skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure from what point of view you are saying that, but I came across an interesting twist to that.

Some years ago I read a fascinating book about evolution, mostly explaining things that do not get taught in school. No surprise there is a lot - school level teaching in any subject is usually simplified and incomplete so not entirely accurate compared to what researchers in the field are studying.

There was an interesting, and disturbing preface. One of the authors said his colleagues tried to persuade him not to write the book, because explaining to a wide audience that what they were taught in school about evolution was a simplified approximation (essentially obsolete) would encourage creationism. I thought at the time that this was both unethical and likely to backfire.

As I said in another recent comment, a creationist I know recently sent me links to arguments for creationism on the Jehovah's Witnesses' website, and they did precisely this. Quote from research to show people what they were told was false.

If you are not truthful people will not trust you, if people in a field are not truthful people in the field loses credibility in the eyes for many people. How difficult is it to tell kids that they are being taught a simplified version, and here is a rough outline of the complexities, but it is beyond what can be taught at their level?

I see similar things all over the place, with well meaning people pushing bad evidence for things (e.g. climate change). Same problem when people realise an argument is flawed, or a particular theory or model is flawed, they assume all arguments are flawed.
Serious answer: do you want me to build it for you? If you give me a contact email, we can discuss the budget
This is why I just don't care about my keyboard, mouse, monitor etc beyond a baseline of minimum comfort.

Typing at an extra 15 wpm won't make a lick of difference in how quickly I produce a product, nor will how often my fingers leave the keyboard or how often I look at the screen. Once I've ingested the problem space and parameters, it all happens in my head.
For Bayer's it's less about getting rid of bosses, but just getting rid of the huge amount of fat they have accumulated over the years, making any kind of decision a battle between layers and layers of mid-managers.
(Entirely my opinion)

Its important to note that alcohol and weed have exactly opposite effect on brain: where alcohol dulls you and make things matter less, weed can make you overly focus on your thoughts, more than a sober you would consider appropriate. This can lead to paranoia, because the first whif of it sends you on a spiral where you think about it, and that usually makes you even more paranoid. It is a form of mild psychosis. "The cur" is you have to realize that while your thoughts are valid and about real things (something real made you paranoid in the first time), the magnitude of your reaction is currently being altered by a drug. This allows you to take control of your emotions/feelings and allows you to logically reason about your current mind state.

This skill you _have to_ learn to overcome paranoia/psychosis on weed, and it is much harder to effectively practice while under weed influence. But on the other side, once you do, you can practice it while sober too, and that alone improved my mental health long term.

It is a psychoactive, and with high doses you can even start seeing your vision pulsate and shapes morphing. If you were hearing things and had psychosis, you definetly had way higher dose than you should have. If you try again, give yourself 15 mins between single puffs.
Symbiogenesis of mitochondria substantially pre-dates the 2000s. It was first proposed over a century ago, 1905 and 1910 by Russian botanist Konstantin Mereschkowski, and substantiated with evidence by Lynn Margulis (a very substantial evolutionary biologist, also one of Carl Sagan's wives) in 1967.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiogenesis>

Mitochondria were sufficiently established in general awareness to be a plot point of Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, being a concept which fascinated the character of Charles Wallace Murray, a young prodigy, in the stories. Though I don't recall if symbiogenesis is specifically referenced. The first story in the series was published in 1962.
Now with Github Copilot it's even worse/better – whether you like to type or not. Now it's 1) think about the problem, 2) sketch types and functions (leave the body empty), 3) supervise Copilot as it's generating the rest, 4) profit.
Man, if that wouldn't be fox news with that... extremely dangerous simpleton carlson, I would take what they/you say. As it stands, its just raw political propaganda cherry-picking anything not aligned to trump, if there is any truth at all.
Yeah. That’s why I love building on GCP: things just work so nicely together and there’s far fewer foot guns than AWS
Thanks for that link, and to (not-)answer GP's question on price:

> "While the application fee has not been determined, it will be set on a cost-recovery basis. The fee will ensure that the next round of the New gTLD Program is fully funded and does not require funds from ICANN's operating budget. As a point of reference, the application fee for the 2012 round of the New gTLD Program was US$185,000."

From the FAQ page for the next round of gTLD sales, via the link shared above: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/announcements-and-media/announ...
McKinsey is just a group that will rationalize any decision you want to make in the first place. It's management decision laundering, by consultants.
Who knew devs/corporations don't optimize the web for people with no spending power?
How many is "a few"?
Its not about impulse control as much as it is about lack of knowledge/experience.
This is why I work at night 80% of the time. It's absolutely not for everyone, it's not for every case, and the other 20% is coordination with daytime people, but the amount of productivity that comes from good uninterrupted hours long sessions is simply unmatched. Once again, not for everyone, probably not for most.
Thank you very much.. Iam a college student and have learnt something new from you.

"If you just need your foot in the door, does it matter which door it is?"
If you’re an engineer, surely you recognize that the major plot whole in the movie is that doing an interstellar travel is way more difficult than whatever blight they had to fight.
LLMs can think.
Sometimes you really wonder where your time went. You can spend 1 hour writing a perfect function and then the rest of the day figuring out why your import does work in dev and not in prod.

I also once butchered the result of 40 hours of work through a loose git history rewrite.
I spent a good hour trying different recovery options (to no avail) and then 2 hours typing everything back in from memory. Maybe it turned out even better then before, because all kind of debugging clutter was removed.
They should also give all designers the tiniest still supported mobile phone screen, while enlarging the fonts by at least 20% and making the screen black and white.

I wouldn't go as far as making the language German but.....well actually.....yes put the phone in German as well!
I see this so often. It's how terrible software is written because people are afraid to change direction or learn anything new mid project.

I rewrite most of my code 2-3 times before I'm done and I'm still 5x faster than anyone else, and significantly higher quality and maintainability as well. People spend twice as long writing the ugliest, hackiest code as they would have to just learn to do it right
You sir, are wrong in every single sentence. No point breaking it down though
The complexity is that to save money, you have to automate enough that you can reduce the staffing level. Go from say, 5 people to 4.

When I worked at a radiology firm, they thought having patients fill out forms on an iPad would cost them money. They did it anyways to seem more modern.
You are ignoring that even single threaded code has a lot of sources of concurrency and side-effects; memory/caches, branch prediction, prefetching...

Watch the talk and look at the examples. Most of them are single-threaded; a bad hash-function causing bucket collisions and linear inserts; SQLite using an indirection table, killing speculative execution and code prefetching.

Those two wouldn't really show up in a sampling profiler, because they still take up a tiny amount of time.

Sampling profilers show you where time is spend, Causal profilers show you what performance side effects every line of code has.
I know them for the Mitre Att&ck framework but apart from this, what are they known for commercially ?!
I used a lot of different drugs. Mainly marihuana, xtc and cocaïne. From all the drugs i have used I think low doses of xtc felt a good combination of still be able to function and feeling happy.
Smoking weed only made me dumb, unattractive and created illusional unrealistic behavior. Cocaïne is just too much. Maybe good if you are under extreme pressure at all times.
But now i am sober for a while all ready. Best thing i could have done. Also much better for nearly every aspect in life. Relationships, work, health and more.
Sincerely: you don't sound very business-savvy, if you think five executives are just gonna eat a 20% pay cut like that.
Your domain name and the site it points to is not the end goal, what the site represents is.

Your domain name is one of the means to get more people to know about you or to deliver your product. Decreasingly relevant, note, as no one types domain names usually (people search).

As more people know about you via various channels (most centralized one way or the other: curated lists, social platforms, search), takeover of your domain name (or any other channel) becomes less of a risk. If you take Coca-Cola’s or Apple’s or Basecamp’s domain, they will barely feel it. Perhaps Basecamp could feel it, as it probably plays a bigger role in delivery, but I am sure they would have a procedure specifically to manage that risk.

99% of the time, if you run an ordinary %product%, should you worry that it will be you vs. the world and all of your channels are taken over? Currently, I’d say not. I could be wrong.
The whole point of having cultural issues like abortion, gay rights, guns etc in the spotlight is because it's much easier to make people emotionally invested into that in lieu of, say, economics, foreign policy, military-industrial complex, or political reform.

E.g. get someone fervently believing that their vote is critical to preventing "murder of children", and you can abuse them economically however the hell you want - they'll hate you but they'll still vote for you because the other guy "murders children". This one is such an oldie but goodie that each party has crafted its own wedge issue around it: abortion for Republicans, guns for Democrats.
That time would probably have been spent queuing before.
Surely scrolling back is in the pro subscription plan?
That was tongue-in-cheek, man, for all your Hahaha you're not taking things too lightly... There's a secret life for HN articles, when after dusk the RSS-informed folks come to pilfer old news
>Where's the "quick money" in any of this?

Where's the capitalism in open source? Yes, yes, Red Hat, Microsoft etc all have their hands in it, but the very idea is anticapitalist.

>You can't use a simple "expectation factor" divorced from all other reality to decide how to spend tax money.

It's a bit more complicated than that, but plenty of countries outside the US spend money on things without tangible economic benefit.
Feel free to disprove anything stated here, if you can get past the friend/enemy distinction, or even the cheap ad-hominems.
Bad boss or zen teacher, we will never know!
Not purely market size, though it's a very important part for sure.

The other part is how likely a country is to try to enforce their laws, and what ability they will have to do so.

Even if a hypothetical US company had an equal number of customers & revenue in Chile as in the EU, if either the Chilean law being broken is one that Chile never bothers to prosecute, or if the worst thing they could do should they find out about the law breaking is to block the service at a national firewall level but not levy any punishments (say, if the US company has no staff or assets in Chile, and the crime has no possibility for extradition or other international collaboration to punish) then the company would be a lot less likely to comply than they are with GDPR. Because most US companies aren't able/willing to serve EU customers without having servers, employees, and revenue, physically in the EU; therefore the worst case for getting caught breaking GDPR is considerably more worth avoiding than if it would just be the EU blocking access to your servers.
On the other hand, now that the previous commenter mentioned that, I can see an objective reason to be against the term 'Anthropocene' regardless of whether the epoch itself is accepted.

'Anthropocene' implies that it is humanity that is the driving force of the purported geological changes, but humanity's ability to cause such an impact is itself a blip in the biological history of our species. I do see that some proposals as to when the epoch started go as far back as the Neolithic revolution, but I very much doubt that a hypothetical world in which humanity had never progressed past subsistence farming and husbandry could have an effect on the geological scale. Plus, humanity still has more history before the Neolithic than after it.

So, taking the more mainstream arguments stating that a new geological epoch started in modern times, be it with the Industrial Revolution, the Atomic Era, or the 1960s, the fact that this epoch is Anthropic is not necessary and sufficient to describe it.

Instead, I would argue that the defining characteristic of this epoch would be Industrialisation, hence 'Industrocene' or, forgive my Greek, 'Viomechanocene' would be much more descriptive and more objective names.
I think at this point most people just assume that this kind of stuff is a foregone conclusion, because they pass it every time without much of a fight (when you compare it to other matters) despite it being strongly disliked across the political spectrum.
A Tale of Species, Temperatures, Emissions Standing on the Brink
These lanes also exist in Germany.

Definitely agree. This type of gatekeeping is toxic and ultimately makes us all worse off.
Correlation != causation, you/life probably did 10,000 other things to your body on top of simple aging, and absolutely nobody has any sort of idea what caused what.

There was a post on HN from a (otherwise seemingly smart) user who blamed cosmic ray(s) for heart condition his daughter developed. Even otherwise rational smart folks do tend to end up in weird mental bubbles/tunnels for lack of better words.
Visual processing speed and its association with future dementia development
No, I dont.

Though replace "Google" with "mainstream search engines" and you are closer to my actual thought.
Debugging is not thinking? Reading, understanding and reasoning about why something is happening is THE THING thinking is about.

Fluency increases the speed in which you move to other subjects but does not reduce your thinking, you're going to more complex issues more often.
The biographical assessment has been retired in 2018, by the way: https://www.faa.gov/faq/faa-getting-rid-air-traffic-skills-b...

EDIT:
The next point might not be true. According to https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-faas-hiring-scandal-... the introduction of the BA "blindsided and outraged" CTI schools (the pre-training mentioned below).
END OF EDIT

Additionally, it was only ever required for the general, open-for-all applicant pool (dubbed "off the street"). If you had certain qualifications or participated in a pre-training initiative, you were exempt (https://123atc.com/biographical-assessment). No idea what the distribution between "off the street" and other air controllers looks like, though.
The Game Boy at 35: a portal to other magical worlds
We had this for ages: sugar.
The first run with the IDE is like completing a level of a game the first time. The second time it will be quicker.

I agree we can expand thinking to “thinking with help from tools”.
> “If it was set in stone we use Perl, MongoDB, CGI... I'd probably ultimately be more productive than I've been lately despite the stack.”

Facebook decided to stick with PHP and MySQL from their early days rather than rewrite, and they’re still today on a stack derived from the original one.

It was the right decision IMO. They prioritized product velocity and trusted that issues with the stack could be resolved with money when the time comes.

And that’s what they’ve done by any metric. While nominally a PHP family language, Meta’s Hack and its associated homegrown ecosystem provides one of the best developer experiences on the planet, and has scaled up to three billion active users.
> Now he was 30, recently out of a long term relationship

How long is long these days?
I prefer kiosks because I can take my time and browse all the options, instead of being forced to quickly answer the cashier.
A border / customs officer in any part of the world is not interested in doing any more work than they absolutely have to. Tell them what they need to hear in order to let you be on your way and everyone will be happier for it.
Maybe. But is hard to compare since the cashier also picked together your meal.

The ordering part was way faster. Coming into an empty restaurant was way way faster.
Do you have any relative with a mental illness? Because if you have that in your genes, marijuana may trigger full on psychosis so better to just avoid it and other psychedelics. My gf and I smoked a lot for 2 years due to her chronic pain (half a joint almost every evening), then she experienced psychosis, had to be institutionalized for a month, was recovering for half a year and she still needs to take anti-psychotics. Her grandmother had schizophrenia so it was in her genes. We didn't know it worked like that at the time.
In the 2020s, we still have software engineering managers that think of LOC as a success metric.

“How long would it take you to type the 6 hours work of diff?” is a great question to force the cognitively lazy software manager to figure out how naive that is.

Nowadays I feel great when my PRs have more lines removed than added. And I really question if the added code was worth the added value if it’s the opposite.
Show HN: Mongoviz – Generate ERD Diagrams from Mongoose Schemas
Hi HN,

I’m excited to share a tool I recently built called Mongoviz. It's a node.js utility designed to automatically generate Entity-Relationship Diagrams (ERDs) from Mongoose models. If you use Mongoose for handling MongoDB in your Node.js applications, you might find this tool particularly useful for visualizing your database schemas.

Why Mongoviz?

When working with complex Mongoose schemas, it can be challenging to keep track of how collections are related, especially as projects grow and more developers get involved. Visual diagrams are an excellent way to ensure everyone on the team understands the database structure at a glance.

I built Mongoviz because I couldn't find a simple tool that fits directly into the Node.js/Mongoose ecosystem without needing extensive configuration or external services.
> I discovered my "coworkers" were all contract. Another red flag.

Why is this a red flag?
I talk about this so much at my workplace and every time I mention slower phones I get laughed at by my boss. It's idiotic.

"Just get an iPhone"

Like... my dude, you rolled out of uni and started your own business and started out making at least double every month than normal people and you buy a new phone every 2 years. This is not normal.

Our target customer is very literally the "average consumer", so this is the dumbest take I've ever seen.

I try to minimize garbage collection and optimize React rendering but React is honestly quite difficult to get right when it comes to details in performance, even after a few years of experience :(. It doesn't help that I explicitly don't get time to focus on these kinds of details.
Like a bad coder with a great memory, yes
I want to read all of Chris Hadnagy’s books on social engineering. I haven’t decided which one I’ll start with, but I plan to read them all.
there are queues at the kiosk now too. because people take
much longer perusing the interactive menu then they would when there’s the pressure of a cashier in front of them
https://github.com/jpalardy/vim-slime

you can have a REPL in nvim/vim/tmux/screen/another terminal/or any other window , and send regions from your vim buffer to that repl
Defeats the purpose in my view, but to answer your question check out Openfaas or explore Erlang, much if the serverless architecture is Actors forced into Cloud Native primitives. The Holy Grail in my view are actors without knowing or caring how they map to princesses.
Brilliant writing.
Yes, you have to enable the setting to install from unknown sources, which has a warning message prominently displayed.

https://developer.android.com/distribute/marketing-tools/alt...
Only two skin colours eh?
White and political?

Or is women you've got a problem with?
Not for ages and definitely not since Github- just keep committing and pushing as a backup
Another paywall trash
Hahaha! :) Okay, sure. But you don't know how I feel! Right? Hahahaha! :) You seem to hope it ain’t lightly tho? That’s on you! Hahaha ha! :) I’m totally okay with how I feel, if you don’t like that, you’re problemo, right? Hahahaha! :)
This is a good article to send to non-programmers. Just as programmers need domain knowledge, those who are trying to get something out of programmers need to understand a bit about it.

I think I recognise that tiny diffs that I might commit can be the ones that take hours to create because of the debugging or design or learning involved. It's all so easy to be unimpressed by the quantity of output and having something explained to you is quite different from bashing your head against a brick wall for hours trying to work it out yourself.
All drugs do work differently on people. I love weed, but by far the best effects are when used say 1x a week, the more the less good. That's why legalization would be great here, I can just get a single joint/edible and not be buying bigger questionable bags from random paranoid dudes on the corners of streets.

I have quite a few folks around me who simply love alcohol (with corresponding long term consequences, give it 2 decades max). It doesn't do much for me, I see dumbed down folks doing stupid shit they later regret (sometimes for rest of their lives, a real permanent dent on character).

I did most of my best long term decisions in life on weed, alone on long walks, then mulled it over weeks/months when sober, and it checked. It opens the gate of subconsciousness to me massively, and oh boy that mister has things to say and perspectives to share. I also saw near breakdown on thc edible.

What I want to say, everybody reacts differently, its normal. There is no best-fit-all setup.
I'd wager the more technically fluent people get the more they spend time on thinking about the bigger picture or the edge cases.

Bug fixing is probably one of the best example: if you're already underwater you'll want to bandaid a solution. But the faster you can implement a fix the more you'll have leeway, and the more durable you'll try to make it, including trying to fix root causes, or prevent similar cases altogether.