skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typing well and being fast with the tools changes the code you end up with, not when you end up with the code. It drives the “activation energy” for trying a different approach, or fixing some structural flaw that’s on the bubble of being “good enough”.

People who can tear down and rebuild a piece of software quickly and fearlessly just try more things, just like mechanics who can rebuild an engine have usually have higher performance cars than the rest of us.

It is obviously not a substitute for thinking deeply, but it can be an aid to thinking deeply.

And outside of some rarified hyper-elite of Thompsons and Carmacks or something, thinking deeply is not a substitute for trying a lot of things.

Now time is finite, and learning to type properly or mastering your tools might not be the highest ROI at a given time, but this meme that “I can type faster than I think so I’m not bounded by typing” (which may not be your view, but you’ll agree is often said) is misleading bollocks that young hackers hear and often heed: which is setting them up to settle for less than their potential.
You still need privileged ports to ensure that the right service binds the port. SRV records are great because I can run on any port but if any compromised process on the system can bind that port you have greatly increased your attack surface. This can maybe be mitigated by dynamically updating the SRV record but that adds complexity and has caching issues.
Instead of saying "it happened", it would be a lot more persuasive if you'd spell it example. What cities did the USA raze in Iraq? Be specific, give me names so I can look it up.
Cant they just stop killing each other?

I dont believe in made up books saying "this is your promised land"

I also dont believe in madeup books saying ",kill jews"

Just stop landgrabbing and/or killing each other jeez.

Defending Israel is such an NPC mentality, theres no good guys in that war they both commit atrocities.
(Ignoring the editorialization)

I believe that the comment is referring to cutting off the cling-wrap to open the case, something that would likely be done by customs in any country.
Talking to people is not going to help you either. You end up getting a lot of noise and making sense of what you hear is difficult. When you keep probing you will get to hear stuff thats not really critical and just often made up because you ask too many questions. Classical trap of market research.
We urgently need the watermark equivalent of a “robots.txt” for Machine Learning
Will be interesting to see how this unfolds.

Will Apple do the "Kindle" model (ad-supported at a lower cost) or the Samsung Model (full price, with ads)?

Paying > $1,000 for a phone and being force-fed ads from a company concerned about your "privacy" seems like an insult?

I certainly hope our future is not one where we buy devices and they come pre-loaded with ads and use our data as well?
To be clear, I’m not asserting that (3) is the case. I’m just saying that as a practical matter it’s a small number and a lot of people that abandon traditional religion fall into your (2).
Fintech: Klarna’s losses triple after aggressive U.S. expansion and mass layoffs
Complexity increasing faster than general knowledge may be true, however, it is much easier for me to do assess safety with a search online for "death rate of copper vs coal miners" than it was in less complex times.

General knowledge has made people aware of complexities that warrant some investigation or questioning, before participating.
Pretty amazing isn't it? Those 1904 times are achievable by many dedicated amateurs (as indicated by the Boston qualifying time requirements). Not just mid-pack pros, but true amateurs who never competed at the elite level.
Wow, I never knew this! Thanks for sharing!
Those aren’t carabiners, they are small quick links and it’s very unlikely anyone is going to be randomly carrying those in the backcountry.

The simplest solution to a broken backpack buckle is another buckle. If you’re going to carry something, carry those. They’re light and cheap and should be part of the repair kit for backcountry travel.

You can also simply thread the strap through the webbing loop and tie it off. Hard to get the length exactly right but works in a pinch.
Good argument is just another name for confirmation bias, most of the time.
I’m not sure if razing a city to ground and killing hundred thousand civilians is “conventional warfare”.
Show HN: Compare long Covid treatments using peer-reviewed evidence
Hi HN!

Disclaimer: A blog post[0] on this topic ended up on HN's front page recently (which had a link to GlacierMD) but I'd already written this whole "Show HN" spiel so I figured I'd submit it anyway. Hopefully this doesn't come across as too spammy! (The previous post was really more about the problem, not my proposed solution.)

Anyway, thanks for checking out GlacierMD—a consumer health tool I've been hacking on for the last few months.

I chose long COVID as the first condition because (sadly) lots of people have it[1] and the research is changing rapidly[2]. Unlike other health references—which are editorial-driven—GlacierMD's data is structured, so (eventually) you'll be able to sort, filter, and compare different symptoms, treatments, and conditions.

All the data is based directly on peer-reviewed evidence. Right now the "primary-research-to-user-friendly-summaries" pipeline is partially automated, and eventually the plan is to automate it to the point where it's cost effective to offer this information at a consumer price point. (Unlike UpToDate and other physician references, which have awesome information but are priced waaaay outside the budget of most consumers.) Another advantage of this pipeline: it runs daily, which means GlacierMD's data is a lot fresher than most other long COVID resources.

Long-time HN readers might remember a postmortem[3] about a similar concept I had five years ago—hopefully I've taken some of those lessons to heart!

I'm always looking for feedback—I'll do my best to respond to comments here but feel free to email me at tom@tjcx.me. Thanks for reading!

[0] https://blog.tjcx.me/p/why-is-webmd-so-awful
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/...
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/
[3] https://blog.tjcx.me/p/40k-fantastic-startup-idea
“Resist! Be skeptical! Have no tolerance for poor arguments made with data. Keep intrinsic motivation alive.” the last sentence was the TL;DR
Biodegrable plastic is a partial solution to discarded plastic, but not discarding it in the first place is better.

Non-fossil fuel inputs to make plastic are good, as they divert money from fossil fuel producers and (if done well) will be capturing carbon from the atmosphere and locking it into plastic.

The bigger points are:

Producer responsibility: make the corporation deciding to use the plastic, pay for the cost of collecting and recycling it.

This then leads directly to reduction in unnecessary plastic usage, efficiency in their use of plastic, design for easy collection and recycling, and a circular economy that contains carbon (ideally non-fossil carbon) in useful products.

People think plastic isn't recyclable, economically or environmentally, but it is as long as you actually try to do so and don't just pretend to do it.

Maybe seaweed has a part to play in that future, but sensible market-based regulations to address externalities is the real 'one neat trick'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_producer_responsibili...
Good question. That can happen - though it's usually for more junior roles. In that case I give them a take home task. The important thing here is that whether or not the result is good, I commit to talking it through with them (provided it works).

You might ask "why spend your time walking through code for a candidate that won't make it through?" Well, it's important for me that if people aren't a good fit for the role, they would be happy recommend us to people that they think are a good fit. Interviewing with that mindset ensures I (and my team) treat candidates like people, instead of like numbers.

In the spirit of the actual Ask HN though, I have had a small number of candidates that were deceptive, or difficult. In those cases it's just a polite but firm "I'm going to have to draw this call to close because <xyz /> and I don't want to string you along." Fortunately I've not had a person different to the interview show up on day 1 though... that'd be a little more awkward.
Show HN: CNN vs. Transformers in Computer Vision
This has never not been true, capitalists or politicians have always been happy to send someone else to be injured or die to make themselves rich. The article in the OP is shockingly ignorant of how regulations come to be, which makes sense as the author is just another hopeful capitalist willing to throw us all in the fire if he can make a buck.
It used to be possible to do a research MSc at Northern Universities (Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, etc.) with no bachelors degree, just needed enough industry experience to satisfy the department.
> razing a city to the ground or wiping out most of the population of entire towns.

In Fallujah the US destroyed over half the homes, displaced 100,000s of people and admitted to using white phosphorus. You are misremembering.
Crypto is already an "industry of humans". OpenSea is a centralized company, run by humans, and they sometimes need to intermediate when there are bugs or problems in their platform that causes users to lose funds. They also have to comply with the laws of whatever country they are registered in. If an OpenSea developer fat fingered their contract deployment, it would cause massive losses.

But what does that matter? The point of decentralization is not to abolish humans, services, platforms, user-experience designs. The blockchain acts as a neutral base layer, and competing services can operate on top of the same shared data. OpenSea has limited control over the NFTs being listed on it, which is why you can buy and sell the same assets on other platforms.
Performance falls into the article's category of "things you can reliably measure."

Thus, the author would agree that in performance optimization, you should collect and analyze data.
I found some isolated incidents of war crimes by the US in Iraq. There's nothing like command sanctioned massacring of civilians like the Russians are doing in Ukraine. Can you provide some more info?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes#Iraq_...
In the case of months, I wouldn't be surprised if orange is also picked for October (esp. if you're in North America - pumpkins, Halloween) and white and blue picked for December (esp. if you are in the northern hemisphere or if you are exposed to Christmas).
GCC vs. LLVM Clang Compilers for the Apple M2 on Linux
That is a very big number, but I wonder how many of those are multiuser, such that there may be concern an unprivileged user might leverage privileged ports to intentionally cause havoc. I know... all of them. Users aren't necessarily people, and usually not.
> I’m not sure if razing a city to ground and killing hundred thousand civilians is “conventional warfare”.

Not sure what you mean - that's exactly what it is - do you think 'conventional' has some kind of ethical meaning? If so you're just mistaken about what the term means.

It means along the spectrum it's higher intensity than something like a counter-insurgency operation, or 'sub-threshold' we might say, but it's not as far gone as a nuclear engagement.
Mostly https://tenor.com/view/aliens-newt-mostly-gif-25791528
How we clone a running VM in 2 seconds
This entire discussion makes a good case for why the general populace would benefit from being taught the basics of philosophy.

In this case the topic of value is the often fraught relationship between empiricism and rationalism, and the impacts each have on the scientific process, research, education, and how we go about understanding the world.

To operate with one with a complete absence of the other is to expose yourself to huge, often fundamental gaps in your thinking, your arguments, and your plans. This is what the author is ultimately getting at from the direction of the empirical: data, in the form of a large collection of discrete observations, can be used to justify a sea of mutually exclusive claims that may or may not be in accordance with reality, and that's to say nothing about the quality of the data itself.
I think they would be kicked out of Canada if they didn't. :-P
All I did was ask for a summary. Then those who want can go into detail, and those who first want to read a summary (which used to be quite normal when you read e.g. a news article) only read that, or decide afterwards if they want to read further.

Another commentator provided the summary [1], the feature set is available in text supported by pictures at the second half of this page (you can skip the first ~50% of the page if you want to read the summary).

[1] https://www.lttstore.com/products/screwdriver
Yes, you're right; but I think the parent comment was suggesting something else. ARM is in a weird spot right now, it's a licensed ISA with dozens of extensions and prefabbed cores, but mounting competition on all sides. Everyone that isn't Apple is woefully unequipped to make ARM desktop chips, and even on the server side of things ARM is struggling to fend off x86 in every category except raw value. That mostly leaves them with a low-margin embedded market to cater to, which could just as easily get poached by RISC-V once Chinese manufacturers are designing their own cores for pennies on the dollar.

In fairness, ARM's ownership of the ARM ISA couldn't be an advantage very long. Much like x86, ARM is just old nowadays. Unless you're supplanting it with a half-dozen ISA extensions and additional hardware, it's a hard sell for anything other than embedded/minimalist applications. Which makes it all the more odd that ARM is picking legal fights instead of making it easier for customers to adopt their (proprietary!!!) instruction set. My untrained, unsolicited opinion is that ARM is just pivoting to support their pre-existing customers and lock-down the money makers.
Except people said the same thing in 1970 compared to 1870 when there was essentially no digital influence on art in 1970.

Compared to the 1800s, art has been pushed towards things that are "simpler" in all areas and it's not because of digitalization. Rothko didn't happen because of a bucket fill tool.
It's so beautiful, it makes me think it might be a render - after I learned how many "photos" in IKEA's catalogues are actually just using physically-based rendering extremely well, and not being to tell at all, that thought keeps popping up.
Yes, you can debate the fairness angle. But an important angle is missed here.

Apparently, this output, in whichever way it was constructed, was favored. Maybe it's just pretty, maybe it emotes, maybe it communicates something very well. I don't know, but I assume the jury was competent in being an art judge.

My point is that this redirects a lot of talking points by artists to the trash bin.

Art only has meaning when created by a human. NOPE.
An artists' "lived experience" is the main driver of art. NOPE.
Art is meaning and only humans can communicate meaning. NOPE.

All these arguments are largely sentimental as actual output seems to be leading.

I can already foresee elitist art critics pondering for days over the meaning of a piece, whilst sipping their wine. Whilst "the piece" is a guy in a basement typing "pretty fantasy landscape, epic lighting".
Of course they’re not. They’re selling a shallow self-help brand, disguised as greybeard developer insights.

It’s easy to find examples of actual great developers & read about their work.
Tutorial on using LLVM to JIT PyTorch graphs to native code (x86/arm/RISC-V)
I was expecting something about articulate vocal minorities.
>And all while RISC-V is nipping at their heels. It's like they want to make it really clear how troublesome licencing proprietary arches is.

Presumably similarly troublesome to licensing SiFive's proprietary IP?
Importantly: a lot of advice is contextual. If you lack the context, then it’s just noise.

Part of what makes an executive coach any good is the relationships they develop so that they can offer relevant advice.

A lot of startup “advice” is like that. What people think matters probably didn’t, and what worked in one case probably won’t in yours. Context is king.
Wow, HN meets Team Dresch!

I've lived 'mentally' in Athens as an European youngster, I'm eager to read some stories, if you were there, then, please share!
I received a product I had paid $400 for, that did not have a YKK zipper: the zipper was already compromised by the time I received it.

it caused me to look more closely at the materials and workmanship:

* extremely cheap materials
* messy workmanship

had the zipper been of decent quality, I probably wouldn't have looked as closely as I did and would be cursing how quickly it all fell apart.

in hindsight, it saved me some effort, as I was able to return, but it also turned me off forever on the brand.

a quality zipper matters, and if you don't have one, what else was skimped on?
I run my own email using mail-in-a-box running on a 5 dollar Linode, works like a charm with almost no maintenance (the little maintenance I do is always requested automatically by the system itself, and I'm notified by email)
People accepted telephone that used just numbers, they would accept case-sensitive e-mail as well. Everyone would just use small caps.
"A good typist (which I'll call 100 WPM, a point beyond which I diminishing returns make further improvement less important) can do the writing-is-thinking process 4x more in the same amount of clock time as a 25 WPM typist."

...if they spend all that type typing.
Is it same as YARN?
I purchased three keys for each family member for Christmas. They’re not the most technically savvy and it hasn’t been an issue for them at all.

(One is on their keychain with an AirTag, one is stored securely in their home. One is stored offsite.)

Every site I’ve registered them with has allowed me to register all three keys. Nobody has lost a key yet (thanks AirTag) but it wouldn’t be a huge ordeal if they did. Just delete that key from their services and use a backup.
Theoretically it's supposed to be now (>$10K GDPPc). Yet, 4 years of Trump really wrecked everybody minds. Now those values aren't seen as ideal but surrender to the US. I saw Chinese reaction to the death of Gorby recently, wasnt pleasant.

Anyway, Chinese determination to recover Taiwan will not change even if her GDPPc is 50k or more. The quest of national restoration will not be abated by a mere richer country.
I occasionally write one of these blogs. I have been programming for 32 years and have achieved more success by doing it than I could have expected. I've learned a few things here and there. Some days I write amazingly great code, most days, vomitus shit code. All this experience just means I recognize better which is which. But I keep learning, every day.

I was lucky when I was a rookie to have a great mentor, to guide me into thinking about what I do and in challenging the practices and techniques of coding. I see a lot of developers these days without mentors, who look elsewhere for guidance and ideas.

And part of the problem with us (great and not great - it irrelevant IMHO) developers is we're all really good (or getting better at) at coding (it is what we love and do), but on average we're pretty awful at communicating. I learned much from the few I met who could communicate.

So I started to write. To learn how to communicate. And the best forum for that is the internet. Fast, clear, and often brutal feedback abounds. You either get better or you get out. Looking back, my early writing was terrible, you decide if it got better.

My goal was to share the nuggets I picked up over the years and share them, the good and bad. To be a virtual mentor, to pay back what I received. Some nuggets I believe are solid gold and I hope readers will find parts of them to help themselves grow, and some nuggets are radioactive and I hope readers will dodge these traps. I do not believe I am right all the time (and again, an internet discussion often reveals flaws in my knowledge and experience), all I wish to do is add value.

I do not tag myself as a "great" programmer, I trust I am not being too arrogant saying I am an "above average" programmer, this industry is huge and there is still much to learn for anyone to claim the title "master builder".
That actually is conventional warfare
Non-paywalled link:
https://archive.ph/thWQz
Since you're getting downvoted, citation provided [0]. This was a huge deal in F1.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Formula_One_crash_cont...
Seems rather naive to assume that it for some reason would remain out of reach for a totalitarian state with a 1B+ population. And especially considering that there appear to be a few Chinese names on pretty much every major research paper released these days.
Ask HN: Why is Reddit deleting NSFW Stable Diffussion subreddits?
As title says. Reddit seems to be on a banning-spree and removing anything that is AI-related and NSFW. The r/StableDiffusion subreddit recently banned NSFW content as well.

There is plenty of NSFW overall on Reddit, but AI-generated NSFW doesn't seem to be mentioned in any site-wide rules, in the Terms of Service and no reasoning is being provided by Reddit.

So why is this happening?
And? All desktop and mobile apps are able to persist data. The purpose of disabling cookies was privacy protection, not a 'storing local data is a crime' stance.
The art world?

So we are just fine with 'empty' aesthetics? (that is disruptive) So the new definition of art would be: 'a human/ai product of any kind, be it remix or whatever you can sell as art'.
Okay:
creatively, nothing is lost in the musical arts.

Music is more creative and varied than ever. You just don't like it as much.
Or this deeper meaning having no meaning or relevance.

I once was in a modern art museum featuring an enormous room. In one corner were 3 beach chairs.

That was the art. The curator encouraged me to think deeply about the piece, its meaning, its intent, the artist behind it.

Yes, I'd call that snobbery.
I also live in Europe and I'd love to buy their merch but the shipping and customs costs add up immensely so there's no way I'm buying anything from them.
Somewhat related to this is Kardashian Index [1]

[1] the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashian_Index
I mostly use a prefix generated from the name of the service + the yubikey button to paste the rest. If my key would fail I still have pwd reset options and I keep a copy of it in a password safe. That said, the dongle is a few years old and it still seems to work just fine while being subjected to mechanical strain from other keys.

I dislike any form of 2FA with my phone involved. Low battery, low privacy, phones just generally suck if they are involved in security. I would even prefer the old SMS while being staunchly aware that and code will be send in free text.

Still better than some shitty random app from the shitty app store.

I would be careful about a hash of a public text. I certainly would at least XOR it with secret value, even if its appearance in rainbow tables is very unlikely.
Help us out. What exactly are you talking about?