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Hi, I'm a good senior backend developer with data science experience but [at least hope/think that I] am an excellent team lead and director. My magic skills are a) creating high-p…

It’s surprising to me that no one has mentioned llamaparse. My team has been using it for a while and is quite satisfied. If other people think that other services are better then …

I’m curious about this api. I’d looked at it before but it didn’t seem like it could handle arbitrary input that didn’t fit one of the predefined schemas. I also wasn’t sure how mu…

There is a financial concept known as universal ownership. The gist of it is that most investors are more affected by the overall returns of the market than by the returns of indiv…

I work in the, "green movement." Since this movement is almost entirely volunteer driven, it is not typically well positioned to coordinate actions or balance tradeoffs. For exampl…

This is anecdotal but in my experience in large parts of Europe, this already practically exists. From what I understand, in Germany at least, companies can demand that employees s…

Climate protests, action, and legislation on Hacker News seem to act as a special attractor for particular types of repetitive comments, describing the legislation passed/action ta…

Sex worker is used as a term to describe someone working in the sex industry. This includes pornography actors, onlyfans models, prostitutes, and many other things. I believe that …

I am an EU resident (Netherlands) and have wanted to make a DIY air filter for myself for several years. Unfortunately, I simply can’t find any flat box fans on the market. Would s…

I hope that advocates of purchasing power parity comparisons are prepared to factor in implicitly consumed but not easily purchasable goods. Otherwise, they would miss out on many …

This middle ground currently governs most interactions between people in cars and people on bicycles. This fails in practice, as criminally irresponsible drivers are able to speed …

It’s awfully hard to tell whether this is parody or not, but yes, media are “allowed” in. In fact, far as I can see on the various vids, anyone can just walk in

The authors don't include some extremely nasty feedback loops the appear to currently be happening. For example, methane release from permafrost melt. As a result, the simulation a…

Large releases of atmospheric sulfuric particulates tend to be highly correlated with mega-droughts in the southern hemisphere and disruption of the African and Indian Monsoons, le…

> Cars reduce noise compared to subways squealing and rattling, compared to commuter rail horns blasting, and compared to the big engines of diesel buses. As a US citizen living in…

When I have a problem getting a framework or library to do the thing it’s meant to do, my first instinct isn’t to debug it and submit a PR, but to look at my strategy and figure ou…

I find it disheartening that it takes studies of this nature to reshape regulations. Glyphosate (as Roundup) has been the bestselling herbicide on the market since 1980. Among bee-…

.6 m is quite devastating, but less so for US housing than for food security. Some of the world's producers of food are almost at sea level. If you'd like a hard nosed data and fin…

I did a project on this some time ago. Columbia gas was one of the worst offenders for sheer volume of leaks. Not only is it normal to leave leaks unfixed, frequently they disappea…

disclaimer: I work here as a programmer and it's a small company. This is an excellent group of people to work with. The people are thoughtful, considerate, intelligent, and just g…

> Lastly, I'll add that as a walker in NYC (no car, no bike), I have no fear of being struck by cars. I fear bikes. I rarely see bikes obey traffic laws at all, and have frequently…

a) This is a remarkably neat idea. b) It probably shouldn't have to exist. ... which just about sums up the Objective-C experience