skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's because it's very affluent Indians who have been granted citizenship historically.

Homelessness goes down in places where housing is cheap and also in places where the government intervenes sensibly.
> How would it be possible to fix the problem at the expense of the lower working class?

Not sure if you intended to phrase your question as you did, but if you give cash to the unhoused to rent housing, that takes supply from the bottom of the rental market if you don’t build any more.

Builders tend to build for those that can afford to pay and don’t target the bottom of the market.

Most stock of low-cost housing is due to building neglect or depopulation rather than being purpose-built, in a free market anyway.
This is just hair splitting. What everyone means by "typing" today is typing members in structures and co. Every time you reach for python after a typed language, it feels like going through a barbed minefield blindfolded. The fact that its "world" almost entirely consists of little moving subclasses in subnamespaces doesn't help either. All you can think of python is how to write as few lines of it as possible to return to DX faster. It is my only use case for AI-based development because I cannot stand an extra minute in this abomination without cursing into the editor.
Getting a 500 from the HTTP API and also there's an `debugger` in the javascript.
> Not really. Python's strongly typed, but dynamically

Yea, nah!

You cannot have both.
Yeah it's common in politics. Free speech for me, but "cisgender" (a medical term, same as "transgender") is a slur. States' rights for slavery, but not for abortion.

"There must be an in-group who is protected by the law and not bound by it, and an out-group who is bound by the law but not protected by it."
Stuff like this will happen to all websites soon due to AI agents let loose on the web
> I don't think I've ever seen a team that's 80% white

I assure you this is very common in the industry, at least in the US. I can even go further: that 80% white team will usually also not have any women. 80% white men on a team describes most of the teams I've worked on over the decades.
This seems like needless pedantry.
Ever heard of a program named "git"? It is a British slang
Jeez, the most I ever got was called aside by the VP of Engineering on my last day to give him my opinion of their Diversity program ("since you're leaving, I figured you could be brutally honest with me"). Loved him for that, BTW :-)

But seriously, congratulations!

The negative effect of "fake diversity" is that it leaves everyone else wondering if the minority employees actually know what they're doing or if they were hired to make the company look good.
AI as QA Agent
Ah, well good to know. I need to read more. Thanks for taking a look.

When you refer to averaging embeddings together, do you mean averaging a bunch of sentences/words for "male" to get a general concept vector or do you mean averaging two different words, like "royal" and "adult male", to get to the combined concept, say "king"?
Almost certainly a lot of the people saying they are ”crossing” their eyes are actually ”uncrossing” their eyes; focusing the eyes straighter than what would normally happen on the surface where the image is laid out.

This is also how the legendary ”Magic Eye” books were supposed to be viewed. Not by crossing the eyes.
My understanding is that Northern Europe has a much more robust system of using Long Acting Injectable Antipsychotics (under court order if nessecary) and various group home options or Assertive Community Treatment teams that have nurses visit patients daily. They are also quicker to use lithium and clozapine when indicated. They also do much longer hospital stays when needed than our revolving door policies here. Also they don't have meth and fentanyl epidemics yet.

We know that the longer psychosis goes untreated/the more times someone goes off the meds, the harder it is to treat, and that what happens in the first few years of someone developing a psychotic disorder makes a huge difference in long term outcomes.

An American might develop psychosis in their mid 20s, end up committed for a few weeks and placed on antipsychotic pills until they're no longer floridly psychotic, and then go home, not follow up with doctors/refill meds, and end up on a cycle of this with more and more brittle symptoms until they're homeless and have no real chance of recovery.

The same person in Northern Europe would likely be hospitalized for longer initially, started on an injectable that only needs to be given once a month, and they leave the hospital with fewer residual symptoms. They're then followed by an ACT team with a nurse visiting to check on them and make sure they're eating and keeping housing, and ensuring that shot goes in their arm every month. They don't necessarily fully recover, but a lot of them end up being able to do some kind of schooling/employment/volunteering and they are either stable enough to keep housing without being evicted for disruption, or are shuffled into staffed group homes.
The secret about speed bumps is that with most vehicles you can drive over them at speed without slowing down.
I agree with you but also agree with the above, if youre stuck permanently in some tangled codebase with a boring language/style, the really good programmers tend to find something more fun to work on - unless they can bring their new skills/experience to bear. personally I'll only go back to doing boring stuff if i can't find a job doing the fun stuff
Yes. What too few people realized was that the rollout of DEI was driven by what was trending at the time, designed to win political points with the groups that were politically ascendant. These programs were never a victory for the principles or the people, they were marketing.

So it should come as no shock whatsoever that now that another political group is politically ascendant the marketing that is valuable has changed, so there go the marketing programs that were designed for the old power structure.

Change that occurs through fear of your power can only last as long as your power. Lasting change is only possible by actually changing hearts and minds. Progressives have forgotten in the last 10-15 years that the progress which we've won took generations not because our predecessors were weak and slow but because it inherently takes generations to effect lasting change. It's a slow, painful process, and if you think you accomplished it in a decade you're almost certainly wrong.
I for one have no idea how much is -40f, is it colder or hotter than -40c?

I do remember -32 or something is the same?
I'm also pretty sure that any tribe that built a village and farmed had a very strong notion of my house and my garden.

Even animals mark their territory and aggressively defend it.
Out with the DEI people appointed to appease the old administration in with Dana White to appease the new one I guess.
I can get the overlap to lock in, but the simmering effect is weak and difficult to pick out. Probably still faster than exhaustive search, but I don't feel like I'm at superpower level. Maybe my brain favors one eye more than the other? I know I have different glasses prescriptions for each eye.
> Worth pointing out that Finland is one of the most ethnically homogeneous societies in Europe - only ~10% of the population is of foreign origin and background

Meh. They've got two different official languages. It's not as ethnically uniform as a lot of other European countries.
Quite an interesting perspective, sadly it’ll likely never get implemented in any capitalistic economy
Look at sites that track emerging technologies and at annual state of AI reports from Stanford, Amy Kurzweil, etc. Venture capital firms have a lot of info on emerging tech and new startups that would be worth paying for.
I hope not; "main" is shorter and more to the point, regardless of any DEI stuff.
If only 25% of people hired for roles requiring professional degrees were white, that's still a remarkable number, given 2/3rds of people receiving professional degrees in 2021 where white, without even considering the total population of professional degree holders

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=72
I don't think there's any sarcasm there; Perhaps a wistful hope that behind one of those walls somebody's actually got a garden instead of just a seedbed of false promises.
> several porn bot followers per day

Ah, ok, yeah, you're right, that did (and still does) happen to me. I had forgotten about that, I just ignore followers now.
I'm not saying give everyone the nicest center flat. Let's say an acceptable commute distance away, up to 30min by public transport.
Called mau mau in germany
RaveForce: A Python package that allows you to define a musical task in Python
Yeah. Jank sounds like Junk. OP should consider changing it into some short form like J.
Learned it from Magic Eye books too! But using it for spot-the-difference is way more practical - saves so much time compared to staring at two pictures. Kind of feels like having X-ray vision for finding differences
I'm a huge fan of card games that can be played with a regular deck of cards, and I play Cuttle with my kids somewhat regularly. It's a fast-paced game, but you do have to get over the initial learning curve of the effects. I find just printing out a piece of paper with a quick reference on it helps.

As others have alluded to in the thread, teaching people the rules is a barrier. As I looked around for a professionally printed game, I found a game that was very much like Magic the Gathering, but also just a single box of cards called Mindbug.

https://mindbug.me/

Turns out it was designed by some folks that brought Richard Garfield in near the end of its design and he ended up having some say in the final product. I've played it a couple of times and each game is only played with a random subset of the cards, so the combinatorics create a lot of replay value.
Aren’t most business apps almost exclusively glorified CRUD? Like the sort of CRUD stuff Rails is amazing at. Those are basically all boilerplate, it’s more of a question of which flavor of boilerplate you need for a given use case.
Yes, my comment has the median number, and the link has various percentiles. Averages don't work well in such scenarios.
Yes, she is making fun of people who say that increasing the number of women firefighters will result in more people dying. I think firefighting is an extreme example, where the actual job competence should be the most important qualification, and DEI should absolutely have no place.
I’ve also been working with Rails for many years now but I disagree I think developer and happiness are subjective and I’ve seen great applications being built by many people in various languages. The key is picking the tool you are most proficient with and one that also aligns with your technical requirements. I certainly wouldn’t build a Discord with Rails..
If the muslim, altruist, and monagamist from your example knowingly continue a behavior that is antithetical to the definitions of their stated identities then they are not a muslim, altruist, and monagamist.
They may like to be or strive to be, and they can change, but they aren't right now. They should be excluded from the definitions.

You're right in identifying pet food and unknown ingredients as grey areas. "Practical and practicable" provides a tremendous amount of grey area.
However, knowingly consuming animal products when there's an alternative is not a grey area. It is antithetical to veganism.

99% vegan is 99% better than the alternative, and that's undeniably great.
I'm pursuing this so that people reading our conversation are not confused about what veganism is.
Blessed.rs: an unofficial guide to the Rust crates ecosystem
Thanks for this bit of sanity. Arguing that Native Americans didn't have a concept of land ownership, while still having the concept "I'm going to murder you and your compatriots so that I can occupy the land where you live.", seems a bit like splitting hairs.
Not all homeless people are dangerous drug addicts.
xAI's Grok iOS app is querying "featureassets.org" which is an OpenAI domain
I was examining the DNS queries of the new Grok AI app on iOS. I observed that it sends requests to "featureassets.org", which OpenAI lists as one of their own domains. This caught my attention, given the rivalry between these two entities.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9247338-network-recommendations-for-chatgpt-errors-on-web-and-apps

"OpenAI uses the below domains. Please make sure that they are not blocked in your company network by your IT team -> and that any web/URL filtering is not responding with unexpected content.

- featureassets.org "
https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Blackwall
Not found?
Employers save money by convincing the employee that part of their wages are owed by the customer. And as a bonus, when things don't work out, the employee's resentment is directed at the customer instead of the employer. It's brilliant, really.
Reversible computing escapes the lab
I have little sympathy for the company in this article. If you put your content on the web, and don't require authentication to access it, it's going to be crawled and scraped. Most of the time you're happy about this — you want search providers to index your content.

It's one thing if a company ignores robots.txt and causes serious interference with the service, like Perplexity was, but the details here don't really add up: this company didn't have a robots.txt in place, and although the article mentions tens/hundreds of thousands of requests, they don't say anything about them being made unreasonably quickly.

The default-public accessibility of information on the internet is a net-good for the technology ecosystem. Want to host things online? Learn how.

EDIT: They're a very media-heavy website. Here's one of the product pages from their catalog: https://triplegangers.com/browse/scans/full-body/sara-liang-.... Each of the body-pose images is displayed at about 35x70px but is served as a 500x1000px image. It now seems like they have some cloudflare caching in place at least.

I stand by my belief that unless we get some evidence that they were being scraped particularly aggressively, this is on them, and this is being blown out of proportion for publicity.
How does she implement DEI, in terms of hiring practices?
It's obsolete until Elon goes into a fit an decides for whatever reason he doesn't like you.
That would be true if the sales volumes remained static, but somehow you seem to have missed the fact that there are somewhat more Windows licensees today than there were in 1995. Also, you're discounting the enormous differences between Windows 95 and its predecessor, versus the relatively small differences between Windows 11 and its direct predecessor.

A difference so small that Microsoft initially intended to market Windows 11 as a new version of Windows 10. Other than those two massive, almost insurmountably significant errors, your reasoning was sound.
I think these words will make more sense in the context of Pathom.

https://pathom3.wsscode.com/
I have strabismus and have always been good at these games. I wonder if it helps me for similar reasons? The examples on his page were pretty easy for me, though the universe one took maybe 45 seconds.
Immediately, i thought that cybersecurity is now ruined for the distant future. Imagine if you will, a starship captain ready with a plot to overcome the evil plaguing their crew...and all they need to do is over-ride the starship computer's safety controls with the captain';s own voice override authorization...but, alas, early in 2025 a tech company developed the means by which said evil entity could re-override the captain's voice auth....and block the captain's plan...thereby dooming the entire crew of the starship.

This is why we can not have nice things; not now nor in the far off future! All of our uniqueness will be more easily duplicated. Thankfully, i won';t upload any of my voice recordings, and i will continue to walk around in my faraday cage suit. /s
The only problem with divergence is that you can't go too much farther out than the distance between your eyes, whereas convergence works for larger images as well.
In some ways, it allows me to speed up, since I can focus my full work week on jank. In other ways, it allows me to slow down (to not burn out), since I can stop working nights and through the weekends on jank.

Previously, Mon->Wed nights and all of Thur->Sun would be for jank dev, since I felt like I didn't have enough time. Now I can focus a more normal Mon->Fri and more easily have space on the weekends to unwind and rejuvenate.

What could you do with 15-20 hours per week? A lot, I reckon'.
Interesting, I wonder how.
That's an interesting and uncommon claim.
This is a fantastic idea. AST works well in an array based allocation block since it has no need for freeing individual nodes. It’s an add-only allocation.
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Yep! If I knew someone IRL who was into this kind of stuff, I'd really love to experiment with this sort of thing and mirrors. Arrange so that you can stereogram your conversation partner's face with a mirror image of your own face (and that he can do the same with your face and a mirror image of his face). If anyone's in NYC and interested in these sorts of things, my email is in my HN profile "about".
Isn't Odigos just OTel with simpler setup?
Cygwin evidently contains its own versions of certain Win32 functions, like in this source file:

https://github.com/cygwin/cygwin/blob/main/winsup/cygwin/ker...

If we jump to the very bottom, we see that GetCommandLineA is one of the functions implemented in this file. It uses something called RtlUnicodeStringToAnsiString.

Microsoft declares that one in <wdm.h> and places it in NTOSKRNL.EXE.

That very function is mentioned in the submitted article as having the problem!

If Cygwin handles arguments through this function in preparation for main(), and it's the Microsoft one, it has the issue.
Why Learn Data Visualization?
J is my name though!
Meta policy update: Calling women 'household objects' now permitted on Facebook
robots.txt as of right now is a complete honor system, so I think it's reasonable to make a conclusion that you shouldn't rely on it protecting you because odds are overwhelming that scraping behavior will become worse in the near to mid term future
As a black software engineer, in my entire career working for US companies, I have yet to work with another black software engineer.
"So, it looks like we'll get a more liberally licensed Quickwit, but reading between the lines suggests development of it is might otherwise be winding down?"

They will stop fulltime day-to-day effort in it themselves, probably because they have been relocated to writing a similar service but closed and integrated in DD, but it seems they want to opensource the current product with a OSI compliant license in the hopes that the community picks up the tab.

I think that's a nice trade. Could have been much worse.

By the way, also note that DD is not a total stranger in the OSS space. They actually opensourced their observability pipeline tooling for general use as Vector, which is a rock solid product. - https://vector.dev/
> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing...If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.
Thing is, the "extremists" are the ones with strong beliefs, so they tend to be the ones actively promoting such programs and running them, not the middle of the ground people.

One is reminded of the famous debacle when GitHub canceled ElectronConf after using a blind review process to select talks, and ended up with al male speakers.
If the cost of Starlink is half of the local ISP, you now have 50% of that revenue stream going back into the local economy instead of a single company. And the benefit far outweights the cost - 100Mbps+ for thousands of people can be transformative (hoping they all not just start using tiktok), vs a dozen ISP employees. Might not be as bad of a deal as it seems.
Sounds like you might enjoy the 1999 movie After Life. A+
>Unorthodox suggestion - look at the documentaries and lit on mob tactics.

You got any documentaries and books/articles to recommend?
Not really, they say Leipzig is the new Berlin but it's basically just a few years behind (which is positive in the context of rising rents and dying subculture) and has about three clubs.
It could not matter less. It's a piece of technical jargon. You learn what it means and move on.

Depending on VCS and branching style, "master, "main", "mainline", or "trunk" might make more sense.

"Master" always made sense to me.
Brain gene expression syncs between bonded prairie voles
Pretty sure Datadog is literally one of the top contributors to OTel.
How did you get there? Did you have to make a conscious choice, for minority candidates, to prefer them to majority candidates?
Serious question: why does everything need to be banned? Why not just select for better friends or forums, and avoid people (not platforms) that say things you think are bad?
I've wanted a linux phone for quite some time. Which phone do you have? How good is the waydroid experience? Can you use apps that access bluetooth devices? Do you have any regrets?
Interesting story. I am not entirely convinced that all credit should go to the programming language here, though.

My theory is that communicating abstractions is hard. If you work on your own, or in a (very) small team, you can come up with powerful abstractions that allow you to build amazing systems, quickly. However, sharing the underlying ideas and philosophy with new team members can be daunting. As systems grow, and mistakes are made, it becomes more and more likely that you run into serious problems.

This may also be why Java and similar object oriented programming languages are so successful for systems that have to be maintained for ages, by large teams of developers. There are but few abstractions and patterns, and it does not allow you to shoot yourself in the foot, nor to blow your whole leg off. Conversely, this may also be why complex frameworks, such as Spring, are not always so nice, because they introduce (too?) powerful abstractions, for example through annotations. It may also clarify why more powerful languages such as Scala, Common Lisp, Smalltalk, Haskell, etc, consistently fail to pick up steam.

Another theory is that not every developer is comfortable with abstract concepts, and that it simply takes a team of smart people to handle those.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn makes it clear scraping publicly available data is generally not a CFAA violation. Certainly it would have to be a civil matter, but I doubt it would work (ianal)
Thank you. I'll look into all of this.
Another question is why do ints largely hash to themselves? Most hashing guides recommend hashes be far more distributed IIUC.
This is just incredible!
As I become more familiar with Strogatz's work on synchrony, I see analogs everywhere.
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Yes. If you look at the Alto, the Unix OS or the original mac (which itself was a kind of inferior ripoff of the Alto), Microsoft's domination was very much a case of bad products driving out the good and setting back personal computing by decades. Not until Linux, the Internet and the Iphone did we start to get a taste of where most people in the 70s and 80s thought personal computing was headed.
Notice how I never said they were.
As a no grad to EE grad: traces mean a bundle of metrics that varies in structure hence you can't store and process them as effective as a list of counters unless you have a distinct bin for each possible trace, combinatorial explosion y'know.