skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have a saying here. "It's the economy, stupid." The orange one appealed straight to the people's economic situation. Our elections hinge on who turns out to vote. Anyone of modest means saw their cash bleed away and their life gets harder. The sitting president always gets punished for this. It's not complicated.
Just gotta say that's an excellent quote from dang, who I never heard of before.
ChatGPT also advised me to use NM a couple of times, which was neat.
which model do you use locally?
Unfortunately, there is no "team humanity", except in one losing game.

If there was team humanity - and we weren't still focused on "us" vs "them" and throwing feces at each other across imaginary geographical, religious and race borders - I'm confident we could solve the climate problem completely in 5-10 years. Not to mention what else (famine, diseases...), with motivation other than short-term profit...
People on skis towed behind galloping horses
Dumb hazing exercise.

I would have walked out.
"Once I realized that I started open sourcing everything, like pretty much every piece of code I’ve written in the past six years, I’ve open sourced purely as a defense against me losing access to that code in the future." sounds like this guy is just saying YOLO and releasing everything without permission?
Wow. I invite everyone to go actually read the Gleam’s homepage: https://gleam.run/

After reading the discussion here, with our poor community being “blinded by pathetic posturing” and such, I was expecting some kind of political polemic plastered over everything.

Here’s the sum total of everything that could be considered political from the page:

Friendly

As a community, we want to be friendly too. People from around the world, of all backgrounds, genders, and experience levels are welcome and respected equally. See our community code of conduct for more.

Black lives matter. Trans rights are human rights. No nazi bullsh*t.

Which part of that can you possibly find objectionable? It seems the mere mention of anything political is seen as a transgression somehow. Like, Can’t we just go back to pretending we’re entirely apolitical, while the technologies we build reshape the political landscape of the entire planet?
Why not both? Approximately no one uses braces without indentation, and that's trivially enforceable with a code formatter. But I personally find that the redundant signal of the braces makes things much more readable than in the languages that lack that redundancy!

Every human communication mechanism includes deliberate redundancy to ensure that the meaning gets through even in suboptimal situations. Programming languages are somewhat unique in having a strong movement towards eliminating all redundancy.
Why Your AI Product Team Needs an AI Quality Lead
A real job is often simialar to fizzbuzz in that there is no eligant solutians. There are several solutions but they all have some special case. a real world problem would take you a week to solve though and so we can't give them to you in an hour.
Well that’s not necessarily true, but that was the point of my question.

Make sure this person understands the situation they’re in and whether it’s actually a problem before thinking they have some surefire business.
> These classes of drones work much better for a country like Ukraine in a total war on home soil.

Who's to say that's not what Replicator is aiming for? Sans the "foreign enemy" part, perhaps
This is exactly it. The goal is noble, but the execution doesn't measure up. People don't buy into and support systems that are forced on them.
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted.

There's some educational videos on YouTube on High Voltage DC.

https://youtu.be/JH9-0AbR_1U?si=l57nkFt2YG5iLl3D

North and South America could sell a lot of electricity to the east this way...
Travel times would be much improved by a high speed line.

Ie. a route with 4 stops and a travel speed of 100 mph.

The finances of railways actually get better with faster trains - because the sooner you can get the person to their destination, the quicker you can get that train serving another passenger.
Mass transit and personal cars aren't necessarily mutually exclusive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_rapid_transit
Heh. Other than a place in SF that had a bunch of pool tables near the Moscone, haven't seen one in a bar in ages. There used to be one in the bar that we hung out at in my grad school.
Hah, fair enough. Proper citation added.
Ultra-High Voltage seems to mean over 500kV. AC lines of this voltage in Europe are only in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.

https://www.entsoe.eu/data/map/ — there's a legend if you click the button, but navy is > 500kV AC, and magenta is DC.
Simple ten years of tax deductions for paid student loans. Fixed it.
I admire terse code too. I can relate. I'm also old.

But:

> we had 10KM HDDs so every char counts.

Ten kilometre hard disk drives?

It can't be 10kB. Hard disks were never that small. Floppy disks were never that small.

Maybe it's not hard disk drives.

It can't be length of tape, or of mercury delay lines.

I am mystified.
I'm more interested in the language after hearing this. There's plenty of negativity in the world, I don't need more of it in a niche programmer forum of enthusiasts. It reminds me of MINASWAN from Ruby.
Shelly – Smart Lighting
A guide on how to make smart lighting in your home using Shelly relay modules. Step by step from basic information on the construction of a home electrical installation through the correct conection of modules to their launch and configuration.
I thought it was a fun idea, but the more I read the more worried I became for OP legally.

As one example, when the first bot says “I was thinking 20k,” if the spammer had replied “I agree to 20k, please send me payment and transfer details,” OP would be on the hook for selling this property for 20k.

If they don’t own the property, they could be liable for fraud.
also let me ask this: if your employer paid you to write project A, and while you are writing it you include lots of already existing open source projects everything is going normal so far.

Then you notice you need one specific thing and there is no open source project out there yet that does it.

So you make it. And then go back to project A and include another open source project that just happens to be written by you.

Project A would not work without this new repo you made. So they did paid you for it. And yet how is your repo any different from all the others already in the project?
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There are a few -- select the 79th street station on the #1 line (farthest west in Manhattan) and look at Brooklyn, due pretty much directly south. The 36th Street station on the D/N/R lines is reachable in 40 minutes because it gets express service, but the stations to the north and south are local stops, and for that reason, take longer to get to.
When people say these apps are IO bound, what they actually mean is that they are memory bound. While Rails is waiting for IO due to its lack of concurrency support and the ubiquitous use of global variables in the ecosystem, a passenger worker is taking up >300mb of memory for a medium sized Rails app. Server memory limits the amount of workers you can have waiting like that, which in turn limits overall throughput per server.
Yeah as an interviewer if the type-heavy solution wasn’t what I wanted to look at I would’ve asked the candidate to pretend like they don’t understand the type system and adjust the solution accordingly.

Actually though if they wanted to test for debugging ability, presenting some real code with defects would have worked a lot better than this.
thinks more

2 characters wrong? 10 MB hard disks?
Question for those in the know:

Why would I use websockets over SSE?
I understand the idea of just focusing on the code and leaving politics aside. Sadly that is not how it works.

Those statements are necessary so people know it is safe to engage with this community. So women know they are less likely to be openly harassed and demeaned. So trans people know they are allowed to exist in this community. So that black people know they will not be bombarded by racism.

An yes you have to be proactive and drive out Nazis or they will take over your community over time. You can not tolerate those that show intolerance.

Choosing to "not be political" means choosing to be inclusive to Nazis and to be dangerous for nearly everyone else.
It could be but the political statement in question doesn't call for hate on anyone (not even nazis).
Plenty of metros run at 5 minute frequencies or less. Some _trams_ do, at peak times.
Interesting! Thanks for the great info. Do you know if anyone will have the opportunity to integrate observations into the model so it can continue to improve?
I had an inexperienced manager who followed this tack of protecting me from meetings, over my objections. What ended up happens was I lost crucial context. I think he just didn’t know how to be useful as a manager. He’s now a staff engineer elsewhere. Good for him.
I don’t disagree. however, I also think lots of people just don’t know how to negotiate. lots of people is complacent with “company policy, we do X% raise per year and no more” - however, if you go to your boss and say “hey, my performance is not up to par with my fair market value etc…” I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised what managers can pull with the HR. and if they can’t, that is unlikely a place you should stay
Went to the https://loops.video/ and installed the iOS TestFlight version of the app.

Tried to create an account. They said they sent me a confirmation link I have to click, but I haven’t received any link and it’s been an hour. It’s not in spam either.
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I have a feeling not one of these chatbot vendors has any clue how people actually want to use computers. Most of the features available with chatbots today were also available twenty years ago; although the voice recognition is better and it has limited ability to interact about semantics the interface is just as unusable as it ever was.
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That phrase in English has a strong connotation of the recipient screwing up somehow though, so I’d probably say “that’s not what I was looking for in this case. Try something else.”
Opposite how? It's not clear what the opposite of what I expressed is.
Since I'm assuming you're at least half replying to me: I'm not objecting to any single part of that. I'm speaking of interactions I've had with the lead dev on this forum (linked in my comment) where they explicitly said that they don't stop at that and don't see any problem with enforcing "good vibes" on their community (their words), in a discussion that started with someone complaining that said lead dev had removed a negative emoji reaction that they had received on one of their own comments.

Take the politics any way you like, I don't think you can build a healthy technical community that will solve problems in a healthy way under an admin who is casual in removing expressions of dissent about their moderation practices, justified under a policy as vague as "good vibes".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41413735
I miss the oldschool forums.
I saw that back in the 90's when I was a script kiddie myself. Programs that we use to hack others like back orifice or netbus were being distributed infected
I can't get it to work. I dismissed the beginning dialog and now touches don't do anything. It's broken. Restarting the app doesn't fix it.
In America so many banks are hungry to loan money. You can build up your credit and save. I recovered from bankruptcy before the ink was dry. I was driving a new car and living in a new house in short order. It is now long gone from my credit file. Don't ever talk someone out of bankruptcy if they qualify for it.

If you own a home you can exclude it from the bankruptcy. You can also include it and continue to pay the payments and the contract must be honored!
Hotel rooms are simply not designed to be places to do work in. They are places for you to sleep in, so of course, the bed is the centerpiece.

I took a look at business hotels in Japan. These are hotels explicitly designed for work travel and nothing more. Small rooms, bed, shower, but not much to actually work. And it actually makes sense. If you are on a work trip, why would you want to work in your hotel room? The whole point of a work trip is to visit a work place, that's where you are going to work, not your hotel room. In fact, from my limited experience of work travel, doing more work is the last thing I want to do when I am back at the hotel, it is often an exhausting day, and there is a good chance I have to get up early the next day, so the hotel room is for relaxation and sleep.

If you really want to work in your hotel room, or do anything other than using the bed and shower for that matter, you are probably better off with "apartment hotels" and short term rentals. If available, student residence rooms can be a minimal option for working and sleeping, that's what they are designed for. Note that there are also hotels with co-working spaces.

Maybe what you want, that is essentially a short-stay student room for grownups will happen one day, but I see many obstacles in making it a "get rich quick" investment. It may not be a great hotel for those who just want to sleep (or have other kind of fun). And if you want to eat in there, you will lack the amenities an appartement offers. And if you are not alone, a co-working space may be a better option.
The division between the OS and user space is a pretty obvious line in the sand.
In my experience a lot of people "know" maths, but fail to recognise the opportunities to use it. Some of my colleagues were pleased when I showed them that their ad hoc algorithm was equivalent to an application of Bayes' rule. It gave them insights into the meaning of constants that had formerly been chosen by trial and error.
I don't understand the scare quotes or emphasis on the guns not having serial numbers. Most states don't have gun registration so guns with a serial number are as equally untracked (Maybe you get the point of sale, but private sales are also largely untracked).

The problem is how easy and prolific guns are to get the dubious traceability serial numbers offer is a red herring and feels like an unproductive avenue for combating gun violence.
that's insane! What is the speed its going?
It sounds like they're currently unemployed(?)

But even if they weren't: going from 22k to 50k is a massive difference. People are willing to put up with a lot of bollocks for it. Dismissing that so easily is a really privileged attitude.
And then landowners who were “smart” enough to own land where this ends up going in get to reap all the financial upside, instead of the public which actually invested in that infrastructure.

Just imagine if the public could capture the (financial) upside it produces, then it could apply that money to do the same thing down the road, then do the same thing again down the road further.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George_theorem?wprov=sft...
It would be fun to build one, perhaps mediated by an app, where you have to guess whether your spymaster is a human or an AI based on the quality of their choices.
We’ve incrementally changed the definition of a social network, and hardly anyone notices, or cares.

X is now a place where you can post the most anodyne comment like “Happy Saturday folks” and immediately get 50 trolls arguing that it’s NOT a happy Saturday, and BTW you’re an ugly BIT*H. Every one of Elons’ 50 daily posts will be boosted and you have to see them. Your feed is now filled with right-wing content 24/7 from anyone who paid for a checkmark. From the moment you log into the system, you may be in fight-or-flight mode, and every single interaction is a potential argument. That’s our collective definition of a social network now, and if you want to opt out of that, you’re in a “liberal echo chamber”.

No, Bluesky lets folks actually use a network as before - finding interesting content, connecting with others, and yes, having civil disagreements. The change is that trolls whose only purpose in life is to find as many people as possible to argue with and shout at, can now be blocked from a user’s feed. It’s not a new innovation - it’s the way it used to work.
Is it possible to use BQN in a high performance context?
How much overhead does the runtime, and FFI have? Could it be used for graphics?
they might sample them and only store 10% not 100%
That you mention Passenger makes me wonder how outdated your comment is. The most recent Rails community survey reported only 13% using Passenger.

https://railsdeveloper.com/survey/2024/
My mom has a master's degree and couldn't plan her finances or retirement if her life depended on it.
Personally, I think it's literally unbelievable. It reads like fiction.
Gotta love that this comment has the most replies :D

I don't understand how people prefer curly braces, a character that is almost always has other meanings within the same language, instead of something like `end`. To that (ahem) end I don't understand how people prefer `end` to the exceptionally clear `endif`. Turns out different people have different preferences :D
Fascinating! Would you mind describing your experiences? I’ve done MDMA dozens of times and I’ve never come close to a “bad trip” unless I mixed it with another drug such as LSD.
Please cite the transsexual oriented communities you are part of in which it isn't considered polite to ask people about their preferred pronoun, from which the male/female ratio can be inferred with high confidence. (she: male, he: female)
You mean you had never had to traverse a 2D number array in spiral order to fix the 500 error in the site?
No, it doesn’t assume an array at all. It’s a data structure that maintains a totally ordered set with 3 operations:

insert(X), delete(X), label(X)

Where label extracts the label of element X (which had previously been inserted but not deleted). The label is a number from 0 to n-1, where n is the number of elements currently stored.
I don't expect it to change a lot. All the main components are there, it's mainly a question of coverage now.
I tried this many years ago (before LLMs) with hundreds of real human games and it was never that good.
The only thing I can think of is they were fielding for them to say "that's not possible" and push back, potentially as a way to gauge if they would reject unreasonable client expectations or something.
> Choosing to "not be political" means choosing to be inclusive to Nazis and to be dangerous for nearly everyone else.

That's a fucked up take. I guess because Gleam doesn't explicitly call out pedophiles, rapists, murderers, and other low-lifes that they must be inclusive of those folks too right? Gleam is so dangerous for everyone else as a result. /s
I can confirm this personally as I had an infected version of Sub7. I thought it was so fun to mess with my parents with it until I realized I was now compromised.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub7
The only thing that might be tricky about FizzBuzz is if the person doesn't know about the modulo operator. I can't remember the last time I used it in production code; I use it far more thinking about FizzBuzz than I do anywhere else.
They won't suddenly stop spending that money now that AI can help with the basics. Cultural expenses are a great way to buy reputation.
> It's been interesting to watch the slow shift in the valley towards widespread acceptance and even wholehearted support for the military industrial complex.

Damn and here I thought the valley (and valley culture) was the beating heart of the MIC this entire time.
MINASWAN is a cultural thing, not a code of conduct. It's not enforced by Matz from on high in such heavy-handed ways, it's just the way that the Ruby community rolls.

That said, if this interests you, that's great! Like I said, there's nothing wrong with a project that is primarily political in nature. I'm just highly skeptical that such a project can achieve good technical outcomes in the long run once the admins get accustomed to suppressing negative reactions under a vague "good vibes" policy.

I could be wrong, and that's exactly what political projects are often designed to do: to prove a political point. But if you're not interested in a political project and are instead looking for a strongly typed BEAM language, you might be better off just waiting for Elixir to finish its types.
Isn't Pixelfed using the ActivityPub protocol?

As far as I know, that makes it scale like email. When you post something, your host sends it to all recipients - everyone who subscribed to your posts.

That does not sound like a lot of traffic. Even if one has 10k followers, as the post would only go once to each of their hosts. So if the 10k followers are on 100 hosts, that means 100 messages.
Social media wasn't the final boss
The average human is quite bad. It really works well when the spymaster is (a) experienced and (b) familiar with the other players.
I was especially horrified/amused when students started turning in generated answers and essays, and /r/teaching learned that you could "ask chatgpt if it wrote the essay and it will tell you."

It makes perfect intuitive sense if you don't know how the things actually work.
Sure, but if your company isn’t going to pay it, then you are going to prefer to iron it yourself. :)
nice concept but a very bad choice to illustrate good UI. there is enough space to add a few more buttons with dedicated functions.
A version of this is common now in the US through Tax Increment Financing.

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ipd/value_capture/defined/tax_incre...
Really cool. I've considered doing something similar for alerting me of things seen in the air but without a transponder turned on. Good tip about the birds, I wouldn't have anticipated that ha.

Aside, the way air travel still happens out in the open in terms of communications data has a real early Internet vibe to me.
Fucking Moloch ruining everything again.
I just looked how much it costs for an european style one: less than 400.000€
Which programming communities don't allow trans people to exist, bombard black people with racism, or have been taken over by Nazis?
Never considered using base-15 for FizzBuzz - that’s brilliant!

This may sound surprising, but interviews are equally about convincing the candidate to join the company as they are about convincing the company to hire the candidate. The former involves much more than just the number for compensation.

I think you dodged a bullet here.

Once found myself in a similar ridiculous situation (Google interview). Looking back, I have to wonder if they expected me to put my foot down and tell them why their scenario was getting ludicrous instead of continuing along. In the end, they determined I wasn’t even fit to be a sysadmin, much less a SRE, despite 10 years of relevant development experience with a wide technical background and numerous patents.
You'd better be happy with the choices you're offered or you're actually a fascist, whether you knew it already or not.
Mine too! I have a picture with my late dad and the ZX81 that has a special place in my heart: https://gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scratch/d...
At least there is a non-zero chance with DeepSeek vs OpenAI which 100% will not open source AGI if such a thing is ever realized.

Over at OpenAI it's profits over the good for humanity.
I don't think crypto people have a great handle on economics along those lines. "We artificially limited the supply so it can only go up; what's money velocity?"
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