skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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We’re way ahead of schedule due to our unique approach, with pretty much no churn, and rapid growth despite no marketing spend to date.

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Yeah, I was being generous in the argument :)
Voting machine companies are fighting the next disinformation war
There's some other places that migrated to Reaper because of its own specialties. Reaper runs great and is absurdly, unreasonably customizable.

That of course means extensive skinning capabilities, but it also means ReaScript, a scripting language with a whole API. I recently succeeded in using ReaScript to take my control surface, the faders of which I'd colorcoded, and using them to on the fly adjust output level controls on plugins I wrote.

Not just 'assign the plugins to a fader', or 'assign controls to plugin parameters on the selected track, or discontinuous selections of tracks', though those are also things Reaper happily does.

I mean, in a big mix I can assign track colors to the tracks in Reaper, and the parameters (in plugins, mind you, anywhere in the FX stacks) will all jump to the live position of the control surface fader with that color. A bit specific and personal, but it's entirely done in scripting.

The game industry uses Reaper for similar reasons: being able to automate generation of a game's entire collection of sounds has its uses. I would say it is the DAW equivalent of what Blender is, in 3D modeling.
Insurers could potentially require specific tools be used to cover a procedure.
Apple vs. Adobe at AI photo clean up
I’m pretty convinced the whole field of dentistry is BS. I’ve had a bunch of times where they said I had a massive problem needing lots of expensive work- one dentist said I had 22 cavities that needed filling. I have simply never done any of it- I’m middle aged and have had no dental work done ever- and the next dentist months or years later makes no mention of whatever supposedly serious problem the previous one found.

I can really only think of 3 likely explanations: (1) our teeth actually repair cavities on their own and dentists simply don’t know this, (2) there is no reliable objective process to diagnose a cavity that is repeatable from one dentist to another, (3) lastly some sizable fraction of dentists are con artists with no integrity or ethics. Personally, I would not be at all surprised if all 3 were true.
> most viewable

It is, but the UX trying to read a A4/letter sized PDF document on a phone is absolutely horrible.
Visiting East Asian countries and then returning to the US, I’m always struck by how behind and slow we are with large infrastructure projects.
The big "no" with non-stick is using steel wool scrubbers for cleaning. That and using sharp instruments like forks.

A nice, smoothly polished stainless steel spatula with round corners and a slightly convex edge shouldn't do anything to your non-stick pan.

You have to deliberately be trying to damage the non-stick surface with such a spatula to do any harm.

If the non-stick surface actually working, you shouldn't be using any force to scrape anything off. And there's margin for that.

I use one of those 5-in-1 painter's tools to remove grime from just about any surface without damaging it. I would cheerfully use it to take a dried paint splatter off a $100K Steinway. :)
Synology zero-click Vulnerability in Photos app
> YCombinator is a tech investor, of course they are investing in the future. It just so happens that in this current tech cycle AI is the future.

I think the term you're looking isn't "future," it's "hype."
I recently swapped out my AMD 3800X with a 5900X as an alternative to a full platform upgrade. I got it mostly for non-gaming workloads, however I do enjoy games.

Paired with my aging but still chugging 2080Ti, the max framerates in games I play did not significantly increase.

However I did get a significant improvement in 99-percentile framerate, and the games feel much smoother. YMMV, but it surprised me a bit.
I keep experimenting because of comments like this and they still always have the same problems:

- Inability to stay self-consistent

- Random extra unused and unreachable code

- Constant wack a mole with issues they have

- Random opposite or adjacent thinking

- Assuming that how things work in one library or language must work the same in another

I then had someone say well... Just break up the work, but, that's also not what people say works for them, and also, you still have to side-eye the smaller stuff and it just gets exhausting.

A ton of studies show that if you know less than 80 about a field it'll get you to that 80 percent. And if you know more than that it'll bring you back down to 80% due to randomness, lack of data in the training, incompleteness in the model that your incomplete prompt amplifies, and just automation bias errors where you trusted something it did that you shouldn't have.

I would say that anyone claiming these things do everything are just simply new to systems.
This definitely sucks. I feel similarly about e.g. the jailbreaking community: I appreciate the work they do and at the same time I very much wish it wasn't necessary.

If Apple and other companies like them were a little less greedy we could have far more nice things for free and Alyssa and other brilliant engineers could go work on other great projects. Also if regulators were a little more vigilant and a little less corrupt.

Someday.
I no longer understand what roguelike means.
Bitnomial | Haskell Software Engineer, Senior Frontend Engineer | Chicago, IL, San Francisco Bay Area, CA, New York, NY, REMOTE (US) | Full-time | https://bitnomial.com/jobs/

Bitnomial is looking for Haskell Software Engineers to join our team. Bitnomial is a US based, CFTC licensed and regulated derivatives exchange, headquartered in Chicago. Bitnomial develops and operates exchange, clearing, and settlement infrastructure. Our first products are physically-settled Bitcoin futures and options. We recently launched a Hashrate future, and we have more and different products on the way. Trading industry experience is a plus.

We use Haskell for all of our backend services, including the matching engine. Our main repository is 66% Haskell, 11% TypeScript, 9% HCL (for Terraform, Nomad, etc). We use servant as our main web server.

We've also got a bunch of open source projects: https://github.com/bitnomial

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The 5 minutes or 2 minutes doesn’t impress me as being a problem. Indeed it can be an indicator of great efficiency.

A doctor that takes 2 minutes took years of experience, training, and expensive education so that he can evaluate you in 2 minutes. He also operates an office and staffs it.

Would it be better if he took an hour to do the same thing? Not to me.

Similarly, I’m an attorney. 5 minutes with me on a question in my field of expertise is worth the same as a whole day’s worth of time of an inexperienced attorney, which in turn is worth more than a whole week’s worth of time of a random know-nothing off the street.
Literacy is good or bad, perhaps
Layer | Founding Eng | San Francisco In-Person | Full-Time

We’re building SMB accounting software API-first so that it can be integrated directly into software platforms where business owners already work. Our customers are vertical software platforms in the vein of Toast, MindBody or Housecall Pro that help small business owners start, run and scale their business with workflows and financial products. We help them serve their customers who are stuck exporting all their data out of these systems into CSVs and importing it back into other accounting software.

Integrating with our accounting APIs gives business owners automation & accounting workflows directly within their core software while the software platforms get to solve one their customers’ biggest pain points: worrying about bookkeeping & finances.

We’re looking for a founding frontend engineer who is excited about building a company and team as well as building better software for SMBs. We have no standalone frontend - instead we build a React component library that our customers can directly use within their own apps: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@layerfi/components

We are well funded by top tier investors and are live with thousands of small businesses across a dozen industries. If you’re passionate about building software that real small businesses use every day, get in touch with me at daniel [at] layerfi.com

More about the role and team here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/layerfi/ef55941f-b59c-419a-8736-a25...
I sure as hell would prefer to not have to maintain Qt 5 for 13 more years if I could avoid it. I don't think this has anything to do with "being in cahoots with the Qt company", I think it has everything to do with "backporting fixes from a recent Qt 6 version to an older Qt 6 version is easier than backporting fixes from Qt 6 to Qt 5".
Could you provide a quote that demonstrates "Tim is wrong. Period"?

I'm familiar with the context.
Location: Providence, RI

Remote: no

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: the very full stack -- designing and managing the creation of physical, electro-mechanical products, the electronics and firmware inside, and building web infrastructure around them.

Lots of different individual tech in there, but broadly: CAD, PCB design, production and debugging, Python/C/C#/C++/Java/JS, Django

Résumé/CV: https://links.boondock.design/alex/cv

Email: alex@alexhornstein.com
Placing in context, not slapping down.
Any proprietary benchmark that's compiled with the mystery meat equivalent of compiler/flags isn't "excellent" in any way.

SPECint compiled with either the vendor compiler (ICC, AOCC) or the latest gcc/clang would be a good neutral standard, though I'd also want to compare SIMD units more closely with x265 and Highway based stuff (vips, libjxl).

And how do you handle the fact that you can't really (yet) use the same OS for both platforms? Scheduler and power management counts, even for dumb number crunching.
I've seen it. I've slept in it. I just wouldn't call them comfortable.

It works when you're young and single, but I can't imagine building "homes" and claiming 28sqm is anymore than a barrak to survive in, not a place to raise a family. If you're not building barraks with this structure (which these capsule hotels really are) a minimum space requirement makes sense if you want to sell people "homes".
How many hours of unskilled labor equal one hour of principal software engineer labor? Imho the answer is NaN/infinite - the unskilled person won't be able to do in years what the engineer does in minutes while picking today's lunch restaurant. Sounds very much like 9 women delivering a baby in a month.
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We have a small, remote team of privacy researchers and advocates working to further our mission of protecting free expression and promoting privacy-respecting technology. As a non-profit, we are expanding very slowly to ensure the project is sustainable in the long term.

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The Linux desktop is pretty great, for the most part.

I would say that in addition to a usable desktop, Linux distributions generally also provide a more stable Windows environment than Windows itself does. I have quite a suite of games in Steam and GoG, and I find that many older games that simply cannot be coaxed into running on Windows can be made to run happily on one version of Wine/Proton or another.

There are still some weak areas in desktop Linux if you're running a desktop that isn't Gnome or Plasma - wifi configuration comes to mind immediately, as does sound configuration. Bluetooth can be picky if you don't know to get all the non-free firmware.

But really, we're living in a dream era of Linux desktops, if you happen to have lived through the early days of `startx` and XFree86. Hands up if you ever smoked a monitor coil with a bad X config file...
Ask HN: Do you or those you know have US election contingency plans?
What contingency plans, if any, do people in the HN community (and people you know) have relating to next week's US election?

I'm not looking to start a political debate; there are lots of other places on the internet for that.

I'm hoping to find out, specifically:

a) what people are planning to do if Harris is elected,

b) what people are planning to do if Trump is elected,

c) what people are planning to do no matter who is elected, and

d) what people have already done in anticipation of particular election outcomes and/or post-election events.

Please feel free to chime in whether you live in the US or not.
Location: Venezuela

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not at this time, maybe in the future

Technologies: I used Java years ago to collaborate on desktop applications and web applications with GWT and Jersey deployed with Glassfish. Some time later I used Python in my postgraduate thesis to create a web application with Django that sent jobs to a server cluster using Dispy. I have only used Postgres as a DBMS. I was always interested in gamedev and I have 6 years of professional experience creating 2D brain training games with Cocos Creator and Javascript. This year I decided to do the Full Stack Open course to learn the MERN stack, among GraphQL, Redux, Context API, among other things.

Resumé/CV: https://joseasv.github.io/astro-portfolio/

Email: joseasv@outlook.com
Wow, can’t believe I didn’t find this while looking for Lightroom alternatives several months ago. Looks great!
"Sir John von Neumann"?
Aren't tons of Linux drivers for x86 laptops based entirely on reverse engineering? Maybe even most of them? I haven't used Linux seriously in almost two decades, but that's my memory.
So, your server is disclosing each address to a third party, in... real time?
I'm understanding what you have isn't really "events", but some kind of "notifications".

Events are part of a stream that define your data. The stream doesn't have to be complete, but if it doesn't make sense to do things like buffer or edit it, it's probably something else and using that name will mislead people.
Well you do have a point that armed men are a problem.
The video review just went live https://youtu.be/Qc1D1-mkcIg
I am genuinely looking forward to a Dell XPS 13 or Lenovo X1 Carbon which is fanless and have the battery duration and performance of the Apple Macbook Air.
Apple would close down their macos just like iOS if they could get away with it so they can get their 30 percent on apps installed .

However since their moat is now filling with European soil this is not something they will attempt at this point IMO.
For those not in the know, things only get faster with this approach when you apply some optimization. The article that we are discussing won't get there until part 12.

For the time being one may consult Ryg's amazing blog series: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2013/02/10/optimizing-the-basi...
I remember working at a kitchen being paid $x an hour, and when minimum wage was increased to just below that many of the cooks were mad to find themselves earning just above minimum wage. It was an interesting corollary I hadn't thought about before and while I wasn't mad it did feel like my value was depreciated.
I am both for avoiding electronics but also enjoy TV in bed. Not necessary but it’s not something that I restrain much.

Haven’t seen too many people suggest this: train yourself to wake up earlier. I wake up at 5. That’s not a hustle culture thing. Just the time when I can fit in my personal time, fitness, and a bit of free thinking before my kids wake up and the day starts.

I can barely keep my eyes open past 930.
Location: England
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, C, C++, Haskell, Rust. XGBoost, scikit-learn, Numpy, Scipy, Pandas, Polars, Matplotlib, seaborn. Cython, Numba, Pydantic, Pytest, Mypy, Ruff, Poetry, setuptools, functiontrace. Git, Fish Shell, Github Actions, Ubuntu. Docker, Kubernetes. Prefect, Dask.
Résumé/CV: https://snowdrop4.github.io/cv/
Email: snowdrop404 ⒜⒯ protonmail. ⒞⒪⒨

I'm looking for a Rust role. I love safe, secure, and robust code. Willing to work at a startup or a large company. Previously at chess.com, working on cheat detection/research.
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If you need to, sure. the structure makes sense for some cheap motel where rooms are probably not much more than 10sqm (and the bathroom is communal).

But I can't imagine comfortably raising a family in such a situation.
Sure, but at the time that Apple made the decision, they had $0.0 trillion in billings and sales.
It's not that V8 has performance parity with Mathematica. The Mathematica interpreter is written in highly optimized C by experts over many years. My barely optimized js/V8 code has performance parity to _that C code_. That's what should blow your mind.
Here you go https://youtu.be/Qc1D1-mkcIg
Here's the geekbench link https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/8593555

How/where are they getting 128gb of ram? I don't see that as an option for any of the pre-orders pages.

Still pretty impressive, I get 1217/10097 with dual xeon gold 6136 that doubles as a space heater in the winter.
What's New with Postgres at Microsoft
While I mostly share the same opinion and tend to agree with your conclusion, strictly speaking your observations do not prove that the original doctors were wrong. One could argue that the "poorer" dentist offices are like that precisely because they are worse at treating patients and either aren't trained enough to notice the problematic signs or just care less because they have a lot of patients and aren't paid a lot.

I really wish these exams and observations were "provable" somehow and much more strict, and weren't a matter of collecting second, third and fourth opinions.
I verified Geekbench results to be very tightly correlated with my use case and workloads (JVM, Clojure development and compilation) as measured by my wall times. So yes, I consider it to be a very reliable indicator of performance.
So what it sounds like is copyright stifles societal growth to ensure the originator gets his rent? Copyright is more than paying "fair share," the enforcement apparatus puts a large opportunity cost which is ordinarily unaccounted for. I am less likely to innovate and iterate if I have to navigate patents and copyright compliance, as all of that is administrative cost and the legal risks are well and above R&D costs. I argue it creates an environment of not bothering, when one has to tip-toe on egg shells to avoid massive liabilities in suits coming out of nowhere from trolls and such.

If I built a binary Linux distro, you know damn well ZFS will be in the kernel, it will be hosted on only .onion and .i2p, and all Linux Foundation and Oracle Corp C&D emails will be published with sensibly witty lampooning comments.
I'm working on a multi-platform code editor similar to notepad++ and some new editors like Zed, called ecode, that tries to be a fresh take on code editors using some modern tools and technologies like LSPs. I started working on it after using Geany (which was the closest alternative to notepad++ in Linux) for many years but finding Geany lacking some essential features for my needs. ecode is developed with speed in mind and has a very fast startup time. It might be a good fit for your search.

[1] https://github.com/SpartanJ/ecode/
Yeah, the M4 is apparently the fastest CPU on single-core benchmarks. If you want a fast laptop, you have to get it. Not being forced to use Mac OS would be nice.
For many people, the Apple Silicon GPU is an interesting problem to solve given that the firmware is loaded by the bootloader and all and its actually generally easier to interact with than say NVIDIA while having decent perf. Also GPUs in general are really complex beasts involving IP from tons of companies in general. Would not be surprised if even Apple doesn't have the full schematics...
I think a company anywhere near the size of Apple being permitted to acquire another company is, in and of itself, bad.
Seeking ~32 hr/week position

Location: Portland, OR

Remote: Yes, and/or in-house (Portland). Experienced with both.

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Typescript, Javascript, React, Redux, Next.js, Node.js, Express, HTML, CSS, REST, GraphQL, Postgres, Mysql, Linux, Nginx, Docker, Serverless, AWS, Vercel, Ansible, Terraform and more.

Résumé/CV: https://jasongallagher.org

Email: unleashit@tutamail.com

Github: https://github.com/unleashit

Seasoned Front End Engineer (Full Stack Typescript/Javascript) with 20 years of experience in various tech. My specialty is front end and React although I'm also skilled in back end and Node. Currently I'm seeking a long-term 3/4 time position.
That ended over well over an hundred years ago, and was when the country was explicitly in expansion mode.

And “the Mexicans” in this context were an expansionist Spanish colonial empire too.
This has these makings of a good sci fi story. The paper is well worth a read, and you should try your eyes on the example computation.
Congratulations and good luck on this next chapter!
>then you're making bad decisions and you should do better.

Please be mindful that this sort of talking down to people poisons conversation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
> I honestly have a hard time imagining using YouTube without it

I agree and would go further to the extent I simply will not ever use YT without SmartTube on any of my TVs. For desktop I get similar functionality in Firefox with the Nova YouTube UserScript (which hosts dozens of user-created modules able to modify every aspect of YT) and on Android mobile I use ReVanced Extended.

And it's not just removing the ads and commercials, which I could (mostly) get with a YT subscription. It's that even with the subscription, YT's entire site, interface and interaction model is now so completely enshittified, it's a miserable, frustrating experience. I've used YT since months after it was launched and until I ran Nova YouTube and allowed it to "restore" the YT interface back to what it was a decade or so ago, even I didn't realize how YT has gradually 'boiled the frog' by introducing hundreds of small, anti-user regressions one at a time over the years. It was literally shocking.