skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cloudflare Workers: A Natural Platform for AI Agent Infrastructure
Look at how much a senior airline pilot makes, compared to a junior.
The one that I use has "polyglutamate" additives, and that's the only one surviving in market environment. KCl only taste similar to salt, not practically identical to NaCl at all.
> Plus remember: he doesn't need to be a dictator, because he won a democratic election.

He was elected President, not king. The laws being broken applied to all previous election winners.
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Thank you for your work! Rust is still a great language.

I think a significant portion of our pain with rust compile times is self inflicted due to the natural growth of our crate organization and stages.

I still think the rewrite in zig is the right choice for us for various reasons, but I think at least a chunk of our compile times issues are self inflicted (though this happens to any software project that grows organically and is 300k LOC)
When I read about cuts to welfare and security, I'm usually angered against those who implement such cuts (I'm Italian, but this still stands whether it's us, eu, italy...).

Reading your comment, I just felt very sad. It's like you lived a reverse American dream.

I feel sorry for you. Feeling powerless it's a shitty feeling, especially if you have done everything right
Crash out, it's delusional to think the anti-medicaid and public healthcare party is only going to go after bloat in medicaid in good faith.
Having worked financial management in federal govt and private sector there is far far far more graft, outright theft and corruption, and incredible waste in the private sector than the public sector.
>Many such countries are democratic currently. None are democratic innately.

Okay, so your argument is that "the west" can only mean something "innate"?

>Some common definitions of the west are white people

Well hold on. I thought "the west" could only mean something "innate"? What makes makes the US "innately" white? The US is 30% non-white, after all.
I have heard of it but don't use it. My expectation is that it's a fairly diverse group.
I fail to see how anyone can look at a treasury line item and determine if it's waste or not. This isn't the way to reduce waste. This is a way to reduce spending regardless of how efficient it is or isn't. Entirely different goal.
Yeah I made it as far as planning out a change to the `jj config --help` output to at least link to the documentation and then realized that my copy didn't have the documentation. Oops. And then I got occupied by some other FOSS bug and forgot to circle back.

Unfortunately there was a gap between installing it and trying it for the clever merge resolution use case I had in mind, and I've forgotten how I installed it, so I need to reverse engineer that to figure out how I got here.
Yea, hacker mindset is what I applied with Tinder. It worked wonders, went from 1 to 100 matches per month. I feel like having a hacker mindset with dating in general works wonders. Oh, and not having social anxiety of course.

It took a long time to not have that.
You could've just skipped over this page, but you're here commenting. Just sayin'
Very cool guys. I am beyond excited about this — I can see how this could transform certain projects and relationships — and it is useless if it doesn’t work in the language people need.

What languages do you actually support? The site says “20+” and “over 20” and there’s even a FAQ entry listing a handful of them, but it doesn’t list all of them. What is the thinking in not just listing all of them?
I have 2 conflicting feelings about this:

- I'm glad to see this, as it might be an easily accessible alternative to Facebook events, which I tend to miss as I'm checking my FB only once in a while

- on the other hand, each new Apple release adds apps that might kill some small start-ups that are offering similar services for the small fee. Having a free alternative on your phone out of the box with most of your contacts using will lead to a decent number of subscriptions' cancellations. A good lesson to build smth that is harder to reproduce, though...
yeah, Evite used to really shine but now I feel like it's just an invitation to see ads
https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-full-story-of-the-fa...
I don't see corruption, I see supply & demand and "enterprising" people.

The war on drugs has shown that focussing on the supply side has done little to solve the problem. There will be new ways to smuggle or new drugs to catch in the drag net while the demand remains.

The question then is, why is the demand for drugs so high?
I'm wondering if I'm on some very different account/plan than everyone else. Any time I've ever called Vanguard, I've gotten a super well trained rep without much of a wait or a call tree. I also had good interactions with Fidelity when I used them.

Were you on a plan run through an employer? Or individual?
So he gets in office and gives the office to an AI overlord to hasten AI taking jobs and first target is the federal government.

Im not understanding how this will help Americans, their jobs, livelihoods and the economy? Not trying to be political just confused by elect me and America will be more prosperous. How will it when the worry of AI taking jobs is right here at our feet, being done so at the federal level and being expedited by a guy who has more money then whatever.
The supreme Court already said administrative decisions need to follow the laws so Congress is the only ones who can decide which pencils get bought.
It's hard to provide specific advice without knowing the exact nature of the underperformance, so I'll keep it general.

- Sometimes underperformance can stem from a lack of engagement because of a disconnect between the work they would like to do, and the work they've been given. In this instance you could try giving them a wider variety of tasks and see if they prosper in anything else.

- You could also change the level of work given to them. If it's too easy or repetitive, this can often cause people to switch off and lose discipline. On the other hand, if it's too hard they get overwhelmed and don't know what to do. If this is the case, then mentoring is the right approach, but only if the level of work is just beyond their abilities. If you give them something miles out of their league, no amount of mentoring is going to get them over the line.

- Something I've tried when I was in your position is to enforce tighter standards in the CI pipeline (test coverage, manual testing notes, linting etc.) to enforce discipline before they push code which forces them to fix their own issues before seeking a review.

- Try getting them more involved in code reviews. Reviews are a skill that should be taught just as much as writing code, and poking holes in other people's code might prompt them to do so on their own. Reviews are also a great opportunity for senior devs to perform mentoring asynchronously - long form explanations on why a design choice was made in a git diff for e.g. and sharing that across the team.

- Finally, they could just be outright negligent, but I'm assuming this is not the case with you. If they're resistant to taking advice and improving, then this might already be a lost battle.

Good luck!
The "attach the entire file" part is very critical.

I've had the experience of seeing some junior dev posting error messages into ChatGPT, applying the suggestions of ChatGPT, and posting the next error message into ChatGPT again. They ended up applying fixes for 3 different kinds of bugs that didn't exist in the code base.

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Another cause, I think, is that they didn't try to understand any of those (not the solutions, and not the problems that those solutions are supposed to fix). If they did, they would have figured out that the solutions were mismatches to what they were witnessing.

There's a big difference between using LLM as a tool, and treating it like an oracle.
"Very funny.. where is the compensation money coming from? Taxes, right?"

Is it? In other states it comes from the department that oversees fish and game, which is primarily funded from hunting and fishing licenses.
> Oder friends and family are surprised when they want to video call over Facetime and find it hard to believe other people's phones don't have Apple apps.

*Memories of my sister not believing me when I said she wouldn't be able to install her Windows copy of Doom on my Performa 5200 back in the 90s*
This is really really cool insights into the industry and consumer behavior in general.

Going to save it to my google docs so I never lose it.
I would expect most people to turn on notifications for anything that's reasonably described as a messaging app with similar settings to the ones they're already in the habit of using. Certainly disabling or silencing notifications would make it less useful.
> so you buy their merch and go to their shows > sold themselves off as a commodity

A bit unfair because bands are often not making any money on their merch or their shows. My experience is that they are pleased if they cover their incidental costs. They seem to get zero financial payoff for their time invested. They may get good non-financial benefits.
It’s hard not to worry, my kid’s life depends on Medicaid. I’d he doesn’t have therapy, he will not become a functioning adult, if that’s even possible anyways. As an adult, he’ll have even less protections than as a child with autism, especially in the “anti-DEI” world. Not sure why everyone is saying not to worry, in the face of this type of action by musk.
> I'd like to see some statistics on the opposing hypothesis : How good are humans, really, when encountering unexpected situations? Do they compare better with automated systems in general?

This is already out there. You can go research how Airbus and their automation works in practice.

You can also listen to air traffic control recordings to get an idea of what types of emergencies exist and how often they happen. I'm sure the FAA has records you can look at. :)

Now that apply that to something 3 orders of magnitude more complex.
What does Apple do to be "privacy first" with this product.

I'm happy when friends invite me to an event. I'll less happy they type my email address or phone number into some 3rd party site so be tracked. That includes Apple.
Why would you ever allow push notifications from any social media? And on X you can still mute or block individual accounts that you don't want to see.
That's because there are urban areas that are highly populated with people who have more income to be taxed.
As an Apple developer for 42 years I tried all permutations I could think of and found there is no way around the walled garden:

Apple Invites requires a mandatory iCloud+ account (minimal 0.99 euro/dollar per month) and a non-anonymous Apple ID requirement with credit card or bank account. It probably has a perpetual lock-in of your invite groups and tracking of all participants as well but I couldn't test this properly without paying 12 Euros.
Would love the virtual camera - will be on the look out for it to arrive
I’m praying for it. My MAGA FIL seems too far gone but I can sense inside an ability to reflect and redirect.
Many bosses are willing to stake their subordinates’ reputations on it, too.
What's happening inside the NIH and NSF
I've had to replace the card once or twice for various reasons and never had any issues. It's a good enough offer that I'm not likely to jump through hoops or create some big other account to improve on. I'm not down to a single account but I've simplified things and diversified.
Do you have any evidence to substantiate that fairly radical claim? Because literally every Google result on every subject seems to indicate you are incorrect.

Medical coverage:
https://www.cbpp.org/research/correcting-seven-myths-about-m...

Education:
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI951123...

Heck, even things like increased funding for the IRS have incredible ROI:
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57444
If we go down that route, the "militia" in the US is divided into the "organized" militia, which is effectively the National Guard forces, and the "unorganized" militia, which is everyone not in the "organized" militia and are:

> able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States

So I'm not sure "a rule the you have to engage with the militia" is going to get any better of a reading on the 2nd amendment from an "individual" vs "some group of people defined by the government that aren't 'the People' of every other part of the constitution" perspective.
Your dire predictions are a little premature. If we take them at their word, they're looking to reduce waste, and there's little reason to believe that treatment for autism falls into that category. Does anyone believe that there is no corruption or waste between the time of funding and delivery to a patient? Any dollars saved, and any efficiency gained, should be a net positive, no?
Strong disagree. I don't think the standards have changed, I think they have become obsolete. I personally believe the HN community have taken over the self-censorship role with the downvote mechanism, like a kind of digital Red Guard policing anything that smacks of wrongthink. It's a way of disappearing contrary opinions by abusing the moderation tools. I'm not arguing for parity. There really is no expectation that there would be political balance when the audience is global but the politics are heavily US-centric. But should people who think opposition voices are not to be platformed be given censorship powers? Please fix the downvote problem.

I don't believe that "shills" or "operatives" need necessarily be a large percentage of posters to influence the discourse towards their ends. If the overall discourse is already biased, then the role of operatives is simply to suppress dissent by demonstrating that some comments are simply to be dismissed and downvoted. This talk of "evidence" is outdated and will not fix this particular issue. HN has some kind of acquired autoimmune disease. Fix the downvote mechanism.

If dissent were allowed to survive the downvotes, then the risk is that the fence-sitters or those without political or other interests might see the "majority" view is a paper tiger. Some combination of true believers and bad faith actors can easily suppress other voices. The result is that heterodox opinions aren't allowed even to be read. Other voices are driven out. If it isn't fixed or if politics isn't banned outright, then HN will fade into a parody of discourse. I urge you to fix the downvote mechanism.

These rules about tone are all well and good when diversity of opinion is permitted. But understand that 99% of the time I am responding TO one commenter but AT another (potential) reader with a more open mind. Provocations and heretical opinions must be allowed in order to attract THAT reader's attention.

Many people can see the range of political opinion on HN is heavily skewed. If you want to argue your data says otherwise, your data or your method is flawed. Fix the downvotes, the rest will follow.
If anything tech upgrades could potentially just make the job less stressful for current traffic controllers - which might end up (long term) with big benefits for everyone.
> Sometimes the LLMs can't fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away.

Lordy. Is this where software development is going over the next few years?
Yeah this is part of why RTO is not an entirely terrible idea. Remote work has these downsides -- working with another person over a computer link sucks pretty hard, no matter how you do it (not saying WFH doesn't have other very real upsides).
Oh I just looked, sadly tv tropes doesn't have an API.
I'd love to work off their data but that would be a bit more involved.
This feels like deliberate misdirection, because in most practical cases what people mean is "some memory management process that will slow my program down non-trivially". By this definition Rust does not have GC whereas Go, eg, does.

The "simulates infinite RAM" is an interesting perspective but simply not the subject of most conversations.
Is it this one? https://photos.paulstamatiou.com/new-zealand/coromandel-peni...

EDIT: Any HN mods/devs reading this -- there seems to be a display bug for comment creation time? On edit it says 20hrs (accurate), whereas viewing the comments otherwise shows that it was posted an hour ago. Not sure what's going on
> Islamic culture, in particular, left a significant mark on Western thought

And yet 72% of surveyed Republicans were opposed to Arabic numerals being taught in schools.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/arabic-numerals-survey-...
Which actions that Trump has taken were illegal?
It's incredible to think that for many people this is a real problem that needs a real solution, because personally, I struggle to maintain social life. A few months ago I organized a party for the first time in my life, and probably it'll happen twice a year at most in the very optimistic scenario. This means that whatever new trendy way of inviting people is hip, it's not worth the effort to learn it, and it's just way more effective to use the methods I do know and I'm used to (physical conversations and texting).
Trump has already signaled he plans to run for a (as of right now) unconstitutional third term.
True, but I think it’s important to call these things out when they happen.

Whether or not Musk is dumb, he still has a lot of power, and when people use faulty reasoning for decision making, that leads to inefficiencies.
I've recently been wondering if a video is even better than a blog.

We're at the point now where I can reasonably keep large numbers of video/text recorded from OBS in S3, run my own speech-to-text, I can cram it all into a SQLite DB, wrap it in a web front-end and then serve it all from cloudfront or wherever.

There is obviously benefit in organizing thoughts using essays as a tool, but if you just want a record of your quick thoughts I almost think screen-capture + webcam + spoken word might be a decent option. Literally use OBS to record your 1-hour (or 4 hours) per day HN habit and keep it for prosperity.
Interpreting it charitably, it's like what happens with maternity leave.

If you have 1 employee who needs to go on leave, you're required to pay benefits (maybe a salary), the work she was doing still needs to be done, and you have to replace whoever you hire as a substitute when she comes back, then you're going to be in a real pickle. [0]

If you have 1,000 employees, approximately the same work gets done, and it's just the cost of doing business. You're able to effectively self-insure against that risk.

The wolf thing is similar. If you're poor, have one cow, and a wolf eats it, that's your livelihood down the drain. If you have 10,000 cows then even a multi-day onslaught from a pack of wolves as you work out the details of why your herd is shrinking is just the cost of doing business.

[0] That isn't arguing against maternity leave, just that saddling individuals with a society-level goal isn't often a great use of resources. In this case, instead of a communal tax for the things society values, you randomly cripple the small businesses you claim to support. Taxes hurt your reelection chances though, whereas pushing the risks to ordinary people (no matter the extent of the worst case) rallies the electorate around your welfare initiatives and concentrates the damage on a group to small to hurt your election. As a side-cost (one I assume is intentional, but I might just be a bit jaded), large companies are unharmed.
No, they are not paying the costs no matter whether they're paying most of the taxes. To make them pay the cost you'd have to transplant these city dwellers into the boonies, denying them access to their favourite entertainments, keep the far away from all the things which they consider essential to their city lifestyles. Oh, they'll have food, they'll have a roof over their heads and they can surely find work at the local factory or supermarket so why are they complaining that they're being starved of all the things which make life worth living for them? The factory pays them, doesn't it? The roof does not leak? If they want entertainment they can go to a barn dance or to the local pub where the Good Ol' Boys are playing last centuries greatest hits so stop complaining about there not being any good coffee shops, avant garde theaters, second-hand bookshops with philosophy circles, activist cooperatives for the underdeveloped people in faraway places and that everybody keeps on wearing those silly feed store caps.
If you don't have air traffic controllers, the air traffic won't be controlled... who knew?
If you have ever seen the prank interview between Elijah Wood and Dominic Monaghan, "Do you wear wigs? Have you worn wigs? Will you wear wigs?" and Elijah breaks down laughing in total shock at how hilariously bad the interview is...

...I just picture a similar conversation with a CEO going: "Sir, shareholders want to see more improvement this quarter." CEO: "Do we run ads? Have we run ads? Will we run ads this time?" (The answer is inevitably yes to all of these)
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Stirring false vacuum:quantized bubbles interact on 5,564-qubit quantum annealer
Blame the telcos for the relative poor quality of text message multimedia (via MMS).

The telcos specify the size limits of MMS messages. iMessage has much higher limits in most cases, so iPhone has to use reduce the quality of the pics/videos to reach the lower size limits for sending to non-iMessage recipients.

For the telcos, why would they upgrade their size limits for MMS - it's just a cost centre for them. They probably make more by selling more iPhones as well.
A single-element volume control component
Yeah, the rewrite will clean up a ton of technical debt for us. So it will very much be a bad comparison.
Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website
I guess the far-right doesn't care about censorship after all.
It was 44 years ago. We have had 6 presidents since then. Every single ATC controller from 1981 is retired, most for over a decade. You probably should be looking at a more proximate cause.
133 comments and the Sackler family has yet to be mentioned. I don't think the comments here are well informed.
Does seem odd to me - why restrict it this low? People are living longer and healthier than ever into older years (and better vision)
In theory, everything works. In practice, we can't even master automated driving, on two dimensional streets with painted lanes, relatively slow speeds, and cars that can just stop in case a decision could not be made. If we can't make this happen, how do you expecct the same with higher speeds, an additional dimension, planes with radio-only (no additional telemetry) and pilots with heavy accents?
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Me too, it is just a shame that the path from earning respect to eating bread isn't as straight forward in our current world as the path from earning money.
You're right, It is a horrible currency for the system. How would we prop up the military industrial complex and wars with foreign third world countries if we could no longer print money out of thin air? Just dreadful to think about.
Can confirm from personal experience. Do not even think of installing Tinder as a male with intention not to pay. Tinder with platinum is frustrating enough for a male. In revenge, every relationship initiated with gold and platinum I threw out to the bin after some sex.