skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why I beg everyone to adopt workload identity federation.
Is any career a sustainable one anymore?

What makes a career sustainable?
that's not appropriate here
The Mystery of the Cover Letter
Very interesting, but I think the author overstates the importance of alignment a little. Unless your data/indexes are already of a challenging size (or you expect them to be imminently) for your hardware then fiddling with byte alignment details feels like a fairly premature optimisation.

Disk is cheap, memory is plentiful, your time is expensive etc.
These things takes time.
If you know anyone who works in marketing/PR, ask them how they use Reddit. That has been gamified as much as SEO since about 2020. I’m assuming, anything except “why is there a fire in this street?” kind of posts are just ads at this point.
while cheaper in some contexts and somewhat scalable, renewables are nowhere near being as scalable or effective as nuclear, specially as tensions with China rise
I don't know that I agree with this, but it is rather poetically written.
you can read it - I have read portions of it - but it’s still a pretty bad book by a lot of metrics.
It’s just famous like maos red bible is famous - but both are horrible literature

Edit: so if you read and like it there is something wrong with you
Obscure wtf? It's a classic of Russian literature and taught in every Russian lit class.
Ever since Sora I've been thinking about the overall death of the internet "content". It all came back stronger with Meta Movie Gen.

I know there are no girls on the internet, but this AI crap is on another level. Even if find a trustworthy creator, I might be seeing a fake video of them. Say I like MKBHD reviews, I will need to pay attention if I am really watching his video on his official channel.

My guard will have to be up so much, all the time, I actually don't think it will even be healthy to "consume content" anymore. Why live a life where almost everything I see can be a lie? Makes me not want to use any of this anymore.
This is good advice! I would like to propose a corollary:

If your main API function has multiple parameters, in the documentation example you need to use all of them, and absolutely do not shadow the parameter names!
“foo foo = foo” might make your demo look slick, but the developer learns nothing. This is a lost opportunity to explain the parameters with the variable name instead of a comment.

I’ll give an example: RevenueCat’s demo for using SyncPurchases [1] returns a tuple of (value, error), and they throw away the error, not even showing the 1 line of how you have to typecast it. This results in much digging needed.

[1] https://www.revenuecat.com/docs/getting-started/quickstart#4...
This is an amazing book and I've read it 10+ times despite it being ~1000 pages. I tried a lot of the "sequels" but they just didn't deliver the same way and felt too samey and not a great continuation.
Not sure if you’re being sarcastic, but they’re not talking about AI features of the search engine itself (Kagi has those too), but about nonsensical AI generated content on the web that exist solely for the purpose of getting you clicking on some ads. Kagi tries to make those sites stand out less on the search results.
Been reading it for about a year on and off, I did read I am a strange loop before and really enjoyed the ideas and also the emotional side of it.
For some weird reason, outlinks are to be avoided, because it's seen as "leaving your site". In a store front, I can see that making sense. In a site to provide information... not so much.
Only slightly sarcastic: In the history of the subway, has it ever been early?
Yeah, I was thinking about putting a little summary but I don’t want to spoil the fun and also, it’s hard to summarise this book in a few sentences
I think there's a new and healthy rivalry between Ruby, Python, and JS for web backends!

- Ruby and Rails now has all of the things mentioned above and more. I do have concerns that Rails will evolve in directions where bundled frontends have less official support, with the continued centralization of 37signals/DHH [0] and their controversial removal of Typescript from Turbo [1] (and bundling in general for Hey), but it's such a large community that there will be continued momentum in all directions.

- Python used to be the choice if you expected to do both data processing/machine learning/NLP and web backends in a centralized codebase with a single language. And Django is still a world-class solution there, with gevent + asyncio + forthcoming developments on GIL-less Python all contributing towards making Django a highly performant and parallel framework. That said, with much of an app's data processing complexity often best offloaded towards LLM-powered solutions that have dedicated APIs, and both Ruby [2] and Node having bindings to https://pola.rs/ as an alternative to Pandas, it's no longer the only solution.

- And on the JS end, frameworks that enable full-stack batteries-included admin-out-of-the-box development like https://redwoodjs.com/ and https://www.prisma.io/nextjs + e.g. https://next-admin.js.org/ continue to evolve. Nowadays, if you're building a complex web application from scratch, Prisma provides all the escape hatches you'd need, so that you can build entirely in JS/TS and have the facilities you'd expect from Rails or Django.

I'm really excited that all three communities are continuing to push the boundaries of what's possible; it's amazing to see.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30600746
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37405565
[2] https://github.com/ankane/ruby-polars
Looking at https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/metaprogramming/, I have a hard time considering it "fully" homoiconic, as the parsed data structure Expr(:call, :+, :a, Expr(:call, :*, :b, :c), 1) isn't the same representation as the code itself, even having some new elements like :call.

How it this different from tree-sitter, except that you can feed the modified code back to the language to evaluate?

I mean, don't get me wrong, Julia metaprogramming seems lovely, but it just seems to me that the word loses meaning if it can applied to all languages with AST macros, no matter how gnarly the AST data structure is (is Rust homoiconic because of proc_macro?).
> you might find better prices on individual items if you put a little more work into it

That extra work costs you money, too. Calculate how much your job pays you per hour, then you can deduce the $cost of spending more time to get a better deal.
This is great, thanks for creating this. I hope it brings you success, I certainly plan on using it.

One important aspect of choosing a protein powder is the amino balance - especially for vegan proteins. Unfortunately many brands don’t provide this info, and you have to infer it from the ingredients.
> Coaxing conspiracists – the extremists

> Combative conspiracists – the disinformants

> Chaos conspiracists – the trolls

> Commercial conspiracists – the profiteers

> Common conspiracists – the attention-getters

I feel like there's a growing shared interest in creating distrust broadly, in making people scared & confused & pliant & on edge. These above feel.loke specific causes...

But there's a broader interest by many, generally, in destabilizing.

Trolling is probably the closest, but i consider torlling largely for the luls and chaos. Destabilizing is about making the world indecipherable and ungovernable, about obstructing truth. It's doing anything and everything to throw a wrench into democratic societies, no matter the event of the day. It's boosting uncertainty and fear, spreading wide a tacitc belief there is a secret world beyond the facade, welcoming you for a trip into dark enlightenment.
The other side of the issue is that the much-praised "first principles thinking" breaks down fast as soon as someone thinks they understand something they don't.

I like to consider human reasoning a point of failure like anything else, and plan to avoid single points of failure.

Don't tell my why you're right, tell me why you think the plan would still be safe even if you are wrong.

Don't tell me your attachment is secure, tell me there's a safety cable. Don't tell me what encryption you use, show that your actuators physically can't trap someone even if hacked.
> This includes nuclear fuel.

Nuclear fuel is both relatively plentiful, and can be sourced from a multitude of countries, both Eastern, Western, and, most importantly, unaligned. A lot of countries have economically viable (for power generation) uranium reserves, but do not exploit them because global prices for it are so low.

It differs significantly from oil in this respect.
Slightly relevant, here's a version of Wordle in the terminal built using go:

https://github.com/sa-/wordle-tui
The content itself is fine but the unnecessary image above the label “ You have the right to remain aligned” with the usual AI-generated garbage text cheapens the entire article.
I've always assumed that answering a phone call would be free for me (excepting the dawn of cell phones when they had a limited number of minutes per month). If answering a sat-phone call is "cheaper" rather than free, does anything warn me that I'm incurring extra charges?
That's how the Internet works in China.
The only reason I don`t use Windows 7 is because Chrome, VS Code, Steam, and other electron apps stopped working on Windows 7. :-)
Then it becomes like insuring priceless art, people are just priced out of it, especially if it's a requirement to owning/driving it in the first place.

Perhaps these become undrivable and get their own stage in some art hall.
> Looks like that would have been the new Riverside Museum (very distinctive Zaha Hadid building in an open area) rather than the old Transport Museum?

Ah yes, that must be it, looking it up online I recognize the building. It appeared very shiny and new when I visited, which seems to match the timeline (per wikipedia, it opened in June 2011, and I was there in spring 2012).
I was out of date on my triads; when do we give the uk permanent member seat to india?
The best non-fiction book I have ever read is 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb'[1] by Richard Rhodes.

Fantastic early history of the people that eventually comprise the Manhattan Project. I feel any person who is interested in physics should read the book.

It is mindblowing the scale of the facilities that they had to build to generate a very small amount of the fissile material needed.

Strangely enough, I started on (a few times already) the second part, 'Dark Sun' [2], which is about the making of the Hydrogen Bomb focused on Edward Teller but I haven't been able to complete it yet.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Making-Atomic-Bomb-Richard-Rhodes/dp/...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Sun-Making-Hydrogen-Bomb-ebook/d...
It is challenging to define what's "best" but I used a simple criterion to write this comment: the book I have read the most is the best book for me.

With this criterion, Based on a True Story by Norm Macdonald is the best book. Each time I reread it, I find a new nugget! And as a bonus, this book is also available as an audiobook narrated by the author himself.
Thanks for this brief endorsement. I'll add it to my list of books to read... Currently, running a rather high tsundoku...

My own fav is also called Consolation of Philosophy but it's by Alain de Botton, one of my fav contemporary writers. His prose is fine, and the writing's a treat. His book is of course a modern treatment of Boethius. Recommended!
We do now support this, as of late august! https://clerk.com/changelog/2024-08-20-custom-oauth-provider...
Thanks to Plato's Republic - I have two bffs living rent free in my head.
Spacecraft launches towards asteroid knocked off course by NASA
Yellow Silence: Miniature from the Silos Apocalypse (Ca. 1100)
fun read. wonder if someone can do it with one of those lemon batteries, u know.. when life gives u lemons... get root!
For HN, emphasize your best demos

Slide 7 shows teaching, and it looks interesting, but it does not show learning I think.

Slide 10 shows a little learning, and it looks less interesting than slide 7

Good luck (not trying to discourage, but I hope this helps!)
There are significant price differences across Europe, and as mentioned in other comments, EU roaming has some intentional carve-outs that make it hard to use permanently (it's primarily intended for travelers, not to arbitrage phone plans across EU countries).
"With kindness comes naïveté. Courage becomes foolhardiness. And dedication has no reward. If you can't accept any of that, you are not fit to be a magical girl."
> ok but lol you are still obviously denying and acting blind to the fact that for many many years, that neither we will nor our lungs will get back, coal had to be ramped up and overused in Germany

This simply isn't true. Coal use for electricity has been declining consistently in Germany and especially since the first shutdowns of nuclear plants (cca 2011). And the replacement was not natural gas as in e.g. the US.
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Competition is the core tenant that makes capitalism beneficial to broader society.

Consolidation over the past few decades has limited the capacity for firms to compete in many sectors.

So I appreciate the sentiment of what the FTC is trying to do, but they really come across as amateurs bringing far too many lawsuits and often with weak legal reasoning/argumentation.

In many of the cases they've brought there exists alternative, yet stronger arguments that could have been made.

I'd support congress legislating towards more competition (e.g. forcing open standards for things like APIs/chat clients/smart watches etc), or a more active FTC.

But the current approach is far too disorganized and weak.
ooh i want a smart lighter, so i can use my phone in one hand to light the lighter in the other hand :O
> Disk is cheap, memory is plentiful, your time is expensive etc.

Taking the time to know the in memory sizing for your data types is well worth it. Taking the time to think about the types to use and sorting them by size is also minimal and well worth it.

It may make sense for the system to do it automatically for newly created tables. But maybe not as it’s possible you’d want the data layout to match some existing structure.
It was hilarious, and I learned a lot of new words.

That said, the first/last story was a bit of a grind because of the language style.

I didn't think the movie captured it at all. The trailer is great though, and got me to read the book.
"How To Win Friends And Influence People" by Dale Carnegie

There's a good reason why it's still in print.
You did? I'm in Germany and I don't see it. Is it the one where you need a subscription?
Because they selected to make a functional, not OO, language based largely on BEAM which was designed for Erlang, a functional, not OO, language. Why would you make an OO language if your goal is to make a functional language?
Agreed.

I remember getting assigned this book in high school, I think Freshman Year, and not being able to put it down. Just left me with this feeling of, "Shit, if we sacrifice freedom and individuality for happiness and a sense of security then we're really going to be fucked." I know that's probably too political for HN, but man, the message I got from this book has resonated loud and clear with me ever since.
Age of Invention: The Coal Conquest
If I met someone who said that any book was their favorite book, and then didn't remember anything about the book or had any value for the ideas that it advocated for, then I'd have to consider that person a bit of a manipulator.

Being disingenuous is just a bad first and only data point to give someone about yourself.
I don’t want my cache requirements ballooning by 100mb.
Head of support at Clerk here, can confirm this is accurate. We're right at the finish line with a project that will give you a secure export of your full user data through the dashboard without needing to email support as well.

We are very committed internally to making sure that folks using Clerk are doing so because they want to be, not because we have made it difficult to leave.
Add True Nutrition.

https://truenutrition.com/
> you're essentially being dropshipped hazardous unregulated products.

How did we end up here? Like why the hell can I buy things on Amazon that can't legally be sold on shelves in the US? Why aren't retailers suing?
I was also pretty surprised, as I consider myself decently knowledgeable in the field. Learned of it via https://github.com/libvips/libvips/issues/4089.
I strongly wish we had more comments like the one you're responding to. I find most comments here to be obnoxiously polite and I wish more ignorant opinions were publicly demolished as they should be, rather than continue to spread misinformation because it's the polite thing to do.

Not all opinions are created equal.
Because you need to be/stay elected in order to enforce policy.

As an aside, one could easily replace 'crypto-currency' with 'fascism' in your comment to accurately describe why Republicans are following a similar tact in spite of the benefits of a democracy
Environmental protections account for 10% of fish stocks on coral reefs
I am having trouble seeing how this doesn’t just, one way or another, filter for people unfamiliar with both the literary and philosophical merits of Atlas Shrugged.

Possibility 1: A too-enthusiastic reaction. Filtered.

Possibility 2: A too-negative reaction. Filtered.

Possibility 3: a neutral-enough reaction to not get filtered, but at least some parts of their opinion just shifted toward the negative and wary. If not filtered, at least now distant for some time.

Possibility 4: a neutral-enough reaction because they have low familiarity with the book. Only pairing that passes unscathed.

I’d recommend saying Twilight instead. It doesn’t come with garbage-politics implications (at least, simply liking the book doesn’t)

[edit] hm. But then people being enthusiastic fans of it isn’t as useful a filter. This is tricky. Having it be something big fans of which are usually unpleasant is a benefit for filtering the other people, but sends false negative signals about yourself.
>(a) make the GPL-incompatible code source-available

I think this is incorrect, and you must actually release the other code as GPL. Even if it isn't, the intention is to permit people to compile the application, and you would lose physical/technical control of your application at that point.
Please add a filter for "established brands" or similar

This after all is food and i dont want to buy some home mixed brew which is 1c/serving cheaper
Since the results of that approach are predictably bad, I think it will sort itself out. A junior who works like that is already less productive than an LLM in the hands of a skilled engineer, so there isn't really any reason to keep that junior around. But a junior who is using LLMs to rapidly improve their skills can be seen as a good investment even if it takes them some time to become a net positive on the team.
I'm pretty sure your customers care that your software doesn't segfault!
> Isn’t the standard definition that you continue to use the drug despite it causing serious negative problems in your life?

There's no one standard definition of "addiction", and most concise definitions (one or two lines) are extremely fragile and break down when you try to apply them in any meaningful context.

By this definition you're putting forth, caffeine certainly could be addictive, as could any substance - and in fact, nearly any behavior, which is why professionals generally frown upon using this measure definitionally, because it leads to pseudoscientific terms like "X addiction", for absurd values of X.
The fact of the matter is postal marketing is return positive from a marketing perspective, and it will continue so long as marketers spend, consumers respond, and mail delivery agencies need the revenue.
Its about the simplicity of the circuit. The components are available for any electronic Technician.

Use an amplifier is not a basic circuit. Resistor diode capacitor cable and power source are the basic of electronics
This is very neat, well executed! So congratulations to you!

Do you use a 3rd party for the "physical" parts of the business such as printing and mailing?
socks! and kickng device thru the room!
Nuclear power which currently has zero new commercial reactors under construction in the US while backsliding as an energy source due to cost and construction timelines now apparently is "effective" and "scalable".
U.S. judge orders sweeping changes to Google's Android app store
This is a great example.

Learning someone enjoys Rand's writing/philosophy diminishes them in my eyes, but Heinlein is just good taste in scifi.
> you're also... making yourself look unappealing on purpose. I fail to see how this benefits you.

My more-depressing interpretation of this is the value comes as an explanation for being written off by others. Rather than being a way to filter others out, a person with multiple socially off-putting habits or a generally disagreeable demeanor can do This One Weird Trick to then point at their cleverness as the reason why they are standing in a room fun of people that don’t want to talk to them.

There is no need for self-reflection if everyone else is simply too gauche to understand how actually pro-social your nakedly anti-social ruse is.
Are you kidding, that image is hilarious.

(Articles that intersperse annoying memes every 3 paragraphs with obnoxious gif animations are much much worse).
Multi-tenant SAML in an afternoon
As much as I love Hesse - Plato's Republic allows me to channel the ghost of Socrates whenever I'm in need of company.

Back on topic - I would recommend all of Hesse's books. Glassbead is my personal favorite, but I wouldn't start with that.