skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be an engineer is to know the expected system requirements and build a product that is extremely optimized for the system requirements.

There's a saying that I think fits very well here: "Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands."

You don't want a bridge to cost 50 years and quadrillions of dollars to build, you want a cheap bridge safe for the next 50 years done in 2 years.

I would not call the resulting bridge "bug free", of course.
Recent and related:

FDA considers first CRISPR gene editing treatment that may cure sickle cell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38354939 - Nov 2023 (124 comments)
It's shocking that this barbaric act, done specifically to take sexual pleasure away from victims and their partners [1], is still happening in the 21th century.

[1]https://www.cirp.org/library/cultural/maimonides/
Frankly I don't know why Google continues to act this way. Let's remind the "Google Duplex: A.I. Assistant Calls Local Businesses To Make Appointments" story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5VN56jQMWM

Not that this affects Google's user base in any way, at the moment.
Greed is human nature, not sure theres any way around it
Elevating Business Process Modeling with QuerySelector
Use case with the BPI’12 dataset
My city has recently moved to that style and I'm not a big fan. Maybe their implementation just sucked, but in practice having the bikelane closest to the sidewalk means that half of the bike lane is actually just the gutter, which is filled with broken glass, puddles, and various garbage. Because theres a solid wall of cars between you and traffic, cars making right turns don't always see you. There's also no way to pass other bikes or obstructions blocking the bike lane- you have to either hop on the sidewalk or squeeze through parked cars to merge with traffic going 40-50mph to get around
> The researchers explain in their paper, published as a preprint online this week, that the first clue that so-called spectral properties could be meaningful for whale speech was provided by AI.

> Not only did the AI predict elements of whale vocalizations already thought to be meaningful, such as clicks, but it also singled out acoustic properties.
Even the alt text on that comic agrees that $5 for a wrench is possible impossibly low
Disappointed how quickly this post and the related one got flagged and in the other case was dead. I find it fascinating to read and don’t think either are necessarily deserving that? But if it does violate a rule or something greater, I would love to be educated.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38571758
> the 4090 requires 16x lanes of PCI3.0

Does it require 16x PCI-E 3 just to run? Or is that just a minimum to get the most performance?
I think they want fire trucks to be able to run them over if needed
DNA companies should receive the death penalty for getting hacked
Isn't there a probable island of stability, with very heavy, stable elements ?
> A total of 744 Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) participants completed an online survey using the TurkPrime interface between July and December 2017.

Circumcision has been ongoing for thousands of years. Even now there are millions of men if not tens of millions of men who were circumcised as infants.

On a population basis, it doesn't seem to cause a whole lot of problems with mental processing as circumcised men are well-represented as entrepreneurs, comedians, actors, lawyers, doctors, and pretty much every other profession.
There's a comments-to-votes ratio that triggers deranking, IIRC. Flamewar prevention.
What a surprise... I am sure in contrast American money going to EU are used to support EU's interest, not American's
Anti-semitism in and of itself is unequivocally wrong.

But conflating anti-Israeli views with anti-Semitic views does a disservice to Jews and Palestinians alike.
That would be the smart thing to do
You me both. I used to stumble over every other word wrong but still get them all out and make a point. Now I get caught even saying some words without the brain shutting down and failing and playing catch up.

I want to believe it’s psychologically spread fear but it feels real
IIRC this was started because of a literal terrorist act where someone took a truck and went on a rampage mowing down people in the Hudson River bike lane. I was nearby when this happened.

The bollards went up shortly after.
As an often pedestrian (but not a bike-rider) in a nearby city, the one that gets me is bike lanes in the middle of sidewalks. Maybe if I spent more time in the areas that have them, but I'm just not used to having to look both ways before crossing the sidewalk. (Yes, you have to be aware you're not just going to walk into someone but the speeds--and therefore the relevant distances--are a lot different.)
Yes, but all the translations would be wrong or made up.
We've had autonomous trains here in London since 1987 and trains since about 1850 but still there is the usual traffic. I think self driving cars may add something new.
PGP Encryption
> you know the ones who actually pay for such infrastructure

Do you have a citation or is this something that "feels true"?

> I would be more okay with such things if they separated the costs and made the bike lanes tolled or funded by bicycle registration.

That would be great to implement! I think you would be surprised at the result, though.
Have it, love it:
https://www.kanguru.com/products/kanguru-flashblu30-usb3-fla...
I think infant circumcision is barbaric, but I'm still raising a lot of eyebrows over this study. Wouldn't the level of parental attunement generally be a huge factor? And wouldn't, for example, the parents of children in an era when 75% of boys were routinely circumcised, who opted their sons out also be more likely to be attuned to their children and skeptical of common practices?

It would also have been interesting to see data from another group who were circumcised after infancy, at different ages, to see if it was the infant trauma itself or the constant exposure of the glans that had an impact.

It's also an odd sample set to choose only those men who were willing to accept $4 in exchange for more than half an hour of their time through the Mechanical Turk program.
> We definitely do, as evidenced by all the jobs that have been automated over the past 100 years and people who are currently employed.

No, we don't. That's the hand-waving hope I'm talking about: expecting past performance to guarantee future success.

All of those previous waves of automation involved pretty limited technologies. AI has the potential to be quite different. For instance, if you have an AGI with average human intelligence, and robots doing manual labor, what jobs are all the average-intelligence humans supposed to do? Door-to-door sales to other door-to-door salesmen? If the technology lives up to the hype, their options may be "die homeless" to the more optimistic "be warehoused at minimum cost until natural death."
A modest proposal: Why don't we just remove the child's genitals entirely? That ought to decrease their chances of catching an STI substantially.
Hi Austin, nice to see you on here! Glad you find it useful. If you want to try out the VSCode.dev experience too, check out https://vscode.dev/quantum/playground/. Let us know what you think!
Related:

Memray: a memory profiler for Python - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31102089 - April 2022 (48 comments)
many prices have come down, eggs are less than $2 a dozen now. Gas prices are way down
An individual did do this. Companies do not suddenly grow arms and brains and learn to code, at least not quite yet.
I wonder how much of the lack of QA is rational. That is to say, for most projects does shipping with lots of somewhat hard-to-find bugs actually hurt the bottom line?

For some classes of bugs it can (e.g. if the software is so bad as to open you to a class-action lawsuit; in b2b software bugs that put you in breech of contract), but for many classes of consumer software, it's not clear to me that shipping software that works better is rewarded. Picking not-too-buggy software ahead of time is hard, people are slow to switch (even when the people encountering the bugs are the people selecting the software, which is often not the case), and people are good at subconsciously avoiding triggering bugs.
You know what they say about "it's not the size of the tool, it's the skill of the interrogator."
That's not it; there are many upvotes and not many comments on both of those submissions. Honestly, I'm disappointed at the admins.
Deranking is different than dead though right? The other post was live for maybe a minute. I get the flame war prevention but this feels more like individuals killing ideas they don’t agree with. I don’t have skin in the game. Just curious.
> use the actual parser from the Postgres server. so no grammar definition and the like.

Doesn't Postgres use Lex/Yacc to describe the grammar?
Long lost! Unless Internet Archive has a copy of the site? Never checked! The main domain was officewherever.com.
We don't know what concepts whales talk about
> Previous preliminary research has reported an association between circumcision and alexithymia (i.e., dysfunctions in emotion recognition, social attachment, and interpersonal relations) in adults (Bollinger and Van Howe, 2011). More recently, two large-sample studies suggested a positive correlation between circumcision and autism spectrum disorder (ASD; Bauer and Kriebel, 2013; Frisch and Simonsen, 2015a). Although the causal implications of this research has been questioned (Morris et al., 2012; Morris and Wiswell, 2015), these studies suggest that early-circumcision might have an impact on adult psychosocial functioning.

This can't be right...one of those correlation is not causation situations?

I hesitate to take the side of Brian J. "B.J." Morris (a contentious individual, to be polite) but here we are.

US surgery rates have been declining since the 60s as autism diagnoses increase. Half the population in Israel, the Middle East and southeast Asia should be autistic by now.

I don't see where they looked at how many intact kids were diagnosed with autism, only that there's a "positive association" with circumcision, which means little. We fell for that logic once already with the HIV prevention claims. Fool us twice and we...can't get circumcised again?

This is interesting though:

> Circumcised infants display increased pain responses during subsequent vaccination, suggesting that behavioral effects of the surgery can last, at a minimum, up to 4–6 months

And this:

> Finally, one recent study has found that neonatal male circumcision and prematurity were associated with Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), providing support for the allostatic load hypothesis (i.e., the result of cumulative perinatal painful, stressful, or traumatic events) as an explanation for SIDS (Elhaik, 2018).

Circumcision, vaccinations, autism, SIDS all mentioned in the same context...

Girls don't get clipped but everybody gets vaccines. Most other cultures that snip boys tend to wait until puberty. They also inconsistently vaccinate and don't have mysterious infant death syndromes.

Maybe there's something to avoiding causing infants pain.
You don't. 48V battery and separate circuits if it's an RV, otherwise forget it.
As soon as I've paid for one version of iA, I seem to always need another. Keep it up!
I recently read The Mote in God's Eye and its sequel, The Gripping Hand. Mote is now one of my favorite first-contact books.
As a resident of this neighborhood and a user of the bike lane, I think these articles are mostly propaganda. Every article I read interviews like 1 or 2 people. I have a feeling most bicyclists and most businesses are totally okay with this because it is so heavily used and Valencia Street is THRIVING. Go there any morning, afternoon, or evening and you'll find people there all the time shopping, eating, hanging out. I find it hard to blame the bike lane for causing businesses to go under when you can look at 80% of the storefronts and find a pretty decent amount of customers in them. Of course, you can also look at the businesses that are going out of business and just see that they have terrible reviews and are just overall unappealing.

Let's look at Amado's comment that "sales dropped 80% after the bike lane was installed and created a hassle for musicians due to a lack of parking". Look at Street View, and you'll see every parking spot in front and around it's property is a parklet for themselves. Hmm, if they really needed parking so bad, why did they take it away from themselves? Same is true with Yasmin with their corner spot and their 4 parking spots converted to parklets. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Amado's/@37.7570262,-122.4...

The only thing I think could help the neighborhood more is if the city declared it an actual "Slow Street" because it is slow. You'll hit every red light and have to wait for pedestrians at every intersection. You have Ubers and doordashers and freight loaders blocking the road all day. Declaring a slow street would probably push Google Maps and friends to route users to Guerrero or South Van Ness which are 1-2 blocks away and are exclusively car friendly.

Why do I like this lane? Cars drive much slower because their lane is "narrower". It's still the standard car sized lane but they are now driving between a separated bike lane (bollards) and parked cars, rather than an unprotected painted bike lane where cars tend to just take over.

Moreover, it's pretty much the only north-south bike line in this part of town. West is too hilly, east is too car oriented.

Go to their website SF Small Business Coalition and their chief complaint is customers can't park in front of their businesses anymore. Really? This is one of the densest neighbhorhoods in SF and you're gonna complain about parking on the street? https://www.sfsbcoalition.org/save-valencia-merchants. you could build them a 6 story garage to store 400 cars and they'll complain about how it's destroying their community.
absolutely.

when we had an electrician dig new chases to completely rewire the electricity in my grandparents apartment in a century old building, i asked him to add an additional pipe everywhere so that i could wire ethernet as well. every room got at least one or two, some more. the key thing was that even though we didn't use most of those extra pipes, adding them barely cost more than the material, because the work to dig the chases didn't change.
It’s most likely not the admins. I assume it’s individuals who disagree and are immediately flagging it.
But some is allowed it seems

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38562946
Openbao Vault
It's honest constructive criticism. Lean is very hard to use. It's even hard to install and run.
Everyone knows that the Snap-on wrench delivers a better beat-down.
For real, the cognitive dissonance is at critical mass in wackyville.
It may be a little complex to talk about but the product you speak of is essentially a technology preview (the beta) wrapped together with a future functionality the buyer is prepaying for.

By paying, they get access to the preview now, and they will get the actual released software later when it is ready.

It’s all bundled up as, as you say correctly, a product.

What you’re missing is a bit of subtlety about the contents of the product, that’s all.

During the preview period users are responsible (blah blah I don’t need to repeat that part yet again, right?).

I think it’s not actually super hard to understand but it is admittedly not exactly like most other products. It’s a product the features of which are being rolled out progressively until it is fully ready. Meantime it is made crystal clear in many ways and repeatedly to buyers what their responsibilities are… before buying, after buying, before turning it on in settings, during driving, etc. It is very well communicated.
The Firefly trilogy by Peter Watts touches a bit on this.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/08/hashicorp_openbao_for...
Like how Elon "trashed his rep" and then got on a plane to meet Netanyahu a week later?

Don't be hyperbolic for the sake of politicking. PG has recovered from vastly dumber takes, and still finds people to give him money.
Show HN: Huma 2.0, it's like FastAPI for Go built on OpenAPI 3.1 and JSON Schema
I've released Huma 2.0, which is a rewrite I've been working on for the past year based on Go 1.20 and newer. It is updated for OpenAPI 3.1 & JSON Schema 2020-12 and works similar to FastAPI in that you define structs and API operations and then Huma generates the OpenAPI and documentation for you, which you can then use to generate CLIs, SDKs, mocks, etc.

This new version makes it easier to adopt as it now supports many routers, incremental adoption, and more extensibility including full access to the OpenAPI when needed. It's also much faster than v1 and makes significantly fewer dynamic memory allocations.

If you are new to Go or coming from Node.js/Python/etc then there is also a more basic step-by-step tutorial you can follow at <https://huma.rocks/tutorial/installation/>.

Check it out and let me know what you think!
How is DC more noisy?
No, it doesn't require it. It's desired to fully utilized it, but not required.

PCIe is fully backward and forward compatible between versions. Many eGPUs run at PCIE 3.0 4x.
That’s funny thanks :-)
Is it the norm for new born males in the USA to be circumcised? Genuine question. I've always had this impression from movies etc.
False. Anesthetic is used during the procedure:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/circumcision/abo...
@dang can step in and override the flaggers (which he should IMO).
TinyChat: Large Language Model on the Edge
TinyChat is an efficient, lightweight, Python-native serving framework for 4-bit LLMs by AWQ. It delivers 2.3x generation speed up on RTX4090.

Code: https://github.com/mit-han-lab/llm-awq/tree/main/tinychat
Thank you, I never knew if it had a name.

https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Blind_SQL_Injection
I’m a big supporter of right to repair. But now that I’ve read that perspective I don’t think we can have our cake and eat it too. I think if JD loses then we end up in a situation where the service they provided (timely repairs during a crisis in the harvest season) is no longer available at any price.

Then what? We probably see higher volatility due to an increase in crop failures, but maybe lower average food prices overall.
I'm very similar. I have excellent oral health... brush 2x/day, don't floss. Two interesting datapoints:

1. I changed jobs a few times, and for various reasons I neglected to see a dentist for 10 years. When I finally went back, had perfect oral health and no cavities. My hygienist still remembers me because this event was so far outside her experience + expectations.

2. My wife had "normal" tooth decay problems throughout her life, until we started dating, at which point she's had no further cavities. ;)

To answer the normal questions: I don't do anything particularly special with my diet except a general avoidance of sweetened drinks - no soda pop, no sweeteners in my coffee.

If anyone wants to swab my mouth and pay me a small licensing royalty for commercialization please get in touch. Heh.
How? Society does not have unlimited resources.

Especially the one that extremely ill people need, humans.
No, like this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38572877

Tweet:
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1733146138226614465
Sibling poster knew the name for it:

https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Blind_SQL_Injection
I don't know. I was hoping for something like: "We know inheritance is bad because when we convert the typical example over to this special graph it forms a non-compact metric space" Or something like that.

Even though I find cyclomatic complexity uncompelling, it at the very least can slurp up code and return a value. Nicely objective, just not particularly useful or insightful to whether or not things are easy to understand.

The provided link looks suspiciously like they're going to talk about the difference between system, integration, and unit tests. The importance of bug trackers. And linters / theorem provers maybe.

I don't think these are bad things, but it's kind of a statistical approach to software quality. The software is bad because the bug chart looks bad. Okay, maybe, but maybe you just have really inexperienced people working on the project. Technically, the business doesn't need to know the difference, but I would like to.
I mean from the perspective of someone that wants to know what the heck it is, the tweet is super vague. You can't blame people for wanting signal and not knowing enough about the space to discern it from noise.
For some reason the majority of the businesses on valencia have put up the sfsbcoalition posters against the bike lane. I still don't understand it though, it doesn't seem like many or even any parking spots were removed from valencia. Do they mean people were parking in the old side bike lanes?
No, because you've been a jerk during this conversation.
I asked the same question via an email, but without the allegations about mobs, which is forbidden here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

On the other hand, I think there is another article that got flagged without an explicit marker (though unrelated to this one) and even though I am not aware of how the moderation algorithms work, it’d be better off considering the user flags beyond a certain cutoff instead of downranking as it does now.
> some people are ethically opposed to that

Body autonomy may be a fundamental right requiring legal recognition. It curiously cuts across many protracted debates: abortion, vaccine requirements, transgender rights and now gene editing. (I suppose abortion and germ-line edits are a special case.)
I do think there’s a space for 1 dev to make a big impact if it’s 1) very novel and 2) very scoped, like a domain specific language for something they’re very familiar with.

Making a new general purpose tool is definitely a big achievement, but chasing fame and adoption for something general purpose is a fast track to disappointment. (Not saying this project is.)
Funny how so many otherwise clever people get confused about this.
I thought maybe it wasn't done much anymore even here in the US, but was recently talking to our neighbor (who is not in anyway Jewish) and he mentioned that they just had their son circumcised at ~1Year old. I almost asked "why?" but held my tongue.
My favourite bit of every episode was the iconic ὅπλισις when Prof. Dr. P.H.D. Baracus first adds structure preserving maps to every object in sight then uses the snake lemma to weld them together with connecting homomorphisms. "I pity the fool who doesn't chase diagrams"
Historic. This opens the door for CRISPR. Very exciting to have followed this in Science/Nature magazine till today.
I can't see the Twitter comments, if that's what you're referring to.
Based on where things are at, I feel like there's legitimately no way to stop this. That said, there will be attempts to stop this, and that is something I'm almost more scared about.

What laws will be made attempting to stop what likely can't be stopped?
Xwitter.
> you make the great leap of equating all wealth creation to an arbitrage in externalities.

I do indeed. I think on a long-enough timeframe, all human activity is just externality arbitrage.
They could do that before by claiming they were photoshopped. The reality is in these situations it seems far more likely that whether the nudes were fake or real claiming they were fake is unlikely to be believed in a social situation where they are publicly leaked.