skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, after DNA analysis, scientists discover than man-eating lions were eating humans! Who'd have guessed!

I grew up reading books about man eating lions/tigers and the men who hunted them like Jim Corbett. The bad teeth of the lion shown seems typical - they normally only prey on humans as a last resort when they are old/weak, but are creatures of habit and will continue once started.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Corbett

Of course humans are still on the menu today.

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29987187
If there are only a few items, yes - checkboxes are great for short lists. But if it is a long list, no - a huge pile of checkboxes is awful. So if your list contains more than a dozen items, just stick with the multi-select.

And you are right to just use the built-in UX the browser offers. Flawed it may be, but it is standard. Don't confuse your desktop users by inventing something new. They know their own browser.
I have been a member of /r/natureismetal and I can tell you without a doubt that most prey are eaten alive. Even baboons and chimps eat their prey alive.
I was using it to build a dilatometer - an instrument for measuring thermal expansion curves of materials. Theoretically simple, in that you take a sample of something and measure how long it is while sweeping the temperature around. In practice, you need very stable ~um measurements and lots of care to make sure all other length changes around the sample cancel.

In the real-world, they're often used for precision gauging for in-process metrology.
Cornell is doing something along those lines for birds using audio recordings. It’s just a smartphone app though - https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/sound-id/
Court blocks a couple from suing Uber over a crash, citing terms and conditions
There's obviously been a tremendous amount of work put into this project. Well done.

You've picked a very difficult row to hoe. Low-code and no-code are difficult markets to crack. The incumbents have such a head start and devs are a little suspicious. Salesforce is the biggie for this sort of stuff (nobody gets fired for buying SFDC) and there are many, many others. It'll be tough to make money, if that's what you want to do. If you're doing it for passion, I wish you the best.
Yeah, it seems like every attempt at an airship company for the last 70 years or so just ends up speed-running the development of modern travel/logistics that makes airships obsolete. Same way crypto is/was speed-running the need for modern financial regulation.

On a broader scale I also wonder if we're near the top of a technological S-curve. It's worth remembering that until the industrial revolution the average pace of technological advance was extremely slow. The Mongols conquered Asia with weaponry that would have been instantly familiar to people living 2000 years earlier. Perhaps our descendants 1000 years from now will still be using refrigerators virtually identical to our own.
seems like fraud in retrospect
Maybe Timery? I've never tried it since I learned about it while laid off but I will definitely use it when I get a job.

https://thesweetsetup.com/apps/best-time-tracking-app/
Also, the demo site is running on Vercel and the docs are written in LaTeX.
I'm more in project management these days. It makes me laugh when an engineer says "I didn't get any work done today, as it was all meetings" - means I don't work for 20-30 hours/week.

The trick is balance for the role. For engineers it should be a lot more focus time, for PMs and managers it should be a lot more managers, but you should still be able to block out calendars for focus time if you need to - just not all day, every day, forever.
Candidates would increasingly be making their case to a brick wall - companies running "just in case" or "may as well keep a pulse on the market" automated interviews in the same way they post ghost jobs positions on listings. I think ability to make their case better is only really a positive for candidates if it's associated with increased chance of being hired, but here that expectation gets kind of broken if even candidates who make their case very well have a significantly lower chance of being hired from that interview.

Something like automated review of the candidate's existing projects/website (linked in their application) seems more reasonable, in that I don't need to recreate my projects for each job application. Automated interviews just seem like they'd make it too easy for companies to have a flippant disregard for job-seekers' time, because the costs of running thousands of interviews would be almost entirely borne by others.

Long term, I think spreading the remaining cost (i.e. having the company compensate interviewees) is likely the less-wasteful way to restore symmetry, rather than mandating that the current cost on the company's side is reintroduced (i.e. that interviewers must be human).
Also GTA: SA
The 'stunning' discovery: "A recent excavation has unearthed 12 human skeletons and a chamber of grave offerings near Petra’s Treasury building"
It is Phosh. It can run Plasma Mobile too, but I'm told it's still a bit early in development.
Y-DNA clades can and are associated with certain ethnic groups. Then once you confirm that, you simply need to model their autosomal DNA. And viola, you can very reliably determine if someone is Jewish, Greek, Italian, etc
They don't need to be immune from the same fluctuations in fuel costs. But if they use less fuel per ton, then a rise in fuel prices should benefit them more.
Back in 2013ish, I installed an industrial stack light at my desk (https://www.flickr.com/photos/masto/54069311973/) and informed my coworkers that it would save them the trouble of walking all the way across the room to talk to me if I was too busy to be interrupted.

I am not advocating or praising this behavior; I was definitely going through my prima donna phase.

Later I became very timid about talking to people because the company culture was "if I have my headphones on, please don't interrupt me" but everyone had headphones on all the time because the office was a nightmare of noise and distraction.

The ubiquitous slack (or equivalent) channel has a lot of downsides, but when weighed against the alternatives, I think I like it the best. But I'm very conscious of the fact that not everybody's brain has the same attention system. I think that's one of the reasons this little device has generated so many strongly worded comments. It's probably neither the most rude thing ever nor the most helpful thing ever. What would be great for productivity and happiness would be if we could find a way not to force everyone to try to work under the same environmental constraints. (Aspirational: I don't know how to do this.)
Diversity of models and training data would help a lot. Although I guess 1% of cars crashing would still be pretty bad.
What makes that dubious? It makes this advantage rest on a single factor, but the advantage is still there, no?
More Details on Israel Sabotaging Hezbollah Pagers and Walkie-Talkies
Any time I buy software I start by reviewing the top ~5 vendors that are easy to find. So I know the alternatives and just need to decide which one I think will work best for my needs. It's extremely rare that I encounter something novel and incorporate it into my life be it personal/business. Once I use something, I might be more aware of what friction I am encountering and I might review the available solutions again to see if one of them solves it more elegantly. In any case, I compare alternatives that are readily available. Sometimes I ask around or stumble on conversation that surfaces a new product that has a different approach to the same old problems and I feel like "they get me". Those products tend to catch fire.
Why is a multi-select better for a large selection than a series of checkboxes? iirc, multi-selects suffer from the problem that if you accidentally mis-click on one entry, it'll unselect every other previously-selected entry, no?
A Primer on Decoder-Only vs. Encoder-Decoder Models for AI Translation
Triton Fork for Windows Support
The current analysis is that China's emissions peak this year [1,2] and will enter a structural decline. This is because new renewables are being deployed faster than growth in energy demand. The new coal construction is mostly "dispatchable" production that will be used to backstop the fast-growing renewable grid, with payments going to coal plants in exchange for not generating (and built-in expectations that these payments will rise over the next few years as renewables and storage serve more of the demand.)

[1] https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-emissions-set-to...
[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02877-6
Bolt = StackBlitz, ie Bolt doesn't have it's own subscription plans - if you go to your stackblitz billing profile I linked above you can cancel and downgrade to the free plan!
It is not open source as per the LICENSE file ("you cannot redistribute the source code or the software"), and the title is "looking for help".

They are asking for contributors for their commercial project and couldn't even format that ask properly.
I immediately knew what you meant, because I ran into the bug while testing earlier today and apparently forgot to file it. So thanks for reporting - I've filed it now properly and should have it fixed soon.
Thanks! That reminds me I did bring up the thing about long lists and he said that's even more reason to use checkboxes since the multi-select has such a tiny scroll window it makes it hard to scroll through to find what you need when there are a bunch of options.
Can confirm, I used to have a lot of dental IT clients and most of them have left because of being purchased by PE that has their own IT staff and only wants break/fix support.
Because if it is a large list, you give up massive amounts of screen real estate to a gigantor pile of checkboxes.
Learning how to solder (and to solder very well) is much easier than learning to play the piano or the violin.

It's also tool-using skill that changes the way one thinks about stuff; it opens doors.

These days I'm fairly comfortable and confident with ordering custom PCBs to support various hardware and software projects. This lets me build stuff that I would not have imagined without the ability to solder.

I don't do component level repair at work or at home if it goes beyond changing out an obviously-bad electrolytic capacitor or something, but I have rescued many things quickly and inexpensively by swapping things like obviously-bad electrolytic caps. That saves me money, and by extension it also saves me time.

I wouldn't have ever considered any of that if I didn't know how to solder.

Bonuses: Unlike learning piano, it doesn't take six months to learn soldering. And unlike the piano itself, the soldering kit is inexpensive, portable, and low-maintenance.
It did, but you could only use it 3 times (I think). After that you have to call to get a new one issued.
Yeah, that's why I'm keeping everything client-side. There's no backend. This is hosted on Cloudflare Pages, everything on the backend is static.
Definitely not looking to host any generated images.
I miss all the old personal websites on Geocities, Tripod, etc and using web rings to discover them. Also learning how to write a website in HTML with notepad and learning how FTP works, and working around your free quota. My computer art teacher at the time was really good at shaving every little byte off a gif file.
But really, as a software engineer you should not be building a house of cards, right? Surely you should not boldly insist that you never be subjected to collaboration from other members of your team because you are intent on building a system that is in constant danger of collapse.
I don't want to disagree with your general statement, because it's correct, but I would like to point out that wearing noise cancelling headphones is not a good signal of ``in the flow, pls don’t interrupt.'' The only thing it's a good signal of is ``I'm listening to something.''

Some people wear headphones simply because they want to listen to music or a podcast while they send/check email. Some people only put them on when they're in a meeting. And yes, some people wear them because they want to be left alone.

There are as many reasons to wear noise cancelling headphones as there are people wearing noise cancelling headphones, and assuming that everyone around you should know what it means to you is as insane as walking up to someone wearing noise cancelling headphones and asking for an update.
wait, aren't venture capital and private equity different?

Why would a venture capitalist take over a dentistry or veterinary practice? (Unless it was a growth play, like One Medical)
I don't buy the assumption that others are "subsidizing" the USD when they choose to use it -- they're choosing to use USD for their own benefit.
OpenAI Is a Bad Business
Is there an automated way to check results and reduce hallucinations? Would it help to do a second pass with another LLM as a sanity check to see if numbers match?
I saw an episode of "Mighty Ships" just this weekend, which followed such a ship around as they were working on splicing one of these cables.

Very cool stuff.
A few different things:

1. Yes, solving these puzzles would mean often mean using a library.

2. However, for most of the things I listed above, in most languages, a competent software developer should be able to, and most likely would just use the standard library.

3. Why not both? I can imagine a catalog with thousands of problem sets. Some may challenge you to (re-)implement some existing functionality yourself (as a super basic example, re-implement the java Optional::flatMap method or something). Others could challenge you to make use of existing implementations. Learning to make use of stdlib and other libraries and tools in the ecosystem is part of one's growth, and also so is working through those tools, tinkering, trying to think how you would have implemented them, and getting a better understanding of their internals (or at least, an understanding of how their internals MIGHT work)
Not affiliated, just seemed interesting. They don't seem to have a homepage for the project other than Kickstarter either.
For the record any application using shader definitely needs "all of LLVM", and most Gtk+ applications are using shaders due to the ill-conceived notion that GPUs are faster at 2d acceleration. So yes, all GUI apps are linking in all of the graphics driver and all of LLVM.
I agree with most other criticisms in the thread about the feasibility of this, but your suggestion is not _totally_ crazy. There are airports where you can land _if_ you give customs a heads up that you'll be flying there from abroad and they'll send a dude. The only one I've interacted with is in the Bahamas but I don't see any reason it's a showstopper. There're a lot bigger showstoppers on the critical path for this project than that.
Suspect not as later Wittgenstein tells us "the meaning is the use"; don't look at the dictionary definition, look at many examples. And that's what LLMs do.
I'd change the styling on it to have a larger height if the scrollable area is the concern.
I've experienced this, I really wish sandboxed play services were a thing outside grapheneOS (which is very device limited)
I'm the furthest thing from an economist, but I'm guessing that it feels like we're in a vulnerable position.

I.e., that it indicates our "wealth" could be pulled away from us on very short notice.

Contrasted to, e.g the wealth being from sales of some commodity that the rest of the world will need for the next decade: crops, certain metals, or (maybe) oil/LNG.
> and not visiting untrustworthy pages with JS on

Assuming your browser is up-to-date and there isn't a 0-day being exploited, can a malicious website even do anything?
radiation workers practice ALARA, which is an acronym for "as low as reasonably achievable".

Nothing wrong with eating bananas, but I wouldn't want to eat 20 a day for all sorts of reasons.
Sadly, the US still receives 95% of all postal imports through 1 of 5 international service centres: Chicago, IL; Los Angeles, CA; Miami, FL; New York, NY, and San Francisco, CA

Northwest = NO YUO!

Technically 22 other places are supposed to accept international mail, but in reality, the other 5% go through Newark (for some surface mail), Hawaii, Guam and American Samoa.

This creates some long detours.

https://www.uspsoig.gov/reports/audit-reports/international-...
Wow, this could be just what I need for a project I'm working on now....
a couple years ago i needed a new dentist and the only place that I could get into was a big chain that has just expanded into the area (Aspen Dental).

it had clean new office and lots of fancy tech that to scan my teeth that i hadn't seen at my little hole-in-the-wall old dentist. i was optimistic.

they tell me that I needed four fillings and a root canal, and i was a surprised because i'd been going to a dentist every six months and nobody had mentioned anything like that. but hey, that must be the advantage of all those fancy scanners. right?

they walked me down to the "payment center" which was an office holding four employees whose job was to come up with payment plans to cover dental work. that's when i knew that the whole place was a racket.
"All models are wrong, but some are useful."

~ George Box
GitLab as well

https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/tools-and-tips/#using-m...
Trees, land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature's carbon sink failing?
Hey, where are the mermaids?!?

But now seriously.. the diagrams are working really well for simple examples, thank you so much for sharing this tool. I have bookmarked your page, my documentation is based on text files and often have to build these kind of diagrams too.

The example buttons took me a while to be found, but are good for syntax explanation. Thank you for making this available.
Appears to be open-core only https://payloadcms.com/enterprise
Wait, are you saying well-managed software development has no interrupt-driven work, and still quickly and efficiently delivers value to end users?

How does one get to that state?
The US Dollar is an export.

It'll be hard for our economy if we stop exporting it, but that's true of any export.
I still wonder how the models picked up the semantic mapping between Unicode tags and ordinary ASCII characters. The mapping is written in the Unicode specs, yes, but there is nothing in the actual bytes of a tag that indicates the corresponding ASCII character.

I'm also not aware there are large text corpora written in tag characters - actually, I'd be surprised if there is any prose text at all: The characters don't show up in any browser or text editor, they are not officially used for anything and even the two former intended uses were restricted to country codes, not actual sentences.

How did they even go through preprocessing? How is the tokenization dictionary and input embedding constructed for characters that are never used anywhere?
Should you use uv's managed Python in production?
Ask HN: What are the best books to become a better software engineer?
I have my doubts as to:
a) Clean Code
b) The pragmatic programmer
c) Modern Software Engineering
Wow, thanks, you always suspect no one has actually read the papers :) That was a crazy project... I eventually got it passing almost all of the WPT css2 fragment.

I'm still working on CSS layout, with hopefully another paper coming soon.
Easy enough for a human to understand but tricky for a computer
What frontend libraries do you use?
Quantum Annealing Public Key Cryptographic Attack Algorithm [pdf]
Did you read the full article?

> As researcher Thacker explained: The issue is they’re not fixing it at the model level, so every application that gets developed has to think about this or it's going to be vulnerable. And that makes it very similar to things like cross-site scripting and SQL injection, which we still see daily because it can’t be fixed at central location. Every new developer has to think about this and block the characters.
Bot Detection Isn't Perfect
A great thing about Android and iDevices is their departure from yet another UNIX clone using C and C++ as the main application languages.

As such, most of these attempts aren't that attractive to me as OS nerd, always recycling the same ideas.
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Ask HN: Experiences with Co-Founder Sabbaticals
Hello I am a co-founder of a post-series A startup. Been at it for about 10 years. I recently was pushed out of leadership into a SME role, where I help other companies integrate with our product. I don't write code anymore nor am I involved in strategy. I see the company making a lot of dumb decisions and I feel like I don't have the license, mandate, or energy to go all "founder mode" and try to fix what I see.

It's unsatisfying and boring, but it pays well. I am the top expert in our product and the organization still needs my brain, but the daily feeling of existential dread is getting too loud for me to ignore. It doesn't make sense for me to quit but recently a colleague suggested I take some time off and the idea of a sabbatical has come into mind.

So, I am really interested in hearing stories from other founders who have taken a sabbatical. Did it help restore your energy for your venture or lead you in a different direction? How long did you take off? What goals (if any) did you set for yourself? How did you negotiate this with your other co-founders or board?
Yes, that's the obvious argument against this being a false flag operation: why would they bother, they already won. Is Bill Gates that petty?

So that means that it's more likely that this is just backbiting on an old, sick man. E.g.: The People's Front of Judea vs. Judean People's Front

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WboggjN_G-4

Let the old nerd die in peace with his friends.

(I'm done with this thread and this subject. Have a better one.)
Run win11 with debloat patches, behind a firewall that blocks everything, then use a socks proxy for Steam and everything else that you want to connect to the internet.

Edit: okay, the firewall might become annoying to maintain if multiplayer gaming is your thing
Slowing down doesn't mean going slow. There's more to software development than vomiting out lines of code as quickly as possible.
This is awesome, you folks are doing great work. I also really enjoyed your blog posts on FSST[1] and FastLanes[2].

[1] https://blog.spiraldb.com/life-in-the-fastlanes
[2] https://blog.spiraldb.com/compressing-strings-with-fsst/
I don’t think it’ll be a hard sell for schools at that price, school budgets tend to be fairly elastic for new things (and sometimes for wholly unnecessary things, for the price of less than 1/4th of new MacBook for the principal (for example) they could have this.

Edit: also if schools were to be interested in this (which they should be, it’s very neat) they could group together and buy in bulk which would also greatly reduce the price
Their demo looks really cool: https://github.com/mit-han-lab/duo-attention
I've never heard of BankID in Finland - perhaps the common name is something else?
There's certainly a strong element of computational mathematics. A lot of the problems deal with things like Mersenne Primes or Collatz sequences. On the other hand, there are problems like "Maximum Path Sum" which definitely make use of DSA-style tricks (https://projecteuler.net/problem=67).
And yet it doesn't make the top 20 in happiness.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-...

Really makes you think.
(thread drift)

Decades ago I did a job for Raytheon (S/W for an X-ray machine control.) The Raytheon guy that hired us talked about standing in front of one of those huge radar horns to warm up as a young serviceman. I didn't RTFA but I wonder if the history went back that far.
Oh right that makes sense thank you!
I think it's pretty easy to see, on this thread, which person got "bent out of shape"