skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically you’re calling me young and dumb, charitably. You don’t know how old I am.

I know that I was far more capable when I was younger. I have gained wisdom but that wisdom wouldn’t help me if I was fighting jet lag on a global diplomatic mission aboard Air Force One.

I know that my retired parents who are still intelligent shouldn’t work a day job. They can barely operate Google Maps let alone be commander and chief to the most technologically advanced military in the world. And they’re about 10 years younger than Joe Biden.
Yes, I believe that is correct.

I don't know how welfare fraud is investigated, but she probably has a near-zero risk of ever being audited for taxes. Again, welfare cliffs suck. EITC was supposed to replace them, but nothing else got rolled back because people were already dependent on those programs for jobs and benefits.
If you're going to the effort of extracting detailed audit information from a system and then having to decide whether each audit event is relevant or not, why not just write seccomp-bpf filters and landlock rulesets to restrict what each process can do in the first place? And/or as a simpler option, implement sandboxing of Systemd units with easy-to-use configuration of file system access restrictions, system call filtering, resource control, etc.
He's basically a monk. That's basically another category of people where it's acceptable to be bald.
You could have the machine act as a client and reach out to a management server. If you wanted to get really fancy you could maybe even add a DHCP option to advertise the local management server for autoconfiguration. I'm not convinced that would actually be much more secure, but it is a thing you could do.
This is the same problem as `malloc`, right?

I imagine the answer depends on exactly what queries you need. If you have a bunch of different standard event sizes, then managing multiple different sorted freelists for the next open 1 hour slot, the next open 3 hour slot, etc might work. If you need high concurrency and "next available slot" is allowed to be fuzzy, then managing four distinct "event heaps" and parallelizing across them might work.
Maybe, but I’m not 100% sold on this, given that fashion in hairstyle changes almost as fast as clothing fashion. Shaving various parts (or all) of the head is done in both men and women.
This article is really cyberpunk. Also, like walk-in metal recycling, and self-storage, it seems to me that this only vaguely recognized, but nonetheless huge shipping and logistics business (Kuehne+Nagel) could be handling both legal and grey area materials. They're accustomed to keeping their mouths shut, keep a low profile, they have contacts everywhere, they move material across legal and physical boundaries. They must get requests for very discrete shipping. I mean, drugs come to mind, but the article talks about highest-tech manufacturing equipment. What about endangered species? Commercial cryptographic gear? I bet there's a lot of skeletons in closets they've moved.
Interestingly, heat pipes in a computer can corrode and leak the coolant (largely escapes as water vapor). Once it's gone, the heat pipes are basically junk. I've seen this a few times, wondering why the thermal performance was so abysmal (think 90-100 degrees celsius with low loads). It was only after completely replacing the heat sink or whatever assembly contains it that temperatures would be normal again.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40989075
This is my new favorite Python tooling blog post.
The benefits of such an approach would be substantial. However, nobody has gotten the costs down below "eye watering", or similar other metaphors. It's not that it can't be done, it's that it is not yet known if it can be done in a way that comes out positive on the cost/benefits engineering analysis.

I am open to the possibility that it can, but at the same time, I'd say if I draw the trendline of progress in this area out, it's not really all that encouraging.

If you want to see why it has remained only academic, spend some time with Idris and take notes on how many problems you encounter are fundamental to the paradigm versus problems that can be solved with a larger involvement of effort. You'll want to pick a task that fits into its library ecosystem already, and not something like "hey, I'll write a fully generic HTTP server that can be proved correct" on your first try. I seriously suggest this, it's very educational. But part of that education will probably be to tone down your expectations of this being a miracle cure any time soon.

I don't say this to celebrate the situation; it's a bummer. But if the situation is ever going to be solved, it's going to be solved by people viewing it clearly.

(One of the major problems I see is that when you get to this level of specification, you end up with everything being too rigid. It is true that a lot of programming problems arise from things being made too sloppy and permitting a lot of states and actions that shouldn't exist. But some of that slop is also what makes our real-world systems compose together at all, without the original creator having to anticipate every possible usage. The "richer" the specifications get, the more rigid they get, and the more the creator of the code has to anticipate every possible future usage, which is not a reasonable ask. While I'd like to have the option to lock down many things more tightly, especially certain high-priority things like crypto or user permissions, it is far from obvious to me that the optimum ideal across the entire programming world is to maximize the specification level to this degree. And those high-priority use cases tend to jump to mind, but we also tend to overestimate their size in the real world. If we are going to see this style of programming succeed, we need to figure out how to balance the rigidity of tight specification with the ability to still flexibly use code in unanticipated manners later, in a context where the original specifications may not be quite right, and I think it's pretty unclear how to do that. Tightening down much past Haskell seems pretty challenging, and even Haskell is a bridge or three too far for a lot of people.)
How to isolate a Python module with Tach
Seeing the name "Privacy Sandbox", you might think it would be a ground-up creation aimed at mitigating all of the gratuitous security vulnerabilities that Doubleclick has pushed into the web ecosystem - with deterministic rendering and a fixed lists of system fonts to fix the canvas vulns, permissions checks returning immediate 'no' instead of hanging on asking the user, permissions gating things that can likely never be secured (webgl), and so on with every vulnerability that leads to browser fingerprinting. But no, it's an Orwellian term meant to market something that deliberately violates user trust by leaking even more information!
> They mothers probably benefit from being in the hospital up to the birth if they have a high risk sickness

What does this even mean btw. They get admitted to hospital from point of conception? Where are you pulling this from.
Though unplanned pregnancies may skew young which is probably good for (reduces) infant mortality.

IVF on the other hand very likely skews older, and I wonder if those needing IVF are also less healthy on average than non-IVF.
These days unless a react app needs to do something really special, I always reach for and recommend others reach for Tanstack. Currently have a react frontend that's like 50k LOC and it's been chugging with Tanstack Query since day 1 and we have had zero regrets. It's truly one of the best React libraries out there right now.
1. Why are assuming that UBI would be paid for by individual income taxes?

2. Yes, no matter what, the richest people are going to receive so little benefit relative to their wealth/income that they won't support it. The same is true for most public services, actually. The ultra-wealthy receive little-to-no direct benefit from Social Security, Medicare, food stamps, public transportation, public schools (big one), public universities, or even public police and firefighters (they can afford their own). But somehow they haven't (yet) managed to rid themselves of these horrible violations of their privilege.
Please. People who know me online don't remember about my blog, nevermind IRL people.
I'm guessing he was "accomplished" in writing papers and sounding smart, rather than in a way that'd pay off his mortgage?

Hope you forwarded him a newspaper clipping about the sale
It's probably worse as a disincentive to marriage than as a disincentive to work.
I mean... it should work of course, and if it's not working for you then improvement is needed. But anything involving BT is most definitely not the most basic scenario. The most basic scenario is "plug speaker into sound card".
Defense contracting is not a government job.

You work for a private organization that provides services to the government.

Big difference.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41039708
have spent some time on jobseekers benefit a few years ago. It's soul crushing and you get just enough to get by, and i'm in country where the benefits are kinda ok.

always hear stories about people that spend their life on it, but it's barely a life, you're basically just stuck loitering.

This last part is just my opinion:

Most of the people i've seen/met on it long term, the kind people others see as "sponges" are usually somewhat unwell/sickly, not unwell enough to be recognized as officially "disabled" but they'd probably be in hospital a few times a year.
I maintain pretty tight control over all of my systems. I don't typically want miscellaneous daemons floating around with configs strewn about /etc, so systemd's ecosystem fits nicely with that. Sure, that's personal preference, but there's something to be said about cohesive system configuration.
Yes: https://www.levels.fyi/leaderboard/
Hard to be crowded when the place is just so absolutely massive.
Actually now that you mention it, I did have a similar problem on one particular motherboard. I don't attribute it to linux though so hadn't thought of it. It turned out to be a hardware issue (with the motherboard) though. The card kept resetting due to too low of input power. I had hoped a BIOS update would fix it, but it didn't. I have had a couple of built-in audio modules die and stop being seen by the kernel on old laptops.

Honestly I would just buy a USB interface. I got a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 and have been very happy with it.
Study shows ancient viruses fuel modern-day cancers
That's probably what the "be yourself" advice was getting at. When you try to be someone you're not you show it through your body language, it looks contrived and it's picked up rather quickly. "Be yourself" was probably meant to be more like act less desperate for attention and more confident in oneself, don't try to impress, etc.. But I agree that it is not a good advice to people who do indeed need to improve.
Good luck with that... I don't know what your definition of "good" is, but in looking around when my cobra policy ran out, there were definitely limited options, none of which came close to what most of the worker policies offered, and none covered my retina doctor. The eye injections I get would be more out of pocket than my net income right now... and after 7 months out of work, I was seriously considering jobs paying roughly half of where I'd been the past few years just to maintain a good insurance plan.

I had about 12 months of buffer, but several unplanned home and auto repairs ate into that.
LMDB uses https://git.burd.me/greg/sparsemap for storing compressed ranges of bitmaps for their page allocator, similar to RoaringBitmap or Linux's fdarray, which might be applicable here. With compressed bitmaps finding the next free is cheap. If your ranges are very sparse then it will have bad performance, however
Haven't played the other games but Ico was incredible. It gave me the same feeling as Another World which was maybe 10 years prior.
My plan next time I'm doing any kind of c2c type work will be to setup with trinet or another similar company to handle payroll benefits, even if it is just me.
AI-powered video creation for work
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41040576
I've yet to find a company also using the vPro feature set.
Already by calling it a "cure" you're making it out to be a disease. It's just the natural progression of male aging.
Interesting .gitignore addition. As someone who basically never writes C# (besides for some mods for games sometimes), is that the default ephemeral files that Visual Studio Code/some other tool writes when dealing with C# projects? Seems like an awful amount of trash if that's the case.
Official release: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_24_...
Was this a bad advice though? Are you being paid enough for your work? Does it work out for you?
They forgot to update the frontpage.
Give those customers a discount.

The solution to customer reluctance to being the guinea pig is not to force every customer to be a guinea pig.
> I don't think we've ever had a universal basic income test. We have always missed the universal and basic part. It's below basic and not at all universal.

Every single time we see results from a study on something like UBI, someone comes out with this argument—you missed the universal and the basic! Yes.

With that stipulated, how would you propose to test UBI before rolling it out on a country-wide scale? Every test I can think of that isn't just "implement UBI" will either fail the universal or the basic part, and "implement UBI" will never get the political will until it can be tested on a small scale first. Tests like this are the best way we know how to do it.

If you want UBI then you either are going to need to figure out how to work with incomplete tests or solve the problem of how to test UBI without just implementing it. We're not going to entirely restructure our economy because some folks on the internet think that UBI sounds great in theory.
It's possible that your taste for coffee developed at least partially because it contains dopaminergic narcotic inside.
"He doesn't like cocaine, he just likes the smell" (from the song Too much Yayo by The Streets).

That's how drugs work, they throw a kind of spell on you, so that, from your trippy perspective, you think that you're not addicted.
https://archive.ph/G8A40
There are a few reasons for it:
- the cut board is compact enough for most/all hobby projects

- you can get Wiis for very cheap nowadays, perhaps cheaper than the parts themselves

- the original board makes heavy use of serpentine tracks. If they are not just to equalize track length, it’d be very hard to account for all delays in a redesign.

ofc I’m not a part of the community so their reasons might be complete different
Unbelievable how even a pr piece posted by their own university doesn’t bother to link the actual damn paper. What a joke the whole academic industry has become, since those corporate aspects have been grafted onto it. Anyway, thanks.
Stocks are converted to money with every trade. Every buy has a matching sell. That's something that happens trillions of times a day and stocks aren't crashing because of it. I'm not sure I'm following.
Anytime this comes up I plug the excellent "Unyielding" (https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2014/02/unyielding.html) and "Notes on structured concurrency" (https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-g...) as the counterpoint to "What color is your function". Being able to see structurally what effects your invocation of a function will result in is very helpful in reasoning about the effects of concurrency in a complicated domain.
You don't understand how tax brackets work. You never make less money by moving up a bracket. The bracket rate only applies to income within the bracket.
Giving my PC-6001 a LIFT
Note that this headline is about GM no longer producing the car. Also recently:

G.M. Will Restart Cruise Taxi Service
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/23/business/general-motors-c...
A.I. Can Write Poetry, but It Struggles with Math
To be fair to the author, they do mention in the paragraph above that sample:

Async code bubbles all the way to the top. If you want to use await, then you have to mark your function as async. [...] If at any point you don’t then you have to use the async result (in JavaScript’s case a Promise<T>).

I think it's just an artificially lengthy example to show how the responsibility of working with promises grows up the callstack. Interpreting it that way since the final function they define in that sample is `iGiveUp` which is not using the async keyword, but returns a promise. Definitely could be made a bit more clear that's it's illustrative and not that the async keyword is somehow unlocking some super special runtime mode separate from it's Promise implementation.
A bargain for 20,000 operations.
Tax rates are marginal, this is wrong.
I agree, especially considering that Batista had been sold arms until 1958, when the fights with the rebels had been ongoing for a while already (1956 I believe). The result is that Batista fought the rebels using USA weapons, embargo or not.
That's something that most programs don't even try to explain, and something ive wondered about - how does the money affect competition, both for goods/services and labor?

If you're affecting very small percentages of the population, the impacts seem minor. We've seen this with analysis on raising minimum wage to about $10/hr. Most people make over that amount (or work in excluded roles), so the impact is small. Raise it too much too quickly, and some industries experience issues due to costs passed on in their products/services, and inflation can become detrimental to the people at the bottom.

I wonder how this sort of thing will work out with something on a nearly universal scale - Social Security. To keep up with inflation, we need higher payouts. To keep the program solved, we need more revenue. This can be achieved with more workers, but relies on ever expanding population to cover the prior generation. Or it can be achieved with higher earning workers, which generally requires higher prices which potentially drives inflation, or though higher consumption (not very competitive on the global market due to cost of living, so not likely). Or we can raise the payroll taxes to cover the payouts.

Anything besides the higher output/consumption is likely to result in higher costs to consumers and drive inflation. More money being in more people's pockets also means more competition for constrained resources, also driving inflation.
That's just not how taxes work: https://www.irs.gov/filing/federal-income-tax-rates-and-brac...
FANG envy and fomo. ladder climbing.

dont compare yourself with others. focus on your art. be a craftsman at whatever you do. eventually opportunities will beckon or not, and either is fine.
Show HN: Oh My Senior – AI-powered codebase analysis
https://127-0-0-1.io/oh-my-senior

Hi HN,

I created this toy project after seeing developers on HN and Reddit leveraging Gemini's large context window to analyze entire codebases.
Inspired by their insights, I wanted to streamline this process.

While I've seen similar attempts, most tools like the @codebase feature in Continue VSCode extension are editor-bound or CLI-based.

I wanted a simple web-based tool that integrates with my GitHub account directly.

This tool uses Gemini's API to analyze codebases, providing insights and answering questions about the code.

It's particularly useful for:

- Developers who've inherited projects without documentation or knowledgeable colleagues

- New engineers during onboarding

- Getting a fresh perspective on complex codebases

Key features:

- Web-based interface for easy use

- Supports multi-turn conversations

- Markdown formatting in responses

Currently using Gemini API (free quota available), but plan to add support for other models with free quotas like Codestral.

This is a PoC with basic functionality. I've tested it on several of my own repositories with promising results. Feedback and suggestions welcome!

Disclaimer: The quality of responses is inherently limited by Gemini's capabilities. This tool streamlines the process but cannot exceed Gemini's underlying performance.
No, I’m not a “tech person,” I’m just a person.

Being incredibly sharp isn’t enough for the most demanding job in the US government. We are talking international diplomatic trips with jet lag, situation room in the middle of the night military operations, basically being on-call 24/7 for any major event.

Joe Biden would have been 86 upon his last year in office if he won the election this year. That’s barely 4 years before my grandmother decided she couldn’t clean her own house and cook for herself anymore and moved to an independent living facility. That’s someone who had no other job besides cooking and cleaning for herself. And she’s a member of the gender that lives longer. And she’s one of the older people in the independent living community! She’s lucky to not have transitioned to assisted living.

The odds of dying as an 81 year old in any given year are 1 in 15. If you’re older than 85 your odds are 1 in 7.

An 81 year old president is someone who has basically a coin flip probability of dying before the end of their term.
Why? I like food and sex and raising my children. I _am_ an animal, even if I have mastered fire and language and agriculture.
Yea ppl saying "just accept it" don't know how much of a challenge it is to be bald. I started blading in my teens and considering getting hair transplant in my 40s since balding has mostly stabilized in the last decade.
I am tired of being bald.
> the three main points I took away from it were also contained in the gpt4o summary

I think here's the key why some people like llm summaries while others don't.

Two people can read an article and take away different points from it. If the llm summary contains the points you would have taken, you like it. If it didn't, you don't.

(e.g. if I look at your kindle highlights for a book and compare them to mine, they'll be very different - this is why I find it hard to use a service like Blinkist - but I think a good llm like gpt-4o or claude 3.5 sonnet does as good a job as a wikipedia article would... Not sure what else people expect)
It’s really not indicative of much at all. They also spout off about artificial sweeteners despite a complete lack of scientific evidence. It’s a political organization, not a scientific one.
I mean, even male lions have hair and it gives them such a masculine vibe. I think the female attraction to male hair is hard-wired in most animals (that have hair), including humans. Exceptions exist of course.
...where did I say that it was? They're both in the same space (figuratively and sometimes literally) and both of them have the same problem insofar as they aren't as bulletproof as they're made out to be. You can, in fact, be fired from a government job and things like the government shutdown circus and BRAC are real.
Show HN: AI tool for generating email sequences to onboard new users
I hope this tool will be a good starting point for projects that don't have email campaigns yet, but want to engage new users to use their product and pay for premium plans.

I'd love to hear your feedback on the generated emails and what else I should add.
They used to give a pretty good stock package but it lead to chaos in the company when the stock went down 10x and people were paid 50% stock.