enforcement themselves.
Unfortunately LOB apps often don’t have a useful API, nor do they have a vendor/support that is capable of supporting you in a timely manner even if they do.

RPA bridged the gap a bit for us.
Is there a link for the "githax" tool shown in the blog post, which seems to be quite useful? There's [1] but it's just a banner image.

[1] https://www.githax.com/
That's exactly why I'd use auto here!
It doesn’t even have any kind of real power to unseat these dorks. They have enough capital and connections to hold on to power for life. It attempts to delegitimize them, question their worldview and expose them to other viewpoints and their reaction is to lash out against it. Very fragile identities.
Can you explain more about this, or point someone in the right direction with a few resources for reading more about it?
> gained racist connotations

This passive phrasing implies a kind of universal consensus or collective decision-making process that the word has officially changed connotation. If this were the case, it would not be such a problem.

What happens in practice is that a small minority of people decide that a certain word has bad connotations. These people decide that it no longer matters what the previous connotation was, nor the speaker's intention in uttering it, it is now off-limits and subject to correction when used. People pressure others to conform, in varying degrees of politeness -- anything from a well-intentioned and friendly FYI to a public and aggressive dressing down -- and therefore the stigma surrounding the word spreads.

It's hard to believe that this terminology treadmill genuinely helps anyone, as people are perfectly capable of divining intent when they really want to (nobody is accusing the NAACP of favoring discrimination and segregation).

Add to this that the favored terms of the treadmill creators don't necessarily even reflect what the groups in question actually want. Indigenous Americans generally prefer being called Indian, not Native American (CGP Grey made a whole video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh88fVP2FWQ).

So that momentary pause you feel when you almost say "Indian" and then correct it to "Native American", who is that actually serving? It's not the people in question. It's a different set of people, a set of people who have gained the cultural power to stigmatize words based on their own personal beliefs.
Some cities manage fine with very small roads. Sometimes there isn’t exactly a road at all, but rather a pedestrian area that can be used for deliveries and such when necessary.

American city centers are overprovisioned on roads by probably a factor of 10 or more. Ironically, fixing that would be excellent for local businesses, and they’re usually the ones opposing it because they think there’s no way to get customers besides having them drive directly to the business and park on their property.
With how long it's been on the front page, how controversial it is, and the fact that it was posted earlier and that post _was_ flagged... I would be willing to bet a moderator has somehow disabled the ability for this post specifically to be actually flagged and is simply ignoring those that click the flag button.

I'm sure that seems conspiratorial but the guy writing the post effectively "cuts the checks" for the moderation staff here.
Nesting standard library containers can get you neat data structures without much work
Strawberry is alive and well, with a lot of activity.
A single person sifting through 15,000,000 pounds of trash at a rate of one pound per minute would take 28 restless years

But finding one of 2^256 private keys would take millions of years. This math felt correctly conservative
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2847/how-long-wo...

There’s a chance that if Moore’s Law holds, a computer might catch up after decades of continued exponential growth. But my money’s still on the trash spelunker in that race
It'll be a couple more years at least until people come around to decrying this because it hurts poor people. For now, just let them be happy that it annoys an imaginary suburbanite in a gas-guzzling SUV. In the meantime, let's appreciate the opportunity to loudly take a side without actually solving any meaningful problems.
This is the practice in many government sites these days.

Except the vm is some old windows version without any tools on it. no shell access.

can't actually do anything useful on there at all.

VDI systems could work if implemented properly. but that's the last thing a security team actually wants to do.
https://skyvector.com/ for one.
What is the difference between an Agent and Function Calls?
Why are they peeling those beautiful golden potatoes? Skin is the best part.
Yeah, I strongly disagree with the way it's characterized here.
A cool thing about hard surfaced pedestrian areas, you can build them strong enough for vehicles without allowing the whole world to drive on them.
In our case, yes we treat them the same. Though it might be interesting to decouple them.

You could, for example, include all few-shots that meet the similarity threshold, but you’ll use more tokens for (I assume) marginal gain. Definitely worth a try though.
And of course every user interface designed with anccessibility in mind will automatically become an API endpoint, or at the very least an interface that is much easier for machines to use.

This goes for aria- labelled forms, but also for button operated doors, tactile surfaces, and information printed in plain and clear English.

Robots must love public buildings! Many doors are labelled with a bright green sign using the human word for door (“exit”), most signs and switches are labelled in human binary (braille) and the designers of the building go out of their way to replace lots of pesky steps with nice ramps instead.
The bottom line is that you're demanding that LLMs somehow magically get to a certain level of functionality, without using input that you are allowing humans to have before you evaluate their functionality.

How that input is used isn't relevant. Humans don't have separate training and inference training phases, but that does not mean that a human doesn't have to learn from other humans. Including just plain ingesting streams of stuff without interaction, although that's not the dominant mode for humans.

By the way, any LLM you have ever interacted with has undergone reinforcement post-training in which it did in fact converse. The results of that are baked into the weights, not in the context. Not that it matters for the unreasonableness of your "test". And I predict that within a couple of years the training-versus-inference distinction in LLMs will start to break down. Which still doesn't matter when you're evaluating their current performance.
I have no downside to seeking alternatives. The pager incident ensured that I will always look for non-Israeli tech.
Pretty sure he knows this
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So is X.

When a MAGA civil war broke out on there around Christmas last year, accounts that opposed Elon were either disabled or lost their verified status.

You also can’t share links without their feed algorithm limiting your reach.

All social networks are censored in some form.
Reading the Wikipedia article on the Donner party[0], it seems like what happened was less so an unfortunate accident and more so the norm for human survival in more perilous environments, which we generally aren't exposed to anymore.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party#