skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you ever seen the 3D views of where stars in the constellations are in relation to each other? These kinds of videos are something that I think really helps esoteric concepts become much more widely understood, and I'm constantly jealous of them from the position of going to school vs "back then" when I was in school.

Here's Orion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD-5ZOipE48
Very nice, one issue is that (on Safari iOS 16) when I navigate back to the list my scroll position is forgotten, I could understand when using my browser back button but I used the one in the UI so I’d expect it to remember the scroll position.

Beyond that nitpick though this is excellent, well done.
Not any hospital but one run and staffed by doctors without borders. A hospital which was specifically on a non-target list and was known by the US military. The supposed mistake is akin to accidentally dropping a bomb on one of your own bases. Accidents do happen but something like this is a huge failure in US military procedures.
If you're going to submit a [dupe] at least point to the discussion

Lots of it over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37755648
>Benzene occurs naturally as a component in petroleum and natural gas condensate.

Roger.

>Interestingly, benzene is still allowed to be mixed into gasoline for improved performance.

Negatore.

Since the 1990's it has *no longer been allowed* beyond the levels cited in the article. It is almost never added to gasoline intentionally, rather the fuel blending components are combined to reduce the benzene content from the typical 5% levels that were common up until then.

Going back a bit further, in the early Model T days before leaded gasoline, benzene was known as benzol and was available as a premium alternative to regular gasoline. They called benzene Hi-Test and when leaded gasoline came along that was then widely known as "Ethyl" after the company that made the tetraethyllead additive. Benzene was only about 90% pure back then so it did not freeze solid as high as 5 degrees C in the fuel tank like 99.9% material would do at modern purity levels.

Regardless, at about a 100 octane antiknock rating, benzene is what internal combustion engines are designed to run on under ideal conditions.

Interestingly cyclohexane, which has the same hexagonal 6-carbon structure as benzene but with 6 additional hydrogen atoms around the circle, has a miserable antiknock performance.
Actually your content-free ad-hominem retort is more typical of politician-speak.
Spoilers!

Excellent books, I've read them like a dozen times.
> RESTful APIs, workflow orchestration, metrics and alerting, horizontal scaling, CDN, rate limiting, security hardening

This more than likely reads like gibberish to the average admissions officer.
every NTP story needs a link to the Netgear/UW-Madison fiasco: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/
Nuclear Waste Transport rail car, nearly operational as of 21 September 2023:

https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/new-railcar-designed-tran...
Aside from the fact that booking.com is a Dutch company (although Booking Holding is US, so who the hell knows any more as I have no idea how that all fits together...), no one is forcing anyone to do business in Europe. If you don't like the rules then don't play; that's fine, no hard feelings.

That's how it works everywhere, including in the US.

What you DON'T get to do is set the rules for OUR countries. Several of these companies have been under the misapprehension that's how things work, and they are being (slowly) cured of that delusion (far too late, but better late than never...)
Nowadays there are inkjet printers that are cheaper (cost per page) than laser printers. I would only get one if i were to print regularly, however.

And never again HP of course.
Wild! I have not at all had any of those issues, and I've had at this point 9 different Dell machines for work or play in the last ~10 years, all laptops. I'm typing this on a Latitude 5421.

Granted - My work has been heavy on memory but light on CPU, so perhaps I'm not applying enough deadly heat.
This OBS Studio Portable container is built with Ubuntu, because Ubuntu is one of the supported Linux targets by upstream OBS. The OBS Studio Portable container is a ready-to-run, batteries included turn-key solution.

I am a NixOS user and nixpkgs maintainer. I've been working on adding more OBS plugins to nixpkgs and fixing OBS Studio in nixpkgs, but it needs more work:

- For me, it is missing some plugins I rely on and some of the OBS plugins in nixpkgs do not work. I am actively working on this.

- FDK ACC doesn't work in OBS in nixpkgs and the ffmpeg version is not fully API compatible with OBS, meaning some presets do not work. On my list to fix.

- CEF in nixpkgs is not ABI compatible with OBS and cause OBS to segfault when authenticating Twitch. Again, on my list of things to fix.

I have a long history of building a custom OBS Studio on Ubuntu, so decided to make this OBS Studio container with my friends in the Universal Blue project, to get myself a complete OBS setup I can use on NixOS while I continue to work on OBS related fixes in nixpkgs :-)
Not directly related to article, but I just want to express my appreciation for (unclassified) US military manuals in general. There is a manual for everything, from painting a Black-hawk to cooking Bolognese.
I’ve got an old beige HP laserjet a client had gotten rid of because they “upgraded” to a new printer. I don’t print much, but it works every time I do. I bought a new rollers and a third party toner refill and 2019 and haven’t done any maintenance since. Find an old laser printer, do some basic maintenance on it and you’ll be good to go
I'm trying to find the takeaway, should kids not go to college? or that nobody reads the comments, since one of them raises the question, "is there proof?" and claims that not according to their linkedin
Did you miss https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf?

And what they can't do through the front door, they are trying to do through the back door. https://www.opportunitynowsv.org/blog/-lawsuit-claims-ucs-fo... talks about one of many follow-up lawsuits.
Really good idea, what I'd suggest would be a separate Open Source category/tag. And a dark theme (based on prefers-color-scheme).

Also, submitted a developer application; have released a few PWAs myself - hope to post them there too!
There are tools also for the iphone display, the face ID sensor, the touch ID and the batteries.
Very few things suck in the context of history.
Women are less likely to receive bystander CPR than men
Its ok to feel anxiety around something that seemingly challenges your identity, but you don't have to fight so hard to hold on to such an unimportant part of your identity.

Nobody is a programmer, really. We live in particular moment of the world where this new idea of professionalization tricks you into thinking sometimes what you are is first and foremost defined by what you trade on the labor market. And this is an especially potent spell for those, like us, who for right now particularly well compensated in this market. But either way you must try not to forget that this is just a kind of illusion. That we are more united by shared capacity than discriminated by "skill".

Why not take joy in the idea that what you have devoted yourself to, presumably, can be a more shared and understood thing for the world at large than that of a doctor or college professor?
You don't like Kiki the Cyber Squirrel?

LibreOffice nearly got a Tyson Tan mascot called Libbie the Cyber Oryx. She was silently eliminated from the initial round of votes, in favor of a bunch of half-assed attempts that included two barely modified Duolingo owls. This perceived slight of what had been assumed to be a democratic process caused such a dustup that LibreOffice decided it didn't want a mascot anymore.

https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2017/11/13/mascot...
Do you live in the arctic circle?

TBF their monitors are good. I have two Dell P2723QE's and they are absolutely great.
“Platform” in my comment refers to the combination of hardware and language/compiler targeting that hardware. FreeBSD does not target the C abstract machine, only a handful of very specific platforms. I agree it would probably be better to explicitly state atomic requirements using the primitives provided by the language.
Its because he's not rich.

I don't understand why this is not more widely understood. These schools are not for meritocracy. Schools with sports teams fill much of the incoming class with athletes before they even consider an application, and then they start picking from places and people who'll keep their prestige reciprocally high. The son of a foreign dictator would never attend the school that produced the only human with two unshared nobel prizes, because that's not the game they're playing.

And when they pick, they're starting with schools the admissions officers have relationships with (rich people schoools) that require rich people middle schools to attend, etc...

The chain starts in childhood, you don't just take a bunch of tests available to the public.

I've had friends whose job it was to interview kindergarteners for access to their exclusive schools. Others had to deal with two sets of parents suing each other over one's access to that school.

And before you say this is conspiratorial, I've verified this with admissions people and deans from these places.
would be great for almost any other team that doesn't have a strong sense of what to automate and how

The "what" is always the hardest part, both to acknowledge as being necessary and to get right.
What kinds of opportunities are you looking for? If you're looking for startups, click on the "jobs" tab here on HN and check out YC's Work at a Startup.

If you want a larger company, find some job postings and apply, though ideally you'd want to speak to someone at the company. And yes, online interviews are quite common.
You didn’t read TFA, did you. I’m talking about animals which are killed and sent to landfill as a result of agricultural failure, not animals which are eaten.

But anyway, I hear you loud and clear - “rocket man bad”.
IIUC, you're saying that failures are low stakes, so even if a good framework existed, the idea of using static types is flawed since is only slows you down compared to dynamic types.

I disagree but my position is purely preference/subjective. The main point for me is that static types make reading other teammates code much easier. If I could use statically typed python/Django, that would be amazing.
This is kind of like the advent of spellcheck, where a whole class of errors started to appear regularly in almost every article because publishers stopped paying for the human labor to manually review for things like homonym or word ordering errors. Except much worse, because it could allow spurious or even harmful facts to accrue and spread instead of just grammatical mistakes.
Also work with OP and can confirm: showed up with no natural talent for it. Just amazing progress, buddy.
Ask HN: Resources for Writing Linux Filesystems?
Where can I begin learning how to write Linux filesystems?
Yeah, and not available in nginx stable yet (currently nginx v1.24) - only available in nginx mainline (v1.25+).

More info at https://quic.nginx.org/
Ok how about this: "The company hasn't made any design choices with the express purpose of making repair more difficult."
How often does one reboot their laptop around nearby strangers? I gotta be honest that some of these criticisms seem a little strained. I mean, it's true, they beep at boot when dev mode is enabled!
If you’re not using Vivaldi on the desktop, this isn’t for you (yet). It doesn’t have many of the features that desktop Vivaldi has, and it doesn’t have many features that other browsers don’t. Right now the main feature of this is that it syncs with the desktop version, which is something that people (Vivaldi users) have been asking for for a long time.

But Vivaldi (the company), over the course of many years, took their desktop browser from a Chromium clone to the most feature-packed browser currently available. I’m confidently they’ll do the same with their mobile browsers.
They keep saying this and yet, the website is still functioning and has not lost users.

The boycott has failed and revenue is slowly climbing back up. All they have to do is not lose users and it'll get there.
It’s just like Scrum Master. A bloated term. Pretty sure people will do 1-week courses to get certified in prompting. Ridiculous (except for the ones selling the courses, those are the clever ones)
I would argue that many of the big tech companies have also been subsidised rather than being efficient. It has just been private investors rather than governments (and it feels like we are starting to see the end of that).
You seem to be saying that 12 monkeys are more valuable than 1,000,000,000,000 other animal lives - and yes, it’s damned hypocritical to be fine with the latter but not with the former.
Can't speak for the OP, but "Takes a bite out of the Apple" implied to me an alternative engine at the first glance.
Got it, thanks, that's helpful to know.
That's a dangerous, biased assumption.
Probably not intended by the poster, but this gives me hope. Universities shouldn't overvalue these. Ultimately, they are focused on academics. The profile of this person screams "Will drop out before graduating".

I mean, if he applied to average universities and got rejected, that would be notable. But applying only at top universities and getting rejected? That's not at all notable.
Fixed! Thanks for this comment, I haven't noticed I broke the ManyToMany queries from last time I was messing around the backend.
Ah, you wanted to show an example in Rust with unsafe where atomicity was not guaranteed.
> the process (of human vs AI learning) just seems to be close enough

It only seems that way because the people who understand it best also stand to profit from it, and are choosing to misrepresent it so that people who don't understand it falsely believe it is at all close.

That so many people on here are pushing the false narrative that they are at all similar is sad, since this is ostensibly a forum for people with technical knowledge. Nothing about machine learning is similar to human learning, by any measure of evidence. If I am wrong, show me that evidence.

"Data go in, something happen, metadata come out" is the closest you can approximate the 2, and too many supposedly tech-savvy people seem content to treat that as "close enough".

> "Because it's a computer", to me, isn't. Not when the process and effects are already eerily similar to how humans work. Not when such argument would apply just as much in a hypothetical future where we develop sentient AIs.

The argument is not "because it's a computer", it's "because it's not sentient", as I mentioned in my comment. Animals also have rights, because they are living.

ML models are none of those (living, intelligent, or sentient), and the popular conflation of ML models and "AI" with "AGI"/ the kind of AI that may or may not ever end up existing, is just a convenient excuse by companies looking to maximize profit and minimize licensing costs, not to regulate the plain old python that we're actually talking about now.
There are multiple ways to separate air into a fraction with more oxygen and a fraction with less oxygen, on site, at reasonable scale. Pressure Swing Adsorption is a common one, found in most medical oxygen concentrators.
I think Boris Johnson tried that by saying out of the blue: he makes model busses. There was some thinking at the time that he didn't want the brexit bus to show up in searches and was trying to game search results..

I don't think it worked.
The type of sites GP is talking about are typically hosted on .edu servers, under faculty webhosting (often featuring a "/~profname/" in the url). That's a non-trivial signal.
Sure. But a kid that’s building a successful business as a high school sophomore probably has software engineering as a #1 interest with no close #2. I’ve got a healthy list of hobbies and it wasn’t enough for me.

Feeling the time wasted on mundane BS and thumb twiddling while at Google literally gave me nightmares. Granted, I need to and am working on healthy stress management. But that would probably just get me to recognize I need to quit sooner.
Why would she even take that job, does she just want her golden parachute to retire? I don't get why anyone puts their name on that when Musk is so territorial about it already...
Well, had you read about anal feeding, and the rapes, and everything else, you'd be equally appalled. I am not saying that these have not happened in the holocaust or other such events, but I am appalled that this was done recently, and that there exist people willing to commit those acts.
My bad! Some of the queries broke from last time I was messing around the code. It should be fixed now!
L3 is entry-level for fresh college grads.
Googler here.

L4 requires experience. New grad hires are L3.
Intelligent people can fill the void of ignorance with plausible sounding but factually incorrect information. They are apt to engage cognitive biases in such a way that the biases produce assertions that are deeply indistinquishable from factual assertions. They fool themselves in this way and they fool others. This happens all the time.

LLMs are no different in this respect.
>Scarcity no longer exists. All you care about is energy and you have mastered it. Energy is practically infinite to you.

I'm not convinced. There is a big difference between infinite and merely very large. I think the demand for energy will grow with the supply, as it has for us.
And yes, racism, but a more pedestrian sense than a true sense. Any wealthy arab or prestigious african has access to these places, just not normal ones.

And these colleges looooove it this happens. Their numbers get better and they didn't have to do anything that compromises their design philosophy.

And having interviewed people for much less prestigious 'diversity' programs, I can't help but relate. The African diplomat's son with an excellent international education interviews well and gives your organization a future 'success' story.
Wasps and humans live different lives inside a closed ecosystem with finite resources and energy. The hypothetical civilization the parent is describing is further away from us technologically than we are from wasps.
I've tried to use Vivaldi for a few weeks, but I kept getting hit by glitches and small annoyances that ended bringing me back to Chrome.

There are nice ideas there, but if I were them, I'd focus on making sure you are not losing users before going all in on growth and features.
thought this was gonna be a more creative way to represent this, now i'm wondering what that would look like?
It was very wrong :^) I made a Django oopsie, should be fixed now
I suspect it's not supposed to be taken at face value. It's a reference to Harvard admissions process, where asians seem to get suspiciously low "personality scores" compared to white applicants.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/us/harvard-asian-enrollme...
And PHK / D-Link https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul-Henning_Kamp#Dispute_wi...
I always lock my laptop when away from my desktop as I’m terrified my cat will end up doing something similar
If there's a hole or shortage in scheduling, these contractors can fill vital gaps. Are you saying that the hospitals, and patients, are better off with less nurses? Are the existing staff better off with higher patient to caretaker ratios? You have to have a license/certification/required education to take on these jobs, which are managed by state nursing boards (or whomever manages the licensure). Requirements for traveling/temp nursing staff are usually higher than FT (generally need experience within a hospital). Knowing the industry, any of these temps can get the FT jobs if they chose. Its a choice to them (make more $$ hourly, less/no benefits, no set work schedule, etc).
Would you still favor Typescript if it was an actual static language: such that a type problem not caught by Typescript potentially corrupted memory and crashed the browser or Node.js instance?
Is the book open source? No. End of discussion. What's better or worse or useful or whatever is orthogonal. This is not an open source book.

Edit:

Ok, I downloaded it. Check page 79. I want to change that diagram, I don't like the client icons. I want o open a PR against the book. How do I do it?
https://archive.is/HgqAy
Is this all that surprising? College admissions are not optimizing for people who can currently pass a tech company interview. Maybe they should focus more in that area, but that's a separate discussion, and currently schools neither select for nor claim to select for those skills.

Plus both processes have immense amounts of variance. It's not hard to find excellent candidates who were rejected from a particular university or job.
Then what are the comp sci departments screening for and why?
It is in the list though! The programming languages query was broken (should be fixed now), did that somewhat made you not find it? (Asking so I can improve the site UI)
Tangentially related: knowing they use the same frequency band, I actually used the work microwave oven as a faraday cage for testing our product which used bluetooth. (Close door, observe signal drop behavior). I was bemused to note that you could still connect to a device inside the oven, over short distances... Hopefully the attenuation was sufficient for safety when using it to cook!

[ For clarity - the oven wasn't on when I used it as a faraday cage]
> I'm wondering why solar activity isn't accounted for in the models

why do you work from the assumption that it's not? a trivial search turned up this article from 2011 which says that models already do include approximations of solar activity even at that time.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/grantham-i...

obviously it is something that is constantly being improved, like everything else in the model. but there aren't good direct historical proxies for solar output - you can't take a "core sample" and go back 1000 years of solar activity, so the datasets really only go back 60 or 70 years there, and even rough measurements of sunspot activity/etc will only probably go back less than 200 years. but over the last 15 years this is something that's been actively studied and addressed and they're trying to incorporate more detailed modeling.

https://eos.org/science-updates/better-data-for-modeling-the...

again, this only affects between 7-30% of the total picture, according to most studies. so it's not like this is where global warming is coming from. contributing factor? sure, a small one.

but like, I don't know why everyone works from the assumption that they thought of one thing that all the scientists forgot about completely. One clever trick to explain global warming, climate scientists hate him.

which is why stuff like this is not really constructive or helpful. like if you don't know, why are you so sure about what is being incorporated or not? why isn't the question "how is this being incorporated"? Because it probably is.

> I don't know. But I'm not taking anyones word for it, help me understand or move on. Don't tell me what to think.