skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that the Android team's official position on API usage determines what software I get to install is exactly my problem with this gatekeeping.

The latest victim of this travesty is the removal of syncthing from the play store and the subsequent discontinuation of the app. This was ostensibly due to syncthing's failure to leverage the storage access framework to access files on Android devices. In reality, developers were benchmarking the storage access framework as somewhere around 50 times slower than direct system access, and that made it infeasible for usage in apps like Syncthing. That bug has been open for years, and the Android team has done nothing other than claim it's fixed when benchmarks show otherwise.

So I'm not sold at all on the value of these gatekeeping stores that have black box approval processes with changing rules. It is a system that is set up to be evil because it can reject and accept on a whim with no accountability. We should not so easily give up on installing the software of our choosing on the devices we purchase.
I'm talking about the general case of "why spend money in a foreign country instead of locally". There's more than one example here, not everything's about straight up war and not all about Ukraine.
Oh I 100% agree. The very optimistic scenario is that a colony on mars is formed with a few people who depend on regular shipments from earth. The realistic scenario is that a colony on mars is not made this century.

The extremely, wildly, super-optimistic, not gonna happen style scenario is that a few thousand people live there self-sufficiently; and my point is that, however unlikely such a scenario is, even that is nowhere close to enough, because the vast, vast majority of people would still have to deal with climate change. Moving to mars is not, and has never been, "a solution" on foreseeable time horizons.
Couldn't one pre process all of these unsafe c things with additional overflow checks and just crash. Let the cpu branch thingy do the optimizations
Can LLMs help here?
My advice as a PM people leader: build stuff.

Historically, as a PM, you couldn't do anything without an engineering counterpart.

Now, with GenAI tools, new PMs can easily create and deploy their own apps. In doing so, you'll learn the core PM job skills (for example, thinking about user value, defining requirements, creating designs) and get introduced to the core technical work (for example, writing and testing code, deployment).

The latter is very important for PMs to understand and it's now much more accessible than in the past. You can use Cursor and various Figma to Code platforms for code, and ChatGPT and Claude to help with deployment.

When I'm looking to hire PMs, those who have actually built stuff have a leg up over other candidates.

Hope this helps!
Highly likely, russian spies ))
Any reason why not running transcription locally? Whisper is pretty nice and can spit out timestamped srt or vtt.
They can attack the Baltic states, believing (mistakenly or not) that NATO won't defend them.

There aren't really proofs in geopolitics, only risks and unknowns.
Your explanation is amazing.
Thanks

How would this happen in practice?

> To "mispredict" an unconditional jump for example all it takes is to modify the code so that the instruction points to a different target.

Perhaps a jump to a pointer that changed value? Or maybe JIT code that was optimized during runtime?
I was trying to do this recently for Web page summarization. As said below the token sizes would end up over the context length, so I trimmed the html to fit just to see what would happen.
I found that the LLM was able to extract information, but it very commonly would start trying to continue the html blocks that had been left open in the trimmed input. Presumably this is due to instruction tuning on coding tasks

I'd love to figure out a way to do it though, it seems to me that there's a bunch of rich description of the website in the html
I think this is my favorite lesser known spec, for whatever reason. I smile whenever I run across a CACHEDIR.TAG.
Chimpanzees perform better on challenging computer tasks with an audience
You don't have to talk to them. When you stop there is usually no way to proceed unless they have evidence. I would never agree to an interrogation for anything or any reason. You never know if they are going to consider you a suspect. Just flat out refuse. If you want to help the cops out with what you know, get a lawyer first.
I find it super sad that we should teach kids how to climb corporate ladders rather than taking control of their life, starting businesses, making the world a better place or chasing a career of fulfilment rather than maximizing money return.
Consider that there are thousands of mitochondria (MT) in an individual muscle cell. Cell diagrams often make it look like there is one MT organelle. It's highly misleading.

Single cell bacteria have thousands of genes. MT have a few dozen genes. Many of the genes that regulate MT are contained in the cell's nucleus.
Redder prior to sleep.
Nexus looks interesting for non-sales pros; I'll definitely check it out as I'm always exploring new lead generation solutions like W3rocks!
I have no direct source, that's just what I have noticed from reading blogs about switching to Rails and by people on Twitter embracing the new release. I've also noticed the engagement in posts regarding Rails has increased and been reading comments by users who've never tried Rails giving it a shot and found it pleasant to work with.
HN feature request: "I read the article" checkbox
The idea is to add an "I read the article" checkbox, unchecked by default, next to the "add comment" button.

Even better would be an account setting to allow you to hide comments with the checkbox unchecked.

It would save me time and frustration to simply ignore and avoid responding to comments by people who never read the submitted article. I don't wish to interact with such people.

I realize, of course, that commenters could mislead by checking the checkbox even when they haven't read the article. However, over the years I've seen a lot of commenters who are quite open and honest about the fact that they're here only for the comments, not the articles. Indeed, this feature request was inspired by my recent interaction with such a person, who admitted (after the fact) to not reading the article.
Even my cheap 100% plastic calipers have been running for 2years. And yes they cost $100 but my good calipers have been running for 5years or so
I’ll have to check that out!
Pzerro sounds interesting for freelancers—I'm exploring W3rocks for broader lead generation options!
Thanks, Jina actually looks quite nice for use in LLMs.

I also provide a REST API [1] that you can use for free (within limits). However you have get an API Key by registering with Github (see reason below).

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The demo was previously hosted on Vercel. Someone misused the demo and send ~5 million requests per day. And would not stop — which quickly brought me over the bandwidth limits of Vercel. And bandwidth is really really expensive!

So that is the reason for requiring API Keys and hosting it on a VPS… Lessons learned!

[1] https://html-to-markdown.com/api
I like using LLMs for building non-critical tools that make me more productive. Things like shell scripts, Github actions, or one-off tools for visualising some problem space. The kind of thing where code quality doesn't really matter, but which will save you a ton of time in the long run
Yeah but it's gonna be OUR radioactive, unbreathable, freezing, near-vacuum and sterile desert!!
Your solution sounds like a game-changer for streamlining processes! If you're looking for more ways to automate and enhance lead generation, check out W3rocks for some innovative ideas.
True enough, but it makes searching (on HN, Google, etc.) a PITA.
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ETA: I wonder if anyone else still has that burned into their brains and knows what I’m talking about. Maybe I’m crazy.
Try browsing with showdead. I regularly see comments which are just stupid. They're so bad they don't really deserve a discussion/answer since that would introduce lots of noise. But they're not abusive as such so can't be flagged. Downvotes do their job well a lot of the time.
Total anecdata, but when I was college age I would get bronchitis about annually that usually started from something that would have at least 1 nostril completely blocked for a week or so. I read about neti pots, bought a pharmacy "sinus rinse" and started using it daily.

I'm 58 now and I haven't had bronchitis like I used to since.

My theory is that it not only washes out stuff that might lead to infection, but also keeps your membranes from drying out and cracking, opening a vector for them.
Today I learned that mitochondria are the only organelles that replicate “on their own” inside a cell, while the other organelles just bud off the preexisting ones. I wonder how they are signaled to do so though.

Reminds me of sea slugs that eat plants and then integrate their chloroplasts to produce energy, or my dad who kept swapping the same Honda motor through all our go karts because it was too good to get rid of.
Hey John! Subreddit Signals sounds like a fantastic tool for optimizing lead generation on Reddit. As someone who values effective outreach, I'm curious how it might complement tools like W3rocks for broader lead generation efforts. Keep up the great work!
You can feel however you want about it but if you were to show up in a thread about GNOME security bugs and start talking about how Linux was designed by this random guy from Finland with no real experience which is why everything is so broken that’s really where people would stop taking you seriously.
Molecular Design Models Optimized for Cancer Therapy
If you want a fun scifi horror novel to read related to this topic, check out Parasite Eve by Hideaki Sena. It's the novel that inspired the PSX game. The whole plot revolves around mitochondria and was inspired by the author's time as a grad student. I read it a few months ago and really enjoyed it.
Why are we shocked?

Computers should generally give us the same output with the same input.
> We already are flooded. Everyone...

In headlines and emotions, "flooded" can be a boolean. In on-the-ground-reality - not so much. There are still lot o' millions of people in Ukraine, who'd be "eager & available" to flood westward if Russia won.
Yes. That is absolutely true.

The conflict of course is that the point of sending astronauts to space is to learn about the medical effects of the space environment on human bodies.

Basically they are participating in a very expensive publicly funded medical trial. So the goals of that need to be balanced against their privacy.

I’m not advocating that NASA should publish high resolution pictures of astronauts with puke stained shirts. But they could say “one of the astronauts experienced symptomps commonly associated with intense motion sickness which started after disembarking the vehicle” or “one of the astronauts had intense headaches” or whatever describes the situation.

If the astronauts are not okay with that level of transparency they should pay for their flight with their own money. Is my opinion.
Not the price, its proprietary locked nature of the thing.
- have to login with google, well i understand
- 25 credits free ?? hug does not work and have to buy credit

-> abuse !
That's like telling the architect he's spending too much time thinking about building the house and not enough time building it.
FWIW your examples are very unclear as they use text formatting, you need to indent lines by 4 spaces (with an empty line before and after) for a code block e.g.

if a == b:
print("x")

versus

if a == b:
print("x")
I recently started writing Ada again, a couple of years after I did a bunch of projects with it. The amazing things is how easy it is to go back and update old code due to how much semantic information gets embedded in it and how few symbols it uses.
You think people would freak out if NASA told them „you guys won’t be able to go to mars to escape earth“?
> the customer is not your customer. The person/people who control your raise, bonus, and promotion are your real customers

This is definitely the case in many/most companies, but it's also a sign of a dysfunctional and declining internal company culture, and a bad pattern that will lead to decline in quality of product and deteriorating internal team dynamics.

It's better to seek out employers where this inevitable trend is explicitly countered, or hasn't developed yet.

We all feel better when we're producing good quality and get recognition for it.
> Syllogized: People don't want to do [unpleasant or dangerous job], therefore let's make the rest of life worse so they will.

It was simply an observation. I meant the first part of this, not the second part. Try not to read too much into it. No one wants a worse life, however there's also no incentive to improve those job conditions. Historically, once locals stop doing these jobs, they don't pick them back up again. The niche is filled through other means. And that's progress.

Technologists often think of robotics and automation as solutions to the dull, dirty and dangerous, and eventually we will make a field welding robot. In the interim, companies will find outside labour to do the work.
Construction in North America is some of the most mechanized in the industrial world because of this trend. Take road paving for example, extremely hazardous work that was largely manual with people shovelling and pressing tar. Now there's a specialized machine that lays down an entire lane at a time, with humans largely relegated to operation and maintenance. Isn't that what we all want? That no one has to do this dangerous work?
I looked into manned Mars missions in a fit of enthusiasm 30 years or so, and I concluded that we couldn't do it because landing a human + life support on Mars requires deceleration technology we just don't have. Basically the speed of a Martian orbiter needs to be reduced to 0 or so to avoid splatting the human, but Mars' atmosphere is so thin that parachutes just don't provide the required break.

Has that now changed or is it still just fantasy?
You might be interested in https://github.com/hudochenkov/stylelint-order
Buying politicians, media and govt contracts has been going on for as long as govt has existed.

It hasn't suddenly begun in 2024, and institutions have lasted those hundreds of years, while being under constant assault by one mindlessly ambitious resourceful group after another.

Blindly pick any institution you want, and go look at their history. In fact, most would have been set up in reaction to some groups delusional activities. Its hard to find a single institution that some group hasn't tried to shutdown, control or exploit.

Institutions survive for the simple reason, that these groups don't have solutions for everything that happens in a complex ever changing universe.

And sooner or later the universe will throw some complex problem in their lap, that breaks whatever mental model of reality, their 3 inch chimp brain can hold. Such people and groups come and go all the time.
As a semi-counter-point, learning some data mapper libraries where you learn a DSL that seems better-structured than SQL definitely helped me understand SQL better.

SQL is ultimately a bit dysfunctional and takes a lot of getting used to. Not arguing it's worth learning but since most of my career I was not truly exposed to it, I preferred the bespoke DSL.

I'll agree using ORMs is indeed going to ridiculous lengths to avoid learning even a smidgen of SQL but there's a nice middle ground.
I'll certainly give it a try. Another tool I've been using (with varied degree of success) to enhance my git life is https://github.com/tummychow/git-absorb. If both of these worked flawlessly or maybe even officially incorporated in git, I'd be very happy.
The info will be made public eventually. There is no reason it need be public immediately.
The best way to be right is to make yourself right
Possible to run this in ComfyUI?
Painting by the AI robot AI-Da sells for more than $1M at Sotheby's
The New York Times reported that Musk has advised Trump to hire key employees from SpaceX into his administration, including at the Department of Defense. This reflects the huge conflict of interest that Musk will face when it comes to space policy

How would this be different from the revolving door that happens in any other administration? Big names off the top of my head: Lloyd Austin from Raytheon, Dick Cheney from Halliburton, Robert Rubin from Goldman Sacs?
No doubt it's difficult, and in countries like Russia it's downright impossible to defend your innocence successfully under such circumstances. But I think if you ever find yourself in such a situation, you have no choice but to stand on the truth, on principle. It's better to go down fighting than to submit. And in game theory terms, there is at least a potential upside to fighting the charge, even if the potential downside is worse. There is no further upside to pleading guilty to something you didn't do.

I'll tell you this... the judge could tell the jury to ignore it, or declare a mistrial, but if someone had offered me a plea bargain for something I was innocent of, I would tell the jury that I'd refused it. Whether that was stricken from the record or not, at that point you're a political prisoner and you've done all you honestly can.
Not just Google - I haven't seen many companies which would tolerate people being stuck on junior level for many years. They'd be slowly managed out (unless the company is government or really big).
Authorities investigating racist SMS' sent to Black people after US elections
From the Sotheby's website the painting in question "A.I. God Portrait of Alan Turing": https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2024/digital-art-day...
Unless they are hoping the public forgets to follow up. Sort of like when the president's press secretary says to a reporter when faced with a difficult question, "I'll have to get back to you on that."
Let's hear some examples :)
I've had flights that lasted for more than 12h. This may be a bit too short.
Yes, when I follow it, it now shows the "Forums" section, and it stays there if I switch to e.g. All or Web from there. It's likely encoded somewhere in the long "fbs" parameter, cause it disappears once I remove it.

But you can search forums with just udm=18. E.g. https://google.com/search?q=Foo&udm=18 -- this means you can create a custom "search with >" item for it.

Also,

6 https://www.google.com/search?q=Foo&udm=6 -- "Learn", returns mostly learning resources and references.

8 https://www.google.com/search?q=javascript+near+san+francisc... -- "Jobs", seems to use "<title> near <location>" format.

15 https://www.google.com/search?q=Foo&udm=15 -- "Attractions", seems defunct.

36 https://www.google.com/search?q=Foo&udm=36 -- "Books"

37 https://www.google.com/search?q=Foo&udm=37 -- "Products", strange one

44 https://www.google.com/search?q=Foo&udm=44 -- "Visual matches" ???

48 https://www.google.com/search?q=Foo&udm=48 -- "Exact matches" ???

51 https://www.google.com/search?q=Foo&udm=51 -- "Homework", looks like "Learn"

I guess 44, 48 is probably how image search works.
Say you have a SQL database on one side, and a Python/Ruby/Java/Golang webserver on the other. If you wrote raw SQL, you'd have to also write the ORM (the object-relational mapper) yourself as well to map database results into objects or whatever data structure your webserver expects.
Mtr, a Network Diagnostic Tool
Scientists Reveal "Impossible" State of Matter That's Both Solid and Superfluid
Agree and not only that, Google attracts a certain type of person that I feel like is more competitive and slightly obsessed with self image (senior role titles for example)
There are attempts to do that, such as https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.11904 or https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.00084. I couldn't find any open source implementation though. I'm personally not so keen to use LLMs for merging: I want it to be quick and predictable.
> I honestly do not understand ActiveRecord

ActiveRecord also does a terrible job of hiding the database or sql, even compared to other ORMs like Django's.

So the price you pay for the it doesn't even buy you that much benefit via abstraction in the first place.
Sharing Changes, Visuals First
> This is going to spin out but Rust is not a fit for kernel development.

I'll bite. Genuine question. Why?

> It is a language fueled by what feels like a perpetual hype cycle.

So just because it's hyped it shouldn't be used? Or are you saying that it's a bad language and people only use it because of the hype?
>This isn’t because Toyota doesn’t want to include those technologies, but rather because the engineers know that complicated additions reduce a vehicle’s lifespan.

Then why don't they off an auto without all the bling ? With just the accessories only available in the 90s. They may file a lot of people wanting that. Right now I am living in "Cuba", keeping an almost 20 year old auto running because I do not want all that internet crap.
Yeah, more or less. The US uses the DoD as its private-sector R&D funding firehose. They aren't writing Raytheon a $800B check and saying "make us some missiles." They might write a $4B check for some missiles, but that leaves $876B left over based on 2023's defense spending numbers.

Most of the money goes to stuff you wouldn't even think of as "military equipment." Stuff like medical devices, security, communications, networking, search-and-rescue, and so on. Morally neutral-to-good things that the military needs, but so does everyone else.

As a business, the difference between the DoD and the rest of the market is that the DoD is a single institution with the budget and willingness to bankroll your R&D. Sometimes it's the only feasible way to fund development of a genuine, morally good product.
> Try browsing with showdead. I regularly see comments which are just stupid

I do, and yes, downvotes filter out noise but in the process also filter out unconforming opinions. Whether you prefer a "clean" but sterile environment over a noisier but more interesting one is a matter of taste, and I feel other users shouldn't be able to impose their taste on me.

Being able to block users would be much more effective in terms of filtering noise and excluding censorship abuses.
We’re about to see a Cambrian Explosion of novel compounds like this. It’s about to be a wild time on the Rx side of things.
Show HN: I Built a Todo Task Management Web App
The better test I saw was here's the prompt, here's what ChatGPT produced. What's wrong with it, why, and how would you fix it?
Too late to edit, and somewhat off topic, but I wonder if you could package an interferometer in such a way to work for calipers?

https://caltechexperimentalgravity.github.io/IFO.html
Why do hospitals keep running out of generic drugs?
I appreciate this effort. I've definitely been interested in how plausible it would be to, today, run another instance of the Bluesky AppView, mainly because AT proto seems promising, but to really meet it's full potential it needs independent operators with different sensibilities.

I've been thinking a lot about the relay, though. 4.5 terabytes is, well... A lot, to say the least. If Bluesky grows 100x larger, running a relay will become pretty insanely expensive. I guess if the Bluesky organization remains fairly neutral about the relay part, it's not a huge deal, but:

- It always eventually becomes hard to stay neutral. Eventually someone will get mad at something going through your network that isn't just obvious network abuse like SPAM.

- It seems like drinking from the firehouse itself will eventually become expensive. Will it be possible for something this high bandwidth to remain freely-accessible?
Likewise, In-Q-tel the reason Google Earth and hence Maps exist.