skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A simple solution is to create a C++ file and exposing sorting functions to C. E.g. "void sort_int(int *data, size_t n)". The implementation uses then std::sort.

Unfortunately, qsort is really slow and sometimes barely usable.
I am writing a single abstract declaration (I suppose I should have used `extern "C" {...}` to be clear) that one can only use safely. You are writing some unsafe code with safe wrapper. These are not the same.
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> with the winding down of fossil fuels, we'll switch to more concrete roads.

Maybe, but now that everyone is becoming more aware of how terrible concrete is for the environment, maybe not. Work is ongoing to find a less damaging alternative to concrete.
Is this a thing? How often did people previously “automate” their own interaction with a Facebook property?

I imagine <<1% of people moderate a Facebook group, and they may value automation. But that’s it?
It is fair to note, that JavascriptCore outperforms V8 already. However, it is in Zig. And Deno is in Rust.
It's probably worth remembering this sort of thing when people say there is no difference between the parties. Every Republican voted against it, they almost repealed it, and apparently are gearing up for another crack at repeal https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/01/trump-o...

At your age, you'll likely be on Medicare soon either way, but some of us are still decades away.
Nigeria is beating Kenya? So much so that the latter isn't even on the short list... what? This is very surprising.
Yes, of course. It's a third type of interaction type that would need its own unique data.
I've seen a few programs that misbehave due to a comparison function that doesn't have all of the necessary properties.

Maybe what's notable from a security perspective is that here's a contract about the behavior of an algorithm (comparison function) as opposed to the value of an argument (null pointer, negative, bigger than N, etc.).

Still qualifies as passing an invalid parameter.
Even the seed stage startups I joined had a bottomless supply of these. Is that not common there?

Well, replace Red Bull with espressos. And the sodas are low sugar now but I think that's because of the sugar tax.
Databases have had their storage and compute together for as long as i remember.

It's changing now, though, in a good way.

TiDB, YDB, SurrealDB, singlestore, etc is changing that.

I am looking forward to a seamless way to move data from hot to cold. For PG, timescale does that, but only for their cloud offering.
... i mentioned it in my post.

but, it is fair to say, if you've never experienced a versioning issue then you wouldn't find poetry amazing.
> without having to figure out if a type analysis bug is from me, or the tool

Deno uses regular Typescript for static type checking, it's just built-in. Bun also doesn't do type checking by itself, they recommend using tsc [2].

[1] https://docs.deno.com/runtime/manual/advanced/typescript/faq...

[2] https://bun.sh/docs/runtime/typescript#running-ts-files
Here is another mistake, some weird superiority. For the HQ in London, Munich, San Francisco, or Zurich, they are all in the same outsourcing low cost league as Bangajabad. It completery doesn't matter for them whether AI in Java and Kubernetes on Azure is bloated 2 or 3 times too much. Occasionally show them some low quality codebase from India to stroke their egos "you see that's why we keep the office in Novowsky".
Oxford Nanopore with the new R10 cells is good enough for most synthetic biology applications (ie, plasmid sequencing and strain validation), which I'm super excited about. Combine low-capital and long-reads and you can do some really interesting things in the DNA assembly realm. It's pretty recent they got there though

> At some point us biologists only have ourselves to blame for our purchasing decisions and their consequences

Yep...
WhatsApp as an Alternative to SMS?
Hi, hope to find some light about this topic. I was walking around San Francisco and most businesses use Phone Calls or SMS. Is there room for WhatsApp to help Small Businesses reach more clients? I think specially for international user and users just willing to chat instead of calling.

For example I went to a dentist who do not offer any online booking for their patients. You need to call to make a booking. Is that normal?

We offer WhatsApp solutions and those are very popular everywhere. We want to break into the US market but somehow feels less develop than other areas. Is just me?

Thank you.
>The interesting thing is that I don't believe air travel is all that much cheaper now than it was in, say, 2010, when things were quite a bit more comfortable. Maybe not as comfortable as pre-deregulation, but certainly better than today, with more comfortable seats and more leg room.

Actually according to the BLS since Jan 2010, the CPI has went up 42% whereas airline fares have dropped 7.5%. That means adjusted for inflation airline fares have actually dropped 35%. I would say that arguably counts as "that much cheaper". Whether that's worth the decrease in legroom (unknown amount of inches) is another matter.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUSR0000SETG01
If it isn’t relevant why bring it up in this thread?

Because both you and him know what you are doing. Just from different sides.
Can’t wait to play Call of Duty on this thing
It is not about them being better leaders, but the engineer (hopefully) considering the efficacy of their design over bean counting.
> Are you saying they want to have racial diversity or SES diversity?

Because of structural racism and similar phenomena, they're not fully separable. It's not obvious to me they're even separable in a meaningful way (meaning that if you optimize for one, you simply won't get the same result as if you were to optimize for the other).

> Can I ask what you found so objectionable? I understand that many people disagree with the outcome, but from a legal perspective (IAAL), I haven't heard much criticism.

(IANAL, and it's been quite a while since I spent cycles on this so my recollection may be fuzzy) Fundamentally, I'm very uncomfortable with the dissonance in the concurring/dissenting opinions of Thomas/Sotomayor, respectively. My understanding was that they basically argue that the proposed standards by SFFA's lawyers are effectively unworkable, yet at the same time, there's very little to indicate that many - if any - universities were actually already out-of-compliance. In fact, in the aftermath of the case it seems as if most universities simply publicly doubled down on their existing diversity policies and missions.

So what's the point here? Why did SCOTUS accept to hear this? It seems like it was just taken up so that Roberts could fire up culture wars with the commentary he made in the majority opinion he authored.

It's hard to find virtue in something that claims to do a lot but in practice seems to do virtually nothing. So maybe it's incorrect to state that this is based on "absurd jurisprudence," but I can't find anything redeeming or positive to state about the opinion or the process that took us here.
I'm not putting anything against anything. That paper [0] completely agrees with the blog - they threw out all but 38 of the 2936 studies they considered, for crying out loud - and neither makes any call on sperm count in animals other than humans.

[0] https://academic.oup.com/humupd/article/29/2/157/6824414
You might be missing the point somewhat. With these methods, you could eg. test the vast swaths of potentially overlooked composers to see if any of them merit closer listening.
Requiring no CVE is obviously a proxy for no vulnerabilities, and it's as close as you can get. I think if you are in an industry that values this, the correct thing to do is check if you use qsort and check your comparision functions. Now. To encourage this, it would be good thing for glibc to issue a CVE.
It has no market. Sales will peter out to nothing after the hype because there just aren't a lot of customers out there who can drop that kind of dosh on a computer at all, let alone something that isn't nearly as capable as a computer like a headset. When you look at the sales of apples higher price SKU computers they are terrible. Mac studio sales for example are 1% of their mac sales (1). There just aren't many fish in the sea biting at these prices.

https://9to5mac.com/2023/01/09/apples-most-popular-mac/
I would tend to agree. Oust was probably too strong of a word. It's not something you can enforce, because corruption would ruin it eventually. I'm not some luddite, and I think people should be able to get rich enough to never have to worry about money if they contribute something that increases overall global productivity by a lot more than the average person, so capitalism is probably the only realistic way to do that. Where it breaks for me is that I don't think anyone should get rewarded to the point where they're a billionaire. For example, when I estimate the human cost of a $500 million yacht, I think of it as 10k+ lifetimes of work and consider it a misuse of resources. That labor should be directed somewhere else and no one should have enough money and power to "waste" it on something as superfluous as a yacht.

What I really meant is that we need changes in attitudes and education. Instead of viewing the current tech leaders as geniuses for aggregating users, limiting (or eliminating) choice, and charging for access to users, which is a cost that gets passed to those users, we need the average person to understand the damage done in terms of lost innovation, increased prices, and wasted labor.

I think teaching financial literacy in schools would help a lot. People just don't understand how badly they're getting ripped off IMO.
One aspect of that time period is they absolutely idolized the romans. A lot of education at the time consisted of learning latin and at the same time people were well aware that only a fraction of the classical texts had been preserved. I find it very believable that they understood the significance of preserving and potentially unlocking these scrolls.
You lost me at "EULAs, enforced via the state's monopoly on violence". Firstly I don't think any EULA has ever been enforced by violence, and secondly if people wanted to give you nice software they definitely wouldn't have to use an EULA. People want get paid for work, that's why you can't have all everyone's work for free. It's not complicated.
I'm sure the original authors didn't expect to be incinerated by a volcano (and I'm also sure that the future legibility of their writings would be the very least of their concerns!), but it really bends the mind to imagine their reaction if they could have known how this would all unfold (unroll? Sorry...)
There is a lot of really interesting and simultaneously totally useless information in the comments here. If I ran a college, im accepting whoever I decide, because its mine. Imagine accepting random strangers in your house to level out income/racial/gender inequities.

Of course the standardized tests are the best indicator of collegiate performance, and of course you will miss inspired candidates by only looking at test scores. Its a numbers game, and people pay a high price to come to my college, because every student gets a well paying job, because every student has a good grasp of the material and we built a reputation for high standards. If I accept unqualified candidates then my reputation and profit will suffer, because im dumping thousands of subpar kids into the market with papermill degrees.

"Oh no, it was always my dream to go to harvard, its not fair!" Like fuck-all is fair in life.
"Designing your life" is also great.
Somewhere along the way we forgot about software craftsmanship
The most annoying part with the 200k polymerase prize is that they don't actually provide protocols for validating the polymerase works well. Me and some friends can definitely do the AI-protein design + DNA synthesis + protein synthesis (and would want to), but no way am I gonna figure out idiosyncratic sequencer protocols.
An app for making children’s stories.

https://schrodi.co/
The point of the timestamp in UUIDv7 is not to encode creation time, it is to provide some (coarse-grained) chronological sortability.

Random primary keys are bad, but exposing incremental indexes to the public is also bad, and hacking on a separate unique UUID for public use is also bad. UUIDs are over-engineered for historical reasons, and UUIDv7 as raw 128 bits without the version encoding would be nicer.

But, to the end-user it's just a few lost bits in a 128-bit ID with an odd standard for hyphenation. The standardization means you know what to expect as developer, instead of every DB rolling their own unique 128-bit ID system with its own guarantees and weirdnesses.
Most people in the US pay for phones that come with a call/texting plan, usually unlimited these days. There's little demand for alternatives because pretty much everyone buys phones under contract. SMS is really the only thing you can expect people to have, if your business is WhatsApp-only then a lot of Americans won't ever try it.
Cubefox is being downvoted but for those unaware, there's still a lot of disagreement amongst experts in the role of genetics vs environment in determining G. There is undoubtably though, a huge amount of political and social stigma surrounding the topic. Hence the green username - I daren't touch this topic with a ten foot pole.

The study "Survey of expert opinion on intelligence: Intelligence research, experts' background, controversial issues, and the media", Table 3 in particular, makes a good illustration.

https://www.hoplofobia.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/2020-...
So you don’t use AI to generate SQL to retrieve data? As you say on the web site?
If you view the name check as a free advert for the company, does that help?
Modular Google Glass essentially? That could be pretty cool, and make the headset lighter too.
Thank the Gods. I was almost out.
Hm, been there, spilled a pint of Guinness (sorry Yvonne but why did you have to wear white trousers that day?) - don't try inline skating with two pints in an Irish pub with a cobblestone floor - but that did not seem to do the trick.
> the reason the iPhone succeeded is because a lot of people gave apple the benefit of the doubt

No. Maybe you're too young to remember, but the iPhone was a revelation at the time. It was clear that everything that had come before was obsolete. Seems to be hip to trash it now based on the original specs (2G! No camera! No copy and paste!) but the alternative at that time was either a landline or a plasticky junk phone with awful software (or a BlackBerry, which could sure message a whole lot but that was about it).
+1 on everything you said.

> Has it become much more costly to run an airline over the past decade? Maybe? I don't know. But if not, this doesn't seem to be "the market", at least not in the way a healthy market, with ample competition, would behave.

I think there's just a lot more competition among airliners post airline deregulation. The costs for most airliners is fixed (pilots, crew, aircraft, fuel, airport fees, A&Ps, etc) and so you're competing on small things like aircraft seat configuration, trim, routes, and prices.
> I'm curious to hear what you (and anyone else) would see as a useful app for this device :)

Still figuring this out, but most things that are useful as phone or tablet apps for one since you don’t want to switch to other devices if you don’t have to when you’re using it. Some sites would be better as apps too, because similar to how the web was clunky on early iPhones it’s also kind of clunky on the Vision Pro due to there not really being web affordances for AR/VR environments (aside from the immersive stuff typical of WebXR).

Integrations with Xcode and Android Studio on my Mac, allowing simulators and connected devices to appear as floating panes in visionOS might be cool.
Thumb shift is better anyway...
Onchain Experiences with Transient Labs
Hey, thanks for the tip.

One issue, though: I took a look at the Cody website and it looks like one can't have unlimited completions even when self-hosting a LLM.

I understand you guys have a business model and need to make money out of it. I'm just asking because I work as a teacher and I have students who can't pay an extra subscription and/or students who want to hack into stuff.
Sure, but there are really two questions:

1) Do we believe that the issues that caused those two crashes were not sufficiently dealt with, such that they might recur?

2) Do we believe that there are other issues that could cause catastrophic failures that could result in further deaths?

I feel pretty safe in saying "no" for #1. #2 is harder to answer. So far the new issues found are unlikely to cause further deaths, but maybe there are other problems lurking.

But even with the uncertainty around #2, I'm still safer (for example) flying from SFO to LAX on a Boeing plane than driving that route. But maybe that's not the best comparison: am I measurably safer on an Airbus plane than on a Boeing? Probably? But is that amount enough to be worth worrying about, logically, if I can get my irrational fears to shut up for a minute? Not sure I've looked at the data (assuming there is enough of it) to decide that.

> Boing and the FAA initially cast the blame on supposedly lower standards at the Indonesian and Ethiopian airlines operating the planes, but this was completely unsupported and incorrect speculation.

This bit feels like it doesn't tell the full story. IIRC there was a report about a third plane that (after at least the first crash, not sure if it was before or after the second) ran into the same issue with MCAS, but correctly followed the recovery procedure and was fine. Now, it could be that the recovery procedure is unreliable, and that third cockpit crew got lucky. But I don't recall what came of all that.

And on top of that, the two planes that crashed didn't have optional equipment (a disagree indicator, IIRC) that would have likely given the pilots extra and sufficient information to understand what was wrong and avoid a crash. My understanding is that all US airlines had already opted for that piece of equipment, and at this point presumably everyone has now opted for that piece of equipment. Given the issues, it should have never been optional (and maybe it no longer is). But GP is specifically pointing out the safety record of US-based carriers, so it should be notable that they seem to be better at identifying what bits of optional equipment are important enough to splurge on.
YES!! 100%, I emphatically CANNOT stand how terrible model validations are in Django (obvious vs Rails) and they are a direct result of "we do it better".

full_clean vs Form.full_clean vs DRF. It's just an absolute shit show.

Even if it is better, it's just annoying and not worth the benefits.

For us the overall benefits outweigh the drawbacks but I get angry every time when I need to do a model validation.
I can't see Djikstra loving the term "S-tier" but I bet he'd be secretly happy.
They’re used as warranty replacements.
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> If I ran a college, im accepting whoever I decide, because its mine. Imagine accepting random strangers in your house to level out income/racial/gender inequities.

You probably can get away with it, as long as you don't want to be credentialed and don't want any federal funds.
Atlassian is responsible for putting the guns in the hands of incompetent micromanagers, for whom the likes are Jira are the wet dreams they can only fantasise about in their alternate reality.
Whether or not they were joking, an AI did not write it. (I did; thank you for your comments!)
The good old Bussard Ramjet. Problem is, recent calculations showed that it's not viable - even for a Kardashev Type II civilisation [1]

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009457652...
Not as seamless as one might like. I stream games from my PC using moonlight. So far it's worked well.
OP: could you do a series on this? Like with other mental model articles from this source?
a) SQL is not that popular on map/reduce backends. Most people are doing it in code.

b) Only basic SQL works on any database and even then there are major differences in how they treat things like nulls, type coercion etc.
Olric: Distributed, embeddable in-memory data structures in Go
Can I ask how you fine-tune or if you can be a bit more specific?
Why did contacts vs custom lenses matter?
2x WFO/week is actually quite comfortable for me. It's nice to meet people and gossip. People travel all the time and bring back exotic snacks. There's not much noise, nobody brings their mech keyboards except the boss.

Office is for socializing, home is for actual work, and the 2x days and open offices reflects that fine.

If it was full 5x WFO, I'd want my own office, like the one my mom used to have. I actually like that old musty office smell, with the air conditioning, books, files, and yellowed out old comics.
An app that automatically reloads specific web pages in Safari on macOS
Israel both initiated the 1967 war and is still occupying the golan heights.
Yes, but that's nothing compared to the 3,000 times more damage that a semi-truck hauling your groceries does.
While neat and interesting, I think using information theory to analyze music can very easily fall flat especially when comparing across very different musical traditions.

A relevant story for this:

When Europeans came to Senegal they perceived the drumming as being irregular and chaotic. Through taking a class on this drumming I have been able to appreciate how much subtle time differences not represented by western music notation play a role in this music, and also how complex the rhythms are (even when just approximated via western music notation)

Very often there is an implicit discretization that happens before these analyses of music are run and it’s easy to choose a wrong one or for there to not be an easy and human interpretable way of defining the domain of your probability distributions required for such an analysis.

Another example: in pop music timbre plays a much bigger role than in classical music as artists have experimented with vocal styles, synthesizers, and many other ways of shaping sound which cannot be represented by classical music notation.
I chose criteria that reflects the reality of passenger air travel for most of HN. You can note that every carrier in the U.S. who purchased a 737 MAX opted for a more expensive configuration that included a third AOA sensor. This ensured that the MCAS accidents would not have happened for anyone flying on a major carrier in the US.

I suspect this is also the case for most western European airlines, but I don't actually know. So I didn't include them.

The majority of HN's user base is not spending most of their air travel on carriers operating on shoestring budgets in Africa or Southeast Asia. They are not flying most of their miles on charters run by operators with fleets of ten planes that carry a dozen or two passengers at most. They are not flying on ancient de Havillands or Grummans. They are not passengers on cargo planes.

The majority of HN's user base is flying on comparatively well-funded carriers operating within jurisdictions that enforce strict controls around maintenance, pilot training, crew workload, and other wider operational considerations. This doesn't make flying risk-free, and it doesn't absolve Boeing of their responsibility in building reliable aircraft. But it does mean that the average HN commenter encounters significantly more danger crossing the street than they do when flying.
> the acceleration of the acceleration (jounce)

Amazing. I had always learned it as the snap. Learn something new every day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth,_fifth,_and_sixth_deriv...