skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Variable speed of light must be considered
Our Billy shelves are 15 years old and I would not consider them disposable, poorly designed, or fabricated from low-quality materials. Frankly, they have been an excellent investment. The same goes for the couches our kids jumped on for years.

I suspect this comes from having been assembled by an engineer and not the average [insert mechanically unqualified archetype here for flamewar].

For decorating reasons that I cannot explain, I periodically disassemble some pieces and store them for future reintroduction after painting or some other visual adjustments without issue, keeping in mind that all those little metal bits must be stored in a bag and tie-wrapped to the kit.

I find a certain elegance in the austere design simplicity and construction but recognize it may not be to everyone's preferred taste. Like most objects around us, IKEA products have potential for good or evil, depending upon the user's intent and usage.
Tru. Or maybe I hate them because I love them enough o want better. Or maybe I am just cruel and loveless.
I'm not trying to sway any minds, the majority of people aren't going to change their meat consumption habits at all and honestly I'm fine with that. I never said in my comment that everyone should be vegetarian. Being vegetarian requires a lot of thoughtfulness, especially if you're at all athletic (I train muay thai and ashtanga yoga), and most people don't have the time for it (or think they don't).

People become exceedingly defensive when they're asked to confront the reality of their habits, and honestly I think it's probably too much for people to even begin to consider. I have deep empathy for that as a fellow human as I've been through it too and have experienced both sides of it multiple times (meat eating -> veg -> meat eating -> and now back to veg for good).
Senior devs aren't the big decision makers. Management is.
Thanks for posting this!

I'm the creator of ResearchGPT. A few things folks here might appreciate:

(1) You don't have to share data with the LLM provider to use this; it only shares metadata about your data set

(2) The demo uses Anthropic's Claude, rather than OpenAI's ChatGPT, but you can use our library to swap out any LLM

(3) It's open source!! Woo!
If a candidate said that they would use ChatGPT to answer the problem, then I'd start to talk to them about the legal issues surrounding that approach. What would they do if the hiring organization forbade the use of ChatGPT for anything?

I would hope that all SWE candidates would understand software licensing to some extent and how to behave in a way that would not put the hiring organization in a legally risky position.
Interesting. How does local development work or remote debugging work if the entire production toolchain is abstracted away with proprietary software?
Is this targeted only / primarily towards GPUs?
Before Poland joined the EU, one of leftovers from communism was that IP laws resembled these in China - in reality there were none in effect.

Imagine farmers' market but with bootleg VHS and audio cassettes, CDs, brand clothes etc. In every major city. On a weekly basis.

Great majority of Poles were poor as shit and buying original copy of music or video cassette was a very distant thought. Piracy was "normal". I was introduced to The Prodigy by my math teacher, who lent me a copy-copy of their Music for the Jilted Generation. I learned English from pirated movies. Got to know a lot of great music and TV shows.

I now own all of Prodigy's CDs as well as hundreds of other legal music CDs and BluRay sets/boxes. Not a chance in hell I'd buy all this without a taste of a product beforehand.

Looking at this from 2023, I believe that our access to affordable (pirated) creations of western culture allowed up to leave Soviet (or communist as we were not a part of CCCP) mentality behind more quickly.
The first Sybase grew out of the Ingres project at UCB, so transitively, SQL Server is also a descendant.
I don't know that this should be fixed. It seems so fundamental to the core language that it's simply the cost of doing business.

The set of projects in 2023 that should be done in C are not that big. Even the Linux kernel is getting Rust.

C is still good for embedded stuff, but there tends to be much less string manipulation there than in most other code.
The people who were hyping it said it will be the next major currency. Right now it's literally no different to people getting excited about beanie babies - sure those beanie babies have appreciated in value by 1000s of percent, but at the end of the day they are still just stupid toys and nothing more.

So no, people didn't get it right. If anything they got it catastrophically wrong and the entire premise was hijacked by people who saw it as an excellent investment/scam opportunity.
No matter how big you make it. Someone will find a way to overflow it.
Far be it from me to defend something as generally odious as the use of antibiotics in agriculture, but this article refers to one specific class of antibiotics, described as "antimicrobial peptides" but more precisely polymyxins, and particularly to colistin. You may be familiar with colistin as an "antibiotic of last resort" which is heavily restricted even in medicine.

But check the list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_use_in_livestock

You will notice that all but two are not peptides. "Peptides" are themselves a broad class of chemical, not implying a mechanism of action — contrast beta-lactams which damage cell walls — and bacitracin (which is distinct) has been used in poultry in the United States for fifty years without creating any immune-bypassing microorganisms. It should be distinguished from the polymyxins, the colistin family, which share a mechanism of action and are particularly important in the treatment of infections which have become resistant to other antibiotics.

I was unable to find any evidence of polymyxins being used in agriculture in the United States or the West more broadly.

http://www.msdvetmanual.com/pharmacology/antibacterial_agent...

>Polymyxin is not labeled for oral or parental use for any veterinary species in the US.

That is not to justify the use of antibiotics in agriculture, which threatens millions of lives by endangering one of the most valuable medical technologies in human history, but it is not helpful to make claims which are not supported by the evidence. The use of colistin — or any polymyxins — in pigs in China is egregious (and has been belatedly banned by Chinese authorities in 2016). Linking this to meat consumption in the United States, where polymyxins are not used in agriculture, is suspect.
Literally the current one? I mean yes there's the lab leak theory, but still the common explanation is that it first jumped the species gap at a meat market.
Given the state of politics in the US, this isn't much of a surprise. But it's also not a surprise mathematically.

In a nation where plurality voting is widespread, we could expect a 60% majority (the Christian population) to win 100% of the elections. The fact that we have any elected non-Christians is perhaps the unlikely part of this story... (surely due, in part, to an uneven distribution of religious representation across regions)
Why the Animal Kingdom Is Full of Con Artists
Another relevant piece by Matt Levine is about Hertz, who were in a similar situation in 2020 iirc: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-05-12/money-...
Archived: https://archive.ph/BuDuh
It actually can. Bacteria reproduce and die off rapidly. That means the rates of mutation are high. If there's no selective pressure from the antibiotics, then there's nothing reinforcing that resistance and it can mutate away in a few generations. This has actually been tested in laboratory settings: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6707769/
I am not sure if you mean that dirt-cheap money accelerated the pace of innovation.

But, if that is what you mean, i.e. historically low interest rates accelerate the pace of innovation, we would witness innovation gains in countries with negative or zero interest rates. But we haven't seen any shift.

There's a difference between malinvestment and investing in projects that don't go anywhere.

This is the difference between burning cash in a bonfire, vs using $1 dollar to make $0.XX cents.

I'd argue the system was rife with the former, not the latter
XSLT is garbage tho.
Double plus this. Peoples assumed right to "browse from work", is the new "think of the children"; or "can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it".
Totally agree. Online shopping is only going to get worse: more expensive, less quality, harder to return. On the other hand, brick and mortar places are going to have less variety, and lower quality. You'll spend more time driving all over town to return things or driving all over town to find simple things in stores. Fifteen years ago Target had some pretty solid clothing options, but now it's basically only good for t-shirts and underwear.

I just want to go to a store that has what I need, at the right level of quality, with enough clerks working at any given time. I'll pay extra for that.
It is "not even" because Gary speaks for the SEC as the head (even though he keeps trying to say he doesn't while throwing lawsuits everywhere), while within his agency there are people that are strongly against his actions. So yes, not even the SEC agrees with what the SEC is saying
> Writing a summary of a bill is great to glean it's purpose at a high level. However, this isn't enough to make a decision

Staff summaries are a major driver of decisions on bills as it is.

OTOH, ChatGPT is notoriously bad in any serious legal analysis related task—fast, yes, but quite often outrageously wrong in ways that are very good at convincing non-experts and might often also convince experts if they didn't do the same work (it won’t fool experts on the toy problems it fails, but where its analyzing a large bill that the expert hasn’t also fully analyzed, it may or may not be obvious that the LLM is hallucinating the premise underlying its analysis.)
This is a really good point.

I know super narrow notch filters up in the gigahertz are difficult, but has anyone thought at all about how narrowband the power transmission could reasonably be? Because then at least notching would be possible to squeeze out adjacent spectrum.
YES - these machines have personality!!

Sometimes there are error-runs, where whatever data analysis tool would be misconfigured, or would run on a schedule regardless of there being worthwhile data, and piles of the stuff would chug out.

We had TWO machines, opposite each other, in a chilled room with a raised-tile floor. Very 1960's / 70's chic environment to work in, to my mind. Noisy, lots of "machines that go PING!"
GPT can tell you what's wrong with Bitcoin:

You throw 25 grand on a Bitcoin bet,
The dough lands in a chest, smoky and wet.
You've got your Bitcoin, feelin' alive,
But the chest has plans, man, it's a damn beehive.

It pays the skeptics, those withdrawing in fright,

The electric bill's covered, in the dark of the night,

A Lambo, a threesome, a few folks living in sin,
As the value hits 27 grand, you think it's your turn to win.

But then comes a big fish, an old-time player,
He dumps his coins, like a dirty betrayer.

The price dives to 20 grand, you can't help but feel,
Thousands like you are stuck in a rotten ordeal.

You scramble to withdraw, but the site's a damn mess,

The price keeps on fallin', and the chest reveals its emptiness.

The truth is, it was never full, not even close,
Now you're left with your Bitcoin, feelin' morose.

A voice in the shadows tells you, "It's not about the bread,
Bitcoin's a different way to pay, don't let it go to your head.
Hold tight, and embrace your virtual piece,
The future of money might just find its release."
No, it's really not, and that's why I say it must sometimes be done. Certainly if you're running tens or hundreds of copies of the query per minute, one more won't hurt (much).

The real problem you run into is when the query in question is doing something pathologically bad - locking a bunch of tables and then grinding away for an hour, which effectively is a denial of service attack.
Each layer on the y-axis of a forest has logical and physical relationships to those above and below it.
I'll just keep saying it in this thread, but not once did I say everyone should give up meat. In fact I said go at it, go hunt and kill and eat it!

But the fact that people feel defensive whenever the thought of vegetarianism comes up to me points to the fact that deep down people on an individual level know that it is, to some degree, wrong.
So are you saying that Jane Street more or less bribed people who didn't really care for OCaml to come work in a weird language, by offering a good salary? I find that far-fetched, and there are many other examples of companies attractive highly-competent people because they choose -- no, not exotic, weird, or niche tech, but good tech, that aid people thinking more clearly and abstracting better.

As in everything else, there is a trade-off involved here of course. And what is truly good and helpful is by no means obvious, and might take time to assess.
This is a passion of mine as well , and is called “life logging” or “the quantified life”.

I have a long term passion project called Navigoals (Navigoals.com) built around the concept. It’s like a habit tracker but I organize all my habits/actions into a massive DAG so if I track something at a low level it also bubbles up to a high level goal. I can track instances of things or durations of things (time tracking).

I also have an unpublished iOS version with Apple Watch support, using the Watch is quicker to track stuff.

I realize to many this sounds insane but PLEASE email me waprin@gmail.com if you’re down to watch a demo over video chat.

As far as the people who think I’m crazy, here’s why I’m passionate about this project. I really had trouble focusing my whole life so as an adult I bit the bullet and got ADHD meds. Those helped a LOT at the immediate problem of focusing but literally made me crazy, very crazy, almost ruined my life. During recovery I decided I would meditate 5 minutes every day and journal one paragraph every day, which I used a habit tracker for. This was a key part of my recovery. That got me thinking - if a little tracking saved my life, what can a lot of tracking do? I also needed to better manage my time and goals without the usage of any medication.

People will say the data is pointless if you just admire it, not the case. I noticed in weight loss subs , people strongly advocate starting with food tracking. Just the act of forcing honesty with yourself about what you’re eating will change your relationship with food. In a completely different domain, the most important step to playing pro or semi-pro poker is diligently tracking all results. Same reason - forces honesty. And also in both cases, surfaces trends (e.g. I eat or play poorly certain times of day).

I track over 200 of my actions every day and I strive for my apps to make it quick to do. However it’s important to understand this does not turn me into a robot. My brain is so naturally all over the place , I wander and do random things so much, that just forcing myself to use apps to have _some_ structure and discipline puts me in the balance of a rigid life and an improvised one.

I am realizing I’m in the minority, most people I demo my apps to say, “that seems cool…for a certain type of person.” So, open to connecting with certain types of people.
Isn't "Don't expect what you don't inspect" an American proverb?
The only place to get a new mattress these days and not get ripped off is Costco
> or what HTTP status codes mean.

A junior hire I worked with a little while ago had actually done a college class on web development. I must admit the more senior engineers did rib him a little about it, being a little incredulous that a serious college would teach web dev and give out college credits for it. But nowadays there's even one at Stanford so we were wrong.

Anyways, the first thing they learned in that class was the HTTP protocol.

> I just think they were sold a lie

At the same time, where are the aerospace engineering bootcamps? Where's the law or medicine bootcamp? Did the people enrolling really thing they would be on-par with actual engineers working in the field after 12 weeks?
Right, but the amount of meat we could get from non-intensive agriculture is likely an order of magnitude lower, meaning an order of magnitude rise in price.
Why scientists are making fake Moon dust
The problem with deep learning is opposite. You can understand most of it with just high school math. Advanced math is mostly useless because of the dimensionality of neural nets.
'learn to code' was a refrain during the incredibly hot dev market of the past couple of years.

Hell, I'd have every plumber and electrician that came to work on my house ask which programming language they should learn. It was viral.
It isn’t, in fact it’s more nutrient dense per calories than vegetables and legumes and rich in amino-acids necessary to maintain muscle mass which is increasingly important as you age.

It’s just something the anti-meat crowd parade, while omitting that:

- These beliefs come from epidemiological studies without regards for other life habits such as smoking or dietary choices such as sugar intake.

- Often when saying meat is bad, what is actually referred to is processed meat packed with salt and nitrites.

Eating chicken, pork or beef that you buy raw and cook yourself is healthy.

How much you eat of anything matters too. Don’t eat anything in excess and move.
I work for myself and own all of my own equipment, so believe me, I am more than happy to load anything legal at work without triggering a filter or getting a visit from a boss. Sadly not everyone has this privilege.
Show HN: BreakoutList but for high-impact climate companies
"I'm a software engineer and I want to work on solving climate change - where do I start?"

A few months ago, I wanted to help my friends answer this question so I soft-launched a low-code version of climatetechlist.com.
The site got more traction than I expected- at least two SWEs found jobs at climate tech companies so this week I launched a redesigned a better version

One of the things I realized as a software engineer job seeker myself is that it can be hard to cut through the noise and understand what companies do, so my aim with ClimateTechList was to make that as clear as possible, inspired in part by breakoutlist.com

To that end, the site currently has ~50 curated climate tech companies detailing, from interviews with the companies, what they work on exactly, what their climate impact (i.e. greenhouse gas impact) is, and why software is important for their success.

You can filter companies by location, stage, # employees, and climate vertical (i.e. clean energy or food & agriculture, etc.)

Feel free to ping me if you're looking for a climate tech job and want some tips, I want to help as many software engineers to work on climate as possible!
You need to provide the langitems, it's true that core has a lot more than just the langitems, but the langitems are a lot and as somebody pointed to me on HN recently, they chase through into related stuff.

I was like, Option isn't special but, well, you do need to provide Some and None, and those are clearly two halves of an enum, so - that's Option is what that is.

You need Try, and unless you're going to write Try yourself to have some other behaviour that means you're writing ControlFlow and Result as well as Option.

I think that the work needed to make Ipv4Addr::is_documentation - a predicate which tells you whether the IPv4 Address you've got is, in fact, one reserved for documentation by the IETF RFC 5737 - is tiny compared to the struggle to get u32::is_power_of_two - a predicate which tells you if a 32-bit integer is a power of two - and so even though doubtless Rust doesn't care whether the former part of the core library works you might just as well.
Never have humans in the history of their entire existence consumed so much meat in their daily diet. To imagine that this comes with no consequences is just naive.
True, but nsfw isn't just about work, but also about people with more conservative sensibilities.

You could call your project bacon soaked in milk but it might needlessly deter Muslims and Jews.
Ikea has a decent amount of cheap furniture that is already solid pine.
Daniel Shiffman is amazing! An excellent teacher.
Crafting the Next.js Website
Sure, it depends on what you care about. Just think of it as a friction term, to slow down these runaway franchises.
The moon may have more water than you think and it has several useful minerals - in particular titanium. The moon certainly has drawbacks, but it doesn't suffer from months-long sand storms and it is much closer to earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_resources
Why is it serverless? It clearly has an API server.
OK, I suppose I have to dig deeper into Rust to determine whether I really disagree with that, or maybe this is too vague. The question is: who applies your workarounds? If this is always the compiler, then I agree, but if the programmer has to do any work, then your analogy fails.
As another comment mentioned, the one we just lived through where I had to be inside for 2 years. It came from a live meat market.
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its extremely distracting. its like attaching an anchor to my brain. its like driving in traffic while simultaneously trying to text back and forth with someone on your phone. both suffer

and very unnatural

and insulting to an experienced person (whos been promoted, and whos survived many layoffs in the past, etc) with many accomplishments. someone who has clearly solved and shipped, repeatedly.
and one who has artifacts visible out in public. and has praise testimonials from former bosses, coworkers, clients, etc
> the only reason everyone thinks the company is doomed is because it is being shorted by bad people.
> If they just buy and 'hodl', the shooters will get squeezed, and all the holders will make infinity dollars.

If there isn't already social sciences literature on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Enemy Narratives, there should be, and I'd like to read highlights that exist.
It's only unreasonable to compare factory farming to human slavery if one believes that the rights of animals compared to humans is similar or worse than slaveholders believed the rights of their slaves to be compared to thme.

For the record I eat meat, but I'm under no illusions regarding the cruelty of the process. I support all laws that would increase farm animal welfare, even if it means my steak gets more expensive, it's simple enough to make good veggie dishes once in a while.
My bed developed a huge sink hole within three months. I was able to take it back, but c'mon. I'm average weight, and I bought the mattress brand new. We paid an arm and a leg later for a Sleep Number and it's been totally fine for years and years.
> it prevents these functions from being used with input that might not be null-terminated

Those are not valid C-strings! String functions are(have) "undefined behavior" for non string inputs!
Also a bunch of us have autism, so coding, presenting, trying to gauge the audiences, existing understanding, ensuring remaining available space on the whiteboard, working out, went to talk, and went to type, making sure you were in gauged with everybody in the room, and all the other aspects of presentation at the same time is difficult.
The goal of the post is to de-mystify, not to make something production-ready. Doing everything in plain code without any magic libraries helps people understand what's happening