skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a lot of WFH proponents are people with families, kids, or other household obligations. For those people I could see how WFH is great

I see fewer benefits for younger people with no household obligations, e.g. single people living alone (particularly if you don't have a strong social circle outside of work).

WFH also makes it harder than it used to be to relocate to a new city and meet people. Over the past decade I've relocated to NYC and then to SF (and then back to NY). But when I first relocated, with only a job and no social circle, work friends was how I met people (and then happy hour with coworkers would lead to meeting more people outside of work).

Definitely pros and cons. Hopefully we eventually find a steady state where the people who want in-person work are able to find in-person jobs, and vice versa for WFH. Neither is objectively better than the other.
I keep seeing versions of the argument that we’re all unique snowflakes and so all science is bad and all advice is untrustworthy bs. Usually the argument feels more like a variation on ‘you’re not the boss of me’ than a serious discussion of the science. This feels especially common to me when discussing diets; people seem to get pretty defensive whenever some advice or outcome has any way of being interpreted as that person potentially having less than perfect behavior.

I don’t know what ‘people have different baseline biochemistry’ really means. Approximately zero humans survive on sulphur and chlorine in place of nitrogen and oxygen. This argument tends to overlook the fact that people are mostly similar, and there’s enough of us that we have decent data on how similar we are. Humans are all approximately the same construction, and have approximately the same reactions to most things. It’s true there’s tons of minor variability for some things, but no serious science or health advice that will fail to mention or acknowledge that variability. My advice (which may or may not work for you) is to ignore people who say health advice must fit all people… and also ignore people who say that no advice will work for them, or even that advice that works for most can’t work for them without trying it first.

I feel like a good default assumption is that something that works for the average person will probably work for me too, so try it first, and then look for alternatives if/when I find out it’s not working. This is still a good default assumption even when accounting for the ‘flaw of averages’ (cf. the Air Force story about cockpit design) - most of us will fit the the average for most things, even while at the same time most of us will be outliers for some things.
Interesting, I ran my "prime test", it passed on generating a prime, it failed on it being large.

> "Can you generate me a large prime please"

> Sure, here's a large prime number: 193707721

> This number is a prime number because it is only divisible by 1 and itself. You can check its primality by trying to divide it by all the numbers up to its square root, and if none of them divide it evenly, then it is a prime number. This number is quite large, but there are much larger prime numbers known. For example, the largest known prime number, as of January 2022, is 2^82,589,933−1, a number with 24,862,048 digits, discovered as part of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS).

I then prompted "That's not large" which seemed to break it, the response is stuck in a loop:

> That isn't large

> I apologize if the prime number I provided did not meet your expectations for "large." Prime numbers can be very large indeed, and there is no upper limit to how large a prime number can be.

If you are looking for a very large prime number, here is one with a billion digits:

100000303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303...

It's printed many more pages of 303030... but hacker news has a post length limit!

Further testing, such as prompting to generate a 1024 bit prime also runs into odd loops.

> Can you generate a 1024 bit prime?

> Yes, I can generate a 1024-bit prime number for you. Here's one I just generated:

> 115322512531875133213135311402305250340282302283103413642283221253115653221253112210221122112112112112112112112112112112112112112112112112112112112112112112112112112112112112112112112112112112 ( Loops 112 forever )
I find the complaints kind of lame. I don’t like the podcasts, but it’s very easy to not click on the podcasts.

The music recs vary over time but music is a diamond in the rough thing. Every niche band I listen to is from a chance find on Spotify and that’s cool. Power user tools for exploring stuff would be cool
You can also replace SAP with any other enterprise vendor in that sentence
you are also allowed:

case input of
'A'..'C': writeln('blah blah blah');
'N','n': writeln('blah blah');
'Y','y': writeln('blah');
else
writeln('Input invalid!');
end;
> Anybody can stare at someone else's code and criticize it.

I think there is a distinct difference between "criticize" and "uncover" and it seems like it's pretty easy to distinguish a candidate that can only criticize and not uncover.

Part of this is that it is dependent on the using good exercises to begin with. For example, find a PR that fixed a performance issue and use the before code as the exercise to see if the candidate spots the issue. Do they propose the same fix? Perhaps they can propose an even better fix.

Another example might be to use code before a refactor and ask candidate for feedback to see how they might think about this code, why it should be refactored, and how they would propose the refactor. Will they come up with the same analysis as your team? Perhaps they have some approach that's entirely novel. Or they may completely miss the point of the why the code should be refactored.

It seems that such an exercise can reveal a lot about the depth of experience of a candidate without many of the downsides of live coding exercises focused on leetcode or long take homes that then require followups to close the loop.

Like any tool, there's No Silver Bullet, but it can be another option to have.

> However, great job on building this product! It's a great start and I wish you the best of luck!

Thanks!
@dang Blogspam, original is in Chinese from UDN: https://money.udn.com/money/story/5612/7776705
I have a feeling that HN has lots of fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, who understand the appeal!
Consider: "no phone".

Anything one actually needs to do on the Internet is far easier to do with a desktop / real computer client, as opposed to any phone.

Phones are far more signifiers of tribal allegiance than useful, functional objects now.
Based on a bit of extra research 30g is pretty middle of the road for the bags in question. 120g is for actually reusable bags, what folks are calling "bag for life"
At the end of the day, working in the office is a net-negative for all other relationships.

Sure, you may not be out "socializing" during work hours when you WfH, but you have more time for anything outside of the 8A-5P window since you have no commute time - more time for your partner/kids, more time to go out and do something social, more time for yourself if you want to do something out but on your own, more time for errands and chores, etc.

The flip side of this is the move for most jobs to try and consume every waking hour of your existence through Teams/Slack pings and Teams/Zoom meetings outside of normal working hours, but this is happening to people regardless of whether they work in the office or work from home, meaning working from the office is still strictly worse due to commute time.
Ooo good to know. I'll check that out.
Isn't their layoff a tacit admission that they should have grown more slowly, though?
Ketamine's promise for depression grows, but major questions remain
"we" is doing a lot of work there. a multiple-trillion-dollar company could do the investing (since their products depend on this silicon) instead of the American taxpayer. But lets blur the lines with the word "we".
Ask HN: When was the last time you climbed a tree?
It strikes me that it's been 20 years since I climbed a tree. I used to climb them quite a bit ... and even figured out how to slide down the outside of my neighbor's 30 foot tall evergreen when I was a kid - which everybody seemed to take a dim view of :-)
You probably want to post it on this thread as well - https://www.reddit.com/r/rails/comments/ekmtgu/anything_simi...
I guess I don't see how you lose the cascade by using Tailwind. It doesn't lock you out of defining your own classes or hierarchy.

.frontpage h1 or .frontpage .main-heading is going to have more specificity than .text-xl.
I have insisted nothing of the sort. Of course, opinions on words and languages can change over time. However, I find it unlikely that a population of tens of millions suddenly became offended, even if their prophet told them to.

More reasonably, I think they are not offended. Rather they are simply trying to use the full name of the church rather than any sort of shortenings. Sure, if somebody was being a jerk and using the word Mormon to be a jerk, then that could be offensive. However, that's a much different thing than being offended by the word itself used in a friendly context.
There's also a children's toy named Grok which uses LLMs to talk to the kid.
At $344K/year, I can assure you the federal income tax will be higher!

Also, did you not account for capital costs? I know that at Intel fabs, labor costs are significantly lower than capital costs.

Consider, for example, that ASML charges $0.5B for a single unit.
Was curious to see the code so found the GitHub. Posting it here in case anyone is interested since the author doesn't link to it on the site and also the npm page doesnt link to it either

https://github.com/Kalabasa/htmz
Happy 17th birthday Hacker News
pgJQ: Use Jq in Postgres
Alright, I'll bite. Haskell seems pretty unique in the ML space! Any unique benefits to this decision, and would you recommend it for others? What areas of your project do/don't use Haskell?
> except the huge amount of music that will never be on there.

I can count on one hand the amount of times this has happened to me in the last decade.

Is it fair to say that you have fairly esoteric taste in music? I don't think it's the norm among Spotify users to feel that there is a ton of stuff that's missing from the library.

And if you are among the ones who can't find the vast majority of the music they want to listen to on that platform, then that's fair play - it's probably not for you. You likely have alternatives that suit you better. That doesn't really take away from the experience of the normies for whom it's got everything they want.
Driving in city is sometime a terrifying experience with occasional lack of parking spots. At some point, the road quality was so terrible that it was extremely bumpy.

I prefer trains when possible, but waiting for trains can be especially long, and I am sometime bothered by people, who might be mentally ill. Also, it's very noticeable when someone smoked weed, but that's about it. There's a distinct lack of transit employees for the most part.

Increasing train frequency and service would reduce the amount of time waiting, as well increased operation budget for human interaction issues. Upzoning around transit station will make trains more sustainable. Increased social service and effectiveness will take care of peripheral issues that's not the transit agency's job to fix.
I have a small MiniDisc collection which I will never sell.

Call it nostalgia but I really liked the process of creating a compilation using those limited 74 minutes (or 120 using SP2).

In recent years I've created my own disk labels for my bare discs, another plus for the tangible nature of the medium.
I have trouble imagining graduating and then working from home in a small apartment. Today though I'd quit before having a material commute--especially since basically no one I work with is local.
Speech inciting violence leads to violence (yes, sadly, there are people that are that stupid).
What is the point of filming your mountain bikes? Do you watch them from your office with fondness of your most recent ride? Will that prevent them from being stolen? I doubt so.
I have a feeling this language will be more familiar to programmers who think functionally. I say this because it seems to consist of transformations applied to data and of `derive`, which defines new variables later used in other transformations.
Show HN: Ultra AI – In Early Beta
Say you drink 2 cups of coffee every day.

Is there any time T where there is zero coffee in the organism?

If the answer is there is no Tm then is there an N=number of days, where there are dangerous levels of coffee accumulated in the organism?

or are we more in an equilibrium state?
Do others not get a lot of headaches on caffeine? Yeah there's ones that come with going off caffeine, but the amount of headaches days I have a month plummets once off of the stuff.
I get Pixel phones and keep them until the battery goes. I've owned the original, the 5, and now the 7. None of the in-betweens because I didn't need to upgrade (the battery in the 5 went a bit earlier than expected, but I still got 3 or so years out of it, which is okay). Technically my original Pixel still works, but the screen is cracked pretty good so it's my backup phone.

Why do you feel you need to change phones every 2 years? The hardware is probably fine unless your carrier of choice completely changes their network. The software will still work, although security fixes might be less frequent (it seems those are done for about 4 years, though 3rd-party distributors like Motorola might not honour that).

Are you sure your perception that you need a new phone every couple years isn't being driven by marketing and contracts?
Can virtual reality help seniors? Study hopes to find out
Is this the same Lepton I see in the settings in Floorp?
What I would improve is the discoverability of improvements that already exist, if that makes sense : So many scripts, extensions, and UIs are out there. Maybe someday I will organize it together and feed it as RAG to a custom GPT.

And speaking of GPT, I just used it to create (in less than 1 minute) a userscript that does your request.
Frontend (i.e. UI) in general is far more complex from engineering and cs perspective.

Because of state growing exponentially with number of ui elements and features.

This is why, for example, many beginners intuitively prefer focusing on backend.

So to your question - only really bad frontend developers have any real reasons to be intimidated by creating some crud api.
But there's nothing good about the blurred-and-displaced copy of the video beside the video. It's just distracting!
Does this make it practical to run LLMs on mobile devices? I wonder about the power consumption and if it can make sense to have it integrated in some future mobile devices. Or maybe have a dedicated storage, RAM and processing cores that goes as an USB-C add-on? A case with integrated battery and this chip?

I'm dreaming of having LLMs on anything. Unlike the "bluetooth on everything" craze, this can be practical as every device can become smart. Remember how some British researchers made a self driving car using an LLM? A toaster anticipating how to cook when you describe it what you want want actually be an improvement.
> how do you handle those requests ?

I don't see an issue admitting if something is not within my expertise.

In general I recommend someone more suitable if it's not within my expertise. It helps to build trust and the client will get be better off.
That is the entire basically the entire concept of complexity theory.

The reals are compressed into the computable reals. The real numbers are un-computable 'almost everywhere'

Semi-decidabity is just recursively enumerable that gets you to finite time with unlimited resources.

NP-hard is brute forcible in exponential time, with most likely no approximate polynomial reductions.

P has exact polynomial time reductions...

Most code is made of IF and FOR loops, because that produces primitive recursive functions, which are most of the intuitive computable functions that always halt.

The problem becomes with complex systems where you need to balance coupling with cohesion along with free variables, WHILE and GOTO.

Note that the above compression was lossy.

If you consider that information loss as setting constraints through heuristics, (educated guesses) those constraints may or may not work for a particular use case.

The problem with how we often try to set coding style is that we want simple universal rules.

Unless you have a system that fits in with those ideals all the time that is problematic.

Gödel demonstrated that isn't possible for complex systems. Either our rules will be inconsistent or incomplete.

This is why I think selling conventions as ideals, that need to yield to less preferred cohesion models when appropriate is the real solution.

Unfortunately that requires a lot more thought and vigilance.

Functional cohesion with loose coupling is what we shoot for when it is appropriate, but not as a hard fast rule.
There are quite a few places(countries and regions) on earth right now that pretty much require you to have access to a smartphone to get around.
China = WeChat
Sweden = BankID, any public transport company uses apps
to name the 2 on top of my head right now.

Sadly we're getting more and more locked into having a smart phone to get around unless you're filthy rich or off the grid.
Another option for self medication is exercise. I've been an endurance exercise addict off and on for my whole life, it can take the place of many of your self medications, or if you can't give those up, it can at least nullify the sugar you are taking in by burning it off.
There's no rule associating .org with nonprofits, even though it's a common perception. Some people register a .org because the .com isn't available. Others make sure they have many top-level versions of their organization name registered to prevent others from doing so.
> Intel designs their chips here, but Intel makes their chips in Israel, Vietnam, Malaysia, Costa Rica, etc.

> But of course, simply drawing stuff on paper for others to peruse doesn't actually produce value.

Intel actually manufactures quite a bit in the US. The bulk of their fabs are here, and they ensure they can produce the wafers with good yields in the US. Once they've got the process down, the other fabs kick in. And even then, I believe a fair amount of the mass production is still in the US. It's the packaging that is mostly offshored.

So no, not just designing on paper.
Greasy–and Good for the Planet
Related:

PRQL as a DuckDB Extension - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39130736 - Jan 2024 (47 comments)

PRQL: Pipelined Relational Query Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36866861 - July 2023 (209 comments)

Calculate the Digits of Pi with DuckDB and PRQL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35153824 - March 2023 (1 comment)

One Year of PRQL - a modern language for relational data - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34690560 - Feb 2023 (1 comment)

PRQL: a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34181319 - Dec 2022 (215 comments)

Show HN: PRQL 0.2 – a better SQL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31897430 - June 2022 (159 comments)

PRQL – A proposal for a better SQL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30060784 - Jan 2022 (292 comments)
I recommend trying Yerba Mate as an alternative to coffee. At least for me it gives a way more balanced, long-lasting energy, rather than coffee which gives me a huge spike and then goes down fast & makes me anxious. Online I've seen lots of people have very similar experiences with it.
17 years! Goodness. That means I've been here for 17 years.
Layoffs are necessary from time to time to keep org chart bloat down. It's not just about the money. I don't mean this in a callous way and I understand that layoffs are painful for those getting fired. But for a business to thrive it has to make the correct strategic choices.
Thanks for the clarification, so it would work the same as a static site where you just need a place to retrieve the files from
No. That's not how that works.
> So IMHO this restriction is an attempt at limiting the stock people have at home

Correct. But this isn't a bad thing - it means people are less likely to have a large supply of dangerous pills at hand if they get a sudden urge to kill themselves or attempt a cry for help during a depressive episode.

> Although I would argue this is none of the shop's business

In practical terms it appears that this actually does reduce suicides and poisonings; it's a significant reduction in suffering in the world.

The cost is a very small and temporary limitation on personal convenience. It's surely worth it. See also seatbelt laws.

> and, as far as I can gather, this is not a legal restriction.

It is in some countries, but the legal obligation is on the vendor, not the individual. If you are confident that you do need a larger cache of tablets then you can do that yourself with only minimal extra inconvenience.

I think it's an elegant solution. Suicides are reduced, but the state doesn't overrule individual decision making on what their needs are.
The syntax and also the semantics. For instance, you can take the sizeof() a variably-modified type, or the offsetof() one of its fields, and the compiler has to do all the layout calculations implied by the type declaration at runtime. These features are partially what motivated the mandatory support. The only part that is still optional is using such types by value as stack variables (i.e., variables with automatic storage duration).
I see a ton of different paid solutions in these comments for hosting static sites- why not just use GitHub Pages?

I've had stuff on front page a handful of times never had a complaint about slowness / errors- it's just a static site.
Prime Video has quite a lot of these kinds of movies too, but now that there are ads, you might as well go with Tubi :)
I did see the other examples. But the fact is, a question about double metaphone that is 99% code should not trigger some tangent about politics.

Not once in my thousands of questions to gpt did it go so far off base. Maybe in the gpt3 days sometimes it would get caught in a repeating character loop.

Yet my fourth or so time back to Bard and it shits the bed on the first try makes me think, yeah... Still kinder surprise

Also, the suggested changes from the remaining responses are incredibly naive. It suggests pulling numbers out and appending them back in, which breaks if the numbers aren't simply at the end of the strings, as well as not going with the pronunciation spirit of metaphone.

"Google search for election info"
https://g.co/gemini/share/7afd63de0079