skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am sure that some companies would spend billions (yes, with a "b") for that. And they already have some of the smartest people on Earth working for them.

The article is more theory than practice. It practice, the big problem is not really about knowing what should be rebuilt. It is about tying the work of many people with different ideas on how thing should be done together.

The part about getting the build order correct, which is what the article is about is still important. But that's typically not the reason why everyone hates build systems. People can live with the occasional inefficiency, or "make clean". But getting that binary-only library that is not in the standard location with that source-only other library and its weird versioning scheme, both needing a different version of the same third library, written in a different programming language and using a different packet manager...
i think the readability would be improved if the author tossed in the prefix "crypto-" a few dozen more times.
The study speculates that accidental fermentation by stashing food in the same location is how such foods were introduced into the human diet
As noted, this culture (formalized or not) is vastly more common in some industries than in others. One of my younger nephew-in-laws is an attorney. He's worked at 5-ish different law firms, and (last I heard) has always had open invitations to return to the 4-ish firms he's not currently at.
> We're doing some somewhat fancy stuff to reliably replicate every record into a couple of stores, each of which is optimized for different access patterns (search, get latest by ID, etc.). The big central Postgres(TM) is mostly there to be authoritative and to transactionally maintain invariants in the system.

When I, as a perspective customer, read things like this, it makes me question if I can trust you with my data or your platform long term.

What is your technical expertise and what other similar systems have you built? I can’t seem to find it on the site.
A sea wall performs much differently than a properly sloped structure. There are different engineering approaches to this problem and they function well when in place.

That said, it's a waste of time, money and resources.
The Virtue of Slow Writers
Thanks, will keep that in mind, we use a cargo bike at home, but never considered renting one. A great way to explore a city!
> Instead of “random humanities” requirements, maybe actually prepare me for a job

I can’t access the article, so I don’t know what the author is advocating. But there’s a strong case to be made that a well rounded education is the best job preparation you can get. Particularly so when you consider that skills age quickly and you’ll need to adapt and retool many times over the course of a career.

Of course, you need to master the fundamentals of whatever field you’re going into, but it’s very useful - economically - to have some fluency in other areas.
> since you don't always have a brand name and QC

Some guy DIY-ing batteries in his shop is pretty much the epitome of "no brand name and QC" though. Seriously, look at some of the pictures in the article. Those botched together mains wires alone look like a fire risk.

Quite apart from the circumstances of their creation, the homemade battery packs themselves can also be quite unsafe as some/most shops use any secondhand cells they can get their hands without regards for discharge ratings etc. That sort of imbalance can easily lead to fires during use, which is obviously not great when the driver is in busy traffic at the time.
It looks like for some time my Firefox PDF rendering is so bad, it looks very different from the real ones, to the point I force an external viewer. Please fix that instead of keyboard navigation.
>The problem is that seawalls are very expensive

That's only one problem... The bigger problem is something you hit at, which is mass ignorance of complex topics that end up getting turned in to political sound bites. At least 30 years ago, and probably longer you could pick up books on bathymetry and arenology that described the physics of the situation and really gave dire warnings. Without adding things like rising sea level, the moment you start building near the beach bad things start happening quickly. Tall building interrupt wind currents, these wind currents change the shape and angle of the beach. Changing the shape of the beach changes the how waves scour the sand off the beach and leads to rapid erosion. This leads to people building sea walls, which just moves the feedback loop out a bit. What typically happens without constant replenishment is the ocean will continue to get deeper directly up to the seawall (losing your prime tourist attraction) until the seawall falls over.

A seawall is how you turn a million dollar problem in to a billion dollar one.

At the end of the day human ambitions and the ocean are not really compatible. We like to think we can tame anything and exploit its resources safely and cheaply. To use a bad analogy, it's like seeing a beautiful unicorn and capturing it because you love the way it looks. But after you capture it, its bright white coat grows dull and grey. It's horn falls off. It gets tons of medical issues requiring more and more expensive treatment. Suddenly everyone is claiming it's a ripoff and you never had a unicorn in the first place.
One thing I was confused by: why did Vertex choose to reactivate HbF instead of attempting to correct the mutation that causes sickle cell disease in the first place?
Wait, you have no "inner voice" at all?

I don't understand. Thought experiment:

You go to a wall and there is a picture hanging on the wall. You like the picture. Can you "say" in your head without using your voice/mouth "I like this picture"?

If you have to use your voice, can you mimic the tongue movement without moving your mouth and "hear" the words without making a sound?
> Without SpaceX, the US would be in almost the same position as Europe right now.

Yes, without decades of public and private capital and other NASA resources supporting commercial space startups that bred, amongst other highly innovative companies, a world beating launch service and global low-latency satellite constellation the USA would be in the same boat as Europe. That is a big systemic difference! The USA has a much more consistent emphasis on private enterprise backing up state capacity that periodically inject rapid innovation and makes things cheaper even if similar forces to Europe gradually entrench monopolies that slow things down and makes them more expensive.
It's an interesting set of questions to explore. Having thought about this for many years now (since Blake Ross' post on Aphantasia) my hypothesis is that there wouldn't be any decoding because there is no attention on a visual based internal mind object. As a comparative, if we could decode audio from a person's mind and then you took someone who didn't do echoic recall, then you would expect to "hear" static. The percentage of the population who doesn't do echoic recall is, in some references, estimated to be about 60%.
I find it somewhat strange it is spread out like this. I understand Arizona and Oregon as they are both current Intel Fabs location. New Mexico for historic reason and they had a Fab there and expanding a new Fab 9 with Fab 11. ( Why it was there in the first place is beyond me )

But Ohio? Why another location?
That’s because POSIX EREs are actual regular expressions thank god.
There were several reasons why pipes were added to Unix, and the ability to run producer/consumer processes concurrently was one of them. Before that (and for many years after on non-Unix systems) indeed the most prevalent paradigm were to run multi-stage pipelines with the moral equivalent of the following:

stage1.exe /in:input.dat /out:stage1.dat
stage2.exe /in:stage1.dat /out:stage2.dat
del stage1.dat
stage3.exe /in:stage2.dat /out:result.dat
del stage2.dat
> I think LEGO has done a great marketing job here... never buy something that is not LEGO, it might be bad quality or scam.

I don't think that was LEGO. I think that was just the off brands being pretty university awful and people caught on.

I'm going through a bucket of loose parts right now, separating the off brands from the LEGO. There are at least 6 different brands in there. The difference is almost always obvious.

And when it's not and the part sneaks its way into my main collection, I can instantly tell when I use it because it either doesn't fit, or fits incorrectly.
For Macs, I have long bought the slowest processor, but increased storage and RAM.

It's the storage and RAM that are potentially limiting on this offering (and I don't even know if Walmart lets you choose upgrades there, but Apple always charges unbelievable amounts for them).

I think even being a few generations old the CPU is likely to actually be fine for quite a while, even for some (but not all) specialty uses (like development).
MySQL: Query planner is not smart
So? Does it matter much for some reason? That doesn’t seem like a compatibility issue.
Again. Who is to say that this will not change or be MITMed?

Download first, review, then execute.

Or even better, download, verify signatures from multiple reputable people, optionally review, then execute.
my brain hit a buffer overflow at position 5 and I stopped reading.
They have already successfully carried out a mission so they are going somewhere.

SpaceX’s track record on new systems isn’t great. Musk bet the company a few times which as a disinterested 3rd seems fine when it succeeds, but makes partners really nervous.

NASA wants multiple capable partners to avoid getting screwed over because congress won’t let them build it themselves.
Which is even more jarring as McD's platform team is in their Chicagoland office.

The amount of unbridled racism on HN is getting annoying.

We outsource to Israel, Poland, Romania, etc as well, yet no one is acting racist about them.
> The results unfortunately are too vague to support that interpretation.

I think you completely missed the point. Sure, it's a new result and being an outlier needs to be treated with care (which I believe I said). It's still a more rigorous finding of health effect than anything in the grandparent's comment about how you should fast to avoid Alzheimer's. Ergo advice like that is bad.
They also do very, very little in terms of personal data protection.
I wonder if the opposite works, heavy weight lifting?

Pushing heavy weights is very taxing on the nervous system and kicks it into gear to start the process of growth.
Ironically, the Wikipedia pages about him in French [1] and English [2] are, currently, super short. It will help if Wikipedia (just giving them as an example) could handle the focus on certain people and topics in an smarter way and not after the facts. Wikipedia has a special opportunity about handling this because it is the canonical general reference on Internet.

Hallucinated or not I found a better starting point on [3], a Reddit post of 2 years ago with a comment saying:

"Even professional mathematicians are barely qualified to choose the best mathematician in their narrow field of expertise, let alone in general…

(Before I left math, the most difficult work I encountered was by Michel Talagrand.)" [4] and last, but would be first indeed his own web page [5]. He even gives prizes ala Knuth for solving specific math problems.

Last, really few mentions in *stackexchange.com and Reddit.

[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Talagrand

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Talagrand

[3] https://chat.openai.com/share/39374448-da85-4897-977a-aaa37e...

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/s81ysm/who_would_you_...

[5] https://michel.talagrand.net/

[6] https://www.google.com/search?q=Michel+Talagrand+site%3Astac... and https://www.google.com/search?q=Michel+Talagrand+site%3Aredd...
LEGO has always had that rep as the injection molding MVP but I have to say I've been really impressed with bandai. They really dominate the model kit space and I find myself noticing how high quality they feel. I've built a bunch of gundams, Star wars, Pokemon, and one piece kits and they were all super fun. I also like how they kind of inspire me to customize them which I don't feel as much with Lego kits these days (I still love Lego but the kits are so good oob I just leave them as is)
If they drive faster than me, then godspeed. Let them safely pass me and then swiftly disappear into the horizon, hopefully not before I manage to learn a couple badass driver tricks from them.

If they drive slower then yeah they're morons and I need to pass them as soon as humanly possible.

In both cases they become non-factors and I can drive in peace. The fast disappear into the horizon and the slow get left behind. This plays out until I am alone in the road and no longer need to consider the actions of other humans behind the wheel. That is when peace is achieved. Sadly it does not last long.
Eh, the ocean is just moisture on the outside of the rock, it seems like a big deal to us because the rock itself is so enormous we just forget its there. There is so much rock that just by existing it exerts a powerful force on us all the time and we just don't even think about that.

It's so enormous that we don't know for sure what's inside it. It's very hot in there, and radioactive, and generally hostile to life as we know it, but we've barely scratched the surface, we haven't really tunnelled much deeper into the rock than the thin layer of moisture you're making a big deal about, which is essentially nothing - a few kilometers. The rock is like twelve thousand kilometres across.
Adding the country receiving the outsourced work doesn't change the rest of the sentence to mean those getting the work are to blame.
Product Hunt Launch Mistakes to Avoid
i use the vim plugin for intellij as well and the first time you press an IDE shortcut that happens to be a vim shortcut also, there's a tiny popup that asks you what you want to do: either keep the IDE shortcut or switch to the vim shortcut. maybe this helps!
TLDR to get better performance, use bulk inserts instead of inserting one row per query. And (unrelated to DB perf) don't use the spread operator in JS for passing function args (the author says not to use the spread operator at all but you don't need to go that far)
This was a shockingly biased and information-sparse article. Really disappointing
McD's Platform Team is at their HQ in Chicagoland.

At some point it is plain racism and prejudice.
You have no idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39677243
Tell HN: My 2016 iPhone SE is a living proof of iOS enshittification
Everything works better on my 1st gen iPhone SE (iOS 15.8). Except, alas, speed.

The most clear-cut example for me is typing:

Typing and autocorrection work so much better, with autocorrect usually getting it right (across French and English) unlike on my latest iOS iPhone 12 which clearly "learns" progressively and ends up with a bunch of crazy suggestions after a month or so, forcing me to reset the custom dictionary.

I think this clearly due to latest iPhones using some local neural net (because the model can run that so why not) compared to older models’ simple, immutable, or very lightly fine-tunable, model.
I agree entirely. Even with the longbow (or crossbow), a peasant uprising could maybe kill a few local lords and knights, but most of the time they would then find themselves very much the underdog against the forces that would be mobilized in response. We have to wait until gunpowder (for example Jan Zizka's Hussites - and even that was more an exception that proves the rule) for peasants, on average, to have a decent chance.
That's the subject of various precedents the judge ignored. In short: You can sue Facebook for that kind of thing, but then you have to show that it likely is correct before the case can start. You can't force Facebook into discovery just based on your own say-so.
> government has generally been described as the most right in modern history in Finland

Which is probably much more on the left than any US government for example and quite far from the "far right" you were stating in previous post.

> "taking from the poor, giving to the rich" and a xenophobic agenda

Quite strong words. This sounds very much like your personal opinion instead of a fact.

> to my understanding polls show a clear correlation between "everything was better under Kekkonen" (a president for over 25 years with a somewhat authoritarian leader style) and voting for the "True Finns" / "Finns Party" today

Sources please for the "clear correlation". This also sounds very much like your personal opinion.

> My point was more like the other way round: Happy people would not vote for the party of the dissatisfied, simple answers, everything was better before EU/the foreigners came. For those following German politics, "Wutbürger" (angry citizens) would typically not be happy people, would they?

Voting parties more on the right does not mean that "people are not happy", it mostly means that people understand economic principles.

The previous leftist government caused the Finland's debt level to raise to very dangerous levels while the economy shrinked at the same time and were only going to add more debt without cutting any expenses or encouraging new business. I personally think that business-positive government is a very good thing and apparently so do most of the happy finnish voters.
Nope, you have a misconception of the country. Source: am Israeli atheist.

Majority is secular. Of the religious people the majority are relatively tame. There are some extremist religious people e.g. Hasidim but they are a cult of their own (think Amish). They probably wouldn't even take part in a survey.

The reason for happiness is multi-fold:

* It's a 3 year average. Notice that Israel is actually slipping due to last year.

* Economy was generally good until last October

* Army service tends to unify the community

* It's a small country which tends to bring people together through collective fate

I'm not saying that the religious people aren't happier than the median. But I am saying that based on statistics Israel is relatively secular. More so than most western countries.
India is sadly at the forefront of low-quality tech sweatshops and may have even pioneered the concept... but not to worry, with remote work I'm sure other countries will catch up eventually too!
That would be for a cure, but not for a recurrent therapy
> So why the meager numbers from cranelift then

People are seeing 20-30% improvements thanks to Cranelift. Not sure why you think that’s meagre.

> edge case

It’s not an edge case but it is valid to say that the pattern of development is different. You’re right that people need feedback that what they’re doing is right within 1-2 seconds. They are getting that thanks to the IDE. They need their tests to compile and run within a few seconds, and they’re getting close to that.

I’m not disagreeing with you. In an ideal world all builds and tests would run within 2 seconds, like you’re suggesting. And yet, people are managing to ship software successfully, despite it taking more than 2 seconds. That suggests that maybe this 2 second thing isn’t a requirement and more of a nice to have. And that maybe, there is something to people relying on IDE feedback while coding.
India's first battery storage gigafactory to start operating by October
> IIRC another interpretation of the smaller large intestine is that early humans were eating more bioavailable food (i.e. meat) than other primates, which doesn't need to be broken down as much as more fibrous material (seeds, leaves, stalks etc). Can someone more knowledgable than me confirm or deny?

Yep, it's also why the Giant Panda needs to eat so much bamboo in a day, they also have a carnivore-like short gastrointestinal tract.

The idea that humans were fermenting via persistent food caches a million years before we discovered fire, and doing it consistently enough to affect brain evolution is, well, a stretch.
I have sort of got out of lego because of this very issue. Some of the end sets look cool but do not feel 'lego' anymore to me. Take something like the latest millennium falcon. I have the previous version of that behemoth that someone gave me. Most of the set is 'filler'. Basically empty void with a fragile shell on the outside that looks cool and incredibly tedious to put the gribblies on. The worst of these was the star wars star destroyer. It was huge. But mostly empty void on a frame and hundreds of very tiny decorative parts. The newer incarnations look a bit better but, I feel sort of ripped off. The Lamborghini looks very lego'y. I just do not want a lime green one. Precisely because of that detracts from the lego'y bit of it. Those pieces are pretty much only good for that one set. Lego has leaned hard into the model style of 3d puzzles with their sets. It probably saved their company. But it at this point is getting rather silly price wise. I can get the knock off brands and have a much more interesting selection of models if I want to go that way.
<regex> is not exactly an example anyone should follow.
Packs, battery packs.

This is very common for DIY ebikes.
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I didn't realise PG is a rugby fan.
There's a small youtube channel[1] I follow where a guy I think is from Indonesia builds his own handheld coil guns and railguns including his own charging circuit designs. Pretty crazy/fun stuff. There seems to be quite a bit of an electronics hacking scene going on there.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@DNAP460/videos
> Nature causes various food sources to ferment which is exploited by many animals.

I did some searching and cannot find any evidence to support that.

Only the contrary, for instance: Some non-human animals are documented to consume fermented foods, but it appears to be somewhat infrequent, and limited to a narrow range of foods. from https://fermentology.pubpub.org/pub/2h9z1g3y

The article continues:

As a part of this unique relationship that humans have with fermented foods, it's perhaps not surprising to learn that humans have some adaptations associated with the consumption of fermented foods. Now, these technically aren't unique to humans. These are adaptations that are shared with African apes as well. In particular, there's two genes that we know about that signal this kind of special relationship with fermented foods among the great apes.

The first is the ADH4 gene. We have a special variant of this gene. It's an alcohol dehydrogenase gene. It basically lets us break down alcohol more effectively than many other primates. Alcohol is a byproduct of many types of fermentation. There are three major types of fermentation, two of which produce ethanol as a byproduct. Therefore, being able to break down ethanol provides us with an advantage in terms of being able to consume fermented foods.

The other gene is the HCAR3 gene. This gene codes for a receptor that's thought to make humans and great apes more sensitive to signals that come from certain types of microbes, particularly Lactobacillus. Lactobacillus are one of the key groups of microbes that are involved in food fermentations. Together, these two genes suggest that there's a kind of unique relationship between African apes and humans, and fermented foods.
Thank you. Also, what database was in use?
I seem to recall an article on HN a few months ago, about an ER doctor who fed the medical data for a shift or two of his patients to a supposed medical-expert AI. And pretty much concluded "Let the AI care for the patients who you don't want to live. And only those patients."
Pukka Pies can pissoff!
My X1 gen 6 carbon has a broken USB charging port, which I could live with, but today the thunderbolt port also broke. Battery is also dead.