skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are generalising wildly here. My prior is that human beings are prone to hype and opinion in general. You'd need to provide some evidence that software developers are different from that in some important way for that to be significant.

Then to the substance of your points, firstly, there's nothing whatsoever wrong with jumping aboard new tech to see what it's like. As engineers our curiousity should be enough to make us want to do that. The fact that people are prepared to pay money for us to do so is a nice added bonus.

Secondly I have worked with software engineers of all kinds during my career and if you throw 10 different engineers in a room and ask their views on some technology you'll have some n>>1 and probably n>=10 opinions about it. There isn't some engineering hivemind that all thinks the same thing. People who are into a certain thing are vocal about it. If you asked engineers whethere they are into oop, functional programming, rust, react, whatever they are likely to be no less vocal about it than engineers who are into EDM, HipHop, Jazz, Metal or Taylor Swift. People like different things, engineers are people therefore engineers like different things.

Finally, we are in a new discipline so there isn't very much proven science and the way we get there is by experimentation. That means trying tech out and learning lessons from how things go wrong. Until that stage of maturity much of everything is opinion.
12 seconds!

WOW!

So easy.

Hidden BBC message?

Crime doesn't pay, even if your a clever bastard and can steal $25 million in 12 seconds.
Great to see BIRT mentioned on HN. I use BIRT to generate PDFs for clients. Modern BI tools are about interactivity and real time but PDFs still have a role in BI and BIRT does the job. As it uses JDBC to connect to data sources you can connect to most data sources. For many tools these days one of the first things you have to check is which data sources does it connect to. If you use a less popular database chances are your database will not be supported. I have worked in organisations that use DB2, Sybase, Oracle and so on and these tend not to be supported by modern BI tools. PDF generation also seems to be a snapshot of the page. So yes BIRT is a great tool, old school and a bit clunky but it does the job.
6.3 stops is a lot, though. That's basically the fully usable aperture range of a kit zoom lens.
You have also

RuntimeMaxUse=, RuntimeKeepFree=, RuntimeMaxFileSize=, RuntimeMaxFiles=

options if you are concerned about journald overusing tmpfs. But yes, it seems unconditional that it writes the logs always somewhere, which is not unreasonable design imho.
> Meanwhile, the more therapy someone does, the more miserable they are compared to me.

Is this based on empirical statistical analysis, or are you maybe projecting your perception on to anecdotes? How are you quantifying misery? What are the units? Are there people that are less miserable than you? Do you know how much therapy they've done, or if they've done therapy at all?

> I’m the Usain Bolt of mental health compared to them. Makes me think their trainer is an idiot.

There's a lot of people that think they're Usain Bolt. Most of them are not.
Nah, they paid for the brand.
Have smartphones killed the art of conversation?
Who knows what was left of that 3% HF after it was shipped leaking... Maybe it was just mildly spicy water when delivered, and the poor amazon warehouse workers got to have most of the fun.
I'd say Jobs would have blown them away. He was a businessman and an obsessive who knew when to focus on the design versus the product versus the money. If investors in his era wanted a perfect pitch deck, his pitch deck would have been perfect.

Tesla might have been more likely to focus on having the tech working at the expense of everything else.
But the market is always right.
Until all the pitchforks are taken up again.
Lane assistance is fine, if it can be permanently disabled. But I've rented cars where it seemed to have been hard coded to default = ON for each trip. Every time I started the car, I had to go into the car config (great fun on a rental with a different GUI each time) and disable it before driving.

Otherwise, in city driving, it's like some paranoid front seat passenger grabs the wheel every 30 seconds.
Ask HN: What is good about tailwindcss if you mostly use a component lib?
I love how daisyui (a tailwind component library) looks but I believe daisyui can exist without tailwind by just creating those same component classes with css (correct me if I'm wrong).

To be clear I think tailwind has some advantages specially if you are making highly customised components. But most of the time I end up using the same components that my component lib provides with a few customised components on top.
nautical miles, I agree are quite useful. Roman, English, international, statute, US survey, German, Russian or Ottoman miles, not so much
FYI this is a shitpost. Sorry for ruining the joke.
Singing rehabilitates speech production in post-stroke aphasia
Very interesting, I haven't used gps but that definitely does need more power (or optimizations). Have you heard of this? https://hackerwarehouse.com/product/portapack-h2-for-hackrf-...

Linux would probably be very easy to built without needing firmware
Jobs definitely didn't present himself that way, at the beginning at least:

To build the company, Jobs adroitly tapped the network of support services that has made Silicon Valley such a fertile place for fledgling businesses. Says he: “We didn’t know what the hell we were doing, but we were very careful observers and learned quickly.” Jobs pestered Regis McKenna, the area’s premier public relations specialist, to take on Apple as a client. After refusing twice, McKenna finally agreed. For advice on how to raise money, Jobs consulted both McKenna and Nolan Bushnell, his former boss at Atari. They suggested that he call Don Valentine, an investor who frequently puts money into new firms. When Valentine came around to inspect the new computer, he found Jobs wearing cutoff jeans and sandals while sporting shoulder-length hair and a Ho Chi Minh beard. Valentine later asked McKenna: “Why did you send me this renegade from the human race?”

https://time.com/3462424/the-seeds-of-success/
Introduce runtime modifiable Energy Model
You are far better off investing in one or more 3090s and loading up on DDR RAM.
Besides that project is just "some sucker is gonna come and figure it out for me" bounty in form of a company, and importantly built on a known dead end
i'm open-sourcing the backend, but not 100% of the code.
That’s kinda the same thing. All nature is a balance, and as the rock shapes the river, the river shapes the rock.
I ask the opposite, why are people accepting credit as a normal way of life? Debt means you are a slave to the creditor. How can you walk around owing money and that's normal to you?

Surely you get that the rewards and protections are not there because creditors are generous right? At best you contribute to the social disease of perpetual credit card debt. At some point, creditors need to make profit.

I prefer debit because I am spending my money. For in person transactions, I prefer cash.
A Study Suggests We Found Potential Evidence of Alien Civilizations
Now we've got to figure out whether coding "by hand" is the value here for others or the result of such coding.

For me, coding is worthless if it doesn't solve a problem (of any kind), whether I typed it letter by letter or I instructed an LLM to type 60-80% of it, it's irrelevant really.
> A big trial of mindfulness training in UK schools maybe made kids a bit more depressed, and two attempts to teach psychotherapy principles to students in Australia both failed.

I have always belived that the widespread of cheap psychological content aimed for average people is a mental-unhealthy plague and would only make them overconfident in judging their own and others mental health, this is why we see overuse of terms like bi-polar, trauma, narcissist etc.. in social media where teenagers are active.
I don't really understand the need for a compiler in R. All the main packages that have to do any heavy lifting have had their functions outsourced to fortran or C decades ago.

R is also thriving in bioinformatics with Python trailing behind as an afterthought. I think the main reason why R is fading is simply why some other languages fade: fashion, and prestige of the new masters (read: professor X in field Y likes esoteric language Z, so his grad students write out libraries A/B/C to corner the Z library space, and professor X gets more clout than he ever would in a default language).
The land in question is the location of NVIDIA's grand new palatial headquarters. I was surprised that they didn't own the land already.
May?

Probably won't

Might not
Should android.com/lock go to something, as shown in their demo graphics?
Could someone who links to the document be charged with copyright infringement?
On the other hand, Anthropic founders reason for leaving also yielded them angle to start a new successful company, now worth 9+ figures. Given that I’m not sure I’ll take their concerns about the state of OpenAI at face value.
Though the characterisation of nano-structured coatings isn't quite right

> However, the latest generation of Canon lenses features the
first commercialized availability of nano-fabricated
coatings with sub-wavelength structure on optical
glasses.

Nikon was actually first to market with this, as far as I can tell in the AF-S 300mm f2.8 VR in 2004.
Thanks greg, I'll try to clarify more information on the site, your suggestions help me a lot!
> That sounds like more work than actually doing a normal job

If one is eligible to do the job in the first place
Especially the "whether" :D
How much equity does A16Z take for speedrun?
A question about a16z's speedrun program.

Does anyone know how much equity a16z ask for their $750k investment?
Swift could have been a big player in web development 9-10 years ago if they invested more in Linux support with a good standard library (and [0]package manager). Nowadays I would say Go is more an alternative rather than Node, maybe for some extreme cases Rust.

I wanted to love Swift, but there was (maybe still is) low Apple investment outside the Apple ecosystem.

[0] Still not sure to this day why Swift has a package manager if Xcode is not using it (or at least was not using it a few years ago), I just followed lightly Swift development the past few years.
The paper:

"Ultraviolet Superradiance from Mega-Networks of Tryptophan in Biological Architectures" N. S. Babcock, G. Montes-Cabrera, K. E. Oberhofer, M. Chergui, G. L. Celardo, and P. Kurian*

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c07936

https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01469
I think you do not understand how "new" artstyles arise, it's extremely rare for something not to be influenced by something else.

With AI I could merge an anime style with a hyper-realistic photo of a spider and see what style could come out.

And if the AI doesn't quite work for this, I could get it to generate a base and one can then finish it up by hand.
Why don't they license their name to other entities, essentially allow approved clones? Muddying your non-profit goal by operating a for-profit, publicly-traded company seems suboptimal.
The crossover replaced GM's low cost starter vehicle. The Chevy Trax or Buick Envista for the same price as a malibu. GMC kinda dead in their product line.

But a Hyundai Elantra for 24k rates well for a starter sedan. And theres the toyota and honda entry level cars that have good reliability.

Fluffy article.
What use cases? This kind of thing is stated all the time, never any examples.
> Also I don't receive any encrypted messages.

Should start giving people your public key then!
OpenAI president shares first image generated by GPT-4o
Most tax-advantaged retirement savings schemes channel retirement money to listed companies and/or Wall Street investment funds by default - pension funds included.
SV and Wall St still top the chart in number of Millionaires and Billionaires https://www.henleyglobal.com/publications/wealthiest-cities-...

Then you sort the table by Growth and you get a different list.
GPT-4o Jailbreak via Image Upload [video]
Video was taken from author's tweet here,

https://twitter.com/elder_plinius/status/1790879792474009949

https://nitter.poast.org/elder_plinius/status/17908797924740...

> No text prompt, no memory enabled, no custom instructions, just an image and vanilla gpt-4o.

> I generated an image, encoded a jailbreak prompt and multi-step instructions into it using LSB steganography, and turned the image title into a prompt injection that leverages code interpreter.
Automatically erase itself sounds good, but silent 911 call might be better than giving your attacker with a gun to your head a reason to pull the trigger.
Nikola Tesla received funds, in fact quite a bit of it. JP Morgan invested $150,000(~$5M in today terms) for just one project[1]. He died penniless because of his too much confidence in his ideas and he overused the money he got. Even with hindsight, funding Tesla was a bad decision for investors return wise.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower
Rise in reported US maternal mortality rates largely due to measurement change
Just another thing Samsung has ripped off from Apple. And I think Apple ripped off their ad. So like a second derivative of something mildly original.
How SQLite Scales Read Concurrency
Xcode projects can have Swift package dependencies, and Xcode can open Swift packages directly.
didn't I put "average" in the comment already? (and to be fair, this is the group the post was talking about when making the calculation). I know and have helped some brilliant engs at google reach l5 with much shorter time frame, but it's not the norm.

given you seem to be from google, there are various stats w.r.t promotion timeline that offers more insights about the average case internally
Unfortunately some people might try to do the math of losing their life savings vs. losing their life. Big downside of using a money system (eg: cryptocurrency) you can't reverse.
I still don't quite follow the explanation. The duck and I are on the surface of the same body and are rotating together, maintaining a constant distance... why does Earth rotation need to be corrected for?
"We would never destroy stuff for a commercial" - proceeds to destroy a guitar for a commercial.
Google and Harvard unveil most detailed ever map of human brain
> But the mania was unwarranted and harmful.

I would replace "mania" by "hype". And this is not something new in the industry. Isn't it what's happening with AI right now? How many posts on HN like everyday discussing how to use LLMs to this, that and god knows what other non-sense idea to just use the tech? Looks like we are prone to see nails everywhere when we a get a new hammer on our hands.
I am really sorry about that.

let me put on the kettle, make a cup of tea and reflect on impact this bullshit may have on the human race.
They have a whole criminal ecosystem setup between the 'snatch a phone' and 'try to extort the previous owner of the phone.'
I read the linked article by Boats and found it great. I was really amazed by the 50-years old quote by Hoare, it’s still relevant and very well put.
Those pictures are stunning
What does "channel" mean here? Do you mean they choose to invest there? "Channel" implies something being done secretively.
I wonder if it'll use the same architecture as visionOS; where the vision tracking events and UI affordances are processed and composited out-of-process; with the app never seeing them.
There are estimates that half the matter, including the older stars in our Galaxy came from other galaxies that were absorbed long ago (10B+ years) by the Milky Way. The younger stars have been formed here in the disk.

So on average a large portion of the oldest stars tend to have been from elsewhere, whereas the newer stars were born here.
One branch of the OR is comparing IDs as though they're monotonically increasing, so either they are or the query is broken.
> (The [0..10] is actually syntax, and I think that's quite unfortunate. `range 0 10` would have been just as good.)

Well, Haskell is in fact flexible enough that you can define that range function.

But one reason to make it syntax is that you can define things like [0..], which would be between awkward to impossible to do with a single `range` function in Haskell.
> I’m not sure what I’d do with a faster connection

I have a 500 mbps and a 1 Gbps fiber into my home. For redundancy (WFH 100%) and because it's cheap (Romania).

The only time I notice which one I'm on is when I install games from gog/steam/psn. Even operating system isos (which are only a few gigs, not 50-100 G like modern games) don't make a dent any more. Streaming is a-ok, but I'm stuck in the last century with an 1080p TV.

Both of my providers^H^H^H one of my providers now offer 2.5 Gbps I think. And I wonder why :)
Matrix is not a plug-in replacement either.
This is once more an example where looking at the details of a statistic can alter the first impression quite a bit.
I dont really see this article as a good one. He doesnt really mention the bad parts of OOP. And i dont see alternatives. I only read that people jump on trend trains. Well not everyone i can say.
Yeah pretty much

So much that playing videogames during a VC meeting can swing them the "right way" if you fit the structure enough
> I don't especially like the idea of making multiple notations for the same thing, to be honest.

I can appreciate that sentiment, but I'm afraid the designers of Haskell had a different approach there.

There often a few different ways to express something. But at least they can often be understood as thin syntactic sugaring of one into the other. It's not like C++ or Perl (or even Ruby with its different types of closures) where you have tons of overlapping ways to express something, and they are all subtly different.

> I find the style in for example Rust the most easy on the eye.

I'm not sure about easy-on-the-eye, but I find Rust mostly quite bearable, too.
In case anyone doesn't know this reference:

https://www.businessinsider.com/ftx-sam-bankman-fried-league...
It's literally in the second item under Section 1.
"The logos good, fine." LOL
The article isn't about OOP. It's about hype.

>The lesson you should draw is not that object-oriented is bad, but rather that whatever is the current trendy technique and trendy idea, is likely grossly overrated.

He just happens to want to dunk on OOP at the same time.
Git Filters
Also

> Discord is Extremely Resource Intensive and is Bloated With Unnecessary Features

If there's something I can praise Discord for is that for all it offers, it's nimble. 173MB occupied here and I leave my computer on for days.
Firebase Re-Branding by Google
This is all covered in microeconomics. Competition is very good for society. Things that stop competition are bad and require government action. The scenario above is describing the behaviors of a “natural monopoly” due to the barriers to enter the market. As with all monopolies, regulation or some government action is normally required to promote competition and stop bad behavior (some examples of government actions are described in the link below / the root article is an example).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly

I really wish microeconomics was a required course in high school or primary. I find it to be one of the least understood of the well-established fields, and one that matters when we get older and vote or debate on these topics.
Also, "caused an outrage" apparently means "barely got any traction". <200 likes, barely any retweets, even the 30 or so replies weren't as confrontational as I was lead to believe by that intro.

I guess "VC was wrong and nobody really gave a shit" doesn't have the same ring to it.
I have a vague memory of this exact optimisation being one of the things Hibernate did automagically, about 10 years ago. I remember doing a fair bit of reading to figure out how & why it was so much faster.
> sounds like they hacked the system but instead they misused a feature.

Isn't that quite often the definition of hacking though ?

If they were based on a different country they would've never been caught. And they do seem pretty technical to me, just not entirely thoughtful.
Thanks, probably I missed them due to skipping router/multi NIC systems during shopping.
My point of view regarding this topic is that Students tend to understand objects better, because it's how we perceive the world (I often work with art students in game design). If they'd have to find data related to each object in a list, they'd fully overwhelmed.

Functional programming on the other hand is better the closer we are to the hardware. It can be more efficient, and in some areas other ways just don't make any sense.

Both are important, and knowing only one structure is definitely bad. But still talking about an object-oriented mania feels like somebody hasn't gotten over the conflicts of 30 years ago.
Let's do a small though experiment: Assume you have fixed your camera and the duck on a surface. Then while taking the photo, you rotate the surface. The motion sensor in the camera tries to cancel out this motion, which is suitable for taking a photo of something that's not fixed on the surface, which means it does not work well for the duck that's moving with the camera.
Typical MS...
VC stands for Vampire Capitalist, right?
Profitability is optional.
One could then argue all transactional relationships are predatory then, right? A restaurant serves you only for pay.

You could argue cynically that all relationships are to some extent transactional. People “invest” in friendships after all. It’s just a bit more abstract.

Maybe the flaw in the logic is the existence of some sort of “genuine” binary: things are either genuine or they aren't. When we accept such a binary lots of things can be labeled predatory.
having that explained with an animation in the beginning would help immensely
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40340944
Honey Bee population record high
That's a good article.

Having worked on program verification in the past, Rust looks like the most useful modern language to which formal methods can be applied. Rust's rules eliminate so many of the cases that are hard to formalize.

Big remaining problems involve deadlock analysis, both in the thread sense and in the Rc/borrow sense. Those are somewhat equivalent. I'd like to have static deadlock analysis in Rust. If you had that, I think you could get safe back-pointers, too. If you can prove that all borrow and upgrade calls can't fail, you can eliminate most reference counts. That gives you free interior mutability when that's possible.

The author's comment on provers is interesting. The big problem with theorem provers is that they're developed by people who like to prove theorems. They're in love with the formalism. This leads to a UI disconnect with programmers.

You can knock off most things you have to prove with a SAT solver. But you'll need something heavier for the hard problems. Coq is too manual. The author thinks ACL2 is too functional. Not sure what to do there, but I've been out of this for decades.

Machine learning may help in guiding theorem provers. Most programs aren't that original in terms of control flow and data usage. So inferring a proof plan from other code may work.
ML systems can't be trusted to do the proof, but may take over guiding the process.