skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ooh, Now do photography … or abstract painting … or fine wine … or hedge fund. Any field where the judgement of quality is subjective is going to be full of hailed charlatans and unrecognized geniuses. It's one of the true ironies of art.

The story about a two-bit plagiarizer is interesting, but the author doesn't really make the connection between hoim the rest of the music world. He refers to the Lera Auerbach Sonata as "pretentiously banal" but in the same breath says her "work has been performed by some of the best soloists alive." What are we to make of that? That the author is a good judge of the music and performers are poor judges of the music, even though they are presumably more intimately familiar with it?

Maybe it's the music critic who has no clothes, rather than the composer. Maybe we're all naked.
> auto lovers will say that the IDE will resolve the types for you if you really care, but would someone please think of our poor Vim & Emacs users?

This poor Neovim user also has LSP with inline hints, hover and help like IDEs.

Vim/Emacs aren't just the dumb text editors anymore.
"in case of disk loss, we wrote the things we were going to write to disk, to the WAL. which is also on disk"

I never entirely got it. Either your WAL is on more reliable media, or duplicated. If its just "easier" to write the WAL and faster to read off properly indexed state, ok, thats a local optimisation.

If your WAL is on the same filesystem behind a vendor specific RAID controller, you're still stuffed, if that RAID card dies.
For future reference, indent with 2 spaces to get code formatting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
I had a coworker insist on using ddg for privacy reasons and he was a bit smug about it even though meetings where he was presenting while searching the web always started with a ddg search and ended with him sighing and giving up by using !g to switch to google. I think, even in it's less than ideal state, people still underestimate how much time google's tailored search can save you when you train it to figure out you want to see development/technical documentation.
Ben eater did an excellent series on YouTube where he built a CPU from scratch on breadboards: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLowKtXNTBypGqImE405J256...

His channel has a lot of other really great stuff on general electronics as well.
This is true if:

- A new deal with another company is actually in the millions. There are a lot of numbers between zero > 20B that's currently being paid for that default setting.

- Said deal remains small and doesn't grow over time, even as a new competitor to GOOG starts eating away at their market share and spreads around search ad revenue.
The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine
Ask HN: What is the current SOTA transcription software accounting for accents?
I recently returned to my home country to deal with a bunch of administrative stuff like passport, banking, and getting a driving license. Everything is in Malay which I don’t understand. Coming from the countryside, there’s also a slight accent that messes up Google Translate and whisper which makes transcription itself completely wrong.

What has been the best (preferably open source) transcription/translation software for less well known languages with an accent in your experience?
Mango is super good and free with most library cards.
Humans and pet dogs:
https://academic.oup.com/toxsci/article-abstract/200/2/235/7...

Fear mongering?

Most renowned medical journal would disagree my friend:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2309822

4-5 times more chance to have another heart infarction in the next year.

Paper on decreased sperm count over time in the west (prob many reasons, plastic could be one)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6455044/

These things are very bad. We're just starting to learn HOW bad they are.
The most expensive software bug in human history: $49M/sec, $8.6B in 28 minutes
Recent and related (and heartbreaking):

Starting Hospice - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41157974 - Aug 2024 (116 comments)
Best guess, a reflexive need to keep diffs as small as possible. Personally I think this is a completely wrong mindset, having version control is what allows you to go wild because you can always use the version from before a crazy refactor - and if it goes wrong you can even keep it around on a branch for reference later on with a second attempt.
A simply utility script which allows you to analyze your Python file
OoO came about after multi-issue architectures were starved for instructions to execute due to on-chip blockers like execution unit availability, data hazards, pipeline bubbles, register availability, branching, cache ports. You can call those input data availability problems but it's not availability from offchip memory. So in actual history, yes it was for parallelism (keeping multiple execution units busy).

OoO did have the side benefit from possibly executing past a few memory stalls but those were secondary. OoO reodering resources were sized for addressing the stalls from on-chip timescale things. Today the resources are bigger, but even bigger is the relative memory latency (how many insns you could execute in the time it takes to service a main memory fetch that your pipeline depends on).
The Story of Samsung's failed deal with iFixit, as told by iFixit's CEO
It's based on Electron though. It's literally spawning a new browser to show you a ring of icons...
The RTO requirement at Amazon was the penultimate straw for me.

The final straw was when we got the word that we would be required to move so that we would be co-located with our management in the HQ2 offices, or we would have to find alternative employment elsewhere.

We weren’t given a timeframe on when that was going to happen, but based on the timeframe I saw from the announcement of RTO to the enforcement of RTO, I knew it wouldn’t be long. So, I chose to leave as quickly as possible.

I gave my manager early warning that I was actively looking for alternative employment, and I kept him appraised of how the interview process was going, and then how the decision process was going, and then how the hiring paperwork process was going. When everything was finalized, he then got my official two weeks notice.

That was also when I told a few people inside the company that I was leaving and where I was going, but my official notification to the team wasn’t made until my actual final day — my manager requested that he be the one to make that announcement.

During my final two weeks, my manager also told me that he decided to also leave, and move back to India. I don’t know if he was forced out because too many people had left the team within the past year, or if it was truly a personal decision. But I do know we lost a lot of good people.

So, RTO is not the worst thing that can be done to you by your employer. Wait until they force you to move to be co-located with your manager and the rest of whatever team remains. And all without any kind of assistance with the moving costs, because you’re just that damn lucky to still have a job at all.

But that’s the Amazon way. RTO, forced co-location, stack ranking, unregretted attrition, the whole nine yards. Humans really are one hundred percent disposable if you work at Amazon.
No, look at this:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6455044/

Decreased sperm count in the west. Could be due to a variety of factors.

But tie it together to microplastics:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38745431/

And you got an interesting result.
How to Deal with Loneliness as a Founder?
I am a founder. Our company has been around a few years. I am very blessed and our company is doing very well.

However, I really hate it and am burned out. I can’t quit, but not really sure how to deal with these feelings.

If I quit, the company will fail. It’ll destroy millions of dollars in value for employees, customers and myself.

What should I do? How do I deal with this? It also feels like a very first world problem and just hard to address with people I know.

Long time Hackernews user, but obviously doing from throwaway account.
Im sorry about your struggles, that sounds really difficult. I hope you are able to find time for yourself <3
IT workers gather in large numbers to protest 14-hour workday proposal
E-bikes are great in Seattle until they are stolen. Bike theft is the one single issue that is driving down bike ridership in the city, since police and the city government don't really care about it.
SymCalc-Ruby: Symbolic mathematics and calculus in Ruby
No, I'm not missing their point. The same exact things could have been said about the Internet. Their points 1, 2, 3 applied to the Internet. And even if the Internet could be implemented perfectly (whatever that means), you cannot expect people to trust it. And yet they do. People trust the Internet far more than they trust regular mail, for instance. But that wasn't always the case. It just kept getting better and adding error correction until it became far more reliable than manual systems.

People come to trust technology when it starts performing well. The same can be said about self-driving cars etc. etc.
I think I know why you’re downvoted but I agree. Not to take anything away from this beautiful and sad article but it’s easy for people dealing with mental illness to be dissuaded from getting professional help, which on average is very likely a very bad idea.
I'm kind of surprised this wasn't already a thing. Are we to believe that up until literally today, most employees at MS didn't have to think about security? The same MS who's products and platforms are certified for use in, and also actively used in defence, banking, health etc.
There is usually a requirement from regulator to present the top N options in random order to the user and it's likely a reasonable number of people will just pick the first in the list resulting in some market share loss for Google.
if your family happens to be on the Apple ecosystem, Find My quite frankly adds an incredible peace of mind when that family includes aging parents/grandparents who still live alone. i'm in the US, old mum & dad are in the UK, living apart and Find My lets both them and me have some kind of semblance of "is everything okay".

Mr. Sweeney seems strangely obsessed with stolen devices and blind to the "invisible connection" that Find My offers those who live many thousands of miles away from loved ones.
Rip Mozilla. That google money was necessary to fund whatever increasingly dumb project Mozilla was working on.

What now? Actually focus on Firefox? Impossible.
They are also tracking when you badge in for the first time in the day, and when you badge out for the last time, and all the times in between. Because of course you have to badge out and back in again to go to the bathroom or the cafe.

This tracking is reported all the way down to your immediate manager on a weekly basis. Or, at least it was back when I worked at Amazon.
It's weird how, in the the second-to-last paragraph, the author takes the opportunity to attack a few unrelated composers he just thinks are overrated. Almost as if they were guilty by an association that exists entirely in his mind.
The reconstructed ugric myth would involve a proto-sigurd inadvertently poisoning a shaman with his own (herbal? fleurie?) medicine

Have to include PG and dang (and the workfromhome who has delete privilegs) amongst the bullies, most unfortunately.. If you are paying I plead for you to listen to your own injunctions to be more thoughtful..

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41167419

*You must understand that Camus is suspected (by me) of having latent schizotypy, therefore please forgive his hamfisted approach to promoting absurdity.
How do you confirm the public instances are running the blessed version of the source code?
Don't use Vim for the wrong reasons (2020)
From the article: "This is not meant to disparage therapists, advocates, or grief counselors. Each person must find their own way to deal with the reality that we perceive: what works for one may not work for others."
Because the people who would use public transit are not politically relevant.
The one I saw some years ago with relatively new people was, they'll write tests while writing a piece of code, then once it's done and all the tests pass they'll think the tests are no longer necessary because the code is done. They didn't have the experience to see how long their code will exist, how it is extremely likely to get tweaked over the years, and how future developers won't have any of the context they had while writing it.
If you've already decided on cremation, look for a local Cremation Society. The term you're looking for is "simple cremation" where the deceased is cremated and the ashes returned to you. No ceremonies, no viewing, minimal decisions, minimal expense. Some funeral homes offer this also, they aren't the only option.

The celebration of life at a later date can then be organized when all involved are feeling up to it.
Wrong on what? The article is clear it didn't work for the author and Jake, but makes no judgment for others
> the message seems to be: money isn't real.

Literally true.

Piketty, T. (2014). Capital in the twenty-first century. Harvard University Press.

And also, it's a pretty stupid way to handle wealth.

Lietaer, B., & Dunne, J. (2013). Rethinking money: How new currencies turn scarcity into prosperity. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
Portland, Salt Lake City have pretty good connections. Seattle also if you don't mind walking through the parking garage (often security will snake back to the lightrail station, you know you are in for a bad day). SFO has Bart to the airport, Caltrain is also possible but you have to connect to Bart for one station. I admit that I've been to SFO a few times and have never bothered taking Bart (in contrast, I always take Max from PDX).
Nice "won't fly" play on words!

Seriously, this is something that could have been rolled out over the course of years. They could have talked about it at industry conventions and otherwise socialized the idea of updating dependent systems. Are those mission critical systems just willy-nilly connecting to these systems? Or is there some authentication? Because if there's authentication, there's usually some record of contacting the admin of that other system. Like how API service providers know who the owners of API keys are. Make it a required step of their annual FAA filings to certify that they have become 5 digit compliant (or whatever it gets called). If there's a way to make them prove it, make them prove it. If it has to be done to each aircraft, require it.

You get my point, there's so many practical ways to handle this. That's not to say it's easy but it's possible. Even just an audit of systems relying on communications to these legacy system(s) for actual flight operation would be a useful thing that I'd think most airline operators should have documented somewhere.

My thought in that comment was the further way from mission critical systems are the ones that will be more likely to unintentionally ignore the switch over notices and have a crash. At that point we're talking about Kayak.com going down or something that is absolutely not mission critical.

We need to have a way of rationally solving this issue that's not just some throw our hands up and ignore the problem until it's critical type situation. It a reality of our technical world that old stuff will require some breaking updates at some times.
No, it’s just that the soft layoffs are coming to an end.

You’re going to start seeing more Intel-style layoffs soon.
Google is an ad company first. It stands to reason than their results optimize for ad profitability, not to have the best index.

If the goal was to have the best index, they would actively punish sites that use SEO to push sites that are nothing more than auto-generated affiliate links to Amazon products. I quit using Google a while ago, because that’s all I was getting. I use Kagi now, which had no ads. Without this conflict of interest, I find things go better.
That's begging the question isn't it? In places with quality transit, even the creme de la creme are riding it.
> I also built autonomous aircraft when I was a student at Cornell

You should urgently pivot to strictly autonomous vehicles, airborne or otherwise. Waymos are here and now, they are at least as impactful as GLP-1s and LLMs.
Thank you, Jake! ---and your wife --- for your links and great reading that highlight the importance of clinical trials for mRNA tumor vaccines! Will keep posting to HN her articles when they come out.
https://archive.ph/bessstillman.substack.com

(Archive listing jseliger's wife Bess Stillman on clinical trials (including how to navigate them as patients) as well as comments)

UPDATE:

other concretes that have been mentioned, that are worth highlighting:

0) assume good faith & promote (& improve) Right-to-Try

https://www.fda.gov/media/133864/download#:~:text=Right%20to....

1) donate to (or even joining!) HN-adjacent Arc Institute (mRNA research)

2) sue the FDA for clinical trials, in general.

Here's one case https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/10/xocova-en...
>What "golden egg" do Google have besides an ad-selling business?

Google search, Maps, and GMail are the big 3 web services. These don't bring in revenue all by themselves, but they bring users to look at ads which is where they make all their money. There's also Chrome (directs people to Google services and facilitates their use of those services). Finally, there's Android, which is a little different but like Apple, they get revenue from the Play Store on it, and again push users to use their own search engine and browser.
What a spectacularly dumb, arrogant, hostile article. Yet another critic that assumes that anyone that doesn't love Schoenberg is a reactionary philistine.

Modern composers that aren't opposed to melodies on ideological grounds have found their way into the performance repertoire.
I'd forgotten how close to printing machines the old photocopiers were. You would basically either have a crap one you could operate yourself, or take your stuff to the printery to have professionals (a subset of librarians I think, or the logical join over librarians and computer operations staff) do it for you. Printing machines had a fleet of maintainers, craft unions who walked off the job if you touched a dial.

They were amazing at doing things which really mattered: shrinking an A0 architectural drawing down but maintaining aspect ratio. Adjusting offsets for the print for binding signatures, so the 1st and 16th page was not too far out because of wrapping around the other 8 pairs of pages. Even just working out how to rotate the pages for N-up printing. But the GUI sucked. I think they called ours "the bindery" because it's main gig was doing PHD from soup to nuts, binding included.

The repair techs had the most amazing flight cases, packed with tools which served one specific purpose.Like, A doohickey to adjust the corona wire, without dismantling the imaging and toner roller, with a tonne of equipment hovering over your head on a gas-lift. Screwdrivers with very very carefully chosen lengths. Torque wrenches. It was high tech meets motor racing meets.. IBM.

I am told they were paid better than many computer techs. The IBM guy was paid IBM scale to fix it on IBMs timescales. the xerox guy did more random shit, with more devices, more often.

They had a very corporate look. that amazing briefcase or six. Suit, tie. Very acceptable.

I know a guy who worked for a paper-folding-and-envelope-stuffing company and it was very similar culturally: can-do, fix anything, but working on giant multi-million dollar machines which were used twice a year to do tax mailouts, and election materials, and the rest of the time rented to the original spam merchants for 10c per thousand mailouts. The secondhand value of these machines were like photocopiers: Really significant. He was brought out of retirement to help take one apart into TEU equivalent chunks to be shipped to Singapore from Brisbane. His retirement gig at one point was repairing Espresso machines, he said it made him feel familiar and useful.

The era which was the end of the typing pool was fascinating. All kinds of arcane roles which only make sense in the absence of email and tiny printers everywhere. Some of those jobs had been there from the days of hand-copying, Dickens-era and before.
Bangladesh overtook India in GDP per capita since 2019, so at least by that measure it has been more successful than India.

Of course, that was before the recent crisis. I don’t know what that is going to do to GDP per capita figures, but I’d be surprised if Bangladesh didn’t go backwards as a result of this.

Also, calling Bangladesh a “religious nation” ignores that Sheikh Hasina’s rule was fundamentally secular, even though she never sought to change the religious provisions in the national constitution, she largely governed as if they weren’t there.
Hey this seems really interesting. But I have questions about this statement “.

In order to transmit bank payments programatically, you must have direct transmission enabled with your banking partner. If you have any questions about this, don’t hesitate to reach out to us.

So do we need to get this enabled on a per bank basis or a per account basis?
Seattle making the Link a chore to take to and from the airport is a perennial disappointment — painfully slow.
There are various ways to hide an airtag on a bike. Consequences are the way to deter thieves.
Chicago is like that. Both O'Hare and Midway have CTA trains directly into the terminal.
This is just my speculation, as a mere Firefox user with no insight into Mozilla's larger strategy or financials, but it kind of feels like Mozilla is stuck in a Google-funded local optimum. Maybe this shake-up can provide the activation energy needed to break out into something better?
It's kind of a reinforcing cycle. Since public transit is terrible, everyone wants cars. Since everyone wants cars, there isn't a lot of interest in public transit.
I feel like what let it go on so long was the massive campaigns that used blatant racism as misinformation.
Go has become a very mainstream language, giving software development a new look.

Thanks for your leadership of the Go team over the past 12 years, and for your patient comments and guidance on our proposals and PRs.

Best wishes for the future, and hope to see you in the community again.
> think of tests more like assertions or checksums.

That's a good way to summarize how tests can catch regressions. And, I think I'm stealing that!
I never had good luck with DDG, and found myself using !g to jump over go Google a lot.

I switch to Kagi about a year ago and had a much better experience. My browser defaulted itself back to Google one day, and I didn’t notice the heading but when I looked at the results I recoiled in disgust at how bad it was. I looked at the top of the page and saw it was Google. That was the last time I used Google and it wasn’t even on purpose.

Several times now at work, I’ve joined a call where people had been troubleshooting for hours trying to find an answer to some issues, presumably using Google a lot in the process. I end up using Kagi, finding an answer, and the call wraps up 15 minutes later. This has happened at least 3 times now, and I’m not on these types of calls often.

It’s so nice to be the customer and not the product.
This is nice, but one thing I immediately noticed that I think would improve the landing page is to make the shift and "z" keys look like Apple keyboard keys.

EDIT: I know a lot of Mac users have HHKBs or whatever, so they are not actually pressing Apple keys, but I think it would make the page seem more Apple-oriented.
He works 20 hrs a day, well deserved! Use some of those multimillions