skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fun game! My personal answer to the Fermi paradox is that multi solar system civilization is very very hard, and multi galaxy civilization is functionally impossible. Speed of light is slow, space is big, and resources are concentrated. If there is a species with the capability to spread through their entire galaxy, they aren't in this galaxy and they aren't close enough to reach us.
It's offence when you leave your border on go over into another country. But either way, doesn't matter what I think, it's what Elon Musk thinks as he was giving them the starlink access for free.
> As an added security measure, we have temporarily disabled the ability to download your raw genetic data. We hope to re-enable this ability soon, and we appreciate your patience.

Apparently 23andMe doesn't let you download the data anymore, I just tried. I wanted to give Promethease a go, seems interesting.
is this completely independently developed? the literal exact same idea at the same time? crazy
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Maybe your question is worth its own thread. Your biggest hurdle will be immigrating to the US. As far as I know the best way to manage that would be to finish your studies in the US. If you're from Canada I believe getting a visa is easier. Many cities/countries have good startup cultures nowadays, and SV is no longer the only option to get started!
That seems like a service you send samples to.

I want to buy a machine, observe the whole process myself and then destroy/scrub the machine.
Exactly that. A local only path that provides high performance.

Remember the original comment was the claim that Xorg could easily do remote windows years ago. This is only true using the low performance path that modern operating systems have universally rejected.
Speaking of counterpoints, maybe hackers should make counter points instead of down voting things they disagree with?
The skills that make an entrepreneur effective don't always yield political influence. If Garry is understandably frustrated and angry that his efforts to improve SF are being thwarted he needs to change methods, not threaten those who are blocking him. My two cents, reasonable men may differ.
Apple's ATT privacy policy reduced orders and revenue for Shopify merchants
Why are we excluding red, green, red?
Ah permanent capital vehicles... forgot Sequoia did this too
This idea is pretty common, I remember playing a similar game on my iPod Touch nearly 10 years ago
Yes, you are right that tech jobs encompass even more than IT, but that means the total number of tech jobs was even larger than 3.45 million. Yet the original claim was that there were only ~750,000 tech jobs in total across the USA. That remains hard to believe.

I, like the commenter that set the context, can find it easier to believe that 300,000 jobs were lost at tech companies, representing 40% of jobs at tech companies. No doubt, the vast majority of tech work happens outside of tech companies – probably doubly so back then when it was the norm to do everything in-house rather than outsource a lot of the work to tech companies like we see today. But the comment I replied to discounts that notion, so here we are...
The article mentions that they were able to stream video from a starlink satellite as it was de-orbiting - it would be neat to see the video of that, even if it cuts off as the laser link losing connection (or the satellite burns up)
There can be quite a difference between people who can make every dollar count compared to those who have never done such a thing.
it's not really a strict "re-hiring".

After the fight club news came out, the employee was separated from his job. Arbitration concluded he was unlawfully separated from his job. His employee contract requires the Sheriff's Dept to give him back his previous position, since arbitration ruled firing him was invalid.

I'm sure the Sheriff's Department would prefer he go far far away and never come back.

It will be hilarious if the department is required to pay him his yearly salary for the last 9 years to ("hilarious" as in this sucks)
https://www.nseindia.com/products-services/rights-issue
Which part of my commentary is contemptuous? I pointed out why I think housing is expensive in the city, based on my experience voting against it.
Completely independently! We're a team of two University students funding this out of our own pockets. About 8 months work (on and off) from first prototype.
I know all about alternate ways to deal with memory, if I was just programming purely for fun I'd write assembly and not waste time moving the stack pointer around and other meaningless activities associated with calling conventions.

It's a sign of poor quality code.

He probably was using the array for something at one point, quit using it, and never bothered to delete it.

And of course it is C so there are no unit tests despite it being the kind of code that is eminently unit testable (if it wasn't written in C, not like you couldn't write unit tests for C but who does?)
Live near Boston. Natural gas is the predominant energy source for heat and electricity[0]. The NG pipeline that feeds this geography is too small[1] so LNG is shipped in[2]. Sadly, while the US is one of the larger producers of LNG in the world market[3] we are not able to purchase US LNG be of restrictions from the Jones Act (the ships themselves are not domestic made or flagged).

What I don't know is all the ins and outs of whats preventing domestic ship building or flagging or maybe the northeast energy market just isn't big enough.

[0] https://www.iso-ne.com/about/key-stats/resource-mix/
[1] https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/09/22/enbridge-weymouth-compr...
[2] https://www.balticshipping.com/vessel/imo/9230062
[3] https://www.worldometers.info/gas/gas-production-by-country/
You could wire together a group of houses or neighborhoods with generators and batteries and make the electric company redundant by establishing contracts which buy and sell electricity between participants at rates which adjust in response to demand, forecast, and each battery’s reserves.

Ethereum’s ‘problem’ to solve is “how do you program value”. It’s a tool that has never been directly available to software engineers.

You can also look at MakerDAO’s DAI algorithmic stablecoin, which has used automatic management of collateral assets to maintain a peg through the worst market crashes so far. These contracts are battle-tested and require much less trust than Tether or USDC.
I'm not the parent commenter, but it's open source and on github and easy to run localy, unfortunately it requires installing Java and some deprecated Java application to even build it to have changes reflect and I'm not doing either of those things. I also don't know enough about un-minifying javascript to just change variables in the browser directly. maybe someone else here does.
> we want Macaroon tokens to be safe to transmit between users

How does this work for auditing? If user A gives user B a token (perhaps after adding a caveat) how does this system audit log determine who did what? Does that require a third party system?
I found paradedb interesting! It's on my list of places I want to work
> Simplicity is a luxury. It’s really hard. And it’s never "just".

Amen.

I love this - Laughing along all the way, even though it's a direct
attack on my whole command-line life and being.

The author makes it even stronger by adding:

> What’s easy for you might not be easy for others. There’s always a trade-off.

I hate the word "just" too.

"Just install the app".

"Just Facebook me"

"Just use your Google ID"

I recognise the author's pain at having to deal with low level minutia
because it's cognitively hard.

What I feel as unbearable in my list of "just..." hates, is the moral
load.

I think we should all be a little more considerate to each other
before using "just" to imply that something must be asy for someone.
I find it no easier to "just use Microsoft" than the author would to
recompile the kernel.
not the OP but as a fun exploratory hobby project, you don't think the presentation is reasonable? seems totally fair to me
The U.S. Is Spoiled by Cheap Canadian Oil. That's About to Change
What a dumb idea. The massive amount of fuel it would take to build and run the huge machines necessary to tear up a parking lot, then just move it to another lot of land far outstrips the benefits of a few trees. Simply let plants and trees grow up through the lot and go back to a natural state over time.
Sure I don't need a full sequence, just the bits used for health features on 23andme.

Of course the closer to a full sequence the better as any future research could be used by just reading existing data. But realistically just having data on few hundred most useful markers is enough.
I suspect as hardware encode gets better and wireless bandwidth gets greater there’s less and less merit in this.
From what I recall of the discussion at the time, it's true - the Bloomberg article only looked at job growth, not all hires. Even so, only 6% of growth going to the 58% of the population that is white is highly skewed, and I don't follow how demographics of young job-seekers explains it.
Isn't there something about that seeking in movies was only possible in Google Video and not on (original) YouTube?

So they ended up with the YouTube frontend and mostly Google Video backend?
They're both inspired by Little Alchemy 1 & 2, PopCap's Alchemy, or if we really squint, The Incredible Machine from 1993.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Machine
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve
In the beginning, there were four elements. Some asshole came over and banged them all together like rocks to see what fit together. The first life on Earth was dragons, plants, and vampires, somehow.
> At the smallest scales, everything is made out of a cloud of quantum possibilities. A new idea attempts to explain how our everyday world comes from this, using the laws of thermodynamics
> but with extra logic to ensure that the Month component wrapped around

Extra unnecessary logic. The functionality that causes this bug is so you don't need to handle wraparound yourself:

>> new Date(2023, 12, 1)
Date Mon Jan 01 2024 00:00:00 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)

(Note months are 0-indexed so 12 is one past the last month of the year)

It works with negative numbers too, to wrap backwards:

>> new Date(2024, -1, 1)
Date Thu Dec 01 2023 00:00:00 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)
It's the other way around. Trying to search for problems with Stable is more difficult because potential fixes require things your OS doesn't have yet.
This was one of my favorite online games in childhood. Came here for commenting the same!
Differ: Tool for testing and validating transformed programs
> but did Figma even need to sell in the first place?

It’s pretty clear Figma in 5-10 years could make photo and video editing products that outperform Adobe and Adobe can’t even make one web product as good as Fireworks was that they killed so yeah no Figma has no need for Adobe.

Figma has an outstanding engineering team you can tell just by using the app, Adobes dev team it’s questionable how much of Photoshop and AE they even understand how it works as they so rarely try and fix any of it and when they do they tend to break something.

Kinda feel the Photoshop and AE codebases are probably like an ancient untranslated artifact to their current dev team.
I don’t disagree :) I’m just explaining to OP why someone would reach for it over PG
The problem might be that those other 6 billion bases have all of the signal that you need for drug discovery and rare disease research.
Sbtrkt, a Big Zoetrope
It does not really need to be that intense. I get very reliable results from the gpt4 api using this template:

You are a data cleaner and JSON formatter
Take the input data and format it into attributes
Your output will be fed directly to `json.loads`

Example input:
foo bar baz bat

Example format:
{
"string": "foo bar baz bat",
}

You can give it multiple input examples, too. I often use a "minimum viable" example so that it knows it's ok to return empty attributes instead of hallucinating when the data is sparse.
Apologizes. My intention was to create something that works for me, and I am a developer. I thought posting it on Hacker News would be suitable as there are some other developers here.
Right. They provide a convenience function that spins up a machine running postgres and adds the right environment variables to any machines you already have running.

It's "just another machine," but that's not obvious when you're setting it up! Two bits of documentation that are lacking here are:

1. How does this affect billing, especially if you're on the hobby plan? (Answer, as far as I can tell: since it's just another machine, it can be free if and only if you resource it such that it fits in your free "allowances." The defaults are NOT these, however, so you have to be careful if you want to mess around for free).

2. Once the db machine is created...how can I get credentials for it? A connection string is generated upon machine creation but...what if you don't write it down?
Now that's interesting - I haven't paid much attention to the HPC job market in years. Are you a HPC system administrator, HPC dev, or both?
"I don’t like that word."

Just get over it.
It's not to blame for these problems but it fails to counter them.

In medicine see

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/

where there is a systematic process to search the literature and select papers with usable results. I've never seen more than 50% of papers get accepted and the other day I saw one where they found 80 invalid papers and 2 valid papers. It seems to me that peer review isn't accomplishing very much if it is passing through papers that can't be built on. For that matter, why is this work even being funded?
This. Duolingo is in the same vein which interrupts my flow. Animations shouldn't continuously block the interaction of the experience. The majority should probably be ancillary and be a visual flourish.
I can't speak for all managers but I did some analysis on this because, when we came back from COVID, we were trying to keep the number of used offices to a minimum as they took a lot longer to daily deep clean.

For me personally, over a period of about 6 weeks, I needed a private room for a sensitive conversations on at least 3 days in each of those weeks. 2 of the weeks were for all 5 days.

3-4 of the conversation were related to employee's health so probably more than a typical period. But the period didn't cover any of the usual high sensitivity events, like appraisals or comp, so it's a bit of a wash.

Now that doesn't mean that I need exclusive access to an office (and I don't) but it is frequent enough that it makes an important part of my job very hard without easy access.

But that all obviously depends on details as to how many people you manage, org's views on management responsibility etc.
I understood it to mean maximum hours physically possible
I sure feel this. I've worked at home for the past 30 years and I've asked and pleaded with my wife and children (all adults now) to let me work uninterrupted and they've ignored that the entire time.

I've tried to explain to them why I need to work without interruptions, much the same as the author of this has described, but they've never given it a thought.

I cringe every time the phone rings because generally the 1st thing they ask is "are you busy" and I always answer "yes, I'm working" and they blow right by that to tell me why I need to do something for them right away.

Gotta love `em.
That's not the point. That is what I have now and my tv starts up in a big ugly display with an ad for Google TV and an admonition to enable it.

I've read online some smart tvs will complain, often, to please connect them.

I'd like a tv that works for me, not for the tv manufacturer.

It's also got a remote with way too many buttons like "Netflix" "Disney+" etc. Touch them by accident and it immediately goes to "setup your tv account"
We'd all love you to be _paid_ to do an FDB test!

What are your most tempting/daunting databases that you haven't got a chance to put through their paces?

And, a second question, if you step back and think about the various APIs you've had to use, have you personally developed favourite styles of API to use?
This is only a drop in the bucket of the environmental damage the Jones Act causes.

Water is far and away the cheapest and least fuel intensive way to ship goods. Basins like the Mississippi and Columbia have already been engineered and maintained as shipping superhighways. But we're using less than 1/10th of our riverway capacity. Unless it's bulk grain or sand, everything else being hauled by truck or train because of the outrageous costs.

It's also contributed to the hollowing out of America. The American Midwest underperforms economically because what should be a geographic blessing has become a curse. Materials costs are higher than they should be. These regions could be international logistics hubs in their own right - but all of that industry and wealth gets captured by coastal ports.

I'm no fan of handing out subsidies to industries - but if we are trying to maintain shipbuilding capacity for wartime (or whatever the excuse is) we are all much better off just paying for it.
NASA's Webb Depicts Staggering Structure in 19 Nearby Spiral Galaxies
The hilariously small whales in some of the pictures are really the best.
Fireworks actually had a lot of features people gushed about Sketch and Figma having close to a decade before they existed.

Adobe never understood this and tried to push web design into PS and AI then killed FW.
A lot of founders see it as a good thing -- not everyone wants to stay in the game. Some want a big liquidity event after 10 years of grind and a sale to a large competing company typically yields the biggest windfall.
I would love to see this used to provide a detailed analysis of grocery price inflation over time, using every single product in the store.

The price trends that I have seen so far only include a subset of common grocery items such as bread, milk and cheese. The stores are good at figuring out which items they can increase prices on, and when, in a way that is hard for us to notice.
Wouldn't the right thing to have done for any employee, friend or not, be to simply pay them the remaining two months but let them go early?
I told my thesis advisor that!
Nobody goes there, it's too crowded.
Catholic Church has no problem with Big Bang or the common estimations on Earth's age.

I studied in a religious school in the 70's and we learnt about dinosaurs. We were taught that the "days" in Genesis were metaphors. Creationism is frowned upon. I made a science project explaining the different theories about the origin of the Solar System.
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> Legally? Does it matter?

Yes. Funding was shifted and practices changed.

> Aside from Snowden, who suffered? Hint: No one. Nuff said

Retribution isn’t the sole measure of progress.
If AI turns out to be no big deal, then you're right, there's no rush to compete. And there's also no rush to regulate. Conversely, if AI turns out to to be a huge deal, then we certainly won't end up wishing we'd held ourselves back with regulation while rival/adversary nations plowed forward at full speed.

Look at the people who will be doing the regulating. They'll get right on it after they decide which flavor of genocide to support, what books your local library gets to purchase, and who gets to use what restroom.

Basically there is almost zero upside to early government intervention, but the potential downside to regulation is unbounded. That makes it a very easy call, to my way of thinking.
Like selling it to insurance companies who can use the data to deny coverage.
You can do that too! It's just that you can also use checks. I don't see the problem, instant money transfers are ubiquitous and were easy for me even as a visitor in the US. The fact that bank transferts take longer doesn't really matter day to day, they just don't use them for that
The reason the wealthy have such influence over the economics of making and selling art is that the non-wealthy are more or less categorically opposed to paying appropriate prices for art.
Not a great comparison, custom GPTs use plugins or function calling similar to how they use code interpreter. You can't really compare them because plugins or functions are a tool that GPTs use in addition to other features. The advantage a custom GPT has is it is easy to set up but it comes with big disadvantages such as having to use their RAG system which is very opaque and only being able to use one system message. Building with the assistant API can be far superior but requires a lot more effort and skill in building your own APIs.
The retrieval from file has issues. I'm unsure what exactly it retrieves and how. Afaik it gets a kind of "chunk" from only one file per request in whatever way it considers to be relevant to the request. Could be a simple "embedding vector comparison" or something else...

Then we are unsure how much of the context that chunk replaces or overrides. Does it overwrite past messages? Does it overwrite the system prompt? Anything else? Who knows.

If anyone has any info I would appreciate it too. I gave up on it for anything significantly complicated, better off using the actions API to query a better RAG system instead.
The US is now the world's top petroleum producer and exporter, no?

Or has that flag fallen with Biden shutting down LNG exports?
Yes! I am much more productive in those hours too despite being "a morning person" with regards to getting up early and being spry. On my own hobby work I find myself crushed by hitting flow at like 1 am, finally, and then oh crap I've gotta work in six hours, better get some sleep
> Also, somehow that bar can show what's on each virtual desktop, and in real time, so I know that's at least possible.

That bar shows a small lower-res preview of each of the desktops, it is not rendering all the desktops at full 4K res. Essentially the smaller a window appears on the screen, the lower effort is needed to draw it.