skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m the developer of an iOS and iPadOS app that I think is relevant here. My app Ephemera is a simple read-later application that places expiration dates on every link you add. If you don’t read the article in time, it disappears forever.

The app isn’t for everyone, but if you are buried under the torrent of information you “think” you should read, I have found that Ephemera helps me focus and actually read more.

You can find the app here: https://deadpan.io/ephemera/

I’d love for Hacker News to check it out!
> If it's deeply unpopular why is it so threatening

Because of who is behind the unpopular thing, and who has power to make (thing) happen.

Nuclear weapons are also deeply unpopular.

> Won't the market quickly show that "bugs and lab-grown abominations" can't stand?

The market won't have a say when bureaucrats pass a law mandating every burger or sausage should contain a % of lab-grown meat, with the % increasing every year. If there's anything the recent years have showed is that slippery slope isn't a fallacy.
No, I don't mean 3D animated elements, I mean 3D interfaces.

Think like if you went to Amazon's website and had to navigate product categories by moving around in an FPS-like interface. This was a thing for a while—it never went big, but there was real excitement around it and some effort was put into it, only to find that (obviously) it sucks for anything but games (duh) and maybe art projects of some kinds.
> Basically all foods are cells so they contain all the normal cellular machinery like DNA. As long as lab grown meat is just normal animal cells nothing new is going on.

That's a very simplified and misleading stance. We already have problem with normal grown foods for various reasons, including unexpected and harmful outcomes of breeding. Food is complex, and handling of food is even more complex. And research is limited in what it can find, and if there are financial interests, it will limit itself even more in what it communicates.
You seem to be imputing motivation for using Rust, then criticizing them for making your assumption. If they had written a fuzzer in python, would you assume they used python because they had the mistaken idea that a slower program would produce better results?

It seems like a much more likely explanation is they know Rust well and it is their tool of choice. Another possibility is that a good fuzzer is non-trivial and they appreciate the compile-time checks offered by the language to avoid an entire class of errors.
Yeah and watch your azure bill skyrocket even for the most trivial cases! Source: am in an org using cosmos in prod for some basic use cases.
Why subscribe to the endurance running hypothesis, though? There are no contemporary examples of humans hunting that way, and hominids were already making tools by the time they had developed to subsist on meat. The endurance/persistence hypothesis doesn't even make sense without tools like spears, knives, or arrows, because humans don't kill their prey by biting into them. If they had access to primitive weaponry, why would they waste energy running when they could instead ambush? Even other species like chimps and dolphins, that can't chuck spears, hunt by surrounding their prey. The only reason the hypothesis is even a thing is because people find it confusing that we sweat so much.

If anything, the persistence running hypothesis in some way discredits the idea that hominids relied on rotten meat. If they could catch fresh prey, why eat spoiled meat? Yet our stomach acid has a very low pH, more acidic than even that of cats.

What's more likely, in my opinion, is hominids began to supplement their diet by eating the leftover kills of larger predators as well as any rotting carcasses they may have encountered, and then developed hunting strategies around when they began developing tools. Even having sharp knives made of stone or volcanic glass would have been an obvious advantage in food procurement, and it wouldn't have taken millions of years to figure out that slashing an animal's throat in the right place would take it down quickly. No need for persistence running at all if a group can corner a mammoth or buffalo or lead it to a dead end.
I was thinking of the Ruger Single Six, where you swap cylinders to shoot the two rounds. Not sure I'd want to try it in an autoloader. The difference in cartridge length not fully engaging the bullet into the throat can't be good for it.

E: Not to mention the excess fouling in the chamber and even back into the action. Cleaning that is no fun.
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That sounds like the Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) as opposed to the TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure).

Some people use BMR as a target for losing weight, but BMR is sort of like how much energy you'd burn being in a coma. TDEE (1.2 x BMR, ish) would include daily activities like walking around, so is generally more appropriate.
I prefer to read the full book as well, I just know that there are certain books for which that will never happen. For example, I would love to have already read one of those 4” thick biographies of Winston Churchill but I have almost no desire to start reading one of them.
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I think you are referring to old VR experience, the tech is pretty mature now, latency is super low, tracking is good, on pretty much any model. I play a lot of VR games and never get sick. The only one where I got a little dizzy was with 6dof FPS, which isn't really due to VR specifically.

Although it is true some people get sick easily in VR, those people tend to also have trouble with car sickness and sea sickness. I suppose you can say the same about cars and VR for that group.
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Ask HN: AI-generated spam pull requests?
Are you seeing pull requests in open source projects that are clearly AI-generated?

We recently had someone open a pull request to our open source project and the code and the explanation of the code was clearly AI generated. It was obvious that the code doesn't work and the person had not tested the code. We do not know what the end goal of the person was but we confronted the person and closed the pull requests.

Has any other open source projects experienced this? What did you do?
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Jobs for the formerly incarcerated rises again, this time with AI help
I'm the founder and ex-CEO of 70 Million Jobs (1st national, for-profit employment platform for people with criminal records). We helped thousands of deserving men and women land jobs, but when the pandemic hit in force, it destroyed our business.

Several months ago I announced with great sadness that I was ceasing operations. Both the HN and Y Comb. (I was in S17) were incredibly supportive. I'll never forget that.

But I'm not done with my work. Like most, I'm amazed at the potential of AI. I know that employing it to help people with records land jobs would be enormously effective, so I am planning to launch a new company, SecondChance AI.

Most of the people coming out of prison have no clue on how to land a job; how to create a resume and cover letter, where to look, how to apply, etc. And that's assuming they have the most basic of tech skills--which many don't.

If that wasn't challenging enough, nearly all employer HR departments have internal parameters for who they can and cannot consider, based on criminal records. Unfortunately, they generally don't share this information, so we have job seekers applying to jobs they can never land, and HR departments assessing candidates that they can never hire (they only know this after getting a background check, which happens at the very end of the assessment process).

What if jobseekers (and there are 70 million Americans--1 in 3 adults) with records could access an app powered by AI that would create the resume, cover letter, search for available jots (most importantly, those that would accommodate their record) and apply on their behalf?

Obviously a great service to job seekers, but to employers as well--saving them time and money.

I think this would be very fundable and would scale very well.

I'm considered a national expert on reentry, and I certainly know how both sides of this marketplace work. I'm seeking a co-founder and/or CTO/tech lead to work with me on this.

I can't begin to describe how gratifying this work is. If interested in learning more, contact me at Richard@70MillionJobs.com.
From past experience a couple of years ago, I recognise this. I don't know how things are now, but their billing system was siloed off from everything else. They were, IMHO, too ready to cut off features when there were billing hiccoughs.
I’m CEO at Neon. Happy to answer questions.
Nobody, but the specs are so simple you can audit them yourself usually. For me it's mostly about low friction packaging my own software tbh.
A huge % of reserved seats go empty, simply because there aren't enough candidates.

That should tell you where the problem is: most don't even make it all the way to higher education.

You have to first fix primary and secondary education. But to fix that, you have to first fix rural society where caste hierarchies are still dominant.

Do you think incidents like these are conducive to pushing scheduled castes to higher education?
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/16-year-...
Mastering flexbox seems to be what most people really need to do.
> That's why you see parties that short based on relatively unknown information publish that information as loud as they can after they've made their trades so that they can control the timing to some extent.

Case in point...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35278316
I seem to recall people joking about the irony of bots solving captchas a few years back. No one's laughing now.
The St. Lawrence river is massive. The total watershed is larger than the Hudson , Connecticut, Merrimack and four largest rivers of Maine combined.

Unrelated, but the Robert-Bourossa dam spillway can discharge water at a rate similar to the capacity of the St. Lawrence as it flows near Quebec City.

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2014/09/the-colossal-stepped-s...
Partly. The article doesn't reach 10 sentences long before it talks about how poorly the bike shops treat women who want bikes.
Hugely disappointed by Alloydb. Price and performance for a write heavy workload where off the charts horrible. It didn’t even support disabling an instance and it did only storage autoscaling much worse overall experience than using Aurora we moved back to cloudsql.

Does someone have good experience with Alloydb?
I've been angry at Canonical for lots of things, but no longer having native apt package for Firefox was forced by Mozilla...
Yeah a traditional 10x engineer would know how to create/use leverage to enable much more work to be done faster in this case creating a great tool, reminds me about a car mechanic how he showed me this weird tool and said it was one of the most useful tool he’s fashioned
Moved to Debian a while ago because of the mess with Unity and snaps, etc…

A shame, since ubuntu got me into linux desktop back then, but in the end they keep screwing things up needlessly.
For stuff like this (connecting to a router) you really want to have serial adapters. Because it may or may not work, and if it doesn’t work, a bus pirate or raspberry pi pico has a lot more variables to troubleshoot.
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You seem be be claiming that having a conversation with GPT-4 would be as enlightening as having a conversation with Richard Feynman, and that the only missing piece is AR good enough to replay it in your living room instead of on a screen. I promise you, you are much more confident in GPT-4's abilities if you really think thia than it's most adoring creator.
Editing Roald Dahl for sensitivity was silly
Citation needed on the "selling" part.
Lab grown red meat is actually closer than you think. Factories are being set up around the world. My guess is that in around a year, two years tops, you'd be able to see some general availability.
My guess from having worked in close proximity to the executives involved is that it was more of a skunkworks/prototyping group, possibly partnering with ILMxLab, Pixar, Disney Animation, and the streaming group. While Disney is not really a tech company, there are pockets of high end expertise which I think are relevant to the loosely defined “metaverse.”

Mike White, the exec leading the group, reported into Kareem Daniel, who was central to Chapek’s vision of Disney. So it was a significant role. Mind you, Daniel was fired about five seconds after Iger returned.
We Survived Spreadsheets, and We’ll Survive AI (2017)
I do anyway. I find the entire concept oddly compelling. To fabricate a completely immersive online world is just fascinating to me. I would love to see this work someday.

Unfortunately, today I can't even use VR for more than a few minutes before I'm ready to vomit and my eyes feel like they're being pulled out of my head.
If I understand correctly, AlloyDB is a Postgres compatible re-implementation, so there's no shared code. So this is a bit like Wine compared to Windows, only with the big corp re-implementing the OSS software instead of the other way round.
Indeed it's not about what you type, it's about what you don't.
Fedora's really nice. Try it~

Alternately, I could shill for NixOS. It's also really nice. Eventually.
https://archive.is/Uhwj8

https://archive.today/Uhwj8
the AUR is user supported, no claims are made, but AURs are built off of short scripts called PKGBUILDs so it's easy to audit, you're gonna want to look for the line that links to a tar archive or git repository.
I'm afraid that complaints about the use of literally as an intensifier comes off as naive these days.

https://youtu.be/0p5oNM86Hgw?t=257

@4:17
"No one complains about "fabulous"... or "marvelous"... or even the word "very"... etymologically meaning true..."

I myself am coming to a place of acceptance about the use of "begs the question" to mean "raises the question". While I will never use it that way, I no longer literally grind my teeth to dust when I hear it.
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And do get 2, for 3.3v and 5v signals.
Ok, why do you think this? Transport needs to be decarbonized, but it's a very tiny portion of our food system's climate impact. Land use is a major portion, but it's still not as significant as cows themselves. Maybe you're underestimating the scale? There are a billion cows on earth that simply wouldn't exist if we stopped eating them and drinking their milk. It's not like a normal natural resource that we're just tapping into. They do not exist in the wild, and basically any other food (even other animals) could give us the calories and nutrients we need with far fewer emissions.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/food-emissions-supply-cha...

https://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/197623/icode/
The fields are final, so they can't be volatile. :-) Using one of the fence methods on VarHandles would ensure the correct ordering. To stop the profiler thread it would be best to provide a controlled method of doing it, there's a lot of way it can be implemented but you probably want to signal it in some way and then do a join() to wait while it shuts down cleanly.
> Something else is going on here: maybe they were saddled with something so bad it could only be fixed so much, maybe there's some technical hurdle we're just not appreciating

They started with Electron, and are now moving to WebView2. When the project started Edge was still not Chromium based (it was the IE fork) so they couldn't even use that.
"Lab grown abominations" are the only way I, as a vegetarian, get to enjoy hard cheese.

GM bacteria rennet.

Of course, part of why I'm vegetarian is that the idea of scraping off the stomach lining of a baby cow in order to turn milk into a convenient solid is, to me, also an abomination…
Odo: You'd shoot a man in the back?
Garak: Well, it's the safest way isn't it.
I can see where this comes from, but in my case Tailwind is nice because while I know a good deal about CSS it is far from my core competency. Tailwind offers me a well organized toolbox of things that are all good enough, but more importantly easy for me to use pick up and use occasionally. It is also something that I can work in with both FE and BE engineers, it provides a nice lowest common denominator.
Because people will generate more crap and throw it at you as the quality control. They'll have less knowledge overall as they cede more to chat GPT. Also your impact will be in cr, so they'll send you more people. You get faster and more responsive using chat GPT to review, so you'll do more reviews, causing people to send more frequent ones to get your feedback faster. Eventually just hire some interns to toss plausible shit at gpt and then you. Fire the ftes. Done.
Already possible, this is my workflow:

Submit you favorite books to ChatGPT, ask for 10 keywords that describe the book.

Then ask for the keywords that repeat more than once and put those keywords into TheStoryGraph.

With this workflow you avoid "hallucinated" books. And thanks to this the worst suggestions are 4/5 stars.
Thanks I hadn't got around to watching that yet just did. My to-read/watch list is getting ridiculous now as I just cant keep up with the pace given job/life!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7xTBa93TX8
I don't see any novel TV. The last truly novel TV format was probably the different reality TV formats which exploded 20 years ago and kind of took over everything. Netflix which has dropped billions of dollars on TV basically decided to just copy every format which was successful on cable TV, and has invented nothing novel as far as I can tell except for the interactive TV specials (https://help.netflix.com/en/node/62526) which didn't really seem to take off.
Something I stored disappearing feels like a stressful concept to me, but maybe it works for some.
$335,000 Pay for ‘AI Whisperer’ Jobs Appears in Red-Hot Market
The fallacy is petitio principii: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question

The assumption is that the two operating systems are comparable, for the reasons given in the same sentence after the comma.

And of course, no one is forcing you to run linux for your work.
> He goes on to explain that because the primary cost in software development is the overhead of coordinating minds, a company is far better off paying for just a few really good programmers than they are 10 times that number of mediocre ones.

If that’s really the primary cost, surely one of the metrics they studied variation in is the coordination cost imposed by the programmer on the company, they didn’t just naively assume the cost was the same but output different, right?

Because it seems like if it does vary, you’d want to minimize it by hiring the easiest to coordinate, and that might offset output differences in sone cases.
Here's why I have no interest in trying Tailwind:

- It's a DSL within a DSL, which as a rule of thumb I always avoid because it means circumventing any static analysis within the main language. The rest of my complaints are mostly derived from this fundamental issue.

- It reminds me (not in a good way) of bootstrap classes circa 2011

- Unlike styled components, there is no static typing or intellisense as it circumvents the TS compiler. I'm sure Tailwind has its own solutions to this problem, but I have enough tooling to deal with already

- It's an arcane "language" that needs to be learned in addition to every other language in your codebase, which makes it difficult to onboard new devs

- A string value containing a long list of short identifiers does not make for readable nor maintainable code

- In 2033, CSS will still be around. Nobody knows whether Tailwind will be, but if "reminds me of bootstrap" is any indication, the ecosystem will not be thriving.

- It's not easy to remove from your project if you decide you don't want to use it anymore (unlike solutions that use CSS or object syles, which can be more readily swapped between frameworks, e.g. migrating from MUI to Emotion or from Emotion to CSS modules)

- None of the problems it purports to solve are recognizable to me

I know that people like Tailwind, but frankly I don't see why, and I suspect there may be some element of stockholm syndrome driving its popularity. And I'm always skeptical of any technology with culty vibes around it.

As for me, my preferred solution is either CSS modules or emotion.js, using either CSS or styled objects, both of which are fully supported by intellisense and typechecking, and are based on a 25 year old standard language instead of a 3 year old DSL within that language.
That was interesting, I read 'Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes' a few years back and it left me thinking about all kinds of things, linguistic/cultural etc.

Excerpt: https://www.npr.org/2009/12/23/121515579/excerpt-dont-sleep-...
That command works on snapd 2.58+, even Ubuntu 22.10 still ships 2.57.5 unless you've gotten extra channels enabled.

It's a very new addition after people being pissed for years. I suspect most people would be fine without hold if the auto-update would be seamless. Years ago it literally unmounted applications' storage abruptly, sessions and databases still open... Not well thought-out.
I don't quite know where you're going with this. Are you saying killing those bulls is okay if it's for circus and drama, and those bulls live a few nice years before being hunted through the streets and stabbed to death, because animals die all the time anyway?

There's a kind of carefree righteous kind of person that thinks they are reacting at events rather than systems. So they're agitated by other perspectives than their own, because they alone can see how the world works, and this automatically makes them good people. Isn't it good to be a good person?
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> The problem with that model is that it puts the burden on the distro maintainers to package every possible application for their distro.

You know, that was never a problem when we had to package the other 500000 packages available in debian, just when users want seemingly popular packages updated more than once per decade. Firefox for starters.
everyone means "significantly" when they use that phrase.

otherwise, even an ant changes the world but nobody would say that.
The last time I went to Universal in LA, all the rides had a VR component to them, the real-life amusement parks are turning to VR + motion. Some of these were jiggly seats, others had flying platforms, and others pulled you in a train through VR scenes. (The ride that people liked the least was minions, which just had tipping and shaking seats, but the 3D made people sick.)
I worked with a guy who was reputed as a 10x engineer.

After about 6 months on his team it became apparent that he was very good at communicating to his management, very good at writing excess complexity into his code, and very good at preventing the developers he was leading from taking on large or impactful projects.

My takeaway was that he was more of a "turn-everyone-else-into-1/10X" developer. I jumped onto a different team as soon as the opportunity came up (as did most of the folks who worked with him).
>There will be no good or service missing in the market.

A lot of services would go missing, actually!

Ransomeware gangs would no longer be able to easily receive their ill-gotten gains.
The North Korean regime would lose a major source of funding.
Darknet drug marketplaces would have a much more difficult time facilitating illegal activities.
Etc.
Worlds apart. However it is still interesting to use and seems to give good answers for some queries.