skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The side effect of being open to new way of writing software
Yes, and in fact the extinction event associated with this high-velocity change is termed the "Holocene Extinction" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
It wasn't yesterday.
I agree. Django has been behind many multi-billion dollar companies (Instagram, Dropbox, Pinterest, Spotify, etc). How on earth are they not even receiving 0.1% of this value back in donations? I can only imagine that they're not asking in the right way, because the amount of good will toward them is absolutely massive.
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I scroll through TikTok a fair bit, and recently encountered a FEMA/helicopter/conspiracy/paranoia video. My hope is that it was some bot/foreign-influence content, because it is much more concerning if the deranged comments are coming from actual people.
There are HN posters with the ability to see hard data inside America's largest tech and manufacturing businesses, but don't investigate the question, "How much of what you buy every day was made in China?"
Check out BlyncLights from Embrava. Much simpler and cheaper. I've installed them in a few companies and have one at home so my wife knows when I'm in a meeting or free.
I'm not sure I understand why this is an apocalypse. Diversity is great. While I'm sure the CNCF would love a world where literally everything ran on kubernetes, as one example, the reality is that making kubernetes the one tool for everything everywhere all at once will only turn it into a piece of certification design-by-committee garbage (which, let's be real, it basically already is). We should not want one unified world of open source; I love the idea that anyone, whether divided by race, nationality, or just thought process, is out there approaching problems from a different angle and rethinking from first principals. We should share ideas, not code.
Well when you put it like that it sounds very economical!
Mesh Shaders – The Future of Rendering [video]
If you deploy on merge (squash or regular) to main then having the commits squashed makes no difference with regards to finding out what was deployed.
That's quite a connection. Then again, the ultimate result of that effort was that the Jewish diaspora (as a whole), a fair chunk of it anyway, ended up securing places to settle in North America, infinitely safer than Europe would prove to be centuries hence. So there's that.

BTW I finally followed up in regard to that guy with the beard, if it's still of interest:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41794563
That’s not really what the paper is about.
It could kill thousands, but only sickened the people it was actually (professionally) used against.

Its so secret no one knows exactly what it is, but happily one of the few people around able to recognize it was the person to discover it.

There's quite a lot of open questions around this case that could benefit from further data.
> Chances are that recruiters just ignore your resume without even thinking about it.

That's why should always try to avoid recruiters and apply direct if possible!

> Especially if there are other candidates who do have that much experience in a specific language.

True. But the context of this discussion is that there are not very many candidates with the (nominally) required experience (i.e. several years of professional Rust experience). And that's often the case as job specs often have unreasonable requirements.
At least five interesting things to start your week (#51)
GPU Driven Rendering with Mesh Shaders in Alan Wake 2 [video]
Because its interesting. ISS has a shelf life fast approaching and the idea of it falling into the earth and not be replaced is another classic story of the american empire withering away. Akin to the last shuttle flight.

Meanwhile a chinese space station doing a dozen small physics experiments doesn’t capture the same interest.
Made a small project to help extract structure from documents (pdf,jpg,etc -> JSON or CSV): https://datasqueeze.ai/

There's 10 free pages to extract if anyone wants to give it a try. I've found that just sending a pdf to models doesn't extract it properly especially with longer documents. Have tried to incorporate all best practices into this tool. It's a pet project for now. Lmk if you find it helpful!
A deep dive into the WordPress madness and how the singular actions of Matt Mullenweg are endangering nearly half the web.
Here is what your boy Branko Milanovic says: https://x.com/BrankoMilan/status/1845850368221032590

> Good decision. They deserve it. Obviously, there is a lot to disagree with in their work, but AJR initial papers were excellent, and broadened economic work to include politics and economic history. Congratulations!
Of Connecting a Smartphone Can't Deliver
It might take an engineer with no prior RDBMS knowledge a quarter to be able to optimize a DB for their use case, but then it’s effectively free. You found the optimal parameters to use for writer nodes? Great, roll that out to the fleet.
Apparently Microsoft hold a patent on “yield!”, which makes it all the more frustrating that they haven’t included it in C#.
There’s nothing racist about stating that strong institutions and rule of law lead to economic success.

It’s an obvious truth, which many Africans reject for some reason. I’m Nigerian, and my country is a clear example of how excessive corruption and dependence on a natural resource (oil) makes a country mediocre.
I grew up from the age of five in a large 1906 Sears mail order farm house in the rural farming area east of Seattle which is now suburban.

I looked carefully but the design is not shown in the archive images which only go back to 1908. The house had three rooms and a kitchen with covered porch on the main floor, five bedrooms and a bath on the second floor. It had a large attic and two basements, one smaller than the other and which may have been a root cellar. It was balloon-framed with full-dimension lumber and had nine-foot ceilings. My father extensively remodeled the house, modernizing the electrical and plumbing, adding bathrooms and a library room.

As a kid, I got to know the son of the family that built the house and who lived next door when I lived there. He was an old man. He told me the house cost about $6,000 to buy and build.

My family sold the house long ago and it still stands today but has not been maintained and is now in truly terrible condition. The five acres it sits on is now super prime “wine country” and worth a bundle.
Thank you for the clarification. Some may interpret "not stable" meaning that it could be detrimental to it's life, not just the textbook velocity definition.

Could you answer the second part of my question:

> "How does explosive growth fit with the predictions that the coral is dying?"

To your statement:

> "We also need to understand the biodiversity, is one coral taking over because it is better adapted and creating a monoculture"

I'd say that we should not assume one way or another. It very may well be, or not. That data is probably out there and I'd be interested to know the answer. If the answer is yes, it's very healthy.

I'd also like to know what species these scientists are breeding. If it's only a select few species, is that healthier than the species that have adapted naturally and are growing fine?
Agree, seems like a more likely culprit in this case.
Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson Win Nobel Prize
Try talking to prospective customers. Understand what challenges they have and how you can address them.
What makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial (2001 PDF)
Text-Overflow: Ellipsis Considered Harmful
It's the tyranny of the rocket equation. The more you send up, the more fuel you need to send up and then you need to send fuel to lift that fuel and then fuel to lift that fuel and so on.

Since you have to have a burn to slow down and land you have to carry extra fuel to recover. That's always going to be the case, but starship is making strides towards minimizing that as much as possible with belly flops and chopsticks
Nitrogen pollution compounds with heat stress, it makes the coral more susceptible to heat stress: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1915395117
At its essence, status quo extremism is not the denial of dangers, SQE's are quite alert to them. Instead, it's about an axiomatic re-definition of danger as being about whether or not something is presently happening. If it is already happening, then by definition it's not dangerous.
To the parent, splitbrain just got you to QA this for him. The true cost of software is the maintenance and QA, and he got you to do free work, and here I am doing free work writing about it. How hard we BOTH just got pwned! </joke>
I'm planning to use this at home to defend my focus from myself! That idea definitely goes both ways.
Robustness is relative. You can certainly write a cli that does everything in an arena; your GC is the OS and so going out of scope -- who cares. doing nothing and eliminating whole classes of errors from consideration (UAF e.g.) is incredibly maintainable.

Or, as the old tale goes, your GC might be the software literally exploding (it's in an air to air missile)
Sounds like those savings exceed the subsidies that some love to point out SpaceX has gotten from the government.
It's a limitation of the Falcon Heavy, the launcher used this time. A future, more powerful one could do it while being reusable.
Individuals who don’t care and prefer squash can still use the squash option for their own work. The option is there in the $forge PR menu. No git(1) required.

The problem with the squash strategy is when it is used as a team-wide policy. Like it was described here. I can’t understand why we have to collectively limit ourselves like that.
TIL there is 'vimtutor'. I barely new the basics for quickly creating a file and inserting stuff. Will have a look if there is something to learn there, thanks for the pointer.
Ah, thanks for the clarification. Quicklisp is very much maintained and is the de-facto standard method for installing Common Lisp packages :) Although there are alternatives, too - https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl#library-manager
Aren’t subs even faster? You could literally sacrifice the sub in a harbor and have about a half second notice.
I live in the US and I have a lot of active duty & ex military members in my close circle of friends. One of the consistent trends I have noticed is the significant uptick in the number of LARPing/cosplaying military videos on Youtube, i.e. tackticool dudes.
I was looking the other day at buying the sport shotgun for shooting clay, went out and did some search on youtube to find out more about the rifle.... the search result brought out pages of (unrelated videos, that youtube thinks you might be interested) videos of dudes in full combat uniforms(+ med kits) shooting weapons at ranges.
Why they wearing all this gear ? My friends who spent years in active war zones wear jeans and T-shirts to the shooting ranges.

To me, those Youtube videos are symptoms that some weird shit brewing in our society and this news is just flares of this symptom.
But, most historical changes are quite dramatic and quick. And evolution is meant to happen quickly too, no?
Why do this when you can pay for any number of SaaS products out there?
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Have you stopped scuba diving?
Aren't you concerned that your scuba diving contributes to the destruction?
It's based on fear of change -- that something bad might be in newer foods. Taking this advice to heart would mean limiting what we eat to just a few well-known, well-tested foods.

And yet the common best-practice nutritional advice is to eat a wide variety of foods. At the same time we know of plenty of natural raw foods, and even some simple cooking processes, that are harmful.

I'd actually advocate for both practices. It's how animals survive best: some members of a species are risk takers and others are cautious, so that one or the other is likely to survive any change in environment.
What’s that got to do with this squash sub-topic?
for clarity, it looks like it means a count of 1M loans of $20k value

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The plan outlined Monday would provide 1 million fully forgivable loans of up to $20,000 to Black entrepreneurs and others to start a business. The loans would be financed through partnerships between “mission-driven lenders,” community oriented banks and the Small Business Administration, the campaign said.

The agenda also includes training and mentorship programs to help Black men get jobs in high-demand industries, and greater investments in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program to recruit and retain Black male teachers.
"Normal people" also know multiple people who have died in car accidents. They also struggle to walk up a flight of stairs and hate their lives.

Once again, you cannot trust what so-called "normal people" say. Particularly when there's political pressure at play. I'll say it again, but plenty of people would happily shoot themselves if they got to pull the trigger.

Hyper-individualism of the US, and the rest of the West to a lesser extent, is a cancer. We work hard every single day to ignore it's plagues. The extreme cognitive dissonance our citizens are forced to produce means they're not reliable narrators.
If you're frequently on call I guess it's a cool product, but then again nothing a red ON AIR light can't do for a fraction of the price.
People be so busy they need to buy a hacker-friendly device and build bespoke integrations with it.
Nature doesn't have the right conditions to deal with the changes in nature?
> I said a lot. Not most.

Sigh. Do you find being pedantic like this productive, honestly? Fine, though. You're making an unwarranted assumption about a lot of people. Happy?

> but as an objective true or false question, it's true a lot of the time.

No, it isn't. This is purely your preference.

> Are you implying that such a thought is obviously wrong?

In this case dealing with subjective preferences it absolutely is, and you absolutely are.

> I can list a thousand topics where enough people disagree that many of them have to be wrong.

Those topics would likely be far more objective in nature, as opposed to dealing with individual preferences as is the case here.

> I'm talking statistics, and I think there's plenty of evidence for it.

So make your argument instead of just insisting you're right. Let's see the evidence.
The lands that zionists have bought have mostly been uninhabited and barely inhabitable at the time. And most of arabs living there migrated from Egypt and Jordan in 18th and 19th century themselves, just like zionists did not a long time later. Arabs who call themselves "palestinians" now didn't have any identity linked to the land. In fact, to this day, the third most popular arab last name in the region is "Al Masri", which literally means "The Egyptian". The word "palestinian" used to mean "the jew" up until 1960s, when Soviets engineered first palestinian terror groups. When zionists declared Israel's independence in 1948, they were actually on the fence about country's name, because both "Israel" and "Palestine" were synonymous with Jewish homeland in everybody's minds. "Israel" was the ancient name and "Palestine" the modern, zionist one.

The only arab group which was really indeginous to the land were bedouins, and they thrive in Israel. The only terrorists linked to bedouin communities (like the one who recently killed people in Jaffa) have been incorporated in the palestinian communities (the one in Jaffa by marriage, if I'm not mistaken).

So no, the whole zionist project didn't have any conflicts with any indigenous people already living on the land. They did, however, have conflicts with people who have settled the land not that long before, and had adopted a totalitarian ideology of subjugating all other ethnic and religious groups.
Some people actually like being in an office.

I wouldn't mind working hybrid and going to an office 2-3 days/week as long as the commute was under 20 minutes.
Even more interesting :).

From my days as a junior member of a team developing a compiler and run-time libraries, I really like the approach we took there: if the compiler generated sub-optimal code for a straightforward implementation, we'd aim to fix the compiler instead of tweaking the code. That's more difficult if you're not already maintaining your own compiler, of course. And algorithmic improvements are still valuable.

In this case, the optimiser already generated efficient code. Makes me wonder if any observed speed-up might have been because the incorrect code needed to do less work?
Yes that is nicely concise, but in addition I was trying to say that the line of reasoning that life has persisted through cataclysmic environmental changes and therefore worrying about them is fearmongering is a facile argument as the persistence of lichens and prototaxites etc has no bearing on the survival of humans. The nature of a cataclysm is very relative, as the oxygenation of the atmosphere and oceans would be meaningless to geochemical anaerobic bacteria that live miles below us.

We only have coal because trees grew and fell on each other for like 60 million years before anything figured out how to decompose lignin.
The documentation is indeed not very good at explaining this.
Or just fix the problem and not pay the bounty. Why pay at all if you can find a way not to?
What is the difference between militia/gangs/armed thugs/military? As far as I know, militias tend to be ex-military/military-affiliated people acting outside of the official arms of the government or even the law, gangs are just organized armed thugs, and the military is the armed thugs that are officially designated as being the armed thugs protecting the country.

Who cares what they're called? Feels much more important to focus on their actions and motivations, which seems to be against helping their own people.
Of the methods listed on Wikipedia only ISB is a true AM. All the others use phase modulation for the difference signal, as an easy way to achieve compatibility with mono AM receivers; and PM is basically the integral of FM.

Wikipedia says that there was basically one station doing ISB stereo; which I guess is close enough to "nobody did it", but not quite "it was never done".
The core issue:

> There have been no papers on
afro-textured hair at SIGGRAPH ever.

There are over 300 SIGGRAPH papers on other types of hair.
Everyone I know that has a smart watch charges it overnight. How do you propose using it to track sleep?
Your image of extruding a cylinder in higher dimensions inside its bounding box then rounding it off was really insightful as a teaching tool. I've always struggled to visualize these "counterintuitive" results, which are only counterintuitive because they are harder to visualize or seem to "change" after D=3. But now they don't. Thanks!
Sandpaper off the markings on a regular keyboard and write the keycaps with a Sharpie.
The lionization of Columbus was started by late 19th century Italian immigrants who wanted something to demonstrate their worth to an America that looked down on them. It is somewhat relevant if he wasn't actually Italian.
Correct, it's not currently available on Quicklisp. I made a Git version of this package in the past, and I may try to publish it on Quicklisp.

(I should note that I'm not the author of AP5.)
Both Dylan and Sk8 were available on Macintosh Garden last I checked.
I pretty much only use o1 for more rigorous tasks (coding/math). Eg the other day I gave it the tax rates for my area and used it to explore different tax scenarios
Finally I can put my colleague on Verbal Probation.
This presentation seems bizarre to me. It introduces the binomial theorem, then proposes an implementation of `coeff` that doesn't require knowledge of such, then introduces `math.comb`... but then it never gets around to re-implementing `coeff` by using `math.comb` and taking advantage of the binomial theorem.

Applying computational brute force to this kind of contest problem is missing the point, too. Project Euler problems are specifically designed for a code-driven approach anyway. Writing code like this for the problem shown doesn't really teach anything interesting about math, while the programming exercise it motivates is a fairly dull one.

Finally: the JEE is specific to India and you shouldn't expect an international audience to have heard of it - especially since it's a college entrance assessment, not a contest.

All that said, the code is well presented and laid out in a logical order (as far as it goes), and I appreciate the commitment to LaTeX (I use NoScript and only allow scripts when a clear need presents itself; I don't mind reading LaTeX syntax).
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I believe it is (!i & 32) because the bitwise version is an incorrect rewrite.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41830016
On the other hand it seems like a miracle that wifi works pretty seamlessly globally, and there are no countries where you have to pay to use a proprietary service instead.
The original post makes so much more sense in this context! One of the "holy grails" in my mind is making CQRS and dataflow programming as easy to learn and maintain as existing imperative programming languages - and easy to weave into real-time UX.

There are so many backend endpoints in the wild that do a bunch of things in a loop, many of which will require I/O or calls to slow external endpoints, transform the results with arbitrary code, and need to return the result to the original requestor. How do you do that in a minimal number of readable lines? Right now, the easiest answer is to give up on trying to do this in dataflow, define a function in an imperative programming language, maybe have it do some things locally in parallel with green threads (Node.js does this inherently, and Python+gevent makes this quite fluent as well), and by the end of that function you have the context of the original request as well as the results of your queries.

But there's a duality between "request my feed" and "materialize/cache the most complex/common feeds" that's not taken into account here. The fact that the request was made is a thing that should kick off a set of updates to views, not necessarily on the same machine, that can then be re-correlated with the request. And to do that, you need a way of declaring a pipeline and tracking context through that pipeline.

https://materialize.com is a really interesting approach here, letting you describe all of this in SQL as a pipeline of materialized views that update in real time, and compiling that into dataflow. But most programmers don't naturally describe this kind of business logic in SQL.

Rama's CPS assignment syntax is really cool in this context. I do wish we could go beyond "this unlocks an entire paradigm to people who know Clojure" towards "this unlocks an entire paradigm to people who only know Javascript/Python" - but it's a massive step in the right direction!
Infinite content produced by AI has close to no value.
You just have to shovel a lot of shit and eventually something will stick.
Yes its interesting reading all the people in this thread trying to align historical facts with contemporary ideological requirements...