skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not talking about the tool per se. I am talking about the skill of persistence and creativity in the face of a problem.

Learning a tool is useful, even invaluable, but if you don't have the persistence to use it, it's useless.

And many tools are just partially useful under some conditions. So creativity in using them is also useful.

So it's not about the tools, its about not giving up and trying different things, which makes all tools more effective, and problem-solving more likely.
> Coaster bikes also teach kids to dab instinctively, which is a great skill.

what does dab mean to you? my meanings don't fit in this sentence.
hello,

as always: imho.

ad "duplicated (html) code" in static webpages:

back in the 1990ties when a lot of people wrote html by hand, there was a thing called "server side includes" ...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes

or just use some "ubiquitous" script-language like php for this simple task of orchestrating/including snippets/components of code etc. :)

just my 0.02€
Something like a new roof is an expense known literally years in advance. You know when something will be due for repair or replacement due to reaching the end of design and/or useful life. The proper way to handle that kind of expense is to set aside some money every year in the budget toward an earmarked fund until you have enough when time comes to buy a new roof.

So no, I (and clearly most of the voters) heartily rejected the new tax proposal. Fiscal discipline before any more or new taxes.

Also: There is no reasonable, commonly understandable way a new roof costs several million dollars. Forget where the money could come from, the demand itself is questionable. As a taxpayer I want to see the school's entire fiscal records, including data that might not be public, if they want that kind of money for what should be a regular maintenance job.
Thanks vanlifers
Love the analogy and your explanation
> There's a lot of overlap there and my personal feeling is that they likely share similar causes

Autism and adhd definitely appear to share traits, and I suspect there's a shared cluster of genes affecting certain aspects of neural linking between regions of the brain. Even without shared genes it makes sense that a "networked system" of core brain functions would share similar behaviors if the parameters were tweaked in similar ways.
Classic CEO. "How can you, the powerless IC, fix an organisational problem? No, I mean without me having to do anything meaningful or risky"
Investigation: GamersNexus Files New Lawsuit Against PayPal and Honey [video]
You’re right, and I learned something. Sucrose breaks down into a 50/50 mix of glucose and fructose in the gut. It’s not 50% fructose until you eat it though…
extract_text returns all the lines of text it finds within an element. Looks like for your case it selected a majority of the page from the description, so it's returning most of the text on the page.

We currently don't return failure cases (just closest match) -- but good suggestion! We'll fine tune on some negative cases and see if we can catch them
depends on where you live. if you're living closer to sea level, then your body won't get the high-altitude stimulus, so when your body replaces the high-altitude amount of red blood cells (RBC), you'll get an appropriate number of RBCs for your current environment.

A web search says RBCs get replaced approximately every 120 days, so you'd have about 4 months of higher aerobic fitness unless you did something to keep up the need for more RBCs.

Sleeping in a high-altitude tent while at sea level or some equivalent hypoxic stimulus will fool your body into thinking it's at high altitude and pump out more RBCs.

Other supposed methods to increase EPO naturally - https://www.menshealth.com/uk/fitness/a754917/sweat-like-a-v...
He only thinks it's that way because in Japan, he's the big man with the big bucks the whole society caters to. An average Japanese person probably makes a terrible salary, has few if any economic prospects, sees a stagnant economy, and also is very unlikely to even start a family. I'd much rather have a family than have store clerks obsses about serving me.

If you have tons of money in Seattle area and live in an exurb, and only go to Seattle for the orchestra and a baseball game in a box, you probably think everyone in America cares too
It is when it’s a giant performative shame piece, like this attorney seems to be doing.

If they just quit, instead of making a giant public article calling their prior client a Neo Nazi, I doubt the PG quote would apply.

Especially since, of all people, an attorney doing this is just ridiculous.

“Gambling? In my establishment? That’s impossible!”
Comment I was replying to was deleted so I will repost as a top level comment without additional context:

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I agree this is probably the biggest tradeoff, but attention all parents, there's a cunning and affordable solution to the challenge of spoiling versus opportunity. It's guaranteed to work, anecdotally, at least sometimes:

Live in a big house and send your kids to a nice school, but roster them on truly hood (n.b. I mean real deal heart of the ghetto) travel sports teams. Only two requirements are as follows:

(1) that the team must be decently coached and

(2) practice field and home field must be in a genuinely scary neighborhood. Please don't assume I mean a run-of-the-mill bad neighborhood.

Ideally Pop Warner when younger and AAU BB by high school, but really anything other than lacrosse or fencing works. I personally was raised on hood travel baseball, and I am being 80% serious about this suggestion. Go Hurricanes.
Why doesn’t Japan have this problem?
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42694486
Also external people don’t generally know or understand all the constrains that led to decisions that are suboptimal (for the person complaining).
Okay, I now care passionately about each and everything I do. The bike ramp still sucks. What now?
You simply make basic necessities sales tax free. Fresh foods (non-processed), education materials and tuition, medical premiums, and the first $1K of housing per month, and problem solved. It's an easier tax to enforce and requires a smaller surveillance state. Instead of attempting to audit 350 million individuals the revenue dept can just focus on a couple million businesses. Instead of pouring over 15000 pages of write-offs and exemptions, it's a simple % of taxable revenue. The states that run on sales tax alone are more affordable than states that run off income tax. It's a superior tax in every way.
Your local private school also isn't going to cut you a check, and I've yet to meet anyone with money that had a hard time sniffing out aspirational neighbors. Not buying it.
I think we all agree this feature seems broadly of use, and given that presumably a professional full-time 1P team was behind this feature I am gonna use this product over the other implementations
What planet are you on?

Yes we are.
Preach brother. I am in the same boat but in the caring side of things. I read e-mails, I respond to them as promptly as I can. I read the tickets and contact the users to resolve their issues as quickly as I can. I attend to meetings, do the required things and long story short, I give two shits about what is going on around me.

You know what I get? Additional assumed responsibilities is what I get, because I read the goddamn mails sent to the goddamn regional IT staff distribution list - I am the "knowledge base". If you are naivé you might, just might, assume that additional responsibilities involve a raise or a title change.

Hell. No.

The final straw was a person got promoted without any interviews etc. to a position I am de-facto doing. So you keep the people who care in the same position because "they get the job done" and you raise the people who doesn't care and the end result is this situation.

But hey! KPIs are green, the job gets "done", right? Who cares?
I have a feeling this is a very common sentiment as one gets older though.

When you live somewhere where wages and costs diverge further and further every year, as you get to be 30-40-50-60, etc. you feel more and more like the world was better back then
I'm not saying the US system is better. Just pointing out that for SW engineers, the delta in health care costs between the US and Europe doesn't account for the much higher delta in salaries.
How is this comment useful to the OPs valid arguments?
[...] they mention supervised traffic, so presumably at some point people standing outside next to speeding traffic and radiation.

It can be supervised at entry/exit points, which is what I infer from the text. A bit like the highway across East Germany to West Berlin during the Cold War.
I've lived in most every manner of setting the US has to offer. The best by far is the micro-urban settings. Where as opposed to a small town with strip malls and neighborhoods, there is high density around an urban center that pretty much immediately transitions to rural. That way you can still have walkability and the mix of bars / restaurants / activities that urban settings inspire without all the overhead of actual large cities. Even when I lived in large cities I spent most of my time in just a few blocks. So a few blocks of city and then all the recreational activities of rural areas is pretty great.

There's still issues with people not caring, but it seems like those are more so outliers than anywhere near the norm and it's a lot more expedient to get in contact with someone that does care and can take actionable measures where there is a problem.

Just as an example there was a water leak from the municipal system in the right of way in front of my house. It was repaired quickly but they had to dig up a lot of the yard, which they filled back in. But after a few heavy rains it washed out a fair amount. It was a little annoying but I just said "Oh well". A few years ago in Atlanta my neighbors had reported a sinkhole FOR YEARS, and nothing was done about it until it finally caved in and swallowed an entire intersection.

I had a friend come over though and this had been like 3 months and he asked about the hole. I told him the situation and he just said "Call the city and tell them you need dirt." So I did, and told someone that took a message. A couple hours later they called me back and confirmed my address and that I needed dirt. He said they were busy but would do it tomorrow, and sure enough the next day they came with a dump truck, a trailer of equipment and filled in the hole, compacted the area, smoothed it all out and planted grass. All in 24 hours for a problem that impacted no one but me.
The original chunk, sure, but what if the original chunk is full of eg pronouns? This is a problem I haven't heard an elegant solution for, although I've seen it done OK.

What I mean is, how can you derive topics from a chunk that refers to them only obliquely?
Some thoughts on when to use LLMs
Is that what caring about people in your community looks like? Or some kind of property value paranoia and sense of control.
I would have not given the scriptwriting to terminally online, politics obsessed people. For DE it looks easy to fix, just don't have so many characters pontificating about communism or whatever, and not so much internal dialog about it. Cut it by 50-70%, be it a minor theme, focus more on the case, done.
Let's not ignore the negative externalities of cars.

Separately: In a small town, it's objectively nicer to have certain areas that are walkable without navigating traffic.
The whole idea that regional nuclear exchange can be avoided is bonkers. The very machine designed to keep humans progressive and peacefull ,to keep the hothouse of "peacefulness delusion " alive at full blast is the very same driving up the stakes of it happen sooner then later. Thats peters dilemma. Thats why we have to crash the trolly before it can pick up more speed after clicking mineffortmaxreward. we had 15 years of prep.
fluentassertions – Update Ownership and License
Can you cite some of these claims, to guide someone like myself who has never heard of any of these things?
That is true, I deliberately set up an isolated scenario to do these fun theoretical tests. It actually took some effort to stop the compiler from being too smart, because it would want to transform the result into a return value, or even into a pointer offset, to avoid branching.
I feel like I’ve been in his shoes before and they tend to run you toward running people away from you who do “care”…well they may not care about how long it takes a guy to get a shed approved or order McDonald’s (can a man claim to care who cares to wish to expedite his order of that?) or that nobody wants to help him lace the streets with dog crap sack sticks when they’re worried about actual human issues like they’re well-being, dignity and identity.

I’m conflicted by this article. Because I hate most of it, because I relate to it.

Institutional gripes are low hanging fruit that are only significant in relation to taking care of what’s relevant to a mundane life but not relevant at all to a life worth living and dying over as a man. Maybe a man-child, but not a man.

This reads like “Suicidal Tendencies All I wanted was my Pepsi” remixed into Yacht Rock. This is not a rant, but a wining pantomime griping over things that a town elder would roll his eyes over his grave and take pity on the youthful.

So yeah man, I felt you. I felt you. But I beg Allah that I never have to feel where you’re coming from again beyond knowing about how I once felt myself & the destruction it caused me and the disdain it arises from the people who I thought I was just trying to help.
Guessing that it was either off Java heap memory OR was memory allocated to Java stacks that eventually was paged in as threads began using allocated space: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/22/core/heap-and-heap...
https://neo4j.com/developer/kb/linux-out-of-memory-killer/
Here's what I originally typed out before googling:

The "something about the geometry" is called caster, and is the same effect that makes the front casters on a shopping cart go straight: the point where the steering axis intersects the ground is ahead of the contact patch of the tire. On a bike, this is mostly determined by the angle of your head tube when looking at the bike from the side (if the fork is "bent" from the side view, this would also contribute to the caster effect).

But I've now googled, and found a paper that says that a bike can be stable without gyroscopic or caster effects [1]. It seems like the specific mass distribution of the steerable mass (front wheel, fork, handlebars, etc) vs the rest of the frame matters, and of course all of these variables interact in complex ways. They do agree that caster plays an important role though.

Vehicle dynamics is notoriously tricky stuff. I can say with experience that it doesn't get easier when you go to four wheels.

[1]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51051995_A_Bicycle_...
so… the fear of speaking up should lead to staying silent? what exactly are you advocating for here
In my opinion, Jekyll is easier and more capable than Pandoc and markdown files for a HTML/CSS website.

Jekyll also has a higher ceiling than Pandoc when you need a templating language, plugins, etc.
"Nobody Cares [about the things I think they should care about in the specific way I think they should]"

The author seems very conscientious and civic minded, but there are often unsatisfying explanations for why things are they way they are or why people act how they do.
How does this compare to https://github.com/svenkreiss/pysparkling?
In what languages is n % 2 -1 for negative odd numbers?

Edit: apparently JS, java, and C all do this. That’s horrifying
>less connected to the world around them

In what way do you mean this?
For a lot of foreign investment, the point is to hide money. A lot of investment provides negative value. Hidden money in residential real estate inflates the market and in most of these cases they also leave the units vacant, reducing housing stock. In some cases it isn't to hide money, but instead for speculation, and usually in those cases they also leave the units vacant, because occupied units can reduce value, and in those cases it's also reduced stock and inflated markets.
Advice from people whose formative experiences were in the 1970s and 1980s should be considered against present circumstances. Things are a lot more challenging 2025 and onwards.

Of all the things I f**ed up, the worst was spending money I didn't yet have on things that I didn't really need to impress people I didn't really care for.

Spending far less than you earn and investing in tangible, durable assets (not shares, crypto, NFTs, etc). Real Estate is good if you can make it positively geared. Houses are good when they provide you with a home and can generate some income. But not so good when they drain your surplus funds on repairs and overheads (insurance, property taxes, etc.
Sometimes, those casual connections can spark something more meaningful down the line or just bring small moments of joy! Like, for instance, seeing an old friend’s travel photos or knowing that you're school friend had a baby
Everybody has a limit to their capacity To Care About Things. It's not fixed in stone, people can care about more things and more deeply, but at any given time it's essentially some finite capacity. A glass-half-empty mentality (like the author's) is to look at everything that people don't care about and despair, while a glass-half-full mentality is to look at everything people do care about and remain optimistic about our ability to inspire people to care more.

The classic needs ladder states that first you need to take care of yourself, only after which can you take care of your in-group, only after which can you take care of your out-group. A lot of the process of inspiring others is to first set a good personal example, then helping others in such a way that ascribes cultural value to paying it forward, i.e. to teach people to fish instead of giving them fish. Sadly, this culture had largely dissipated in a society where so many people first have so much trouble taking care of their own needs. But it can be restored, with some optimism and finding people who are receptive to it.
I don't like this post, mainly because I think I don't like the attitude behind it. It seems somewhat obvious to me that people who do care exist and are out there; all you have to do is go and ask people what they care about and you'll get some interesting answers. You can choose to view the world as having no one who cares, but that seems seems a distorted way of viewing the world. And distorted in way that will make you more lonely, since you aren't looking for other people like yourself, since you've concluded they don't exist.
The DMV in Seattle is good though...
Weird. It didn't click for me until I had to stop on a hill and then go up it. And that is how I taught a few friends (after a few flat street trials)
No that's true-
I totally believe that everything is connected, that by putting good energy into the world you make other people's lives better and in return feel good about yourself and inspire others to do good as well.

There's a certain amount of lack of agency and connection that the modern worlds taken from us though. A McD's employee doesn't see the same customer twice. They're thoroughly disconnected from whether the company makes record profits or not. They are not empowered to change things. And management is often putting out bad energy.

The incentives are such that caring is more effort than not and doesn't accomplish much other than appealing to internal pride. If that gets grinded down its over.
https://archive.ph/19H8q
Lol never worked construction for government gigs? I was once hired on as a laborer for a city government funded arts building. The construction boss had to buy a very expensive and gawdy table from the mayor's kids. The government was paying themselves. It's likely 30% roof and 70% old boys network of hiring select people for favors.
Yep! And those little updates can sometimes lead to unexpected and meaningful reconnections, like your story with your friend and his wife.
Indeed. Imagine a neighbor who was upset that people didn't care enough to clear the parkway of leaves and selflessly dedicated himself to spend hours loudly leaf-blowing the whole neighborhood.
That's when you call any type of promotion advertising, in that case, sure, there is some innocent advertising. People here are (obviously) talking about 'modern' advertising which is what google/fb etc are doing which is just plain bad for everyone except for Google shareholders (I would imagine, besides money, it's not even good for the people working on it as it must do your head in to be a brilliant engineer and then working on tech so miserable and foul as that).
I have also the first generation and the option off was always available. It turned off NC and transparency mode.
lovely perspective <3
Believe it or not, there are many super rural places in the US where people care because there is such a close knit community
There is just a small JS shim from the extension to the Python code, but yes.

The benefit is that you don't need to enable arbitrary code execution in your browser. A variety of benefits flow from that; static pages, almost no advertising, fewer working paywalls, smaller attack surface etc.
i believe this is where LLM will excel
I totally agree, waiting a long time for PR reviews can be so frustrating! This used to be a pain at my company too, but we've been able to dramatically improve the review time. We target getting a review, on average, within one hour of posting a pull request. Most weeks we now achieve that (or get very close)!

I think it comes down to two main pieces: culture & tooling.

Culture:
- Reviews are part of the job. A solid senior developer isn't just writing code all day -- there are many aspects to the job and reviews are an important one
- Reviews shouldn’t be viewed negatively or as something we "have to do." They’re opportunities to learn, teach, collaborate, and improve as a team
- Make small, well scoped PRs. Do not try to roll a bunch of changes into one PR. It makes it harder to review, riskier to merge and harder to rollback.
- Reviews should be owned by the team. Often there doesn't have to be just one developer who can do a review. If a PR is waiting on a developer who has a morning full of meetings or is fixing a high priority bug, then another team member should pick up the review
- Prioritize code ready for review over code still being written. Code in review represents significant business effort (customer feedback, planning, design, development), but its value isn’t realized until it’s merged. Prioritizing reviews can help deliver that value faster
- It’s awesome as an author to get a quick review, so "treat others as you’d like to be treated."
- (Likely not feasible everywhere, but helpful for us) Skip reviews for trivial changes like copy updates, test fixes, or non-critical dependency upgrades

Tooling:
- Automate as much as possible. Linting, tests, and other automated checks can reduce manual review effort
- Make sure there's a process for everyone getting notifications quickly. Turned out some devs would use github notifications and only checked those like once a day, while others got real-time slack alerts (guess which group tends to complete reviews faster)
- Have a way to set & track your review time target as a team, try to make an automated way to keep the team accountable & aware of where they're at

Obviously some of these things aren't easy to change and take time. I'm fortunate enough to be a TL so I was able to influence my team and the engineering department more directly, but I think a respected developer can bring forward this kind of change too. To also address some of these points for our department, I built a Slack <> GitHub app to help our team move reviews faster. Feel free to try it if you're interested: https://pullpro.dev
I’ve been working on making it accessible outside our org and would love to hear any feedback if you give it a go!