skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Science makes me feel stupid too. It's just that I've gotten used to it.

When I started my PhD program, a group of us were given a little talk by the department secretary.

She told the story of how she went to audition for Jeopardy!, a trivia game show. She saw a whole bunch of other people at the audition get really nervous and choke up; her take on it was that they were used to being the most knowledgable in the room -- they were used to sitting in front of the TV screen with their friends or family and knowing every fact, and when they were suddenly confronted with a situation where everyone was as knowledgable as they were, they were suddenly very intimidated.

She, on the other hand, was completely relaxed -- she spent her days working with Nobel prize winners and loads of other people for whom she had no doubt were smarter than her. Being confronted with loads of people smarter than her was a daily experience.

She told this story to us to say, a lot of you will experience the same thing: You were used to being the smartest person in your High School, you were even used to being the smartest person in your classes at the prestigious university you attended. Now you'll encounter a situation where everyone is like you: the best and most driven people in your classes.

You'll feel stupid and inferior for a bit, and that's normal. Don't let it bother you. Eventually you'll notice while that most of these other people have areas where they're better than you, they have areas where you're better. And there will still be the occasional person who seems better than you at everything: that's OK too. You're not the best at everything, and you don't have to be.
I have written a few blog posts: https://learnbyexample.github.io/tags/career/
I would claim there is no 100%. At least in engineering my professors were saying (paraphrasing) that it's all about trade-offs and most of the times there is not "one answer". I think many education systems (up to graduate at least) instill the idea that there is always "one answer" which has many bad repercussions later (people seeing things in black and white).

I don't think a student needs to always answer a question "on the spot". Being able to find an answer in a reasonable amount of time and explain an answer would be in my opinion more valuable. So then it's more about "how efficient can the student give the answer to the question" (answer on the spot, spend one hour, spend one week, etc.).
Show HN: Discover most reviewed things.in/city
Hi HN,

When I used to travel to new cities, I relied on place ratings, but I noticed that sometimes, 5-star reviews were left by the owner and their family, which skewed the results.

I started trusting the number of reviews instead of the rating itself, but I found it difficult to find platforms that let me sort places this way.

I created this travel guide website to solve this issue. It features attractions, restaurants, and stays in various cities, all sorted by the number of reviews. Additionally, the website offers simple guidebooks for each city to help travelers plan their trips.

Here are examples for two cities:

San Francisco: https://things.in/sf
Dubai: https://things.in/dubai

The site received a lot of love when I first launched it on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/comments/1fec8p...

I built this over a weekend without writing a single line of code using the Cursor editor. This is my third product built with Cursor. You can follow my product journey on X: x.com/shyjal.

Please give it a try and let me know what you think!
If you are unhappy while wealthy you would probably be unhappy without wealth as well, perhaps more so due to the financial stress. Either way, I would rather be unhappy with money than without.
Arguably, there not being a lot of money in them would be a point in favor of Sony shipping an emulator (as a minor perk/nod to long-time ecosystem fans), not against it (which would allow them to keep selling "HD remakes" etc.)
Yep.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googly
One way it makes a bit of sense is to view it through the lens of avoiding the task of resolving the political dispute of where cuts should be. Business suffer internally from the same kind of paralysis governments can and sometimes market fads dictate you shed costs [0], bring people back to the office, or internal forces incentivize it because you have long term leases that look bad on paper if you're not forcing your employees into the office. [1] Ideally you'd have strong leadership to cut the right people from the right places but they're just people, often there because of other reasons so they struggle to evaluate that properly and the easy answer is to just quietly incentivize increased turn over.

[0] See the last 2-3 years of businesses cutting headcount for "the coming recession" that never came.

[1] Personally I think that's the reason behind my job's recent bump to ~50% in office time from ~25%. We have a number of large buildings either owned or on long term leases that are 'wasted' if they're not forcibly occupied.
Be a pirate with https://opennic.org/ and have a look at

https://wiki.opennic.org/opennic/dot there...
I remember when Apple used to have a page of movie trailers to show off QuickTime.

Hard to think now but they had to find a way to even have content to show off their tech.
ODYSSEE: Oyster Detection Yielded by Sensor Systems on Edge Electronics
I find Garmin's sleep tracking on my forerunner 255 quite good. I have no idea how it compares to an Apple Watch though.
And 23 available now under NFTC [1] and GPLv2 [2]

[1] https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads/

[2] https://jdk.java.net/23/
Ughh. I'm tired of these open source vc backed companies. Can't wait for this meta to die out.
It's probably because you don't have much to do outside of work and that is where you get your only human interaction. People who have families and friends typically do better in a remote environment.
Opioid-maker Purdue is bankrupt, but its global counterparts make millions
Show HN: I proved myself wrong with a spreadsheet and made a Protein Calculator
You know how the Internet is full of _”you must eat your body weight in grams of protein every day”_ spiel?

I did some in-my-head calculations over lunch the other day and arrived at the conclusion that this is nonsense. There is no way that everyone in a family can eat 60-70g of protein every day. You would need a dedicated protein manager in the house!

But then I made a spreadsheet.

And goddammit it is possible. I tried multiple different assumptions to prove my point but no matter what I tried, I kept coming back to the conclusion that it was indeed possible to eat a fair bit of protein every day even as a family. It might be a bit expensive but it surely isn’t impossible.

Anyway, I recruited my good friend Claude Chatterjee (PT), and made a Protein Calculator for my family.

Been using it for a couple of days and it actually helped! Yesterday, I noticed that I was quite short of my daily target (70g). So I simply ate a mini protein bar as my post-dinner treat. Win-win!

What do you guys, think? Would love to hear your experiences with improving your diet!
Dancing around the elephant in the room, the problem is financial risk, e.g. this isn't really about research this is a business, and business must minimize risk to be profitable?
Like any LLM
Not so interesting. In the video description and in the video itself it's pointed out that it's done in a collaboration with IEEE Spectrum.
Is that by any chance related to how the TAR format was developed?

Considering the big thing with TAR is that you can also concatenate it together (the format is quite literally just file header + content ad infinitum; it was designed for tape storage - it's also the best concatenation format if you need to send an absolute truckloads of files to a different computer/drive since the tar utility doesn't need to index anything beforehand), making gzip also capable of doing the same logic but with compression seems like a logical followthrough.
I parsed that as:

"If anyone has an office in a building, then everyone must have an office in that building and must be forced to work there."

And I just don't follow that. Why must it be this way? So that the office is full?

If so, then: If having the office full every day is an important metric and WfH interferes with that metric, then the problem is not that the people make choices.

Instead, it is that the office is larger than it should be.
I like that idea but I purposely stay anonymous on HN and I would be DOXing myself if I used this. It'd be great to be able to either use it without a username (ideally) or have the choice to keep your HN username private.
> Why was this flagged?

Anything any particularly motivated group dislikes here gets flagged; always been this way. Thanks for vouching.

> Are smartphones, for example, also vulnerable to it?

I also would love an answer to this question. Up until 12 minutes ago, I would never have thought _blowing up_ hundreds of pagers simultaneously was a realistic scenario.

If anyone can make sense of how this actually worked I'd be grateful. If it can be done to pagers, it seems likely that it can be done to other networked lithium devices: phones, tablets, laptops, smart watches, cameras, drones, medical devices, toys, and even electric vehicles.

Lest anyone tries to deny this happened: There's video of two separate cases on the nowinpalestine Instagram page.
I went remote a few years before Covid and I felt a bit isolated, but then I realized I had too much of my social life tied up in my job. Having hobbies and interests outside of work is so much better for my mental health and I wouldn’t swap it for anything, especially a 40 min commute.

I also wouldn’t force anyone to go back to office so I could see the humm of their work. If you need that there’s co working spaces for that reason, or places which have in office options.

Large companies mandating everyone work in office is purely a flex for control and probably to save their property investments.
Rio: Web apps in pure Python
any indication which brand(s) of pagers were in use?
Looks like we will get that borrow checker after all :)
"The affine type system makes it easier to relocate objects without breaking type safety. Pattern matching, which is safe and expressive, interfaces with the extension’s new choice types. Borrow checking,[borrow-checking] the most sophisticated part of the Safe C++, provides a new reference type that flags use-after-free and iterator invalidation defects at compile time."
https://safecpp.org/P3390R0.html
Would it not be possible to recompile all shaders at startup (or "install", i.e. first launch) time and then cache them (if runtime recompilation is even too slow in the first place)?
Some of this can be fixed with architecture, some with tech practices.

In no specific order:

- Create a concept of an "enrollment" that is different than an "account." It allows record-keeping for the steps leading up to a malicious account created.

- Require mobile phone validation if possible if you're a consumer-facing company. This makes it much more difficult to create fake accounts without a phone farm.

- Get a good WAF and put your `/enrollments` endpoint behind it. Serve the `/enrollments` endpoint exclusively from the CDN associated with your WAF. Having that page served behind the WAF/CDN allows you to block traffic with rules if you can identify patterns to the malicious behavior

- Separate the writes into the enrollments data store/database from any reads and your main production database. Make conversion of an enrollment to account process async, with a rate-limited architectural queue that can be paused if necessary
The German scientists that made the Apollo program and associated technology happen are long gone
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/apollos-gift-of-prophecy-dodg...
Hezbollah Communications Devices Explodes
Java 23 / JDK 23: General Availability
someone has a major confusion of levels here. have they ever tried asking gpt-4 to multiply some matrices, i wonder?
It does sound a lot like what Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are supposed to be. It's very close to how the original Manifest.json worked when given an html/js/css/assets list.

Only a couple of browsers supported that version of Manifest.json. Chrome developers thought it was too much of an 80/20 solution and decided to get deep in the weeds of the 20% instead of delivering the 80% solution while they worked. That's what got us the way too low level and hard to reason with Service Worker APIs for PWAs. It's over-engineered for the 20% of use cases in a way that makes "easy" 80% so much harder than it ever should have been. Chrome developers still randomly promise the web that the "easy high level API" will arrive any day now, but looking at the mess that is Workbox (their team's supposed-to-be high level building block library for Service Worker PWA APIs) it still doesn't look like it will happen any time soon.

It's more the shame because we briefly had a simple JSON manifest format for assets. That JSON format should have been easy to emulate in the Service Worker APIs if those APIs truly were meant to solve the problem, not just solving more interesting problems in a related space that a minority of use cases needed. Google doesn't currently have enough incentive to make PWAs easy to build, and as long as Chrome is the majority browser, Google is the major obstacle.
Do you happen to remember if she was sentenced because she was convicted by a jury? I have very little faith in the U.S. justice system so I guess that wouldn’t surprise me, but it feels likelier that they used the K9 “evidence” to coerce her into accepting a plea bargain (which, to be clear, is also bad).
Looks like another rich asshole needs a guillotine delivered to their front door.
> I would say that a reasonable person could have foreseen Concord failing.

> Then you add on that they already missed the train for hero shooters by about eight years

There's an analysis video I saw on Youtube which touches upon this fact: data-driven production suffer from two major problems: when they register a signal (i.e. people like hero shooters), it's already too late. It is impossible to catch a growing trend, just one that has already reached its peak.

The second problem is that the data is misleading in the first place. Using social media sentiment, for example, is pure nonsense because social media personas are not real people. They don't buy toilet paper, they don't talk (or Google) about 99% of their boring existence, and the signal is manipulated by bots and malicious agents. It is absolutely crazy that companies still haven't learned that you cannot hire a bunch of data scientists and predict the next major hit. They have tried for the past 20 years, but human ingenuity (and the chaotic human psychology) is totally elusive to their silly models.
Monthly Roundup #22: September 2024
Java 23
I'd argue that's the real dominance of Western culture; anybody can be part of it, bastardize it, idealize it, demonize it, and so it can evolve, it transcends from just a singular tradition to a universal culture.
Schedule

All times are UTC (PDT is UTC-7, EDT is UTC-4, CEST is UTC+2, IST is UTC+5.5, JST is UTC+9):

Deep Dive into Java 23's Features!

13:00: Welcome and event agenda

13:05: Java Language Update by Gavin Bierman

13:20: Java Language Features in Action

13:35: Integrity by Default with Ron Pressler

13:55: Markdown Documentation Comments with Jonathan Gibbons

14:10: ZGC: Generational Mode by Default with Stefan Karlson

Java Outreach in 2024

14:25: Java Playground Updates with Denys Makogon and Heather Stephens

14:40: Java Community Report from Sharat Chander and Jim Grisanzio

Java Preview Features and Future work

15:10: Sneak Peek at GraalVM Updates with Alina Yurenko and Fabio Niephaus

15:30: Class-File API with Brian Goetz

15:45: State of Project Leyden with John Rose

16:15: Enjoy Your Evening!
Reminds me of the people who looked for time travelers, hoping they would have betrayed themselves through chronologically wrong Google searches or tweets.

https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/context/google-search-fails...
Or negative.
Amazing, helped me to improve my knowledge, thanks a lot.
Huh, I never noticed the wp theme I’m using doesn’t put a date on “pages” , only “posts”.

I wrote that in 2020, and I’m doing the identical thing right now for my next book. Not out of date at all.
> Companies forget this.

More that they assume (or demand) the worker is going to pay this cost on their behalf.
This sounds like https://bash-org-archive.com/?5273 (original website no longer exists).
yes, i definitely agree there
"Learning Ancient Greek, however, is an immensely challenging endeavor that requires many years of effortful study and practice and it is even more challenging (bordering on impossible) to do on one’s own without a teacher."

It is a lot of work. I would point out, though, that not everyone who went through the English public schools or the American St. Grottlesex world was really a wizard. Yet given enough encouragement (often delivered with a stick, to be sure, at least in England) quite a few of them learned Ancient Greek.

I will take a moment to recommend NYRB's slim volume War and the Iliad. I think that Rachel Bespaloff's essays are outstanding, and an infinitely more qualified judge, Robert Fitzgerald, though so also.
I agree, unless other exceptional conditions, having to go 5 days a week to the office is a strong no-go for me, FAANG or not.
But is it another thing like AVX-512 which won't see use outside of a few hyperscalers because Intel will be slow to roll it out?
>Are smartphones, for example, also vulnerable to it?

Yes if Israeli intelligence gets their hands on your smartphone (probably before you buy it) and installs an explosive and a software-hardware back door.
I have colleagues for that.
> Handwriting is really only for old people, teachers grading papers, and signing documents.

ahaha. Is walking only for old people too, as the young ones only drive ?
The subject is unfortunately likely to start a flamewar. I still think this should be on the front page because the technology and scope of this attack is unheard of if true. Israel somehow managed to weaponise hezbolla pagers by sending a message that caused them to explode. (Edit: i see the link i submitted has made it to the front page so it seems the moderators won't kill the story)
There's a series of two excellent videos on youtube about this proof:

Detailed description of the problem of constructable regular polygons and a gloss of the proof.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX7U0DGBmbM

A full explanation of the proof:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdy1u4lsjDw
Something something infinite monkeys, something something Nostradamus. I'm sure Captain Beefheart lyrics are prophetic too, like Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish.
Hook up different kinds of alerts/notifications to office intercom and announce outages and pages! Gives the feeling of a real sense of urgency and danger! :-)
Sev1 alerts, DDOS attacks etc. You can do this for positive things too – like a e-commerce product launch going out of stock in record time, or hitting a sales target etc.
So in office is better for you. What irks so many of us is that companies point to people like you and mandate EVERYONE be like that, because the C suite, whose entire lives and career have been built around having people around them assumes or decries that everyone either is, or should be, like them.

Or worse, the middle management is given authority to give these mandates, and are in their highest level of incompetence and use it as a "power move".
That's cool! Is that a GNU tar only thing? Based on it being a longopt, I'm guessing a GNU tar only thing. That's the problem with these things, it takes a while to get pushed to all the installed copies of tar running around. Perhaps it's time to check:

* MacOS Sonoma(14.6) has tar --auto-compress and --zstd
* OpenBSD tar does not appear to have it: https://man.openbsd.org/tar
* FreeBSD does: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tar

Not quite fully baked yet.
I was originally using the cable that came with the drive.

At some point I kept plugging it my Macs and sometimes it would go slow speed USB, and sometimes it would go to 10. I was plugging it into a CalDigit/OWC hub (depending on the Mac) and directly to the machine.

After realizing what was happening I just picked up a 20gbps (or 40, I can't remember) cable off of amazon and the problem went away.
> ...would you want to recommend them for a job at a new company if they asked?

Depends on the reason for the PIP.

Sometimes folks who get put on them are bad fits for the demands of that particular job at that particular company and would do (and end up doing) stellar elsewhere.

Sometimes folks get put on them to try to ward against theoretical anti-ageism/anti-racism suits fired off in response to an upcoming layoff.

And SOMETIMES folks get put on them because of stack ranking... where managers are obligated to push out a certain number of people every single year.

I've seen scenarios one and three personally, and scenario two seems totally plausible because there's no intelligence/competence test required to become a business owner or manager... so such folks make all sorts of dumbass mistakes.

If you're the sort of person who automatically passes over someone because their previous manager thought poorly of them, then that explains so much about you opinions expressed in this subthread.
Your point being?

I don’t care much for Meloni but how exactly is she fascist or anything like that, compared to most other conservative politicians (who I don’t care much for either..)?

I’m not talking about parties like AfD or others funded by (objectively) fascist regime in Russia.
> In fact, CoT could perfectly be a Turing machine.

Are we going to need an infinite number of LLMs, arranged on a tape?
I was wondering the same thing.

There might be other explanations than a cyberattack though. The pagers could have been prepared in some way before distribution.

From the videos, it looks like the explosions were quite sudden and remarkably violent for such a small device.

So in addition to people-hunting FPV drones, we now have the equivalent of exploding collars from science fiction movies like Running Man. I don't like where we're heading, but it was probably inevitable that technology would be used this way.
I use a mix of honeypot fields, Cloudflare turnstile and straight up blocking certain domains from signing up.
Eco-guilt and eco-shame in everyday life
`freebsd-update` updates only the base systems though.
Updating ports is a trainwreck on FreeBSD compared with `dist-upgrade` on Debian.
Great work! I find it bizarre that they even bothered with this wild SPI Flash muxing thing if all it does is drive some LEDs. Seems massively overengineered.
While I mostly agree, we had state driver licenses almost immediately at the advent of the consumer automobile.

I am not sure we could do that today. I think the push would largely to be to ban the automobile completely as too dangerous if we had to do it in 2024.

This is all just a mirror being held up to such a wealthy society and the changing risk preferences that come with that over time.
Obvious #1 Question - did Mossad manage to feed Hezbollah a huge number of weaponized pagers - or are there pagers which could be rooted in such a way that the stock hardware can "detonate"?
Craftsmanship is the most important thing and the key component in all their most successful startups.

Oftentimes people enter YC who are still early in their journeys and should be focusing on improving their craftsmanship, rather than focused on raising money.
Try again ;)
This is actually a good video that demonstrates how a seemingly innocent product can end up being life threatening without proper QA.

Also a tip for startups, pet owners are willing to pay premium for convenience and their pets health, and the market is huge for automatic litterboxes, pet feeders, grooming etc.