skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or when your formulas on Google sheets start failing because you do 1-1 and the result is not 0, and then you spend 30 minutes creating new sheets, searching the web and double checking everything, until you realize that the value on the cell wasn’t 1, but 1.

This happened to me yesterday
I'm prone to plantar warts, and the only success I've had has been from surgical removal. I have not tried duct tape, though.

Once I went to a podiatrist who injected bleomycin, a chemotherapy drug. My foot hurt for several days and blood blisters formed beneath the warts, but the operation was unsuccessful.

I went to another podiatrist for the same warts and he anesthetized me and removed them with a curette.

Several years later I had a few more show up, and got some of the same anesthetic the second doctor had used, which worked marvelously. Unfortunately I didn't remember which anti-bleeding agent he had used and so I was less able to tell what was going on during my self surgery; ultimately, though, it was effective.

I also had a wart between the third and fourth knuckle of my left hand for many years. I'd pick at it sometimes but it was benign otherwise. One day I noticed that it was gone. The spot where it had been gets dry and flaky moreso than the rest of my hands.
That’s not true: for example the US government (CIA) in the past century has also been funded through shady drug deals. This isn’t fringe conspiracy stuff either, they freely admit to past activities and have shown no willingness to change.
Accents? It should be a'a.

The only native English word with a phonemic glottal stop, uh-uh, includes it in the spelling, for obvious reasons. You could write ah-ah, or a-a, on that model, but this isn't done.
I guess that would be kind of like the life experience of the billions of humans who never had the opportunity to go to the cradle of civilization or whereever humans are thought to have evolved first.
Your wish is my command...bzt bzt....

https://archive.ph/iOnJw
Show HN: EchoVault, Embeddable in-memory store to replace Redis in Go apps
Hi everyone,

Over the last year, I’ve been working on building EchoVault. EchoVault is an in-memory data store that is both client-server over TCP and completely embeddable within a Go application:

Current Features:
1) TLS and mTLS support for multiple server and client RootCAs.
2) Replication cluster support using the RAFT algorithm.
3) ACL Layer for user Authentication and Authorization.
4) Distributed Pub/Sub functionality with consumer groups.
5) Sets, Sorted Sets, Hashes, Lists and more.
6) Persistence layer with Snapshots and Append-Only files.
7) Various Key Eviction Policies.
8) Command extension via shared object files.
9) Command extension via embedded API.

There are many more features in the pipeline, such as:

1) Sharding
2) Streams
3) Bitmap
4) HyperLogLog
5) Lua Modules

EchoVault is fully RESP compatible over TCP, so you can use your existing Redis clients to communicate with an EchoVault server.

Why does this exist?
Here are some of the reasons I decided to build EchoVault:

1) Redis is lightweight but still an external service you must run. EchoVault allows you to embed an in-memory store offering a subset of Redis functionality embedded into your application, so you don’t have to worry about managing a separate service.

2) EchoVault removes the need to handle a Redis replication cluster. The embedded instances of EchoVault can connect to form a cluster with a simple configuration. So, each instance of your application can use the embedded API while EchoVault takes care of the replication for you.

3) Since Redis’ license shenanigans earlier this year, I believe EchoVault will be able to fill a role, particularly in the Go ecosystem. EchoVault is Apache 2.0 licenced.

4) EchoVault aims to make Redis redundant in many use cases where Redis would usually fit in Go applications or ecosystems. Over time, we aim to make this list of use cases longer and longer.

Possible user cases for EchoVault
You can use EchoVault in many of the same scenarios you’d use Redis, including but not limited to:

1) Service discovery.
2) In-memory data caching.
3) Session management (across multiple instances of your application).
4) Publish/Subscribe workflows
5) Unordered key/value storage.

Check out the GitHub repository, and feel free to leave a start if you like the project: https://github.com/EchoVault/EchoVault

Contributions are welcome, too!
I was under the impression it got its oxygen from the blood.

That link seems to suggest some mix of maceration (skin breaking down due to humidity), acting as a keratolytic (causing excess skin growth which mechanically separates the wart) and an immune component. Which makes sense - warts are caused by HPV.
Thanks for the corrections. I was indeed thinking of thumbnails w.r.t. "what would break next".
Somehow it's never Apple's fault.

Apple doesn't really care about Swift outside their wallet garden. How dare other companies refrain from investing in such a wonderful creation!
Compound W sold in the US is basically what you just said.
Of course not...that would be illegal...

https://archive.ph/iOnJw
Those I assume also have big legal departments, for smaller companies such lawsuits can be extinction events.

This has been previously discussed in detail on HN 12 years ago; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2414135 I would suggest that times have changed since then and disparate impact lawsuits are now more likely to prevail in 2024 than in 2012, so the in-effect aspect has increased since then.

I know quite a few CEOs who confide in me that they would rather give IQ tests but do not because of their concerns over legal consequences. Clearly this is anecdotal but this sentiment does seem to be pervasive and extensive and repeated throughout the internet over a long period of time.

It would be helpful if you could list some of these companies that publicly state they give IQ tests. I've only heard about this as a practice at hedge funds and even then it was public knowledge / gossip but not publicly stated.

In my brief search for such companies I came across this; https://nypost.com/2022/03/15/silicon-valley-firm-apologizes... which is a company that has now apologized for giving IQ tests and is being warned about the legal consequences for having them.
I hate to say this, but the OP is right. Nothing will change until we stop supporting the problem. I think the best course of action is to stop supporting corporate culture. People really do need to stop working for all corporations. We need to stop blaming them, we are supporting them with our energy, time and money.

Find a job at a local honest establishment, or create your own service.

Make it a priority to stop supplying these establishments with power.

Use your skills in a place where you have direct control over the outcome of your work.

Anything less is just you trying to convince yourself that you can carry on blaming others for the problem you/we created/are creating.

When corporations are unable to find people to work for them, something will shift.
Actually I don't think that Google makes any money from YT in Russia because they disabled ads for Russian users altogether about 2 years ago, and there's no easy way to pay for a premium subscription in Russia since SWIFT stopped working, unless there're other ways it can make money other than those two. And it's very good that they still keep working in Russia anyway, because it provides a platform for alternative views and opinions. As a Russian, I'm really glad we still have YT and surprised it hasn't been blocked.
With contractors you deal with overhead of managing contracts, and American employment law increasing views tech contractors as de facto being FT employees deserving of the same benefits packages as FT employees.

At that point your best option is to open an office in India/Israel/Eastern Europe because at least people don't complain as much, you get similar productivity (depending on what you pay), and you don't need to deal with a lot of these headaches.

The same thing happened to the CPA/Accounting industry in the 1990s.
Warts only seem to form when your immune system deems them "below threshold".

Presumably, the continuous irritation from the duct tape causes your immune system to say "Oy, there is irritation here. Go find the source and stop it." At some point, your immune systems notices "Hey, there's a virus here that we weren't paying attention to. Let's get rid of that."

There are stories of people who talk about how they had a couple of warts and then "something" injured one of them such that blood came out and suddenly all their warts disappeared simultaneously. Presumably their immune system "noticed" and then cleared the virii out systemically.
Fast groq-hosted LLMs vs. browser jank
I wouldn't have realized if you hadn't said anything.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
The C-levels need to be criminally liable, that will fix it. It will fix many things. In this case the people who were in charge should get the chair if the state has it or 100000x life in max with the other rapists and serial killers. It won’t happen again. Boeing comes to mind too.

At least then the enormous money matches a little bit the effort.

US (and others, but US is famous for it) peeps are for tougher on crime, but not for actual corporate mass murderers. If I bomb a plane with 200 people, I will never see the light of day; the Boeing CEO gets a bonus package.
A replication study failed to confirm the result.

DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.160.11.1121

DOI: 10.1016/s0093-3619(08)70425-8

DOI: 10.1016/s0084-3954(08)70300-2
For me, it's concatenative languages. Grammar so simple that BNF is of dubious usage.

4 3 2 1 + + +
There's also https://dwitter.net which has a limit of 140 characters of javascript, and the site is fairly active.
> They (very likely) didn't base Sky's voice on Scarlett's, but on some level designed it around the Samantha character.

Oh, totally, they just based it on the voices12 collection, which they won't tell us anything about, and by the way they've conveniently already deleted. /s
Lol, okay thanks!
I see. I am curious, what is the difference between "sharing your work for the community to check out" and an "ad"? I am not quite sure I understand why a paid product cannot be shown here? The logic escapes me
For those who, like me, had trouble finding the actual judgment, here it is:

https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/copa-v-wright/
No one said it was the boss doing it or organizing it, no?
I'm very on the fence with it. I have the new M4 13 and want to love it. The screen is incredible. hover effects with the pencil and the haptic squeeze all are very nice touches. It's very impressive that you can run logic pro on it.

But I'm simultaneously very disappointed. I started up logic pro, put in a chord progression on their new chord track and created 4 session AI players to make a little band going. I used their default instrument and fx plugins that came with each session players style, and the only tweak I made was to turn on side-chain compression off the AI drummer track i created. letting this loop on a 8 bar pattern for a little bit quickly maxes out the cpu and the ipad gets hot as hell until the logic alerts that it's doing too much and refuses to run unless i either freeze tracks manually or let it do so. 4 tracks thats ridiculously low.

So I tried running Github code-spaces in-browser for a bit to see how that experience is, and while it was nice at first, I could see a next.js app running in a preview and run shell commands etc. However many many times the layout got messed up by scroll position of the browser, which is pretty locked down in the GH CS layout to begin with, so its tricky to resolve it without randomly scrolling in different places/panes hoping it fixes itself. My muscle memory for cmd-w to close editor panes backfires because its (obivously) in a web browser. I was lucky because I made it a pinned-tab in safari so it didn't really close. But when you actually close the tab and try to re-open it GH CS can get in a weird state where it doesn't seem to boot or connect to the backing instance node.

All-in-all it still feels like just a toy. Even the prosumer use cases like Logic Pro, that Apple officially supports, seems like it doesn't really work the way I'd expect it to.
We are a step closer to taxing the super-rich
any kind of airtight waterproof tape that will stay on skin will probably work eg white nonporous medical tape
Self-driving cars on UK roads 'as soon as 2026' as Bill becomes law
Ongoing discussion [0] (58 points, 5 hours ago, 86 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40414249
As the article explains:

"General comment: this may sound weird, but in the long term, it might
be easier to deal with a really complicated bunch of instruction
formats, than with a complex set of addressing modes, because at least
the former is more amenable to pre-decoding into a cache of
decoded instructions that can be pipelined reasonably, whereas the pipeline
on the latter can get very tricky (examples to follow)."

So the distinction is more about how 'easy' an ISA lends itself to pipelining (critical paths, dependencies between instructions/operands & so on), than about how rich the instruction set is or how much work 1 instruction may do.
> JS is absolutely crucial for simple things like [..] replacing parts of the page without reloading the entire thing.

not at all

- but you couldn't just.. use iframes because of IE 5.5 bug of ignoring their z-index and displaying always on top of everything - so: either JS to fix that by rewriting content to normal DIV, or the lowest common denominator for all browsers: XMLHttpRequest from.. Microsoft - mind, they had no clue about WWW at that moment - and were promoting Active Desktop and ActiveX technologies which had different purpose - XMLHttpRequest wiht all that mess came out from there.. ( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions//ms53750... ).

> date pickers or popovers

- simple example: https://www.opensubtitles.org/ with

JS disabled: movietitle TAB E [english] Enter - done.

JS enabled: movietitle TAB and.. react for nothing but.. SPACE or.. ENTER to open, now you can scroll with arrows (can't just press E WTF!? ), select with SPACE, press TAB ENTER - nothing, TAB ENTER and you hit.. an advert ! (fanfares) (there is no way to enter SEARCH with keyboard really ??) - what for ?

(BTW check that one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39329385 )
>You don’t need to consider the cost they could drive during that time.

You don't need to, but you 100% should. "Opportunity cost" (cost of not doing something) is real.

This is the problem with all refactoring/migration projects. It's very easy to get a lot of people to agree a company should migrate from Node to Go or Monolith to Microservices (or to clean up a mountain of tech debt), but it's much harder to justify the time it takes away from building things your users care about.
I wonder if we as individuals are ready to accept punishment for our own externalities, though.
Push notifications are certainly one.
> we're certainly not going to be able to select for a shorter gestation period or increased/earlier independence of the young.

I've decided to not have kids until artificially sentient children are a thing - and I'm hoping to find like minded individuals. Hopefully our work will help pave the ground for artificially sentient humans, and establish hybrid families of biological and AI humans.

And my AI babies will probably have faster gestation and development times than normal human babies.

But they're still going to be my babies. l will consider them human offspring, assuming I can properly socialize and humanize them. And maybe many humans will make similar choices to have artificial children.

So the range of standard gestation and child rearing times could change a lot, perhaps over a very short period!

That said, I wanted to ask a question about your argument. OP argues that the cohort of contraceptive users will simply select itself out of existence by choosing to reproduce less. You seem to argue that this can't happen because all breeding pairs are part of the global drop in fecundity. If it was happening, the trend would be for higher fecundity, not less.

That makes a strong argument for the present. Does that dismiss their claim that the drop of fecundity will lead to a critical situation where fertility collapses, and it's up to reproductive rights deniers to save the day? The reason I want to dismiss that argument, in no unclear terms, is that I believe it may be a sort of indirect or wishful thinking eugenic argument. The moral failings of reproductive rights advocates are supposed to end up ironically being the mechanism for their own genetic culling. It sounds fishy.
Is that it? Why wouldn't they put some sort of fiber too in mass produced food then?
> Any test that has disparate impact is in effect illegal

Nope, it just has to be shown to be relevant to the requirements of the job.

So you call it an "employment skills assessment," make 80% of it indistinguishable from an IQ test, and add some domain-specific questions related to the industry or the position.

P&G has done this for a long time, among other companies.
I’d use prescribed wart medication that would make the wart soft and pliable. I would scrape the skin, exposing what I assume were root-like threads and pull them with tweezers. I’d use iodine to clean the spot and put a bandaid on it. They wouldn’t grow back.

I never tried duct tape and haven’t had warts in decades.
Show HN: Dara is an AI Parenting Coach: All parenting questions answered
Hi HN, I'm Beyza!
I'm a psychologist and my sister is an AI researcher. Together we are building LLMs fine-tuned for coaching parents.

Parenting is a demanding journey, where parents need actionable guidance to overcome everyday challenges like tantrums, sleep, or eating problems. Parents might think their only options are pricey therapy sessions or crossing their fingers with generic advice that might not hit the mark. It's tough finding something that's both helpful and affordable. We aim to provide real-time support for any questions they have and help prevent that all-too-common parental burnout with on-demand conversational therapy.

Unlike generic LLMs, our models are specialized in psychological conversations with parents. Our models have long-term memory for personalization, and they are reduced to run-at-the-edge devices.
I'd love to hear your feedback. Feel free to ask any questions or share your suggestions!
Thanks for checking it out,
Beyza
I had an English teacher in high school who was ranked like #3 in competitive Swedish scrabble. He didn’t speak Swedish in any meaningful sense, just memorized all the good words.
This brings up a good point.

We spend so much time screening engineers, going through code tests, assessments, live code interviews, whiteboard interviews, system design interviews etc.

Yet, we don't have the same vetting standards for managers, at least from what I've seen. There is no "Cracking The Engineering Manager Interview" book, for example. The gauntlet isn't there the same way. There also seems to be far more hesitation to look at management as an issue for negative outcomes vs how its ascribed to engineers[0] much more quickly, yet a manager can make or break an entire team - even turning good engineers into bad ones.

While I suspect that management looks out for management on this, you'd think a broader trend among the community would raise awareness around this, but many well meaning engineers continue to look only at their peers, unless management is particularly ineffective or egregious, rather than evaluating possible management and team practices

[0]: which is the reason given for why engineers have these arduous interviewing requirements, to weed out any possible "under-performers"
We need this, plus criminal liability for the C-suite, and possibly for the BoD.

The C-suite gets paid millions to set the direction of the company. They shouldn't be able to "get out of jail free" by throwing a mid-level engineer under the bus. At least not without some strong evidence the scapegoat was acting in bad faith own their own. Similar for the BoD.
Edk2 Boot 0000
Iowa and California are on the same grid.

They're both the exact same resource mix because it's the exact same grid.

Here's the resource mix https://feature.wecc.org/soti/topic-sections/resources/index...

The difference in cost is entirely contracting and last mile transmission.
They're mocking doing archeology with an agenda FYI
Rollup wants to be the hardware engineer's workhorse
> Forgive me because what follows will sound harsh, but I think you need to hear it based on your response.

No worries. I appreciate you taking the time.

> you need proof that it's better than the competition, not a declaration, that it's better than the competition

Fair point. I realize I’ll need that before making any sales. But I was hoping to get a few leads from the contact form without it.

> Perhaps you're betting on your customers being stupid and not realizing that taking a 10x hit on the price of reads will lose them (and earn you) more money in the long run. After all, what good is writing to a DB if you never read from it...?

No it’s not a malicious trick. There are use-cases where most records will never be read back. For example, if you go into the Uber app you can find a history of all your trips and you can click one and bring up a receipt for it. Most users will rarely if ever do that. So you end up writing many more receipts to your database than what you’ll ever retrieve.
Well, I'm from Eastern Europe and your observations match mine. There is still a huge amount of skilled devs here but USA companies skip them almost automatically.
> I think it's the identity verification bit that's dissuades malware authors

I mean, the whole LastPass trojan situation seems to have proven that Apple doesn't even drill down on that: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/02/warning-from-...
Ongoing discussion [0] (290 points, 5 hours ago, 145 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40414316
Oh my God. I'm back. I'm home. All the time, it was... We finally really did it. You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/animated-gifs--365917538457473...
Ive got nothing against free will. Its just an idea thats important to some religious beliefs. Its just kind of pointless to talk about when were talking about neurology and the source of consciousness.

I do wish the ever increasing stigma around it in serious conversations would hurry up and increase so we could stop wasting our time with it though ;)
It's curious how this kind of documents and book are easy to find for free for cars sold in North American but not from other places. That's a big marker about how big is the car culture there.
At the point where JScrambler is implementing a VM in JavaScript to run the obfuscated code, I think it actually qualifies as being compiled. Which is unholy, but that's the world we live in.
1 vs 1.0 ???
Currently working on both SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose. For me, Compose is way ahead and it’s such a joy to work on it.

Also, opening Xcode on my M2 will take an average of 10-15 seconds, what’s up with that.
How the Float Label Pattern Started
To extend the metaphor:

As a job seeker, you need to be in the 90th percentile.

As an employer, you need to be there.
Universities owe their graduates with 5-6 figure college debt jobs that can pay those debts off.

> Employers have already shifted enough of their job training costs onto universities and their unwitting students. The free ride is over.

I'm fine with this model, but will applicants be interested in earning a bit above minimum wage for 3 years as we train them from scratch?

This is the model that the Indian and Chinese tech industry uses - hire everyone, pay them a pittance, make them work insane hours, and the ones who survive and build relevant skills graduating to European level salaries in Asia.
Thanks for your honesty there. Why do you do it, just the money? A cause you actually believe in?