skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man, the GPT Store confuses the hell out of me. I have no idea what is going to be in scope for this thing lol
Lol. Lmao even. Great writeup
Global Infrastructure Hub: InfraTracker
Fun fact: humans are the only species that drinks milk directly from other species. We're also the only species which drinks milk past infancy. Don't worry, though, it's "normal, natural and necessary".
...but a twenty minute shower can be very nice and pleasant. I don't do them all the time but sometimes I choose to stay in just because I'm enjoying it. I think I did one earlier this week, and I have no issues and almost zero stress with my job right now.

I get the sentiment though. I remember a previous job I hated that I got in trouble if I arrived late, so I'd get there pretty early to make sure I wasn't late, and would sit in the car in the parking lot waiting (and dreading) the clock getting to 8:00am, when I was expected to be there. I never left the car early to go in and say hi to people, I wanted to be inside that building as little as possible.
Pretty sure MTA (NYC subway) ticket machines were running OS/2 into the mid 2010s and maybe still are.
Imho forecasting is still way better in R than in Python
looks great, have you thought about infinite scroll? instead of manually clicking "load more"? cheers!
Consider all the labor regulations since. All the complexity of the taxes. The design of cars today is completely driven by regulations - for example, the tendency for cars to all look alike comes from regulation of every aspect of them.

Regulation has driven a lot of industry out of America, as it made it too expensive to operate here.

In what area has government been reduced?
It's a pitch to get VC funding and this is exactly how that audience treats vacations. The idea of saving or planning to do something is just unimaginable to the super rich this is aimed at getting investment money from
While all of that is true, nobody hates women like other women. Men are just way more conspicuous and aggressive about it. Women conceal their abuse through rhetoric and political games.

Everyone is a girl, online.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37469575
Music streams hit 4T in 2023
Ask HN: Getting More 'Technical' as PM
I'm a non-technical PM, have taken CS 101-202 type courses in college but never written production code. I'd like to be more "technical" in the sense, understand the basics of databases and backend systems work, what goes into building them, etc.

Are there any resources/books that I should read? Relatively vague ask I know. Thinking of reading something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Computer-Architecture-Organization-architectures
Thanks for commenting Vlad. I'll try to reinstall the extension and hopefully that'll fix it. When Orion becomes more stable I'd be happy to use that exclusively.
The drinking age is also entirely irrelevant to teens because it just means they drink at house parties rather than bars.
Don't take my word for it. Just take a look at any chart of state/local/federal spending.
And it is a fairly interesting product.

Their direction seems to be this framing.. "why would I want to look at a set of graphs/metrics when I can have something tell me exactly what is wrong and make recommendations on how to fix?"

Whether it works in practice or not, who knows. But it is interesting.
NASA delays Artemis 2 and 3 missions
> Social media ended up replacing social life for many teens, and it's probably useful to ask why - this isn't Mark Zuckerberg's design

The algorithmic feed and what is shown is absolutely by design. I don't use social media so I don't know how good / bad it is but there's clearly intent.

Comparing social media or Youtube to literature or D&D doesn't really work for me. This is more akin to a billion channel cable service where your remote only works some of the time. You use it to socialize with your friends, but you're also forcefed content that you didn't ask for, that may or may not be good for your mental health.

And yes, adults have agency but this article is about teens who have agency but are still growing and don't have the experience to make good decisions.
i don't care about twitter. my argument is that it's still an important part of our internet culture. caring about the platform != thinking it's a platform that shapes mainstream culture. the rest of the world keeps revolving while incorporating bits of culture or "discourse" or whatever from the twitter, without realizing it.

it's similar to tiktok. you likely don't realize you're seeing something only because it originated from tiktok or twitter. if the daily news is still regularly reporting about things that happen on twitter, then i'd say it's still an important platform.
For a very long time, Juniper lead over Cisco for performance and features. After the run of the original Catalyst switches, Cisco was floundering, resting on their past successes without really pushing anything.

We bought Juniper gear at the time because nothing Cisco had would work well for us. At least at not any sane price point, and lots of restrictions/gotchas.

Cisco finally got their wind back eventually on their Nexus gear, catching up and run neck-and-neck between Juniper & Arista now.
> The only thing you possibly achieve is that every now and then, someone with an automated scanner (which may be an attacker, or may be a security researcher or service) will see his tool crash or consume large amounts of resources.

True. But it's also a low-cost, low-effort thing. It may not change the world, but putting a small hiccup in someone's operation can bring a small bit of joy.
I’ve always wondered about DNA from a programming language point of view and always thought it was more like a data structure than a language
Maybe it's crazy, but I'm one of those people who tries to make a living of the goodwill of people and companies. I am working for free since several months on Biome (https://biomejs.dev), a fast formatter and linter for JS/TS/JSX. At the moment we do not have enough donations to be paid for our contributions.
Agreed on the dark patterns. I’m pretty adamant about staying on the free 5GB plan. So once a year or so my backup fails and I have to spend half an hour fighting with their intentionally terrible UI to reduce its size.
LLVM is a big part of it. GCC is more opaque (and monolithic) in comparison. Having an intermediate language and a modular architecture makes it easier to build specialized compilers.
> 1) Price seems too low for unlimited LLM usage and there's no monthly fee... so maybe you are the product?

With AI you are always the product - how else can it be "trained".
Excalibur Hash is a high-speed hash map and hash set
I come to HN for tech news and recently I get a heaping of 100% political, 100% partisan, non-tech-related drivel that is not even news - it's just opinion blog.

I'd apply it to both sides, but I only see one side on HN:

Dear leftists! Can you please take your propaganda and fuck off to reddit, twitter/X, or wherever?
Are there good reasons why Distillation + Re-Added Electrolytes method isn't used more?
If you believe I'm shilling rather than helping you, then I'll stop right here.

Have a good day.
Been a joke since porting to new systems has existed: "Well, now it's bigger and slower, but at least it was more expensive!"
I think it’s interesting chatGPT is the only that doesn’t use the word bees in the translation.
> That's a very romantic approach ("good old times"),

My grandfather used to say: So when was the good old times, because I don't remember them? He was born in 1921.

The point of picking a somewhere in the past would be to avoid debating which things we'd want to get rid of, and instead focus on which technologies would we have adopted, if we had the current knowledge of it's ramifications. E.g. we'd skip the mass adoption of internal combustion engines and go for EVs if we had the full future vision and technology in 1940, so we should get rid of gas and diesel cars.

To it was just to have a reference point where living standards where fairly high and where most of us wouldn't be completely lost, and use that as a starting point for judging the value of various technologies.
Yes, if in your mind a summer of Gamestop meme trading equals a technology with 40 years of research from the top applied cryptographers, 10 years of production testing, and an asset with thin markets and extremely asymmetric holdings.

The ability to easily reduce crypto to some hot take and equivalence is why otherwise quite smart people keep missing the space for the last decade.
Would you all have any book (or YouTube) suggestions for an absolute beginner to learn from?
Undermining trust in institutions.

Prior to the truth of the Vietnam war coming out, ordinary Americans tended to gave the benefit of the doubt to the government. They lost the baby boomer’s trust with Vietnam.

Bush 43’s Iraq war did the same to Gen X.

For Millenial Americans it was the government’s ruinous response to the 2008 financial crisis.

Then the COVID debacle happened.

Fast forward to the present moment where the vast majority of Americans have never seen functional institutions in their or their parent’s or grandparent’s lifetime.

A shockingly high percentage of gen z colleagues I speak with see government institutions, the American government itself, healthcare, tech, banking, capitalism, etc to be a giant scam. They believe they’re on their own and cannot count on society in any way for support.

They feel like they’re alone in the woods. I think it contributes to their anxiety.
Btw, you can play Rocky's Boots on the internet archive - https://archive.org/details/Rockys_Boots_1982_Learning_Compa...
That is pretty cool! I would recommend this tool to people like bioinformaticians and scientists who do a lot of work on the command line.
What’s illogical is your inefficient response to the matter. You were asked a simple question, but because said question assumed it was your objection you proceeded to waste time asserting that you do not care, as if that somehow is an important distinction. It was your argument, your opinion on why it is repugnant, and it is how you would feel as the boss in that situation.
Wearable solar-powered gadget automatically regulates body temperature
This year, the tax burden is higher than the OECD average for the first time since 2011[1]. As the graphs on that page show, the UK's tax burden being below the OECD average - and certainly lower than France/Germany - is the general rule since the '80s.

In any case, the low rate of taxation is only one element of the persistent austerity policies that have been in place since the 2009 economic crash.

In terms of government spending, we have easily-obtainable data on the NHS[2] and those available by thinktanks like IFS[3]. The NHS spending is low (and again consistently lower than our peers in Europe). I find the charts from the IFS interesting because it doesn't show a lot of change in spending year-on-year (relative to GDP) since the '90s, except for the catastrophes.

But the table at the bottom is very interesting. Health £ spending up, but equivalent to 2-3% increase YoY, which barely keeps up with inflation. Education, public order & housing spending are all DOWN in absolute terms, forget about inflation. Defense, social security, transport all increased at a rate less than inflation. (Obviously a huge increase in debt spending recently due to Covid measures.)

That there is long-term austerity exemplified. No myth.

[1] https://www.oecd.org/tax/revenue-statistics-united-kingdom.p...

[2] https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/nhs-in-a-nutshell/nhs-...

[3] https://ifs.org.uk/taxlab/taxlab-key-questions/what-does-gov...
Artist Style Studies
I feel like the inflection point was about here:

https://imgur.com/ALMObBv

Not that I am blaming porn. I am not. But once the screens and bandwidth became large enough, UI's easy enough to navigate etc AND the devices themselves became quite commonplace, the always online mentality became one used much less for essential communication and business and transitioned more to a cultural way of life (porn is just an easy and funny way to drive that point home).

Doom scrolling wasnt really as much of a thing until Android and iOS matured enough and gained enough acceptance that it was no longer a status symbol. Heck i cant even tell you most of the social media apps these days, much less dating, but having some conversations with my younger cousins over break, there really arent many ways to meet folks outside of some of these apps (at least to them), which is sad. Apparently something as simple as "why not just join some type of IRL hobby and meet people that way" was scoffed at.
The API could be LinkQ-like, so it'd still be SQL-ish, just in a query builder sort of way.
LLVM is a library for building compilers, GCC is not.

It's pretty much that simple.
I had to check Kary Mullis's wikipedia page to figure out that PCR stood for polymerase chain reaction. While there, I got the distinct impression someone who disliked him was responsible for editing quite a lot of his article.
Note this line:

> If it provided some massive major advantage over the large number of other options, I'd consider it

People reject using technologies because of the impact of having to support them all the time when the benefit does not justify needing to support one more technology. I don't have an issue with using JVM based services if I can have someone else manage them for me, but when I have to deal with the operational issues myself, or within my team, then how comfortable we are with managing a specific technology vs. the advantages it brings over competing alternatives absolutely is part of the consideration, and it'd be irresponsible for it not to be.

In this case the benefit seems marginal at best, and I'm not deploying a JVM based service for marginal benefits given how much hassle they've brought me over the years.
Okay, I traveled back in time 30 years and convinced people to recognize the danger of being online all the time. I even made sure there would be innumerable studies suggesting it, and that pretty much everyone was at least aware of the danger. So, now that I'm back in 2024, everybody should already know that being online all the time is not healthy. I haven't checked yet, did it stop them from being addicted? I'm sure it did, right?!
I worked with Firebase for a while, lured in because of how easy it was to do certain things. It makes certain kinds of operations essentially zero effort, such as getting realtime updates on the frontend when something changes. But it also creates a huge amount of effort that is trivial with other frameworks, such as creating a huge effort for security. I found that what I gained in convenience, I lost by needing to do so much work continuously battling with security rules. I left it behind and never looked back, and it made me much more cheerful about the work that I needed to do to establish and maintain more conventional backend data systems.
I’ve always thought Lisp is the closest approximation to DNA.
Maybe I'm being thrown off by the anime characters, but I associate even the grass and trees with the kind of low effort 3d meme games that permeate steam. From what I understand, it's difficult not to make a game look like this if you're just throwing unity assets together.
There are a number of things that can be done that can fix the broken system while retaining the things that work in our existing system.

1. Public funding for approval for public interest drugs that immediately are available at generic-level prices.

2. Public funding for patent early buyouts so that they can be available at generic-level prices sooner.

3. Public drug bounty systems: award non-trivial payouts to companies that discover and perform all clinical trials, and immediately make the drugs available to the public at generic-level prices.

4. Broad cooperation and alignment on approval trial requirements across drug regulators in Canada and the EU, such that drug trials don't need to be duplicated 3 different times in 3 different jurisdictions with slightly varying rulesets. This would benefit both public interest ideas above as well as existing private interests.

5. Add price controls to drugs which have benefited from publicly funded research. I'm not a fan of price controls in general as I think there is a risk that good drugs won't be researched if they're too risky, but in the case of a private company taking some compound that public research discovered, patenting the chiral[0], and funding the clinical trials for it...the public has already done all the hard work and you're just

6. Allowing for risk-assumed early approval drugs which are regulated for content purity, but which do not do full testing for drug interaction/benefit/risk assessments. Users could explicitly opt out of the guarantees that come with full FCC approval. This is actually how the much of the developing world treats drug regulation: sure you can buy it and it will be what it says on the label, but there is no guarantee that it will fix your problem or that it wont harm you. While that sounds potentially troublesome, there is a reason why rich people sometimes travel to poor countries for medical care, and this is a huge part it. If you've got 9 months to live, you don't care that the FDA is trying to determine if it might kill you...you are already on your death bed. Holding back a potential cure is inhumane.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality_(chemistry) Chirality is an extremely common loophole that allows drug companies to patent drugs that work exactly the same as an unpatentable drug, so that they have price protection for it.
I think this is an issue of "can" in the "technically possible" vs "realistically possible".

There are lots of people who have done exactly what you said, and others that never became terminally online, yet real-world re-adoption has been slow.
> It never led to any financial collapse though.

If the Panic of 1879, the Panic of 1897, and the Great Depression don't count as "financial collapse", sure. I don't think that I agree with your definitions, though.
U.S. Prices for Brand Drugs Higher Than in Australia, Canada, and France
> without ever needing a single GNU tool besides git[5]

Since when is git GNU?
I recently turned reader view on by default for all sites in safari on iOS and it is glorious.
Netflix's 'Rebel Moon' is one of the worst movies ever made [funny]
We wanted to switch to Aurora in our company about a year ago. We tried serverless first but decided against it. We ended up using Aurora provisioned. Main reason was cost. Aurora Serverless was 20%-40% more expensive than Aurora provisioned.

One area where Aurora is superior to non-Aurora in AWS is replication lag. When running non-Aurora MySQL servers, we had replica lag sometimes reach an hour making read replicas useless. With Aurora provisioned, replica lag is always under 30ms.

If your app is database heavy and you end-up using database pretty much 24/7, don't fall for serverless hype and go with Aurora Provisioned.
Why don't identical twins have the same fingerprints?
> Would you consider gold mining a waste of energy?

If the amount of work put into getting it is not reciprocal to the value of the outcome, then yes I would consider it a waste. So would most commercial gold miners, I reckon.

> If you don't need to perform work of equivalent value to the money you are creating, what do you think will happen?

The work miners do doesn't give Bitcoin it's value, the supply and demand economy does. Miners are supposed to validate blocks and push the ledger forward, without an active trading economy their work is inherently wasted. That's like... Bitcoin 101 right there. God help you if you own any.
This is a great point. So my parents were well-intentioned but were immensely restrictive in all areas of my life. I can't imagine just how much worse it'd be with the monitoring and restriction tools that are available nowadays. I actually stop myself from posting things on Instagram given that I have them on there. So I think there's some truth to this.
Yeah, and that's needed even in cases where there's supposed to be an objective standard! In cases where it's explicitly subjective going in, "we might flip on appeal" can be pretty terrifying.
Because I don't do IT trivia, and I don't offer free consulting services. When getting these kind of idiotic interviews it's common for experienced people to walk away because they have options. The people that you get jumping through your hoops are mostly going to be people who don't have any options and they're the people that study for the test and that's all they can do.

I've walked away from interviews like this because I don't care there's lots of good places to work and a lot of people who know how to recognize skill without an idiotic amount of tests. It's really a big red flag to any experienced person when the interviewers don't know how to size up a person's experience and interview properly. That shows an overall problem with company culture. I suppose if I really needed a job I would jump through those hoops but I would bail as soon as a better opportunity came along.
Best of luck. I hope there's a path forward where open source can provide a reasonable income stream.

I maintain a couple of open source package for emacs -- it's a labour of love. I'm happy to help folks with their issues, but it's easy to say "sorry, I don't have capacity to add this feature" or "no, I don't think this is a good fit for the project". If I depended on this for money.. well this would change the whole approach, wouldn't it?
Why put "feeling unsafe" in scare quotes? There's a lot to feel unsafe about right now.
Probably. Without a second implementation proving it out the bureaucracy can write it off as not possible and the demand may be less just because users don’t know what they’re missing
I found this interesting article.

Nothing particularly new, just a bit more detailed on explaining why all websites at the top of google searches look the same
A cousin mentioned that the basketball coach was the highest paid employee at her (private) university. I said that he was also likely to be among the easiest to fire. Even an adjunct is likely to have more chances than a coach who doesn't meet expectations.
I've started using this approach to combat spam that ignores unsubscribe attempts:

1. Report each and every offending email to the FTC: https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/#/

2. Forward the "report received" email that the FTC sends you to support@spamming_domain.com and explain how and why you're reporting them

3. That's it. I've had a 100% success rate with this approach
The issue I’ve been seeing in wealthy industrialized countries, is that people are becoming poorer as they grow older, the prices of energy are rising, the prices of land are rising, so simply getting people together is less viable than even 20 odd years ago.

The internet gives you an instant connection to people who have interests specific to you better than even an expensive international convention can do for essentially free. If you decide this is worth it anyways, well you’re going to end up financially behind somebody using the internet in a cheap apartment on undesirable land, and that is going to undermine you bit by bit.

Those who thrive in this era of humanity I think are just going to be well adapted to an online world, or just be wealthy enough that they can afford the luxury of meeting in person. The only way in which I see this trend moving in the opposite direction is that the average amount of people living in each home is likely to rise due to land cost.
Twitch is cutting one-third of its staff
He dictated it wasn’t the case anymore
Quantifying your documentation's success
SEC Shaping Crypto's Investment Future
The Science of Asimov's the Last Question
DreamBerd - e/acc, being the perfect programming language it is, has this feature as well.