skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Books that stood out to me as a teenager:
- A series of Unfortunate Events (all of them)

because I liked the never ending mystery of it all, and I was both annoyed, and pleased by the fact that you never actually find out what actually happened to the parents. I know it was a fictional series, but it was, and still is, the only fictional books I’ve ever read. I was particularly impressed by the author’s playful use of words and punctuation that could draw me in and keep me interested and curious. He kind of inspired me to be more creative with the way I use words when I write. Not that I’ve done much writing for fun lately, but occasionally I do.

The other book, I’m almost embarrassed to admit was:

- The secret by Rhonda Byrne.

I got particularly obsessed with this book, I think partly because I grew up in quite adverse circumstances, I started to think that if I was just more positive, more positive things would happen for me. I really developed quite a strong positive and optimistic attitude to life, believing that if I just thought about good things often enough, good things would happen. In practicality this often meant that as a teenager sometimes I came across optimistic to the point of seeming delusional. As I’ve got older, I’ve really come to the conclusion that the book “the secret” is a load of crap. However, I do think that I cope better in life with adversity than some of the people I went to school with have because of how I frame life events, often choosing the frame them as the next opportunity and frame them in more positive ways. I think that’s something I gained from reading that book, even if it was mainly a bunch of nonsense.

The rest of the books I read as a teenager were to do with serial killers. Particularly Ted Bundy, and John Wayne Gacy, and other stuff to do with weird, horrible, violent crimes.
The new CSS property that boosts your rendering performance (2020)
Those were just the ones I remember reading as a kid/teenager. There are others that I read later in life which I'd also recommend such as the Foundation series by Asimov, Moby Dick, Dune, Life of Pi, works by Jules Verne, Edgar Allan Poe, Terry Pratchett, Stanislaw Lem, Pierre Boulle, etc.
Yes, interestingly some of the signal comes from kissing the baby.
That’s the easy part. The hard part is working around non-compliant third parties. HTTP is a real mess.
Could you say something about the cases where you did need to write Erlang code?

What kind of cases? Were you already proficient in Erlang and its ecosystem?
Not all rocks (at least using human strength)
iirc, most content delivery networks have now configured initcwnd to be around 40, meaning ~58kb gets sent within the TCP slow start window and therefore 14kb is no longer relevant to most commercial websites (at least with H1/H2, as you mentioned QUIC/H3 uses UDP so it's different)
Prioritize Through Purpose
Good luck basing your life on assumptions.
Seconding the recommendation, it's really great when paired with HTMX on the frontend too.
> There is a massive push to demonize drinking, you are seeing it everywhere.

I don't see this push, but I would not be surprised if I did.

If alcohol were only invented today, there isn't a single civilised country in the world that would legalise it. The reason it is legal right now is because it was grandfathered into law because humans have had alcohol since before we had writing!

The victim-count of alcohol dwarves everything else, even smoking when smoking popularity was at its peak; why are you surprised to see a push to demonise it?
not long after the pods worked, scientists found out we never needed to leave the bags in the first place... cuts to matrix scene of towers of human battery/pods
My question is - how does a Russian guy get his hands on an unreleased Apple product?

Smuggled out of a factory?

I would have guessed Apple had security locked down tight for new products. I know it's China, but usually dangling "Apple will punish you by pulled future products" is enough incentive.
What the hell is that "dump truck with trailer" on a really long connector at 3:50? Is that a thing in some parts? How does that navigate almost any kind of roadway safely?
Artificial wombs would be a huge advance toward creating far more problems than would be encouraging couples (couples, not just women) to breed, such as economic incentives.
microRNA is abbreviated miRNA.

mRNA provides the blueprint for constructing proteins based on the genetic information stored in DNA.

miRNAs are small regulatory RNAs that control gene expression by interacting with mRNA, influencing whether certain proteins are produced or not.
If you are on the bike path it really depends of the configuration and how large they are. Ideally you want te driver to have completed his entry so that he can focus on the bike lane. Best ones are those that have an elevated bike path that is seen as a speedbump for the drivers: they are forced to slow down and look.
The title of the article is "Smolderingly fast b-trees". Smoldering is (sorta) an antonym of blazing. Blazingly fast means very fast, smolderingly fast would therefore mean not very fast.
Status page is wrong; no outage; it's been working great.
It's obvious from apples falling from trees that gravity is actually the curvature of spacetime?
Because Musk as a person is a huge liar, fraud and a major disappointment with a messiah complex to boot ?

We could be looking at these developments with excitement, instead many of us think about how he is going to use this tech to fuck more things up and justify more immoral behaviour. He is a real life Bond villain.

Read this case document by Aaron Jacob Greenspan, it’s fascinating and a good read: https://www.plainsite.org/dockets/download.html?id=332879335...

5.
Defendant Musk has openly admitted that his leadership philosophy is that the ends—here, Tesla’s mission of “accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable energy”—justify the means, or fraudulent and unlawful business practices, so long as they keep a company afloat.

He also tweeted this two years ago…

For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally Apr 28, 2022

It makes me nervous such a guy is in control of so many things…

Russia having starlink to use drones to bomb Ukrainian soldiers, for example. Buying Twitter to spread lies and conspiracies is another. Calling a hero a “pedo guy” because he didn’t agree with his approach.

The guy is an asshat, period.
XXH3 does not have this property, no more than foldhash does.
How Kanban Really Works
Prioritization conflicts are exactly the situations when Product Managers must step away from traditionally accepted management tools and frameworks and look deeper into Purpose.
You can read some history and documents here:

https://holodomormuseum.org.ua/en/the-history-of-the-holodom...

I cannot find detailed history of Holodomor translated to English language. However, nothing special here: physical elimination of richer people is the corner stone of communism ideology. Communists did the same in all captured countries.
This is probably wrong because nearly every country is experiencing the trend. When you account for that, the reason is simple, the wealthier people are the more expensive children are.
I hope so and I don't believe people can rely on the EUGH to defend civil rights.

We need a law to box law drafts that failed multiple times. Suggesting new forms of surveillance month after month isn't feasible.

Also, my country is not competent enough to really look at internet comments in a detached manner. The society just doesn't have the necessary maturity. And even then, it is nothing anyone should strive for.
You are indeed overthinking, because I just said, very clearly, that I acknowledged the hallucination problem, and yet you're throwing citations back as if I never heard of it. How many times does one have to say "it's a known issue"?

My point was on controversial topic, where a single error can deal serious damage.

Okay, but so can a single garbage article on a search engine result. I guess one shouldn't build search engines then (unless they can be held to the same standards as nuclear reactors), because do you think we can afford even single bad result? Just imagine what will happen, etc.
Somehow the headline made me think of a parent with a TikTok account.
Is this similar to the Windows (since at least 3.1 I think?) BitBlt function, that takes an `op` parameter to decide how to combine the source, destination and mask?

I remember there are names for some of the codes like BLACKNESS for producing black whatever the inputs are, COPY (or something like that) to just copy the source to the destination etc. I always thought BLACKNESS and WHITENESS had a kind of poetic ring to them.

As far as I know, I think this is from Petzold, it's implemented in software but the opcode is actually converted to custom assembly inside the function when you call it, a rare example of self-modifying code in the Windows operating system.
Fear the cockroaches they stand a better chance
Elevated pedestrians crossing (which means the crossing is a speed bump for drivers_ is the solution because roundabouts are actually safer than regular intersections once drivers are forced to slow down.

I know all those speed bumps are annoying when you are driving but elevated crossings and bike paths are great traffic calming solution as screaming your engine between speed bumps soon gets very old and tiring and even the most aggressive drivers just end up staying between 12 and 20mph (20-35kph) in the sections that involve pedestrians and cyclists.
In a proud moment for the region and the country, Rupa Bayor, a Taekwondo athlete from Arunachal Pradesh, has scripted history by becoming the first Indian to make it to the top 10 of the World Poomsae Rankings.

The Arunachal girl is currently ranked ninth in the global rankings. Rupa's meteoric rise to the top began in 2021 when she was ranked 123rd on the global rankings.

Since then, she has steadily climbed up the ladder, reaching 42nd in 2022 and grabbing the 12th spot in 2023.
I am in the same spot as a non-software engineer.

If you are using multiple programming languages though you really can't say you are a non-programmer.

I just got up and running with Julia in like two weeks when I didn't even know what Julia was 3 weeks ago.

On the other hand, I have the digital audio workstation Reaper installed. It is one thing for LLMs to write crud apps and data science scripts but to write a digital audio workstation(something I have 25 years of experience as a user), as a non-software engineer I wouldn't even know how to begin. Even if I could compile the code to play an audio file with a volume knob, the gulf is so huge. I wouldn't be able to add more than a few features before it would become totally unmanageable since I don't know what I am doing.

Much of what makes LLMs so impressive is we have such low expectations of modern software. They have broken the market for demo CRUD apps. Beyond that though I wouldn't trust anything cursor and I make.
I almost wonder if the parent is asking in good faith, like, “oh thanks, I didn’t notice…” ?
All the phones sold with Sailfish OS & all the officially supported Xperias used libhybris - same with most unofficial ports. While not ideal, it works reasonably well - saying that as someone who has been using a Sailfish OS device as primary phone since 2013.
Maybe the people running the crawler are also parenting tiktokers
Deepgram is another alternative. I use it at work, fastest service and also relatively cheap. But Whisper is better for selfhosting
Even back in the day, they covered such things as the argument for/against ballistic missile defense (well before SDI).
Where are we in the hype cycle regarding microbiome? Would it be feasible to launch a startup that leverages the synergy between AI, the blockchain and gut bacteria? I am serious!
panic: something something upper or lower boundary of that "'minimal" lifetime you tried to use

^^^^^^^^^^ expected lifetime<Ref<Rc<Arc<&mut str>>>>, found Ref<Cell<&mut<lifetime<mut str>>>>
It’s problematic in some ways. Many new mothers torture themselves unnecessarily about nursing vs formula because they want the best for their baby. The benefits of nursing are real, and if you can do it, great. But if you don’t have the time, biology or even just inclination to breastfeed, your baby will be fine.

There’s no evidence that says formula is detrimental, especially compared to not eating enough at all.
> why is being in a car a special case?

Cars are expensive to modify if possible at all. My recent make Audi and Porsches, aside from being completely unreliable, have no ability to have a third party head unit due to module coding lock in. Gone are the days of slapping a double din head unit where the LCD and AC controls went and wiring up to the CAN bus and analog audio cables.

However, it’s cheap to add in/enable a feature on a chip that’s already installed.

Similarly at home there’s probably already an AM radio somewhere even if you don’t think you have it. My home theater system has an AM radio. I have a clock radio somewhere. An older phone does AM radio. And unlike a car, an AM/FM radio is a $20-50 expense.
Well, again, while not covering all aspects of mobile apps, it could run Android apps at a time no other mobile Linux (or any other non-Android device could do it).
Sometimes tunnels are builds to avoid lights when going straight is the direction favored by the majority but it can force an unwanted loop if you stayed on that lane and you didn't realize in time you had to go right to take the roundabout.
> You mention that foldhash does not claim to provide HashDoS resistance against interactive attackers, so perhaps that disqualifies it.

The linked CVE is not an interactive attack either FYI, so foldhash would be sufficient to protect against that. When I say an "interactive attacker" I mean one that analyzes hash outcomes (either directly or indirectly through things like timing attacks and iteration order) to try and reverse engineer the hidden internal state.

> If anything, given this requirement, comparing with wyhash, as they do in the article, is misleading.

That is correct. There is no reason to believe wyhash is secure against interactive attackers.
Any pure function is just a glorified lookup table.

(Yes, I know, finite input domain etc.)
> does not respect robots.txt research shows.

It would be nice then for the investigators to help people with the identifying markers for such crawlers. Apart from a mention of darkvisitors, which it seems is a paid service to "Block agents who try to ignore your robots.txt"

I'm not sure how much that could be trusted given their business model also.
It’s disingenuous to leave out C# and F# out of this, given how much closer they are to Rust in language features and how much more “close to the metal” capabilities they offer while also having opinionated web frameworks, better CLI tooling and package management and being generally very productive languages.
Leave no bot behind!
Check out the Orion series of Sigint birds[1]

" The satellites have estimated mass close to 5,200 kg and very large (estimated 100 m diameter) radio reflecting dishes."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(satellite)
Iterating through matched characters in modern C++: views:filter and coroutine
Thank you , my issue is, YouTube should be doing this for me. I’m paying them for a service.
1. It’s a bizarre, over the top dissection of a person and their resume. Funny because the style doesn’t match the content.

2. To me personally, it’s extra funny because it’s two people breathlessly discussing.. me.

3. The strange turns of phrase (“That’s Masto”)

4. The stuff it makes up. I’ve never touched the guitar, but apparently I “shred”.
mRNA = messenger RNA

miRNA = microRNA

tRNA = transfer RNA

rRNA = ribosomal RNA

siRNA = small interfering RNA
Fine-Tune GPT-4o for Object Detection
Putin's 'Merchant of Death' Is Back in the Arms Business
It's an investment in energy efficiency
I wonder what if any other games use the Halo engines? Surely it wasn't just for Halo?
> if I slam on the brakes in the name of safety, or perform an evasive maneuver, does that mean I am an unsafe driver?

If you have to frequently do that, it's probably because you put yourself in situations where an earlier safer choice of action would have avoided the need. Frequent abrupt/high-G maneuvers to turn accidents into near-misses probably does correlate strongly with future losses (you’re eventually going to “fail to miss”).

"A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill.” — Frank Borman.
Some are bothered by his positions that explicitly want to roll back rights for people while others are bothered by his current "government aid is bad" position given how much such aid he has received.

I'm guessing if he actually lived the beliefs he said he used to have more people with support him.
yeah like carbon credits
I have found that there is a big difference in quality of books. It is really great to have people mention what impacted them, and why.
I did. Care to share your opinion or just trolling?
Nice. I would love to do a trip.

I heard about Waverley when I visited the Maid of the Loch https://www.maidoftheloch.org/ which is a paddle steamer that they are currently repairing at Loch Lomond where it used to do trips.
A unit test has nothing to do with a REPL, a proper REPL provides something similar to jupiter notebooks in feel, alongside debugging and hot code reload experience.
It appears to be a product that requires the Cloudflare edge computing service.
I got news for you: they already did https://www.arrl.org/power-line-noise
My imagination does not have the person who bought a Cybertruck as their eighth car storing cars on their front yard.
This article makes several different points that would ideally each be tackled on their own.

You don't need a router when you have pattern matching (just split the url and match on static and dynamic vars however you need)

Auth is typically DIY in any language, or SaaS like Firebase/Auth0. It's not a language or framework problem, necessarily

CSS/JS tooling makes no sense for many frontend Rust frameworks like Dominator, which is in Rust (not JS) and has its own approach to styling that works for it (e.g. attaching styles to signals, so they change on the fly)

I get what the author is saying - in fact I've been around the block a couple times solving all the different points in the article and it is painful. For example, see https://github.com/dakom/dominator-workers-fluent-auth which does a lot of the stuff here on the Cloudflare workers framework (also adds another wishlist item - localization with Fluent)

A "batteries included" full framework that does _everything_ is nice to have, but many real-world projects will want to replace those opinionated decisions and go the DIY route anyway. Rust is more than mature enough, even on the frontend web, to tackle all of that - if you know where to look (wasm-bindgen, etc.)
A bit of crackle and you wanna throw out AM?
E-Commerce Is Making China's Deflation Worse
NES Classic only supported 30 built-in games, with no official way to purchase or download more.
The bottle neck depends on the amount of CPU resources you throw at something
Mea culpa. I've done the econometricians a great disservice!

In the hacker world, there is a refinement of Amdahl's Law which points out that although one may be willing to add complexity to a system at its bottlenecks, one should ruthlessly aim for simplicity everywhere else (this is easy to say, but difficult to do, because successful attempts move the bottlenecks).

I like to think of this as a computation being like a mountain stream, where changing the topography only matters at waterfalls; inside of pools it'd just be wasted effort. (to first order; at higher orders I'd hold that adding complexity inside of pools is actively detrimental, while removing it there may [beware of parenthetical above] be helpful)

In the econometrics world, Shapley–Shubik clarifies* the circumstances under which relative power differences between members of a coalition become moot: either they hang together or they hang separately.

* in particular, a functional triad is worth 417/2145.

ERRATUM: also, please correct "amazing spin on it", supra, to "amazing spin on X (né twitter)"

EDIT: even the appearance of a functional triad; for those more utilitarian than Pareto optimal that 417/2145 would be worth hecatombs of glowing boomers. Today I don't enjoy the "P! Who put valenki on management panel?" anecdote so much.
I like to hear from the actual traffic planners. Enough laymen rant about why roads are made the way they are, but there are usually considerations they don't know. I'm very curious what kinds of systems get used for planning and what data they have.
> The M4 iPad is close to an i9-14900k in single thread.

For how many microseconds ? /s
What similar books are there to The Selfish Gene? I read it not too long ago and found it astonishing.

People are generally enthralled by Sapiens which is just a very mediocre extension + shallow interpretation of Dawkins’ thesis.
I have a genetic partial immunodeficiency (PNP Deficiency) and I constantly get fungal infections. Living in warm, humid climates is a challenge for me.

Reading just the beginning of that article "she experienced chronic pain, digestive problems and a cardiac arrhythmia", well, that is my life. I constantly have minor aspergillosis, and I have some lung nodules from some past fungal infections as well.

Keeping the microbiome under control is all about a healthy immune system.

But since my disorder affected my mental state they just labeled me as a psychiatric case and did not look any further, If anyone here is a doctor, please do not give up on psychiatric patients. Thanks.

Interesting case here:

Aspergillosis of the central nervous system in a previously healthy patient that simulated Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5180434/

"He was admitted to the hospital with an occipital headache which he had endured for 2 months. For over 1 and a half months, he had also experienced behavioral disorders and a disruption of higher mental functions. He had retrograde and anterograde amnesia with both echolalia and the presence of visual hallucinations. "
> I'm an incredibly lazy developer

> Watch the literally hundreds of hours of me live coding in Rust on YouTube

Your definition of "lazy" seems quite different from the standard definition.

In my view, the average "incredibly lazy developer" of 2024 tries to have an LLM write most code for them (probably in JS/TS/Python), doesn't notice the subtle bugs introduced by said LLM, and ships straight to prod. If using an LLM fails, they go back to StackOverflow to look for an answer that they can copy-paste. When that fails they give up and ask a less lazy developer for help. At no point in this process did they read the documentation for the language/framework/etc they are using to accomplish their goals.
Shallow draught. Paddle steamers were very useful at Dunkirk, big boats that could get very close to the beach and embark the evacuees directly.

Clearly not enough of an advantage to keep using them, but Waverley was built for a route already being serviced by a fleet of three other paddle steamers, and presumably a screw ship would've required some operational changes, so it's easy to imagine the company deciding to stick with what they knew rather than get with the times.
Both are exceedingly slow and memory-hungry. The average user of Rust might get shocked and never touch these again.

Now F# on the other hand…
Running multiple apps on a single server with Kamal 2
I know TypeScript is available but not everyone can be convinced to adopt JS. I was part of that group until recently as I have been using strongly-typed language all my life.
QUIC client ported to ESP32 platform
New conspiracy theory: ants developed Factorio to train us to their thinking and organization.