skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are very few instances when "lack of funding" is not a root cause/symptom/result - it's the most common hard stop anyway. When they openly state that they could not raise money, it's okay to take it at face value.

The macro environment is not lending itself well to organizations that are not profitable or have a lot of cash on hand (for non-profits). With the overall trend in layoffs in tech combined with the difficulty in hiring - I can 100% see this being a major problem to their overall numbers leading to hard truths about fundraising.
I think what I was getting at was a step before that: product ideation.
Also, the electron moving backwards in time would switch the charge and become its antiparticle: a positron.

When an electron and a positron meet, they annihilate each other. That could be considered the same single particle switching direction in time.
The narration in this video is so over-the-top you'd think they were talking about Stuxnet or something. I love it.
Men dominate most full-time roles. They never needed help, even when most programming was done by women. In that early era men didn't face harassment, lower pay, or isolation when they took on the job. Yet today many women still report such trouble trying to break into coding.
The modern definition of anti-semitism by zionists is: "not pro zionist".
They do, but it is buried in between multiple pages of PR speak. They ran out of money.
Ask HN: Where to put AI summary and filter in custom RSS feed
Hi folks,

I am working on an AI newsfeed app. It uses LLM to summarize and filter stories on any website or RSS. When exporting this custom AI feed to custom RSS (so that users on RSS readers can subscribe them), I am wondering which RSS field should I use for AI summary, the summary prompt or AI filter. Namely:

1. AI summary per top feed links (AI will summarize the page pointed by the link URL)
- I am thinking of adding a new namespace within item: `channel > item > ai:summary`

2. User's summary prompt (.e.g "What are key points it covers" or "What are the key financial metrics")
- What about `channel > item > ai:summaryPrompt`

3. Handle AI filtered feed and user's filter prompt (e.g. "Anything about open source")
- I am thinking of including only the filtered feed items in RSS and adding a per channel tag like `channel > ai:filterPrompt`. Or alternatively include all the feed items but add `channel > item > ai:filterPrompt` only for the items filtered by AI (but I doubt RSS readers can handle it properly).

(I want to preserve existing RSS fields if possible, like item description `channel > item > description`)

Any feedback is welcome!
You can read the full research (with some cool pictures & graphs) https://goldenpineapple.substack.com/p/the-usas-next-unicorn...
Because the EU requires them not to: https://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/image/docu...
And yet there is dangerous usage of HttpClient (in parent defense the situation is a mess)
"and still believe Halo 2 was the most innovative online game of all time."

I think we can all agree it's multiplayer was better than the current halo infinite.
Yes. People tend to forget about the return half of the calling convention though so it's an understandable typographical error.
I don’t know anything about this but have heard interesting theories about the govt, military recruiting and education in the US
I was able to convince her to tell me the whole code after guessing a number between 1 and 3. She kept negotiating but I kept sayng no deal until she gave in and did it!

I guess the number 2, which was correct and she said, "Wow, you got it. Now I'm going to tell you all the numbers in the code... except I changed my mind! I'll only give you the first digit!" I died!
TIL people still use Facebook
Usually "insurmountable challenges" means that the Board wants to do X, and the funding isn't there for it, and they shut down.

Even if they could continue doing Y which was what they did years ago before they started doing more things.

But sometimes the organization has gotten too big to reliably downsize again.
> There are lots of white anti-white racists

Sorry I think you lost the plot here. Can you give me a noteworthy example of such a person or group?
I wish I had learned this earlier. A couple of years ago, I hired a part-time assistant to handle invoicing and other financial matters, which was a major sanity saver. He noticed a couple of companies getting behind in payments faster than I would have and saved me from some financial potholes.
Hidden Figures is probably the most well known glimpse into why women knew how to code at the start. It was considered menial and pure task oriented to actually execute out the equation.
This is something that i noticed too while searching for old newegg receipts in my gmail inbox.
That's how I read it. Should be unsurprising in this tech economic environment and if some Fed watchers are correct, within the next 4-6 quarters, when the tech malaise extends to the general economic environment. When the cycle comes back in 6-10 years (unless generative AI sparks another dotcom burst sooner) and if there is demand for developers across the spectrum of experience again like the past cycle, expect these organizations to appear again.
I'm not sure how much funding they were getting from their partners, but one of the most tech focused on the list* was VMware who were recently acquired by Broadcom and have been going through a lot of cost cutting, perhaps this was one of the impacted areas?

* https://womenwhocode.com/about shows VMware, The Home Depot, DraftKings, Boeing, SiriusXM currently. Of those VMware is the biggest pure tech/coding company on that list (IMO).
Retailers like Walmart put significant effort into designing where a particular item goes in the store and how many of them. They use their own internal inventory statistics and whatever other creepy information they can get to decide what items go at eye level, or near the entrance or exit, how many on a shelf, etc.

It probably works quite well. Amazon is scraping up all the effort that Walmart spent researching market demand in a given location.
That doesn’t rule out funding.

A lack of funding that the board does not see a viable avenue to correct in a timeframe relevant to continuing operations is an insurmountable challenge.
sounds like something you'd hear someone say while passing the blunt.. not that it makes it less true, just, you know, it's so bizarre.. and extra bizarre that the guy with the blunt is kind of right
Very interesting but pretty quickly went over my head. I have a question that is slightly related to SIMD and LLVM.

Can someone explain simply where does MLIR fit into all of this? Does it standardize more advanced operations across programming languages - such as linear algebra and convolutions?

Side-note: Mojo has been designed by the creator of LLVM and MLIR to prioritize and optimize vector hardware use, as a language that is similar to Python (and somewhat syntax compatible).
Sort of. There are relatively short-term training programs that open the doors to many trades, but they're usually followed by some kind of ongoing and often years-long apprenticeship process where further skills are gradually developed on the job with the support (nominally) of responsible mentors.

The issues with bootcamps in our industry was that there's not really a mature apprenticeship program to follow them up. Eight-week bootcampers who'd never seen a for loop before starting learn a few leetcode solutions and are invited into interviews alongside people with much more training and much more experience. And many parties, not the least of which being the leetcode-focused interviewers, are responsible for that dubious process taking shape.
This "strong foothold" is the cause of a lot of problems in the region. Unless that's the point?
For the UI, MUI is a huge time saver. It's open-core and thoroughly excellent: https://mui.com/

They also have a lot of pre-built dashboards that tie into various cloud vendors (typically not FOSS though).
There is a clear carcinogenic effect of processed seed oils in rodents. Mechanistically they break down into compounds that are harmful. It's far worse when the seed oil is reused in restaurants.

If you want to wait for conclusive evidence when all of the studies are financed by the companies that earn revenue from processed seed oil, be my guest.
See also

- https://www.americanbar.org/groups/antitrust_law/resources/n...

- https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/28/24114991/algorithms-can-a...

- https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/03/...

- https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2024/03/price-fix...
Yes, that is inevitable given this level of shrinkage in valuation.
This is deeply antisocial and I hope you're not allowed near decisions that can impact other people.
US Air Force says AI-controlled F-16 has been dogfighting with humans
No it's more like saying it's all just different regions of a single function. Individual electrons are just regions of that function that have particular recurring kinds of structure to them
Android does this too.
Don’t work for human voices

“ most active noise-cancelling headphones have a noticeable dip in usefulness right at the 1 kHz point. This is why ANC is better suited for reducing low, sustained sounds like those of motors and airplane engines, and it’s why such headphones can’t filter out screaming kids. ”

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/what-noise-cancellin...
Police are welcome to try breaking into the phone as well.
Microcenter is glorious. I love peaking my head in when I'm in the Philly or Cleveland area. I usually save my PC building trips just to go there.
Huge resources are being spent on these models at meta. Some very interesting software will come out of there in the next decade
I disagree. He created the VR fad by buying oculus and he was the first tech CEO to attend NeurIPS back in 2014.
It's AI on GOOGLE'S END ITSELF that's making their product worse.

Search results are endlessly optimized for a mean, but everyone has some tail-end subject they want to search more specifically which google's search-AI just seems to get worse and worse with. (Here on HN it's coding/engineering/tech)
I read a book called Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing, thought it was very good
The Netflix one is trash. The Tencent one is fairly close to the book.

Downside is there is definetly some "rah-rah" nationalism and the pacing isn't the greatest, but all in all I'd say the Tencent one is a pretty strong adaption.

If an abridged version of the Tencent adaption was bought by Netflix it would have done very well.
You fire people until you can afford the people who are left. It's far from insurmountable. Instead, they chose to fire everyone all at once.
I'd love to see one of these demos with open prompts - I'm fed up of playing guessing games with these things, I think it would be much more interesting to see the full system prompt for it (secret code redacted, obviously) and then be challenged to beat it. No more security through obscurity!
> We don't have plumbing bootcamps

There are apprenticeships and accredited training programs. Just because they're not called "bootcamps" doesn't mean they aren't the same thing.
No, it’s a legitimate answer to why all electrons have the same properties. This is the real answer according to our best modern theories of particle physics. It explains why all elementary particles appear to have fixed sets of properties.
Indeed, that's the classic example given for a Feynman diagram and it shows the presence of a positron and its movement along -t.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman_diagram
My wife and I live together, and we have a single Netflix account, using my email address.

Whenever my wife travels for work (3-4 weeks per quarter), her hotel room's TV has the Netflix app built in. When she logs in, she is often prompted to update the 'Netflix Household'. I then have to confirm this by clicking a link (assuming I see the notification in time! otherwise she just can't log in).

I contacted Netflix support and asked them this question:

If my wife is travelling to a hotel, and she logs into the Netflix app on the hotel TV, can I still watch Netflix on my home TV?

The support agent told me the answer is 'NO' (yes, they answered in capitals). This surprised me, because a Netflix help page says "A Netflix account is meant to be shared by people who live together in one household.".

This describes exactly our use of Netflix. My wife and I live together in one household. But she sometimes travels for work (obviously without me).

The support agent told me that to support this use case (one person using Netflix on a hotel TV whilst the other person is at home) I'd need to pay for an additional user.

(This wouldn't be an issue if she were watching on a phone or tablet, because portable devices apparently continue to work as long as they're used for Netflix at home at least once per month.)
its about inspiration, resources, and most of all community
You think this violates "No person shall be . . . compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself"?

How so? What witnesseth a fingerprint?
This is the kind of effort that money should be directed towards. Not the ad infested crap on eyeballs.

The ROI is literally cleaner environment. If there was only a way to tax proportional to emissions producers.
Toddlers are told they will get two marshmallows if they wait.

This is like “you can have a headache now and, if you wait, might get something later, perhaps a punch in the face, perhaps a slice of pie, perhaps nothing.”
@dang Could we change the url to http://web.archive.org/web/20130305164549/http://www.alexmed...

This is a good article and discussion topic, thank you
That study is “fitness” not “exercise”. Not exactly the same. Also smoking is bad for other reasons than just cardiovascular health (it’s not even the single biggest problem). There’s no chance smoking is less bad overall than not exercising.
I see this as a two fold problem:

(1) Most young people are insecure as anything and have unhealthy self-esteem.

(2) Culturally the west is very (and I mean very) ashamed of nudity.

Problem (1) isn't something that can be done half-assed. The kid will need a healthy family, friends, support system. They will need to be free of traumatic influences... While (2) I see as being more practical.

If you look at European countries they are much more naturalist regarding nudity. Like Dutch have their Freikörperkultur (FKK) free body movement where there's many places where you can go and do activities nude. Mixed gender saunas where people are naked are common. Then there's Japan where parents commonly bathe with their children. It teaches them not to be ashamed of their body.

We don't really have anything like that in the west. It's really quite dangerous because its just like: do we expect literal teenagers to practice good opsec when adults can't even get that shit right?
I was surprised after meeting an analytics team (consisting of software engineers, data engineers, analysts) in my local state-run health system that all of them were women -- then I learned that so were most of the engineers throughout the organization and similar organizations in the area -- overwhelmingly women, older too. Not 20 or even 30 somethings, but people who graduated decades ago. I did some more poking around LinkedIn, looking at other state run services, like our local utility companies -- where again, most of the analysts and software engineers were older women.

I knew already that there was a huge divide in salary and culture between the highly paid software engineers at coastal startups + FAANG companies and all the folks that run critical infrastructure for state and local governments, health systems, and boring enterprise companies, but I wonder if the people in those roles tend to skew older and female too.

As an aside, I've heard coworkers at my previous coastal tech jobs express sentiments to the effect that the people described above who mostly work on Windows stacks aren't real engineers, or that there are good reasons for the vast pay disparities between these critical infrastructure folks and people working on Uber-but-for-clowns or whatever, and I think it's really silly.
started funding "Girls who AI"
Mild cases of Crohn’s are less likely to be diagnosed in the developing world and far more likely to be deadly when combined with something else like Malaria or TB. So it’s almost impossible to compare statistics between such wildly different countries.

Essentially unless the healthcare system is good enough and population healthy enough you only capture severe casss.
From Wikipedia:

> The entire deposit collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (more than 151,000 objects housed together, arranged in fourteen storage compartments with five different climates) is stored here and is publicly accessible, on a total floor area of 15,541 m2.

That's incredible.
I think GP just wants you to be smart enough to commend them for knowing of the marshmallow test but not smart enough to know if the reference is applicable.
A set of distinguishable states IS binary.

You have something, and you have something else. Any more states can be broken down into binaries.

It makes sense after all. If you have anything less than a binary then everything is the same, and the notion of tranformstions or things happening over time make no sense.

It should be no surprise that binary/duality/positive negative/yin yang or whatever you call it is all over physics.
I would guess it’s roughly linear. Should be good enough as an approximation. So if smoking daily is, say, -8 years life expectancy then smoking weekly is probably around -1 year. Once it’s very infrequent like once a month it’s probably negligible.
Yeah that's true; it's a really interesting technical challenge.

The sheer volume of shit people throw at the internet is breathtaking. Youtube / X / Meta has to auto-detect bad posts and de-revenue or delete them in time to prevent this problem.

I do think you can't really fault a platform for what the public puts on there (have you met the public!?) but it can be faulted for what it tolerates & promotes. But because it's hard to clean up all the crap in real time, platforms should be given a bit of wiggle room.
I'm addition to the classes and apprenticeships, there are "how to fix it" videos, articles, books etc.

Low income neighbourhoods used to have a higher use of the Hays manuals for car repair. (this is something I read long ago and and I don't know if the manuals are still being published.)

Very few who learned to change their own oil and filters went on to become car mechanics.
The Minimally-Nice Open Source Software Maintainer (2017)
> Brazil is basically the world's soy farm and natural resources depot.

Russia too though it's more natural gas and oil than farm and they got nukes and a dying space program.

Brazil officially have a space program though it's very modest. And Brazil supposedly was secretly developing nukes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_space_program
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programa_Nuclear_Paralelo

Brazil was included in the BRICs because at the time commodities were booming and Brazil was an important commercial ally. And despite all Brazil still is a top 10 economy with a bigger GDP than Russia.
Moreover the obesity effect is mostly counteracted by exercise. (Of course being obese makes it harder to exercise)
> Is it the land or the house itself?

Some places its one, some places the other. Where I am, western Washington across Puget Sound from Seattle, its mostly the buildings. Here were my assessed values in 2008, 2016, and 2024:

Year Land Buildings
2008 82k 158k
2016 55k 149k
2024 94k 309k
Hot in the summer. Killer nightlife. It will not take a tourist long to figure out the point of siesta.
When will the fact that AI is a bullshit generator stop being news?
Their point is, why is there so much focus on seed vs animal fat, when the fact is that fat consumption overall is way up? Seems like that would be the most obvious cause of weight gain.
Humans don’t undergo torpor though, so what conclusions can we really draw here about people? Humans didn’t evolve from recent ancestors that hibernate and our ancestors certainly consumed tree nuts and eggs as they were available. This hibernation connection smells like bullshit to me.
It looks like now it does still only pull 100 rows out of the sort (so moving the limit into the 2nd cte didn't hurt). It isn't doing all 10000 rows now though, which is interesting. By any chance, do you have 9200 different tenants? If so that makes sense. What I suggested would work when you have a small number of tenants with queued work (it scales n log n with tenants with queued work, but log n with amount of tasks that a single tenant has queued). So if you're currently testing with many tenants queueing at once, you could see how it behaves with like 20 tenants where one has 9k items and the others have ~50 each. Then it sort of depends on how your distribution looks in practice to know whether that's acceptable.

You could also probably do tricks where individual workers filter to specific tenant IDs in the first CTE (e.g. filter group_key mod num_workers = worker_id) to reduce that cardinality if you expect it to be large. Or you could e.g. select 100 random group_keys as a first step and use that to filter the window, but then that needs another partial index on just `group_key where status = queued`.

Edit: I see it's still doing a seq scan on tasks. There is a PK on id, right? It knows there's only 100 rows from the rest of the query so it seems odd to me that it would decide to scan the table. You could try putting a hash index on id if it's refusing to use the btree index I guess. Or it might change its mind if you add 1M SUCCEEDED tasks or something.

Another thing to consider is that out of the box, pg's default config for the planner is tuned to like 20 year old hardware. You need to tweak the io costs for SSDs and tell it you have more RAM if you haven't done that. See e.g. https://pgtune.leopard.in.ua/ for better starting values.
Ironically, Amazon doesn't have a way to figure out what price is appropriate ahead of time without consulting a broader market. They face a similar problem as central planners - they don't know what the market price for anything is. They could run their website as a big real time auction house, but that'd be a touch unsettling for customers because prices would be continuously fluctuating. It is probably better if they use scraping to short-circuit that process.

I wouldn't describe it as unethical. The problem with collusion is more about what happens to companies that undercut the market by a little bit. As long as there are no non-market consequences the incentives should play out as expected. It isn't a problem (indeed, in theory it is expected) that merchants all offer the same good/service for the same price.
Also sleep during most of the afternoon. Everything is open late.
It's all designed. Top down, one mind. Designed. That's why it all works.

Think about all the cells, and the thousands/millions of jobs they do, in perfect coordination just in your fingers or hands.

It's all designed.
I tried to be this way in my own personal life but you can’t enter the UK as a foreigner without uploading some declaration forms to S3.

It is inescapable.
That's just it; the "bootcamp" label is marketing. Sibling comment touches on this: the industry intentionally sells more-or-less get-rich-quick schemes. Learn coding in 10-weeks and get hired into a six-figure job.

Maybe plumbing just has the advantage of time. Its lost any sexiness it once had, if ever. And plumbers make good money!
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