skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are two issues you're wrestling with here; they overlap but they aren't directly-coupled.

On the CV side: no. Gambling is heavy statistical analysis, a lot of regulatory-compliance work, and no small amount of human behavior work. It's a challenging space that any competent future employer will recognize as a place where you wear a lot of hats and learn a lot of transferrable practical skills in those three mentioned spaces. Nobody who would be willing to hire a former Boeing, Raytheon, Facebook, Google, Pornhub, Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia, SpaceX, Tesla, Baidu, Amazon, Alibaba, Morgan Stanley, or Palantir employee is going to bat an eye on you having Fanduel or whatever on your résumé.

They care about the skills you can bring to them today, not how you got them.

On the moral side: that's the one you're going to have to decide for yourself. As other commenters have said: other people can tell you their morals, and you can collect facts about the industry, but it's your compass that'll tell you whether you can sleep okay at night working in that industry.

My father spent most of his career doing systems work for a major tobacco company. He was able to make enough money doing it to support his family extremely well. It does, sometimes, keep him up at night whether securing the future of his children was worth indirectly contributing to the premature unmaking of so many other families.

Life has not handed him an answer to that question. How much you care about your own system of ethics, how much personal integrity you choose to maintain, and how many compromises you're willing to make to trade one negative for another positive is up to you.

(It is perhaps also worth noting that no answer is set in stone. Google was seen as a savior-factory about a decade ago. I have relatives who will tell me about the Bad Old Days of computing before Microsoft reigned in the chaos by clear-cutting the massively-incompatible diversity of choice in favor of an ecosystem that worked with itself. And IBM's rise and fall from grace are industry legend. This isn't a question you ask yourself once; it's a question you'll keep asking yourself your whole career.)
I think it can work both ways and will honestly depend on your specific role and the company you worked for and would want to work for. There could be some interesting technical work and challenges that you enjoy. There could also be some things that make you feel icky and regret taking the job. I've felt that way after working on a couple of marketing centered projects.

I don't think it will cause you grief for most jobs in most industries. That doesn't mean all. The same would go for pornography as well. Opinions, cultures and personalities vary. Not to mention regulatory norms.
Ask HN: Laptop or Desktop for Development?
This topic has come up a few times but I'd like to get a poll if possible-- what do you use and why?
> is popular because it naturally provides a tunable paper trail for mediocre managers to cover their asses

Honestly you're giving too much credit to mediocre managers. There's no intent behind adopting scrum. Mediocre managers adopt it because that's how you deliver, right? We're Agile and Agile = sprints. Also I'm too scared to not have precise dates when my management is asking for them, and these sprints are very practical to ask devs to provide high confidence estimates and dates so that we can know what will exactly happen in the next 6 months (I've heard of real professionals who can even plan for a year!). Change is scary!
might have to replicate this one...
that is a novice issue, it is easily avoided
Worrying before having all the facts is a waste of time.
Harvester pulls 1.5 gallons of drinking water from arid air per day
I think what they mean by "handling binary files well" is being able to selectively not clone/pull them. Otherwise, binary files are handle as any other files, except you are not shown a diff of them by default.
There is an environmental cost to this though, that extra salt is probably just dumped back in the ocean.
I've tried. It's not usable as a daily driver OS for most of the HN audience. You have to make a lot of compromises and really believe in Hurd.
Extreme Solar Blasts and Weak Magnetic Fields Threaten Life on Earth
That's... wild. I had no idea it was that expensive. So ten slaves roughly equaled the price of one used medium to large scale combine:

https://www.machinerypete.com/harvesting/combines

My point though was about the early days. There were no machines like that available, just slaves and animals. As long as there were slaves was there an incentive to develop this level of mechanization?
"When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money"
Autonomous Vehicles Can Make All Cars More Efficient
not open source, lowest cost plan is 1k per month. lol. (for up to 5 million rows ... dealbreaker right off the bat)
You compared it to diffusion models, which work entirely differently. Could you elaborate what you mean? I understand how transformers work and their implementation, but I'm unsure how with the current transformer architecture you can do what you described by "playing with vectors directly".
Which vectors are you referring to? attention vectors?
Will be cool once we have active agents tho. Surely the learning/research process isn't that difficult even for current LLMs/similar architectures. If it can teach itself, or it can collate new (never seen) data for other models then that's the cool part.
At least the moral problems of defense or gambling companies are clear.

But there are also big problems in social media companies. Would they harm your CV? The dark patterns in these might be even bigger problem than in gambling. The audience is much larger.
Is that actually better than just cutting power to all Internet infrastructure?
Back in the day, I had a laptop with only 4 GB of RAM, which would run out if I'd open too many browser tabs or programs. I didn't have an external monitor always connected, nor were most of the tray monitoring solutions to my liking. So instead I wrote a program that would create a few semi-transparent windows in the OS, snap them to the sides of the screen, allow clicks to pass through and resize them as the resource usage would change.

A blue full sized bar on the left size of the screen? The CPU is under 100% load. A purple bar on the right side of the screen, that reaches 3/4 of the way up? Guess my RAM usage is getting close to the limit, better not get too eager with the tabs, maybe close a program.

It actually wasn't that bad, but shortly after I just bought some more RAM. That was also before I had my own Gogs or Gitea instance, so I don't think I have the source anymore, it wasn't too hard to do on Windows though (nowadays I'd probably just put Linux Mint on the system or something, it needs a bit less memory in general). Oh, also now I have like 4 monitors for my main PC and don't do too much computing on the go. The 8 GB MacBook that I have for when I'm out and about feels rather slim, though.

Aside from that, there's the CMS I use for my website, though I'm not showing it to anyone because it's so bad that it makes me want to climb into a hole and disappear off the face of the planet. It still works though, so I don't necessarily see myself changing it out for something else just yet.
> If anything, I would prefer California's approach where the car complains at you if you're going >10 Mph.

Will the approach actually do anything, though ?

Most modern cars will complain loudly and continuously if you don't wear seat belts, until you wear seat belts.

And yet ... I have older relatives that bought a plug to insert into the seat belt socket so it will shut up.

And most likely one that that one of those older relative will die (and maybe kill too) in a car accident and I won't be allowed to say he died like he live: like a moron who not only drove without a seat belt but also actively deceived the security systems in the car.

The thing is: security systems should just make it impossible to do something unsafe. Otherwise it's all performative "security".
For OP: Would you say this is a drop-in replacement from ahref's lite plan ?

What would I miss from ahref ?
I don't know how this would be done but I've often wished there was

space .ycombinator .com

(or spacetime .ycombinator .com)

Since there's no tagging, maybe a specially crafted search result

ie. (NASA, JAXA, IRSO, moon, satellite, space, telescope, hubble, voyager, supernova, etc.)
Long live GNU/Hurd! I remember trying it out over a decade and a half ago. It had an impressive number of packages then too. Performance, drivers, drastically different security models combined with that lack of a sizable community are what stopped me then. I feel like the world peers in on occasion and silently roots, “Go Hurd!”
Is this a common feature of dumb power meters? I’ve wanted to get data out of my dumb meter for a while now so I’m interested to learn more
> 1. Most importantly, is the algorithm a good choice? Can we eliminate some work entirely? (this is what algo interviews are testing for)

Unfortunately this has turned into a cargo cult in practice. There are plenty of cases where doing more work results in better performance, because the "faster" algorithm has some pretty horrible constants in practice.

A lot of interviews turn into a pop quiz about rote memorization of obscure algorithms because "that's what Google does", rather than actually focusing on being able to reason and benchmark why an implementation is slow and what approached could be taken to fix that.
RKPI/ROA uptake is now at 50% which is pretty significant increase in just 2 years.

https://radar.cloudflare.com/routing

Unfortunately BGP will probably be mostly solid in a few more years. At least solid enough among countries with caring ISPs. Prime for the AGI pickings.
It's worth noting, before 1941 the United States hadn't begun its lend-lease program to the Russia military, which was a major factor in its later success. Without it the German assessment would likely have proven correct.
Seems strange that they compare this to a raspi in the conclusion rather than one of the fully integrated mini PCs with a soldered down laptop CPU, eg from Minisforum.

Besides, the barebones unit is over €200, the 8700G is €300, and RAM is €150-250, for a total of €650-750. Meanwhile an 8GB Raspi 5 is less than €90 all-in and a 7 node cluster of these would use about as much power in total as the 8700G does on its own.
...Ever heard of precedent? Many cases never see a trial specifically to keep advantageous ambiguities from becoming case law.
Robert Kuhn is a really impressive dude. I've been occasionally running across his videos on YT from these interviews. I'm very impressed that he's rolling it all up into a written research project as well.

"I have discussed consciousness with over 200 scientists and philosophers who work on or think about consciousness and related fields (Closer To Truth YouTube; Closer To Truth website)."

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFJr3pJl27pJKWEUWv9X5...

https://www.youtube.com/@CloserToTruthTV/videos
Ask HN: Does anybody else is disenchanted with some languages ecosystems?
Some weeks ago I started learning demo at my work. Their built-in support for Typescript and being developed in Rust seemed to be its strong points.

Now, there is no actual codebases I can look into, SQLite driver is broken, there are several ORMs that looked interesting but all of them are deprecated (I chose sequelize with MySQL), I’m also having disconnection errors when trying to do integration tests…

I feel discouraged and wonder if I’m a bad engineer (maybe that’s the problem) or deno is still in experimental phase.

Have any of you regretted choosing a cool technology? Did you used a different one or persevered with your decision? How did you keep working with that technology?
I write little Python scripts (or use Excel) to simulate computer/video game mechanics and quickly iterate over them before passing them off to a real programmer. I also design boardgames, so often write die rollers to calculate probabilities (it's faster for me to write something that generates hundreds of thousands of results than to actually do the math, especially if I want to tweak in real time).

My bad habit is not properly archiving these little programs, so I invariably end up recreating them from scratch each time.
I wrote some scripts that convert my Quickbooks accounting data into detailed reports that are insightful to me and beautifully printable
I’m stealing Spotify random instrumental music idea! Why I cannot come up with similar ideas by my own? Thats the hardest part I think…
Huh, I always assumed the switch ran on some flavour of custom android, I suppose for not other reason than it seems every digital device in the last 10 years has done so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Switch_system_softwar...
is google's "internal" style guide this?

https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html
> I have a pretty clear understanding that the crazy misuses that some people are pretending will happen are obvious and will not happen because it's basic law making.

Then steel man your argument. Every example you give is a wild far-fetched one that is clearly away from any area of ambiguity or debate.

Challenge yourself by looking at the grey areas and explain where the line should be.
I predicted years ago they would make a CPU and you would be able to buy an All-NVidia PC. I think the reason that hasn't happened is because of the failed purchase of ARM. And looking at the market dominance of NVidia, it seems they were right to block that acquisition.
Why do you need it to be a single app?
> Saying that the reals don't exist is pretty much the same as saying that the natural numbers don't exist

I mean... it's really not. The natural numbers have a straightforwards definition, where one can theorize the 'existence' of them pretty straightforwardly.

Are you familiar with the definition of the reals? The reals don't appear anywhere in nature, and are only useful as modeling really. You can't 'measure' a real-valued quantity and get a result that is not rational or at least computable.

The complex numbers over the rationals are more 'real' in that you can measure complex numbers with rational coeficients.

> Well, that's a purely mathematical concept, and if you don't believe that mathematics is real, how are you going to convince me that this concept makes sense?

I'm not sure you understand exactly what you're talking about. Mathematical constructivism doesn't claim that mathematics is not real. In fact, quite the opposite. It's typically a view held by very experienced mathematicians.

Well regardless countability is easily shown to be constructivist by first constructing a finite description of the natural numbers (and showing that the description of any natural number is itself finite and decidable).

Then you show that you can create decidable functions mapping each element of particular sets onto the natural numbers. It is trivial to construct these from any alphabet, including our own. Same with the rationals, etc.

Then you get to the reals and you ask questions like 'what does it mean to have a set of rationals' [1], 'what does it mean to have a least upper bound', etc.

[1] a constructivist would say a decision procedure to determine if a number is in the set. I.e., a set is real if you can decide whether a thing is in it or not. From this it follows that significant portions of the real numbers do not exist because there is no decision procedure that can produce a set of rationals for which they are the least upper bound.
How does the full text search work?

On-device copy of all the notes? Text index in another database? Just download them all from s3 when you search?
Imagine paying taxes knowing that it was that one kid (coughnormancough) causing all of the catastrophes
And how much of an influence have you had on him to encourage or assist with this behaviour? What about the average person that doesn't know anybody (at least closely) working in tech.
I'm building a streetable rock crawler out of a 78 F150 with a custom radius-arm suspension in the front. I needed to measure the deflection of the drag-link & track-bar as the front axle cycled up and down while changing a few variables: mounting locations, drag-link/track-bar angles, and drag-link/track-bar lengths. I used plain Javascript to display a graph, lines representing the drag-link and track-bar, enabled them to be clicked+dragged along with their mounting points and sizes.

With this visualization I was able to determine the best way to package this on the vehicle with the minimal amount of deflection to avoid bump-steer and death-wobble.

I suppose it would be useful to other people building radius-arm/link-suspensions that incorporate a track-bar but I haven't got around to hosting it any where.
I was listening to a podcast about Native American history once and it just hit me: of course we think all the early advanced civilizations were in Egypt, Greece, etc. It's because they built with stone in arid regions.

North American native civilizations had trade, roads, writing, libraries, complex systems of law and jurisprudence, etc., but they built with the materials that were most abundant to them: wood, animal hides, bone, etc. Wood is an amazingly versatile material so if you have a lot of it there's no incentive to develop advanced stone construction or even a lot of metallurgy. The only exception would be civilizations like the Maya and Aztec that appeared to have monument cults, but not all advanced civilizations have monument cults.

Wood degrades over time though, and things like writing don't last anywhere near as long in a wet humid climate.

There could easily have been incredible works of literature and philosophy in all kinds of places in ancient human history. They're just gone.

I worry sometimes about our own civilization making everything digital. One mega solar flare and our collective cultural memory is as gone as the Iroquois writings on animal hides. Future civilizations will know nothing of ceiling cat.
Russia isn't accepted as part of Europe because of their habit of invading their neighbors.
This is a 2 month old article; the company has had significant progress since then and the specific price information is no longer as relevant.
> Point 2 is textbook begging the question: it imagines a world which is physically identical to ours but consciousness is different there.

It's not begging the question. He gives reasons for (2) that support the premise. That the premise essentially leads inexorably to (4) is a feature of the argument structure, not a bug. You have to engage with his reasons for (2) in determining whether or not the argument succeeds.
Could it be a short story?

Absolutely. Munro's Meneseteung was what convinced me to stop trying to be a writer, and stick to hacking.
A 30 GiB file is nothing these days.
That's been true even for traditionally programmed replacements tho, there are plenty of office out there with a bunch of people banging on excel when everything they do could be automated.
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> My most used tool I have is a note taking web app that automatically saves markdown files to S3. The most important feature I added was a little button that would automatically make a note for the current day, and put it in the daily notes folder, all sorted and organized. I also have full text search which is very helpful for finding old notes.

I have a very similar thing, mine uses a dropbox folder as a backend so I can easily browse on laptop and use whatever. I like the daily notes idea though!
Cracktorio, Satisfactory, Captain of Industry, Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic...

Who needs drugs when you have these.
That was really fun and a good explanation of the PICO-8 environment. Well done! I got 19 but think I got lucky towards the end.
Arent they planning to have sub 3nm fabs operational before TSMC? I also think the US government and other western governments will help prop it up because its too strategically important to have a non-asia based chip manufacturer.
Again, if the authorities are in the pocket of the politicians, then they could already today declare it's a murder when a politician says their opponent has cut a blade of grass and it is a murder.

This is what I don't understand: if indeed the authorities are in the pocket of the politicians, how this law change anything, they already have plenty of easier way to attack their opponents.

In US, the mentality is very bad and people may have low morality and ethic. In Europe, being appointed by a politician does not mean you will be their lackey.

But it is not even that: it's not like someone can just say "got you! now you will be trialed by my friend Ben". There are several layers before and after that mean that an accusation is only prosecuted when there is a large consensus that the prosecution is justified.

I know that in US the lines are very blurred because each politician is saying "it's a political trial" even when there is credible ground to investigate, but that's more a question of people being uneducated than a real system. In the large majority of the cases (there is always one or two outliers that don't prove much), every big prosecutions on politicians in US are "normal" and would have happened even in a parallel universe where their political opponents were not touching any judicial string.
Arguably every corporation that pollutes is a variation on the paperclip maximizer
I really like ChibiOS, it’s HAL and drivers are really nice. I used it in a project back when it was GPL with a linking exception (basically LGPL except you can’t really do shared libraries on microcontrollers).
Japan is bracing for rage against the vending machine
Since you say 'quite exactly', definitely no.

Is it another desktop shell? yes lol.

It mirrors the look and feel of Gnome and will stay Gnome adjacent as they introduce new UI changes and feel.
Desktop PC with big screens; generally better Linux support for the hardware, less thermal throttling, better GPUs, etc. And a Framework 13 with Linux for travel/work.

All depends on how you work and what you're doing really.
I always wondered how that warning made any sense when it was given about 5 seconds before a leviathan attempts to swallow your sub whole. Obviously the huge sea monster didn't get the memo.
My point is that if defecting in a tank though frontline is possible, finding means to move a rocket will be even easier
I got the impression that the FSF rather downplayed their own kernel development after Linux became available. I remember reading things like, you can still work on Hurd if you want to, but it's more of a research project.
No, Rust doesn't have semaphores in the stdlib[0] because it was not clear what precise semantics should be supported, or what purpose they would serve since by definition they can't mitigate exclusive and thus write access to a resource and mitigating access to code isn't much of a rust convention. And nobody has really championed their addition since.

Furthermore, they still present a fair amount of design challenges in the specific context of Rust: https://neosmart.net/blog/implementing-truly-safe-semaphores...

[0] technically they were there, added in 0.4, never stabilised, deprecated in 1.7, and removed in 1.8