skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started a new job in February. Was due to pass probation in May. Handed in my notice the week before, because passing probation would increase my notice period from two weeks to twelve weeks.

Why hadn’t I left before? Because I lived in hope that the developer experience there would click with me, and I wasn’t keen on going through the job hunt wringer again.

I started my current job in August. It’s way better. I will keep this one.
Weird because my experience is the opposite. I worked for a company that makes everyone use Windows, and I accessed my PC using Citrix. I always assumed that the incredible amount of lag and jank was contributed by Citrix. Then after I'd been working there a while I went to the office in New York where my actual desk was, logged into actual physical PC I'd been using the whole time, and it was exactly as bad in person! Right click, wait one whole ass second, context menu drifts into existence. Jank everywhere. I couldn't believe people pay real money for it.
It's a paperclip maximizer. Paperclip maximizers are bad.
I'm pretty sure this is not true. Nobody has proven this.

If in my universe I could always predict the correct results, then we would just have determinism, and I could predict exactly when an atom would decay. There would be no need for statistics.

Some high level background that might help.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-syaCoqkZA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=433tAfO4dbA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvG1A795tqE
> and used just tiny fragments from the PDB

3-mers and 9-mers, if I recall correctly. The fragment-based approach helped immensely with cutting down the conformational search space. The secondary structure of those fragments was enough to make educated guesses of the protein backbone’s, at a time where ab initio force field predictions struggled with it.
Language is certainly a fascinating thing. The adjective form of "legion" always throws me off, like in the Anonymous slogan ("we are legion").

Off topic, but now I do kind of wish the Magic: The Gathering mechanic was named "Legion" instead of "Myriad".
> Old scientific code broke for many people with the introduction of the mac m1.

How could the people maintaining Python possibly avoid that? It would be up to Apple to proactively reach out to affected projects, if Apple cares about that.
I do know that. But again, a military intelligence unit focused on spying is not equivalent to a university.
Reminds me of PS/Tk, a cross-platform, cross-implementation GUI library for Scheme that worked by opening a pipe to a Tcl/Tk process and communicating with that. It actually worked fairly well, though it's sadly abandoned now. I contributed somewhat by getting it working for Gambit.
That's not flaunting it; that's just buying things you like because you have the money. Flaunting would definitely be getting your name on a list that you don't need to be on.
This is not always true. Both my mother and father enjoyed taking the kids on adventures
Did Matt really send you here without even explaining what the conversation was about? And then you didn't even bother to read it for yourself?

The article you wrote claims "The Foundation also licensed the name WordPress to the non-profit WordPress.org, which runs a website that facilitates access to WordPress-related software."

Matt in his comment claims "All the information in the links you shared is totally wrong. Our lawyers have never said that WordPress.org is a non-profit or owned by the Foundation."

So which of you have it wrong?
Gonna be fun when some dusty controller takes out a water processing plant and no one can locate it.
That must be a regional preference. I don't know anyone that isn't a big institution that has a backup generator powered by diesel (and definitely not gasoline). Permanently installed home backup generators are invariably natural gas or propane.

Gasoline is a terrible choice in any case, it goes bad quickly if you don't stabilize it. The only time I ever see gasoline being used it's with little portable generators. Even then, I see a lot of people starting to choose propane instead now.
> These all suck, and the government generally collects money on assets as they move not assets at rest.

The government can also collect money on assets at rest (or at least, on cash at rest). They do so by creating money. It could be an interesting tax regime where the only forms of taxation are taxes to discourage action (e.g. tax on tobacco) and money creation.
>> A serious language designer....

That's why I put "language developer" in quotes.
So you intentionally make code harder to read for most of the humans on this planet, so satisfy a desire to use longer identifiers?
Yes, scientific progress is awesome, when taking a long view -- but it requires that we keep being critical if we want the progress to continue.
Of course, traveling becomes harder when you have a baby, that shouldn't come as a suprise to anybody. But I don't like the sexist tone in your post.

Also, what makes you think that your situation generalizes to the OP?
It won't make German jokes any funnier.
True, thanks for correcting me. Turkey applied in 2024 to join BRICS (and also SCO seemingly), but haven't done so yet.
If it results in a net reduction of [being racist] I support it.
> Musk hoped Brazilian users would get angry with the government, and they just downloaded bluesky instead.

Those are not mutually exclusive. Brazilians straight up protested this judge and his actions.
Linters already flag this as error
I suspect that this isn't a big deal for those who don't hold .io domains.
It's a small (mm2 scale,) high precision, high efficiency stepper motor, fabricated as both rotary and linear devices.

Looks like a big deal to me with many potential applications. A lot of optics applications come to mind, although they're pitching semiconductor manufacturing. The submission link provides several videos (wmv format, for some reason.)
Depends on the context, at least based on my experience from 1live and Cosmo interviews, and some TV series.
So when X was banned for political reasons people cheered. But when Discord is banned for political reasons people freak out?
This kind of thought experiment seems like it breaks down due to the uncertainty principle. We can't exactly specify the full state of every particle in the universe. The universe might also be infinite and you can't enumerate an infinite set even without uncertainty, though you can write a generating function or recurrence relation for it, which seems to be Wolfram's point.

But why bother with this kind of detail? What's the difference between what you're imagining here and a normal reel of film? It can be played back, but even if it isn't, it records the state of events that happened, including observers that once existed and no longer do, experiencing events that once happened but no longer do. It's possible for a record to describe a canonical sequence even if the record itself doesn't change. Somebody outside of the record can view it out of order, speed it up, slow it down, pause it, reverse it. A film reel doesn't share the time dimension of its own universe in that way.

I'm struggling to come up with what this implies and why.
They thought that about Yuzu, too.
I know what this is! They want to "to give it" to Jeff Bezos, by breaking AWS' boto3, that has a nightmare of a story for handling/catching specific exceptions. It's all politically motivated!
> Those should be the first requirements before being able to be deemed critical.

Strong agree; however, it would be highly unusual to find that any facility that knows to file critical load paperwork has neglected this, so I'm not sure that it would actually do much other than inconvenience the process.
But I can style the name of my business however I want, "E'v'a's Blumenladen" is correct because I say so. I don't need anyones approval.
Agreed. There are too many different directions of impact to point out explicitly, so I'll give a short vignette on one of the most immediate impacts, which was the use in protein crystallography. Many aspiring crystallographers correctly reorganized their careers following AlphaFold2, and everyone else started using it for molecular replacement as a way to solve the phase problem in crystallography; the models from AF2 allowed people to resolve new crystal structures from data measured years prior to the AF2 release.
Will ChatGPT input form data into websites? Your idea is good for "turn this ticket info into a .ics file" (I imagine) but might not work for "add this ticket info to this proprietary website's internal calendar".
He's appeared in several of related threads here on HN. He is always asked about his lawyers, and he repeatedly claims that they're cool with his behavior.
> What do you use unit tests for, other than verifying implementation details?

1. Determining when the observable behavior of the program changes.

2. Codifying only the specific behaviors that are known to be relied on by callers.

3. Preventing regressions after bugs are fixed.

Failing tests are alarm bells, when do you want them to grab your attention?
Python breaks compatibility across minor versions. I'm not surprised seeing such proposal.
> harvested the speed advantages the interpreter can have when it can count on that,

Does the interpreter actually optimize code based on type information? My knowledge is that it does not
Something I really don't get is the part about Google's monopoly in search text ads. FTA:

> Finally, the filing said Google’s dominance over search text ads needed to be addressed by lowering barriers to would-be rivals or licensing its ad feed to others, independently from search results.

What Google has is a monopoly on search (which is bad), but I don't think having a monopoly for advertising on your own property is a bad thing. If anything, from a privacy perspective, I'd rather that only one party (the publisher, in this case Google) gets to see my searches, rather than the publisher and an ecosystem of low-scrupules ad platforms.

For sure I might be biased as I used to work on Google Ads, but I also know quite a bit about how the sausage is made and how the industry is. That being said, I really don't see how "licensing the ad feed" would do any good for end users.
Matt has also claimed that you or someone else on his legal team has signed off on his posting. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41726834

Is that true or false?
I didn't realize that she did it southbound. Most people do the AT south to north.

The reason is that it allows them to start early in the spring, when it's warm in the south, so the can finish before autumn in the north. If she can do it in a month, then that matters less.

It does mean a slight net elevation loss (5,270' to 3,780'), but given the hundreds of thousands feet of elevation gain and loss I can't imagine that this matters much.

She would have been running against traffic most of the time. Which probably means a lot less having to ask people to move when you pass, since they can see you coming. Perhaps that's sufficient reason to do it that way.
I've been using a .rsync-filter file for something like what you mean for ages for my homedirs backups. It's a bit tricky probably to make it right the first time but once it's there it just works.

https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/rsync/rsync.1.en.html#f...
The point is, there’s no way to evaluate if this commenter is wrong, since nobody is going to read 7 books to verify the validity of an internet comment.

It’s a classic logical fallacy; appeal to authority. There is no reason to believe any of these writers have a better understanding of how the world works than any other “authority” of the past like Karl Marx.

Just because someone says something in a book doesn’t make it true.
The AT&T split had nothing to do with monopoly regulation (as opposed to the Bell breakup in 1982), other than the fact that Wall Street wasn't rewarding regulated operating companies with dot-com valuations. AT&T wanted to sell hardware to other telcos and dot-coms, so spun off Lucent, which had no idea what it wanted to do with P9/Inferno (which was a fantastic piece of kit!) other than embed it into a couple of network products. Lucent bet heavily on unstable CLECs like Worldcom, generated a couple of headline-creating network crashes, and then failed to capitalize on their pole position in optical long-haul (to be fair, they also bet heavily on a very unstable Global Crossing for that). There's a lot of mismanagement and failures that can be ascribed to Lucent leadership without government or regulatory intervention being involved.
I didn’t say gatekeeping was always a bad word, in fact I think some gatekeeping is often justified when it comes to AI art.

As far as the carpenter stuff, I feel like your metaphor is once again going much too far. Someone can be a carpenter whether they buy their wood at home depot or grow the trees themselves… but it would be foolish to say that the person who buys the wood pre-grown is not a real carpenter.

We are talking about game developers, not engine developers. If someone wants to be a game dev, they have to have developed the game, but not the underlying engine. I don’t see how this is controversial.
English should just abandon differentiating vowels all together. All dialects of English shwa unemphasized vowels to some extent, and the different dialects largely boil down to how we pronounce various vowels.

J`st ch`nge `m t` di`cr`t'c m`rks, `nd `t's st`ll p`rf`ctl` l`g`ble
Proof of Membership (Public Good ENS Alternative) – Bi-Weekly Update
[x] Migrated from Node to the blazingly fast Bun JS/TS runtime.

[x] Migrated from CRA (Create React App) to Vite.

[x] Migrated from Wagmi 1.x to 2.x.

[x] Implemented contract types with Abitype and updated hooks.

[x] Cleaned up redundant dependencies.

All these efforts are about stabilization of the pom dapp and improvement of its performance and safety.

A minimal show of appreciation would be to give our repo on GitHub a star
> people suddenly realizing they were already recognizing genderless people without knowing it ;)

Not true. It was used in the past to refer to an unknown person. I.e. "When a candidate arrives given them the test." You don't know what sex the candidate is before he arrives and instead of saying "he or she" you say "they".

But nowadays people use it as a superclass of he and she: "I asked my boss for a raise but they refused". It doesn't make any sense. You know very well what sex your boss is, but "they" is used for virtue signaling. It's a way of saying "I know my boss is a man, but I'm going to use they because a woman could do just a good a job and he, sorry, they does."
He's not "citing sources." He's outsourcing his argument to textbooks. The point stands: if you want to refute an argument, do so yourself, possibly with reference to corroborating sources. Don't just say "you're wrong. Go read this stuff to figure out why" -- that's no way to have a discussion.
By summing up the top 60 entries for UK billionares from The Times Rich List for 2024 (which is data from 2023), I get almost exactly 500 billion pounds in net worth (£499.55bn). According to Wikipedia, the UK had a total net worth of $15,972bn USD, which comes out to £12,298bn at the current exchange rate of 0.77 pounds / dollar.

That comes out to around 4.1% of the total wealth. However, the number from Wikipedia is from 2022, so this figure isn't going to be entirely accurate.
I find a lot of interesting links between spirituality and physics like this. One idea or message in spirituality is that everything happens exactly as as "the universe" intends it to. It's meant to be a comforting thought as events (good and bad) occur in one's life and to encourage one to detach from outcomes. Yet, it's more or less parallel to classical determinism as you mentioned.

> Physically speaking (classically anyway), things all happen right when they are supposed to.
Anyone else click just to slide some animations?
A website to create Frameless Web Apps on Linux
> Micropayments have been tried through third party networks but they’ve never worked.

Never worked? Or weren't good enough (fast, trustworthy, easy, cheap) for the purpose? I don't think its an easy problem to solve.
> Imagine saying that to anyone born a generation prior and expecting sympathy.

The fact that older generations accepted something doesn't mean there are no better ways. In the past, children as young as 7 worked in the coal mines, and doctors treated patients with blood-letting and leeches for all kind of ailments. The fact that old generations accepted things because there were no better alternatives shouldn't leave us blind to the fact that there are, in fact, better ways of doing things.

In fact, many of the older generations saw the futility of their workplaces and have written about it, and their works became bestsellers, most likely because many people of the time recognized the crushing soullessness of the workplace.

Kafka's The Metamorphosis:

"I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself."

And Bukowski's Factotum:

"How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?"

So, yeah, I do imagine saying that to anyone born a generation prior. I might even write about it and become famous, because that's relevant and important. If nobody objects to it, be it in works of fiction, or with their actions, nothing will change.
Why the ancient power of the Dao De Jing is more important than
You have to be consistent. If you say that presidents aren't responsible for external events, then you can't give Trump credit for the smooth sailing lack of external evennts of 2016-2019. If you say that they are, then you have to give Biden credit for weathering the storm during his presidency.

> (It is the first time that I have heard anyone describing Biden as a true master.)

Just letting the Fed do their job deserves most of the credit. Should be table stakes, but Trump has promised to %^@# that up.
Solar is the answer. Propane fridges are incredibly slow to cool. Best thing I did for my RV quality of life was install a bunch of LFP and a few solar panels, along with a compressor fridge. I don't miss the old absorption fridges at all.
Disagree, I’m so disappointed in companies who do sprint type development refusing to use Python. It works well with the “Silicon Valley startup ecosystem”.

That being said, as far as workplace differences I’d say Java shops would be the ideal, slower, less long term problems but so much more initial investment.
Wouldn't that be sort of like what the Terminator sees?

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/--jogapJmjI/hqdefault.jpg
WhatsApp was blocked at least twice for failing to provide plain text user messages. Telegram was also blocked.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10749129

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10750564

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11614116

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12039504

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12123544

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12123544

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11645840

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11624808

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35722298

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34527608

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35746773

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35895005
Weird twist: Slavic languages use words very similar to "domus" for "house", for example, "dom" in Polish or "дом" in Ukrainian.
It's not fine. It's still a disgrace. But i agree, using accents or backticks is so much worse!
I think PhD's are generally different enough in Europe vs the US that this might be less surprising upon further research
No I know, it's also part of the French standard. Just more so commenting on how uncommon it is from Canadian English speakers despite it being the Canadian English "standard" recommend by a Canadian entity similar to the French or German standards bodies.
Yup, that's what I was thinking. Combining PSBT and QR is a very intuitive workflow. All the pieces are there waiting to be put together. Makes it more novel and impressive you did it way before.
Ha. "greengrocer’s apostrophe" is a very polite way of referring to those who put an apostrophe before every trailing "s".
I can't tell you why you imagined that, but that's pretty funny nevertheless.
In dutch, it's not even a mistake for certain words ending with vowels.

For example "Photo's".
What you say would have been true 10+ years ago, but not anymore. Big tech is really into rent seeking and competition stifling now, we'd see more innovation by opening up the space so new players can get a foothold.
No. And I know this by the sheer lack of videos and discussion of any kind on it.
You do realize that what people actually speak (in France) differs quite a bit from the Académie Française. email vs. courriel for example is a good one, but you'll stand out in most places if you don't know l'argot (slang).

I don't think an English standardization would change much in how people actually speak.
For what purpose? If you need to access home services or company service while outside in the world a PERSONAL VPN, i.e. wireguard on your SOHO server at home/office is ok, because you own BOTH the server and the client and your traffic go through a domestic ISP under domestic laws of your countries, laws you know, your lawyer know, you can easy act as needed etc.

If you need a proxy on steroid to watch netflix from another country well, use any commercial VPN, but ONLY for the needed purpose, not for the rest of your traffic.

Your ISP can snoop on you LESS than a commercial VPN vendor, especially if such vendor is based in exotic places without privacy laws, while obviously claiming the contrary in advertisements. There is NO PRIVACY PURPOSE for using commercial VPNs.
> It's hard not to be sympathetic to Russia's perspective that the US arming Ukraine and promoting NATO expansion violates the spirit of the Budapest memorandum and also the informal assurances that were apparently given to Russia by the US.

1. Nobody was providing military aid to Ukraine before Russia invaded, and even then it was initially of non-lethal nature.

2. NATO expansion was an initiative of countries in Central and Eastern Europe, against heavy skepticism by existing NATO members (including the US) -- and not something that the US "promoted". The initiative was in large part a reaction to the Russian war in Chechnya, and overall Russian hostility towards its European neighbors. Whatever glimmer of hope there was in early 1990s for different kind of relations, seeing Russian atrocities in Chechnya squashed them overnight.

3. If by "apparent" assurances you mean the conspiracy theory that someone promised Russians that NATO would not accept new members in Europe, then this has been refuted by USSR's top leaders - Gorbachev himself, his foreign minister, defense minister, and others. It's total nonsense.

> Of course now in 2024 Ukrainians support the war, but if one were to ask them in 1994 if they would want what they now have in 2024 or would it be OK to continue to be neutral, they would undeniably prefer neutrality and peace.

"Neutral option" is how they arrived in the present day. Ukraine was too slow to follow other CEE countries in joining EU and NATO, and wasn't covered by mutual defense guarantees by the time Russians invaded. Ukraine remaining out of strong alliances made the invasion less risky for Russians. That was a mistake. Sweden and Finland -- the last two neutral countries near Russia -- immediately learned from that mistake and joined NATO.
So if I want to price a barrier in Bermudan rainbow via Monte Carlo I should take the speed hit for a few oddball double rounding problems that are pennies?