skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes people don’t care, but often they are just unaware because there is no mechanism for feedback to make its way to them after they have designed the thing. Whoever designed that bike ramp probably designed a thousand other road features, lives many miles away, and never communicates with the people that handle injury reports; he knows none of the visceral details that you see every day in your specific corner of the universe.
Off the top of my head the reporting about Block - CashApp was disgraceful and Hindenburg got sued for it. Not sure how that's going to play out with disbanding the "company."
I love Claude Sonnet 3.5 so much. DeepSeekv3 is also very good.
Chalkboards to chatbots: Transforming learning in Nigeria, one prompt at a time
I think this group will appreciate this guy's analysis.

"James D'Angelo (Winner 2014 MIT Climate CoLab, ex-NASA scientist) uncovers a crucial flaw in American democracy. Incredibly, the solution – which lays at the heart of all current social concerns (inequality, the recession, political division, government disapproval, Citizens United, civil rights and corruption) – costs under 5 dollars.

James presents a breathtaking new look at congressional transparency and the troubles it has wrought by opening the doors to special interests and the wealthy.

So, welcome to the world of Martin Gilens' 2014 paper and flatline graph. Also welcome to the world created by electronic voting machines and the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 (passed on October 26, 1970). Unheard of in any current political discussion, this act of Congress has produced endless avenues for lucrative lobbying of special interest groups."

The Cardboard Box Reform - Nixon's Ghost Bill & A Crucial Flaw in Democracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gEz__sMVaY
100% of the people around me at work care.

I wish they didn't, because they're bad at their job and "them caring" puts them as a peer for experts and people who both care AND are competent/experienced via design by committee and inclusion. Their incompetency is explained away as "unique point of view."

So perhaps the entire piece is an exercise in overgeneralization, where you assume that everyone has a baseline amount of competency. That curb could have been designed by a very caring intern, who is awful at what they do. They were managed by someone who had 100 other deadlines that are more important. They care about that curb, but they care about 100 other things with more priority.

We're in the era of Good Enough.

I find it's an impossible thought experiment to judge doing 100 things Good Enough is better/worse than doing 1 thing perfectly and ignoring 99 other things. Add a token / currency to the mix, costs + returns on investment. And now you have something substantial to judge.

There is a massive difference between actively not caring and passively omitting attention.

Peppered into the diatribe is direct, aggressive, not caring. But that doesn't validate the general stance.

Make a consultancy called Caring Company that makes companies/products/projects more efficient at same or less cost.

My institution has hired multiple consultancies to fix structures and form new ones... the entropy of pay grade and how to prioritize thousands of tasks in parallel doesn't "get solved" because someone finds that some employee is just bad at what they do. And what do you do when you find you can only hire those employees because you don't pay enough for better, because your products' incomes don't match the skill level required?
In a softly held defense of those words, they basically are an escalation level.

If someone asks you for something, it could be something with undefined scope or priority. An "ask" signals "this is official". Same thing with learnings: lesson is personal, learnings means ways things are changing.

Are there dumb business terms, absolutely, but these aren't bad IMO.
Also he says that they switched to white LEDs because they don't care when they likely switched to save on their electric bill.
Shameless plug but since you asked ... CodeApprove (https://codeapprove.com) is probably the closest thing you can get to Critique on GitHub. It doesn't help with the Piper/CitC/Code Search parts though, and I agree those were excellent.
They enabled a way to get a free plan of some sort, I still have it.

You can’t get new ones, but mine keeps existing. For now.
initrd with native OverlayFS kernel support is very versatile. ;)

Yet the btrfs, CephFS, or ZFS all have snapshot syncing tricks that make state mirrors far more practical and safe to pull off. =3
wow! I've always thought of them as some ruthless finance people with huge egos. This piece made me think differently. Very moving read!
I'm consistently baffled by the rarity of a product owner improving their bottom line by simply improving their users' experience.
Are you aware that almost all of the scam calls, phishing emails, and other attempts to separate you from the currency in your bank account arise from outside of the US?

Economic globalization means there are no borders and it's up to corporations to protect the sovereignty of their users. You can imagine how well they are up to that task.
Exactly. Even if you forced doctor compensation down to the level of other countries, that's, what, a 6% overall reduction, at best? Wow, so now when you get a surprise bill for $5000, it'll instead be $4700 instead! Hooray! We did it, Reddit/HN!

Does anyone think American healthcare was thereby fixed? I don't!

Now, FWIW, I'm happy to accept that US doctors are overpaid, and that there are feasible ways to make progress on that front. It's an important conversation to have. But it has virtually nothing to do with what makes US healthcare so brutal and kafkaesque.
Except for leverage... but the general point remains that the upside is capped and the downside in theory is not.
> If your software is in such heavy development that you need changes all the time, it should never be in a stable distro to begin with, it's not stable code.

Stable code by this definition experiences some stagnation. But the cost of stagnation is worth it for the stability. That's LTS.

Slowly, we'll build enough checks that we can achieve frequent change and still be stable. This is partially here, and "unevenly distributed".

> Overall(last I checked), the testing is roughly equal between the stable distro's(Debian/Ubuntu/etc) and NixOS. The difference is stable distro's back-port bug-fixes. NixOS rarely does, since their release cycle is only 6 months long.

NixOS has system-wide tests that run on PRs, and go green if they pass. E.g. upgrade OpenSSH will trigger a suite of VMs to start, each running OpenSSH in different configurations, and checking they work as expected. These run automatically, are visible to contributors/reviewers, and take O(minutes) to complete. They run on automated backport PRs too.

> contribute upstream, regardless of if I'm running NixOS, Debian Stable or Windows. It makes no difference to me which OS I'm running when a bug shows up. If I find a bug in X package, I go fix X package. Sure I also fix it locally in my running instance(s), but that's my problem, regardless of which OS I'm running.

Bravo. But I don't think it's controversial to suggest that, on average, the closer a person is to upstream version, the more likely they will be to have the motivation and success in making a contribution that meets theirs and and upstream's needs.
Nobody is demanding anything. They simply stated what they value as a consumer, and if GOG wants more of their business, what they need to do to earn it. This is valuable feedback to any company.
OpenAI is bankrolling Axios' expansion into four new markets
This is how I feel about Nix.

I've given it a try and it's quite incredible how easy certain things are.

The problem is the Nix language and the developer experience are really rough.

There's a chance that Nix could figure this out or a competitor with Nix-like ideas could become mainstream. That's my hope anyway.

It would be a shame if the ideas behind Nix got dismissed because of the current issues with Nix.
Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (2/2025): A Comet about to hit
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Very, very, very buggy and really looks extremely low effort as with many OpenAI feature rollouts. Nothing wrong with an MVP feature, but make it at least do what it’s supposed to do and maybe give it 10% more extensibility than the bare bones.
It’s a win if you can use the wafer as opposed to throwing it away.
Now if only GOG could fix their Mac client so that you can actually quit it.

Maybe someone at GOG will actually read this and let a project manager to let a programmer know to fix this. Because they keep doing everything else other than fixing a really really annoying bug. We shouldn't have to force-quit apps!

https://www.gog.com/forum/general_beta_gog_galaxy_2.0/macos_...
Definitely. Think about it this way: it’s a lot easier to get a $12k/year promotion over the span of a couple years than to build a side hustle that earns $1k/month.

Money aside, there is still something to be said for doing a side project rather than a side hustle. At least for myself, I learn generalized “get it done” skills (which usually atrophy in a large company) that made me a stronger engineer in my opinion.
You would be surprised! I have encountered the attitude that code reviews are a waste of time. It's not common, and I have never seen this attitude "win" across a team/company but it definitely exists. Some engineers are just overconfident, they believe they could fix everything if everyone would just let them code.
It almost can't be a good thing. LLMs are only useful when given all the relevant context. When you write an email, the context is mostly in your head.
For myself at least that was a wild behind the curtain reveal; for a group that's had such a profound impact exposing some of the better kept secrets of some of the worst people and companies, Nate presents himself and his associates as surprisingly ordinary day to day types armed with grit and determination.
I'll cop to using "use case" in real life...
Yes !

tl;dr air pump saves turning the heap, insulation keeps heat in, currently Raspi sensing methane, moisture and temp controlling water & air inputs has improved my home hot heap yields 80% and completely automated it - 100% labor free.

The 4 key factors for a hot heap are moisture, temperature and oxygen and green ( high nitrogen ) to brown ( high carbon ) ratio ( approx 2 green to 1 brown by weight ).

I have a 1 cubic metre heap ( the minimum to generate the necessary heat ) and I have an specialised product, a double wall insulated ‘hot’ bin which keeps it working even in winter.

A hot heap steams so water input is necessary.

Hot heaps need oxygen, which is the hard part - manually turning the heap.

The temperature rises to 70 degrees C after a week, which kills all but the extremophile hot heap bacteria which are aerobic rather than the cold heap anaerobic bacteria.

I added an air pump input to the bottom and I have a water hose and sprinkler the top.

I run the air every day for 10 minutes. And the water for when it feels dry.

Now it never smells and composts in 7 weeks instead of 12.

I have now bought a methane, moisture and temperature sensors, electric valve for water and so a RaspberryPi is graphing the sensor inputs and recording the heap water and oxygen timings.

Very importantly, I have a pile to collect greens ( veg and grass ) and a pile for browns ( leaves and cardboard ) so I can fill the hot bin in one go.

Once I get some time I’ll write it up.
I disagree. Have you used the product? I have used it for writing, it's good and getting progressively better. Most early AI writing products would create content for you. Lex works like a human editor making suggestions.

The days of AI writing term papers or writing blog articles to boost your SEO are happily coming to an end.
Breaking down the size of the change is truly important, otherwise it's easy to miss things and to also disregard them as little details when wanting to avoid blocking the whole change on a "small" thing (which may only seem small because the PR is now huge)
I'm trying to figure out how this would be useful with the existing feature set.

It seems like it would be good for summarizing daily updates against a search query. but all it would do is display them. I would probably want to connect it with some tools at minimum for it to be useful.
>I wondered why there's an abundance of good, free hosting these days.

Only in the context of developers. For non-tech people who only wants another Wordpress or blogger, there aren't that many choices.
> Jesus, this is like a line out of a William Gibson novel. I hope you wrote that aware of the irony inherent in it.

There's a spectrum between Vaudeville and sharing family recipes. YouTube's MrBeast is on one end of that spectrum.

This is the kind of stuff that happens on TikTok: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdXhx-yECOc

This is what was meant.
Exactly this, and since Covid the 2-day has been about as fast as the “free with $35” option, and waiting encourages thrift anyway.

I only reactivate it when they give me a week free or for $1 and the additional cash back is worth it.
I wonder if you could… just not cut the wafer at all??
>Our government has let go of its principles, because no one in charge could be bothered to give a fuck.

Oh they care... about money. We're being sold out but keep re-electing the same perpetrators simply because "it's better than the other person".

Meanwhile a third of our country is a mix of "not caring" or legitmately unable to keep dates in mind and find a poll booth to vote. Who knows how things would change if voting was compulsory, as was receiving a ballot in the mail.
Well we will get to find out. Interesting red5 gets the ban after 30 years - days before RFK is on the menu.
You and GP make great points, and these are situations that are becoming more common. Luckily, there is some light at the end of the tunnel (at least for ADHD). There's been a lot of study in recent years and medical science is starting to identify physiological markers commonly correlated with ADHD [1][2][3]. The sad thing is that the science hasn't advanced far enough to include these in the diagnostic criteria for ADHD. It's my hope we'll see an updated DSM and medical training within the next decade, but it'll be a long and painful wait.

1. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/endocrinology/articles/...

2. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7461955

3. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/arti...
We’ll surely see a note is their next earnings release about the uptick in Gemini usage
I think it's easier with some providers than others. I bought an Amazon ebook that I was really struggling to de-DRM (so I promptly returned it and have only bought books with Adobe DRM since).
Ask support.

What’s the worst they can do? Say no?
Rather I wonder why do they even need to cut the extra space, instead of putting something there. I suppose that the structure of the device is highly rectangular from the logical PoV, so there's nothing useful to put there. I suspect smaller unrelated chips can be produced on these areas along the way.
I miss Phabricator from my time at Meta so much, I made this to achieve a Phabricator-like stacked-commit experience via the git cli: https://pypi.org/project/stacksmith/
Seems like Elon decided to use his platform for political power, and is learning politics as he goes at the Trump school. He's achieved star pupil/teacher's pet status helped by his ability to buy his way in. Despite all the propaganda he spouts on X are his long term goals still the same, i.e. combat climate change? Plus he is finding new things to optimize, like government efficiency.
I do wonder if these kind of price cuts (see also Microsoft) will finally stop the demands from investors that everything be AI.
Working towards getting the Canada European-Union Comprehensive Trade Agreement (CETA) ratified perhaps?
>something that would cause civilians on oct 7 join en masse a fest of rape

there is 0 evidence for "mass rape" on oct7, this has been debunked.
Every one of your accusations is a confession: "Israel: UN experts appalled by reported human rights violations against Palestinian women and girls."

“We are particularly distressed by reports that Palestinian women and girls in detention have also been subjected to multiple forms of sexual assault, such as being stripped naked and searched by male Israeli army officers. At least two female Palestinian detainees were reportedly raped while others were reportedly threatened with rape and sexual violence,” the experts said. They also noted that photos of female detainees in degrading circumstances were also reportedly taken by the Israeli army and uploaded online."

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/02/israelopt-un...
So they're moving to a video site named "Red" plus a four-letter word?

TikTok, you've changed! But maybe not that much.
Will China welcome TikTok refugees?
I think this article says a lot about the tendency for historical evidence to become instruments of imagined narrative rather than elucidating anything based in reality.

However, there is a lot mentioned in the article that isn't "ancient" history, and overall the headline kind of fails to deliver, not surprising.
Good question. I think there was a quote by some Saudi official that the government doesn't care a lot about the issue and would prefer the normalization agreement to go through, but the population does - and sidelining the Palestinian issue would risk domestic stability.

I could imagine this is the sentiment in many of the countries there.
Same reason I never touched prismatic after its first load.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prismatic_(app)

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Half the children seem to have one in France. My neighbourhood is full of them. Draisiennes/laufräder/balancebikes are a real transportation means as children go every single day to the crèche on them. Some Kids that do this know how to ride and can learn to ride a real bike before 3. You then have to find one small enough
The yield problem is not surprising they found a solution. Maybe they could elaborate more on the power distribution and dissipation problem?
I had the opposite experience recently. I was sent a summary of a sales video call, and the summary stated that we had promised to deliver something that was not nearly ready in 2 weeks! I was panicking but then started to doubt that the person in question would make such an irresponsible promise (but not.. completely sure it you know what I mean) so fortunately the summary included links to timestamps in the video call and I watched it. From the video it was clear he was talking completely hypothetically and not promising anything at all! The AI completely failed to pick up the nuance and almost made me change team priorities for the next sprint. Glad I verified it.
> Nobody wants to hear “let’s not do that”

Do you mean nobody wants to hear it directed at them? That's true in general, even in situations where it really needs to be said. So that's not a very compelling reason to not say it.

If you mean nobody wants to hear those words ever, from anyone to anyone, then that's not true.
I actually recommend AWS because of this. Sure, it’s AWS with all the warts, but at least they bend over backwards to maintain compatibility (at least compared to GCP), and have sustainable billing practices.

Free is free until it’s not. When Cloudflare becomes the new Akamai and needs profits, guess who will get squeezed. If you’ve built your app around their vendor specific stuff like Cloudflare functions, that can be bad news.
It's human nature. You don't put your hand into a fire because early in your childhood, you learned the consequences of those actions.

>what exactly are you advocating for here

Nothing really. Bad people do bad things to keep good people down. figure out how to prevent that.
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Presumably, those operating EBR-1 and Fermi-1 (and SRE in California, which also melted down) didn't think those would melt either. The issue is showing by analysis such an occurrence is not possible. It's not incumbent on anyone to show it is possible, it's incumbent on the prospective licensee to show it isn't.
You mean the people we elect to create policies?
Thank you so much for writing the comment I didn't have the patience to write.
To cool something, you need a material which is a decent conductor of heat. The reaction materials are mostly uranium, plutonium and thorium, which are metals. They conduct heat pretty well all on their own.
Given the design, looks like the rider will definitely be getting off the bike one way or the other.
Was it really all solely organized by this guy? Impressive. I'm surprised they don't have enough sponsors for him to pay himself. It could fairly easy be made into a hiring funnel of sorts, no?
1. CEOs meeting the President is not evidence of govt. control.

2. Europe is an ally and under US govt defense umbrella .
If 1.2 PB is a problem, then why don't they just specify a bandwidth limit of say 1 PB? They specifically say "unlimited bandwidth", so yes, what they are doing _is_ scummy because there is a very obvious incongruity between what they claim and what they actually offer.
Is it advertised a lot? I know the basic idea of Ropes and that it's used for scripting languages a lot but I haven't seen it in ads. Maybe I haven't looked at enough new editors though.