skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author suggests everyone should watch the Larry McEnerney lecture but he seems to have missed a pretty important point from that lecture.

A really big point Larry tries to make during his lecture is that there are 2 types of writing. One you do for yourself (to help clear your ideas) and the other and the other one is designed to valuable to the reader.

And he is pretty obsessed with the idea of writing valuable text. He even says that if your text isn't valuable there is no point in making it persuasive, organized or clear.

For me this was a pretty interesting revelation. For most of my life I had this idea that the quality of the content and the quality of the writing were tightly related. And this idea made me believe that if you have good content, good writing should follow naturally.

After watching this lecture I realized that content and writing are separated axis, and you can definitely have one without the other. LLMs are pretty good at writing without content, for example.
Rust-script: Run Rust files and expressions as scripts
That's not what the report says. There was ~$14 million allocated for repairs in 2-18 after Hurricane Maria, but the cable sockets weren't identified as needing repairs until the first one failed. The problem wasn't the money, it was the failure to identify the problem. See page 28/29.
First load takes some time, it is downloading a parquet that's a 100mb and has more than 1.5 million titles of series and movies.
Booted to desktop and read only 14.1MB from disk. impressive.
This is such a cool experiment, and those comments basically boil down to "Lol, it's just minecraft"
You missed the point.

> In any language, if you don't use a thread safe container and mutate it from multiple threads you'll get problems.

Yes I agree there will be problems but what kind of problems do you get? Can you potentially get a memory safety problem, or are you guaranteed that the problem is not a memory safety problem?

The point is that thread safety problems in Go lead to memory safety problems. That's not the case in Java. You can crash the whole Go program by doing that, but you cannot crash the JVM by doing the same thing.
Wow, that sucks! You should form a union and strike for more.
They used exactly that aesthetic in their mid-'90s software-only days. It was with Futura BT Pro Condensed Extra Black:

https://www.myfonts.com/products/pro-condensed-extra-black-1...

https://ia600906.us.archive.org/31/items/NeXTSTEP33CISC/NeXT...
US fines GlobalFoundries for shipping chips to sanctioned Chinese firm
Enablers refer to friends or family who continuously provide for their addictions.

You, a stranger, giving money one time do not swing the pendulum. They will do drugs with or without your five dollars, because you as a person have zero influence in their life. If you died right now, not only will the homeless not care, but they also wouldn't even notice. You're not, and can't be, an enabler.

Best case scenario your five bucks prevents them from stealing something.
Read the guidelines. The topic scope is definitely not centered on, let alone restricted to "tinkering and product-building". In fact it explicitly says that it "includes more than hacking and startups." While the scope asks that politics be dialed down, this does not mean that stories should be suppressed just because they have an implicit political angle. My read of what it asks for is that new posts not be simply "politics for the sake politics", which I am wholly on board with.

As to the current post: I find it interesting, because (if its findings are valid) it is somewhat surprising (we knew that abuses were happening over there, but not to this extent); which raises questions of why we haven't heard about this yet; also interesting. Also simply because it relates to how that country is trying to develop itself, and the fact that is paradoxically quite archaic and quite modern; also interesting, and not even necessarily political.

We're also getting to hear from people who are from or who have lived in the region (or the countries supplying its labor pool); also interesting, and not intrinsically political.

If you don't like the political tangents, that's what the [-] element is for.
The argument is this will be done regardless of if you give them money.
Mine underestimates my VO2 max to be around 40 which is much lower than what I calculated myself. Turns out the Apple Watch thinks my resting heart rate is much lower than it actually is, explaining the difference.
Woah, slow down there citizen.

It’s been rebranded to “lobbying” and “campaign contributions”. Much cleaner. Better optics.
We just have to figure out how to make Tardigrades gigantic and then farm them for meat.

(I feel like this must have been a Futurama plot, and mist have ended poorly)
If someone was out to maximize chaos and not just make money, this is in all seriousness in the class of problems that someone intelligent could have used to all but destroy EA. You don't offer an API with targeted usage, and you sure don't ban everyone.

There's lots of fun ideas you can go for here, but just as one, suppose I spend a month banning accounts that haven't played much, but more than zero. Then go quiet for a couple of weeks. EA frontline support notices but if you play your cards right they don't put the pieces together and nobody is quite roused to investigate. Then you start up again, somewhat faster, spend a couple of days banning a good chunk of medium sized accounts. Then maybe at the end you ban the biggest accounts as quickly as you can.

Now the bannings are news. EA's PR is probably completely blown out by the crisis and starts saying contradictory things. (My guess is that initially they end up backing their right to ban people and releasing statements to the effect of how right they probably are; this is, in the end, a huge mistake on their part.) Gamers can be reliably expected to start a ton of rumors, take them in the worst way possible, and antagonize EA, and EA is pretty likely to make at least one class-A error in being antagonistic back. (The hackers could even supply some of the rumors and some bots to get them going, though I doubt it'll be necessary. The gamer community is pretty well primed to turn on EA.) A ton of people who are curious but figure this can't be affecting them because they hardly use the service log in and discover they've been banned despite not having done anything on EA in six months. The fire rises as they post to reddit and hundreds of people chime in with "WTF, me too!", even if it's only a small percentage of the total people who check.

Several days later, EA puts all the pieces together confidently enough to be sure that they can announce it's a hack. They're right. Nobody cares. Half of the gamer community doesn't even believe their defense.

It's hard to guess what the upper bound of damage is on this scenario.
Translation: Musk admits Tesla can't build a $25K car.
Yeah, totally, working out what is for dinner is great way to learn about people you have dinner with. What foods do they like? Why do they like, dislike, or simply cannot partake in some foods? And less direct but deeper notions like: What makes arguments happen with this person? What happens when this person lashes out on a small scale? Can I react sensibly to this person disagreeing with me?

This and a million other little nuances are super important for successful relationships.
See, for example, Chesa Boudin in San Francisco or Pamela Price in Oakland.

Both of whom went after police misconduct and were eventually ousted in recall campaigns funded by those same police officers. There's a reason that the main group behind the Boudin recall was based in Novato, and it's not because San Francisco annexed parts of Marin County.

Let's not forget either that SFPD staged a soft strike until Boudin was recalled — for instance the cops that stood by and watched as a marijuana dispensary was robbed in 2021. It's more than a bit disingenuous to suggest that the police aren't responsible for their own inaction. OPD's tried similar behavior, but they've been under federal receivership for a few decades now so that's expected.

Boudin's successor, Brooke Jenkins, famously had her initial transition meetings run by Breed's staffers. That's pretty much the opposite of stamping out corruption.
Facing Extinction, Britain's Aristocrats Make a Curious Case for Survival
> Pro-reform prosecutors are rarer than hens' teeth.

King County (containing Seattle) would like a word with you. Our local non-prosecutor managed to get our crime going up and up, even while the national crime rates are going down.
“Homeless” people (including people sleeping rough but not for the fun of it, and panhandlers) are part of a moral economy. The OP is considering their own moral position. This isn’t just about money, or “help.” It’s about self-respect and respect for others.

It’s even about patriotism.

There is no right answer— I can’t see the truth and don’t know the consequences of my actions. So, my policy is: I usually ignore them, and once in a while I offer the help they request.

The first time I visited Paris I saw a man begging on a street-corner. He had a dog. I gave money to help the dog. I soon found that nearly every street corner had another guy— with another dog! I wondered if this was a scheme by the men or if the dogs started it. It was harder to not give money to dogs, but I had to steel myself or I would go broke and be forced to get my own dog.
Great work! Do you have plans to add support to different screen sizes? To run the same test on desktop and mobile i.e.
>we develop new species by bombarding seeds with ionized radiation

"yes, no problem, because what could go wrong!? Another slice of care-not cake, pls"
So my effective tax rate on consumption is indexed on my ability to hide my assets?

Maybe my household LLC should buy all my groceries while I work for the LLC which employs me as the sole contractor and live in the house that I rent from the LLC which I am the sole owner of. For major purchases, I can hire a low-income person to do the purchase and then sell the item to me, or maybe they lease it to me.

I'm not a tax lawyer but it's pretty easy to see the many loopholes in alternative tax proposals.
Well, the article says this:

> Pando is triploid, meaning that its cells contain three copies of each chromosome, rather than two. As a result, Pando cannot reproduce sexually and mix its DNA with that of other trees

but this seems to misunderstand the nature of plants. In an animal, this kind of ploidy variability wouldn't just make the organism sterile, it would kill it. Plants are more tolerant, and many species are known which have done what this article claims is impossible. For example, redwoods are hexaploid, which doesn't interfere with their reproduction.

Wikipedia:

> Polyploidy has come to be understood as quite common in plants—with estimates ranging from 47% to 100% of flowering plants and extant ferns having derived from ancient polyploidy.

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoioideae )

It just isn't an obstacle. I don't know what the article author was thinking.
Show HN: Melchi – Open-Source Snowflake to DuckDB Replication with CDC Support
Hey hacker news! I built Melchi, an open-source tool that handles Snowflake to DuckDB replication with proper CDC support. I'd love your feedback on the approach and potential use cases.

*Why I built it:*
When I worked at Redshift I saw two common scenarios that were painfully difficult to solve: Teams needed to query and join data from other organizations' Snowflake instances with their own data stored in different warehouse types, or they wanted to experiment with different warehouse technologies but the overhead of building and maintaining data pipelines was too high. With DuckDB's growing popularity for local analytics, I built this to make warehouse-to-warehouse data movement simpler.

*How it works:*
* Supports three CDC strategies: standard streams (full change tracking), append-only streams (insert-only tables), and full refresh
* Handles schema matching and type conversion automatically
* Manages all the change tracking metadata
* Uses DataFrames for efficient data movement instead of CSV dumps
* Provides transactional consistency with automatic rollback on failures
* Processes data in configurable batch sizes for memory efficiency

Quick setup example:
```yaml
source:
type: snowflake
account: ${SNOWFLAKE_ACCOUNT}
warehouse: YOUR_WAREHOUSE
change_tracking_schema: streams

target:
type: duckdb
database: output/local.duckdb
```

*Current limitations:*
* Geography/Geometry columns not supported with standard streams (Snowflake limitation)
* Primary keys must be defined in Snowflake (or a row ID will be auto-generated)
* All tables must be replaced together when modifying transfer configuration
* Cannot replicate tables with identical schema/column names into DuckDB, even from different Snowflake databases

*Questions for the community:*
1. What use cases do you see for this kind of tool?
2. What features would make this more useful for your workflow?
3. Any concerns about the approach to CDC?
4. What other source/target databases would be valuable to support?

GitHub: https://github.com/ryanwith/melchi
Discord: https://discord.gg/bTg9kJ92

Looking forward to your thoughts and feedback!
Internet Improv
Low cost home IC development is something very needed for agriculture. If we think about current and future farming equipment, it's digital. We need to provide them the ability to repair themselves and mod.
I guess so? I interpreted the parent's use of "separate interest rates" to mean nominal rates.
Minnesota map to find out if your home's drinking water comes through lead pipe
>people should not be living there

How do people afford to move and start new lives when you can't sell your property because it is uninsurable?
> It seems it has ~~degenerated~~ evolved to a niche file sharing platform for obscure contents?

While it has done so in a "total bytes transferred daily" metric manner, there are still active groups.

comp.misc has a reasonable amount of misc. computer related posts (and some amount of off-topic that one needs to tune their killfile to exclude)

comp.os.linux.misc has a fair amount of traffic at the moment (although the volume does vary over time).

You can get free access with an ES account (https://www.eternal-september.org/).
Likely a bureaucratic problem and much easier for these social media PR teams to pass it off as a system issue
I'm not sure by your tone if this is sarcasm, but it has been shown by formal proof that if something failed the root cause must be an MBA.
Oh you're far from the only one who reads those links that way—people commonly (mis)interpret links to past threads as being an implicit reproach ("why did you post this? it was already posted years ago"), when the intended meaning is more "hey, if you like this, there's related interesting stuff over here".

I struggled for years to find the right language for presenting those links because nearly every wording seemed to provoke this misunderstanding. I eventually settled on simply saying "Related". That seems to minimize (but alas not eliminate) it. I often say "Related. Others?" which seems to work pretty well (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

It's still my intention to integrate this related-links business more into HN's UI, which could maybe help with this quite a bit.
Well they certainly do want the revenues from users outside of Ireland
Thanks man, starred yours too, it's super cool to see all these projects getting spun up!

I see Cerebellum is vision only. Did you try adding HTML + screenshot? I think that improves the performance like crazy and you don't have to use Claude only.

Just saw Skyvern today on previous Show HNs haha :)
Yes, exactly.

I just also like to have an option to run service locally and connect to either cloud instances (test) or local instances depending on what I am troubleshooting/testing. Much better than debugging on prod which may still be required at some point but hopefully not often.
What is best for Russia is to let NATO put nukes on Ukraine soil pointing at Moscow? That's what Russia is fighting against.
Good Submission!
Nice job! Are there any plans to make it compatible with Firefox?
I am curious about how regolith would act as a growing medium.
I suspect the Indian government doesn’t particularly care and benefits from remittances coming back home.
But ActBlue isn’t legally required to share the donor’s email address with the campaigns, are they? They could share the legally required information plus offer a mediated way for candidates to email their own donors through ActBlue, for which unsubscribing would be much more reliable than the current mess, and for which ActBlue could directly act on donor complaints that access to that email channel is being resold to other campaigns.

So, while it’s true that ActBlue isn’t selling data to other campaigns, it’s still enabling that sale without doing what it can to respect donors’ privacy and desire for control over the email inbox.
I'm not bringing any sources but you may be underestimating some of this:

> very few people spoke more than one language

I have heard that ancient peoples might have been quite multi-lingual because there was less homogeneity and more linguistic diversity so that e.g. the villages in the next valley over would be speaking something quite different so you couldn't avoid be quite adept.

> never traveled more than 20 miles from where they were born

Along similar lines, I have heard that with smaller communities, there is more natural drive/incentive to move around to find unreleated partners. I am entertained by the idea that familial conflict is an evolved mechanism to promote the... uh... spread of seed.

People in antiquity really motored around way beyond our expectations. These folk would travel for years for education, trade, war, curiosity and pilgrimage.

> yet the earliest surviving documents on which the gospels were based were in other languages and originated in distant lands

And thus, this becomes more of an example case of historical humanity's multi-lingual peripatetic nature rather than an exception.

Sure, there will have been plenty of homebodies but be wary of underestimation. They currently think stone-age folk transported the Stonehenge altar 434 miles from Scotland and hell, I still find it mind-boggling that all sorts of animals from tiny birds to eels travel 1000s of miles each year just for the weather yet I barely leave the house :)
It's very clever wordplay, especially on-demand, but, for my money, the best true puns work both ways.
You call a tax fraud investigation "needlessly harassing the business of sovereign individuals?"

You're right, the U.S. is very business and industry friendly, which explains why the American people have been getting poorer and poorer while corporations and their shareholders get richer and richer.
>So my effective tax rate on consumption is indexed on my ability to hide my assets?

Where are you getting this from? Sales tax has nothing to do with one's assets. Also, land value taxes make hiding assets moot, since all real assets have to be stored on land. Of course, copyright protections would need to be reformed to be for far shorter durations of time.

>Maybe my household LLC should buy all my groceries while I work for the LLC which employs me as the sole contractor and live in the house that I rent from the LLC which I am the sole owner of.

Why should LLC's be exempt from the tax?

>For major purchases, I can hire a low-income person to do the purchase and then sell the item to me,

How does this help? You are still purchasing the item. If you are referring to purchasing it with cash and committing tax evasion, the same is possible with income tax today.

>or maybe they lease it to me.

Renting something is still considered a sale. You get charged sales tax at hotels. Renting apartments is not usually subject to sales tax, but that is a policy choice.
We are now at the Markov chain level of sentence, it's not even grammatically resembling a sentence at that point. Congratz!
The keys still exist and are accessible. What the kill switches does is make a fishing expedition harder. If the police knew of the existence of a specific document, or even all documents pertaining to certain terms, they could issue a targeted subpoena which Uber would have to comply with (at least in the US).
In many jurisdictions it actually is a problem

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law
FPGA is clearly more _practical_ if you're trying to bang out some commercial functionality. Still, making your own chip fab is cool to do in it's own right. :)
The idea that running stuff in the cloud will protect you from a criminal investigation is totally absurd.
to me, the point of Types is to enforce constraints in a way which can be applied at compile time to remove the need at runtime because your code is shown to conform to the types expectations. Most of what is said here goes to the observations you can make about a type, under its code use. Readability is sort of orthogonal to this, I mean I love it, but in the end, an unreadable program in APL which conforms to type checks is a strong proof of correctness, even if terse.

How do you know your inlined efficient thing will never be used elsewhere? How does this work under future extensibility? Now you have to refactor simply to get it back out of macro-land, into a proper function and re-do ALL the type analysis to make sure you haven't broken the rules.

Post hoc inlining of a function with only one call feels like a thing the compiler can do for you?
The driver handles time slicing between processes, mapping virtual memory to real memory, etc.

You're right that this is an actual consideration for programs. I don't know about CUDA/GPUGPU stuff, but for games, you need to manage residency of your resources, essentially telling the driver which resources (buffers/textures) are critical and can't be unloaded to make space for other apps, and which aren't critical.
Tinygrad is doing this too.
We used Plasmo to build the extension, so I think should be easy to publish it to the Firefox Add-ons store too. To be honest, no one has ever asked this before! Will look into it!
I don't believe that is the root cause of homelessness. Rather, the root cause is actually lower-level and is a fundamental flaw of capitalism.

For all of time, there will always be a subset of people unable to work. Homeless people aren't just homeless, they're jobless, many permanently so. Due to mental illness, disabilities, drugs, etc.

Ultimately giving these people houses does not solve the problem, because they will still be very unsuccessful in a capitalist system. You need a job to survive. What happens if you don't have work?

We don't have a solution for this. Typically, we do bandaids. Retirement funds for those who can't work, medicare, social security. That helps a bit for those people who did work but no longer can.

SOME homeless people can be "trained" to be ideal capitalistic laborers. Most can't, and never will be, because of physical limitations of their person. We don't know what to do with them. Previously, we just institutionalized them. Disqualified them from society. That was awful, so now we let them participate. But they fail, and always will fail.

Ultimately, there is no way around it regardless of the solution you choose. There will always be a subset of people that cannot work and will never work.