skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Save up to 2 hours every day by organizing your work seamlessly and reducing daily stress.

Aaaaaaaand into the bullshit box it goes.
Yes but otoh that might be more of a “I refuse to accept a culture of optics on principle” kinda situation, rather than not understanding it. I liked the post because it’s honest and doesn’t put a value judgment on things, just explains how it works. It’s up to each and everyone to act accordingly, and one of those actions is to not participate in the lunacy that often arises in the higher echelons. Many people are fine keeping their integrity, mostly left alone to code, avoiding social deception games at the expense of not being promoted out of what they fell in love with in the first place. People are just different.
Yeah, I agree this post would have been better with a concrete example. It's hard to talk about a specific project though, since it comes down to describing in detail facts about a company's internal workings (often embarrassing facts). I couldn't figure out how to anonymize it sufficiently.
> If you ship something users hate and makes no money, but your leadership team is happy, you still shipped.

Well now, hold on a second. You didn't tell me this was about consulting.

If we're being paid like pirates and fightin' like pirates thats one thing.
I'm pretty sure I read a reddit comment a few years ago where someone said they were a customer in a resturant, and they saw resturant employees click on a mouse attached to the wall to make an announcements (I think notify that an order was ready). It sounds like a very unique setup, so it was probably this one!
Ask HN: Any AI code review tools for GitHub PRs?
I'm already using Cursor, which has improved my productivity. Now, I'm on the hunt for an AI tool that can review open GitHub PRs and comment on potential bugs or issues. I'm not expecting anything groundbreaking – even if it can catch basic issues that might get missed in a PR, that would be super helpful.

We've all been there, right? Making those silly mistakes...

I'm totally open to paid services if they're worth it.
> D-Wave do not claim to be building a general quantum computer (although they willfully muddy the water on this)

While currently the machines they are talking about are quantum annealing only, there is some indication they’re working towards a universal QC [1] [2].

> During the Qubits 2021 conference held by D-Wave, it was announced that the company is developing their first universal quantum computers, capable of running Shor's algorithm in addition to other gate-model algorithms such as QAOA and VQE.

As for your other point,

> Simulation of quantum systems (drugs, new materials, solar cells, batteries) is a much more plausible near-term application of a quantum computer. If it ever happens it will probably happen many years before Shor's algorithm successfully runs.

Isn’t this exactly the kind of stuff that annealing can be applied to? [3]

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/05/dwave_quantum_compute...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_annealing

[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/d43747-023-00021-3
Apps that work like Discord and Telegram are the social media of the future.
I’ve built the leading satay transparency tool in my country and one other, reverse engineering an API. Took me a few hours, now 6000 people use the tool. I think my tool is responsible for their changes to rate limiting lol
So by default it will show you popular accounts which is unsurprisingly celebrities. But you just need to not engage with them and follow the people and topics you are interested in.

Once you do the algorithm is TikTok style in its sensitivity i.e. very.
> I think it's better -- in the most pessimistic case -- to look at jj as reframing how you think about branches and commits in the same way that learning a type of Lisp reframes your thinking even if you're a full time Python developer and have zero intention of ever using a Lisp.

For some reason this actually had me pause in fear. I've been using git deeply for years and find it very natural and mindless to use at this point. The thought that I might again be trapped in Plato's cave like I found I had been prior to learning Common Lisp is actually disturbing...

Now I don't have a choice but to give jj a shot
A deck of playing cards has to have one of the highest density of "usefulness" an object can have that I can think of. I would love to hear if anyone can think of any one thing nearly as useful in so many ways.

Entertainment of course - single and multiplayer, chance and betting, mathematics of all kinds, throwing, building (like a house of cards). I thought it was so cool when a character in Cryptonomicon used it to create an encryption cypher from jail.

A sufficiently randomly shuffled deck of cards is almost certainly in an arrangement that has never existed before and will ever exist again.

52 cards divides evenly by 2, 4, 13, 26. Add two jokers and you get 3, 6, 9, 18. Remove the faces and you get even more.

Its just so well designed - or evolved as it were. If you could only have one object for the rest of your life to entertain or educate you, I dont think you could do much better than a deck of cards.
Shortly before they destroyed the API I made a little script to delete all my tweets. Was really really handy
disc rot is a thing for every disc that's made with aluminum, which is all but a very few super special ones like mobile fidelity sound lab made with gold. Oxygen permeates through both the polycarbonate base and the clear coat top, maybe quickly, maybe slowly, but always.
https://briefs.video/videos/i-am-leaving/
That’s the one I used when I moved from Spotify to YouTube music. Luckily my playlists contained less than 500 songs so the whole migration was easy and free.
Make one for the NFL, please! I can’t stand how hard it is to get scores on their website. Haha
In tomorrow's news, I did not win $2,000,000 in a lottery.
You can get to every note by stacking enough of literally anything but octaves. Such is the power of the modulus operator.

Thirds appear to me to be pretty much the fundamental particle of western harmony.
Am I the only one who feels this "article" which is most probably an llm made and could have been a tweet only ?
I've tried the other tabs and feeds. I follow a decent number of people, too.

When I delve into art or gamedev feeds and whatnot, I'm still hit in the face with selfies and people talking way too much about their personal life. I feel like I really need to dig for content, whereas with twitter, the top 10 things I see upon every refresh is some great art.

I know lots of artists have left it permanently for bluesky, and I try to follow them whenever they leave, but there's still a massive imbalance in the quality of content that the algorithm feeds and it's heavily in favor of twitter.
As a civilian, I would have expected that if there's anywhere where you're supposed to follow protocol even if it means expensive mistakes happen, it's the Marines. My mental model of the military, and especially the Marines, is that it's an organization that values discipline and prioritizes following the chain of command.

That's even more true if getting it wrong means you could die.
Canvas, and several other LMS's all use scorm cloud on the backend. Discovered this while researching for something work related.

Getting into the internals of an LMS is tricky, but surprisingly very interesting and very fun.
Doesn’t exist
I believe they are using m2 ultra studios to provide cloud based AI services.
BlueSky is a for-profit "Public Benefit Corporation". Let's be honest, it's in their interest to look as popular as possible to attract investors, partnerships, and users. Inflated numbers, if they existed, would be nearly impossible to detect from the outside. So why should I blindly accept these figures just because they’re reported? A screenshot doesn’t magically prove transparency, either. Companies can cherry-pick data or only show specific slices that make them look good. Real transparency would mean regular and verified reports accessible to the public, not just one-off announcements about user growth that we can’t independently verify.

When I said, "Publish the screenshot. Not that hard," I wasn't implying a screenshot would be the ultimate proof, but more that if they claim these numbers are legit, they should be willing to share more than just a headline. If they're not, it's fair to question why.
Fidelity who invested in X have said it's worth 20% since Musk took over.

So it definitely is dying. It will just take another year or two.
I do not understand how people have this problem. Follow interesting people and look at the following tab. Unfollow or mute uninteresting or annoying people.

I find it great because there is a ton of interesting people. It is not a website for discussions, it is for one off messages.
Very interesting read! Gives some idea on how to integrate data that are not easy to access. Thanks
This is overly defensive. They never said that Unity was the only engine that exposes intermediate code, just that it was an attack vector because the game was built with Unity. It's a perfectly valid thing to point out. You didn't come to the defence of Lua just because they decompiled some Lua scripts.
I'm talking about Thread, Bluesky does indeed allows porn, that's why many artists are moving from Twitter to Bluesky.
> How do I verify the data

You can go onto the App Store charts and see that Threads is #1, and Bluesky is #2.

And it's been like this for a while. So clearly something is happening.
Whenever people mention 'bird app', I think it's is ebird. Now, 'butterfly app' makes me think of iNaturalist. :-)

http://ebird.org/

https://www.inaturalist.org/
Very simple. Turn the webpage into a static blob url, and the 2d barcode will launch that blob url.

Since it’s a static blob, you don’t need to host it at all. The url itself is the code for the webpage
From what I read that seems plausible given the pilot was a seasoned test pilot; so it seems odd he was just being panicky.

Imagine just being struck by lightning, loosing main displays, and being at 1200 feet. All on top of flying in a plane with a reputation for electronic failures.

I'd be concerned too that the plane was about to freak out. 1200 ft isn't far.
Right. This is where math-oriented people get stuck on counting half-steps and forget that the assigned names carry information. E-B# is a different thing from E-C which is different from abominations like E-Dbb.
Underwater: Shame, Fear and the Social Management of the Housing Crisis (2010)
> "unusably slow". There are still many who are satisfied with less

Who exactly are satisfied with less than a 15 y/o notebook? Why are they on (more than) 15 y/o notebook and not on a smartphone?

> I suppose it depends on what they intend to use it for.

15 notebook is enough to be a glorified typewritter or tty, or to watch some movies (forget about HEVC, x265 and even x264 is troublesome)

Intel Core i5-540M @ 2.53GHz vs AMD Ryzen 3 4300U
Clockspeed 2.5 GHz 2.7 GHz
Turbo Speed Up to 3.1 GHz Up to 3.7 GHz
# of Physical Cores 2 (Threads: 4) 4 (Threads: 4)
Cache L1: 128KB, L2: 0.5MB, L3: 3MB L1: 256KB, L2: 2.0MB, L3: 4MB
First Seen on Chart Q1 2010 Q1 2020
Single Thread Rating 1159(-49.8%) 2307(0.0%)
CPU Mark 1808(-75.7%) 7431(0.0%)
I'm not sure what you're alluding to regarding what happened on X during the election. If anything 2024 was smoother (very surprisingly) than what happened in 2020 even when Twitter had a Trust and Safety team, mostly because the election was not contested this time.
> It’s a new plane!

First flown in 2006. Introduced 2016.
I think that date could be pushed back to at least 1995. Here's an article dated January 1996 about SoftWindows, for Mac, which uses phrases like "Mac and PC clipboards", "running PC programs", "playing PC games", and "PC sound cards".

https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputerWorldMagazine/PC...

Here also is an article about desktop publishing from 1990.

https://archive.org/details/FinancialTimes1990UKEnglish/Sep%...

It talks about "running a Mac-based system and a PC-based system side by side", and how "some text and graphics files can be moved relatively easily between Mac and PC formats". Opposite is an advert for Toshiba's early IBM PC compatible laptops, bragging about winning awards from PC User magazine, which I don't think featured Macs.

But when was any Mac ever called a PC? I don't think the Mac Plus, for instance, was called a PC at any point?

SoftWindows was Windows bundled with x86 emulator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftPC, created in 1986. Note the PC in the name, apparently equivalent in meaning to x86 already. Maybe this was implicitly short for IBM PC Compatible, maybe the term PC was ambiguous back then, and for the next two decades, but I doubt it. (Clearly it is still somewhat ambiguous, though, or I'd have nothing to wrangle about here.)
And I have been correctly saying that this is foolish because it will destroy the entire internet communication industry and we get far more social benefit than drawback from said industry. If everyone has to know everything on their service then they can't let users post anything. Further, this has been well litigated already for other telecom services (i.e. for the phone company) and is why there is no liability for the telecom company if you, for example, use their cellular network to set off a bomb in a crowded area.

It doesn't matter what the price is, the price is a signal of a totally separate problem, as I have already said. As I've also already said, this censorship nonsense of the last decade is indicative of editorializing and therefore in that instance it would make sense to have some liability to the platform, as they are exercising editorial control over what is being published above and beyond legality.
But then we are just stuck between option 1 and 2 as we are right now. My point is option 3: libertarian no-ban but full social safety net is the opposite of ideal, while options 1 and 2 are ideal but not achievable.

So here we are with some rules and some safety net, because its the only workable option?
A damn shame they want $5k for mbid.org
> So much has changed since Go’s 10 year anniversary,

Discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21483933
Thanks for a great wrap up of the recent US election. Do you know who ensures that privileged users (within the state's secure server zone) don't introduce malicious code? The Trusted Insider is a consistent security problem.
Consider the slime molds, which have no brain, specifically Physarum polycephalum and Dictyostelium discoideum (you'll forgive me for conflating them a bit in this brief comment):

It can solve mazes. [0]

"They remember, anticipate and decide." [0]

They practice primitive agriculture: "they carry, seed and prudently harvest their food" (though no cultivation - what dummies!). [1]

And here's the kicker: "P. polycephalum ... spends most of its life as a single cell containing millions of nuclei, small sacs of DNA, enzymes and proteins." [0], but "When prey bacteria become scarce, Dictyostelium discoideum amoebae aggregate by the tens of thousands and produce a multicellular migratory slug that becomes a fruiting body in which about 20% of cells die to form a sterile stalk. The stalk aids the dispersal of the remaining cells, which differentiate into spores in a spherical structure called the sorus ..." [1]

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.11811

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature09668
They bioaccumulate because the “forever” part means they don’t break down. The reason they’ve been banned in food wrappers is that they accumulate to levels that become toxic. We should avoid them every way we can.
qemu-wasm
Chords in isolation are an academic exercise. In the context of an overall chord progression, this “enharmonic ambiguity” normally disappears completely, at least for mainstream jazz, pop, rock, folk, most classical, etc. - you know, the music that people who weren’t music majors actually like.
How do penguins throw?
With Trump winning the election, X will either be merged into Truth Social or nationalized.
My hypothesis is still that the problem isn't Twitter per se, but that Twitter-like failure modes are built in to that structure. A communications platform that has certain qualities will tend to become Twitter-like: Many-to-many, short messages, reposting, etc. These are mechanics that will just create certain kinds of behaviors. So, that would predict Bluesky having many of the same problems as Twitter sooner or later.
Based on your replies I doubt there’s anything that would actually convince you, but as it happens the data is pretty public and there are plenty of charts charts:

https://bsky.app/profile/jaz.bsky.social/post/3lamm7liwrc2w
https://bsky.app/profile/jglypt.net/post/3lahqd45qqw2y
https://bsky.app/profile/alice.mosphere.at/post/3lac4bbxhty2...
Does anyone else get a horrible feeling inside when seeing these pointless hobby projects? Like, instead of buying a PC, spent many valuable hours doing this.

Maybe it's just because they're time rich and I'm time poor. Perhaps it's similar to how a hungry person feels when they see a food fight on TV.

Revelling in waste.
Right wing accounts were heavily pushed in the later stages of the election.

I manage a number of business X accounts which are publish only and all switched to showing right-wing politicians, pundits and extensive amounts of Elon Musk. I created a new account to check and same thing. Even though when I selected interests I specifically chose non-political topics.

For me it was very clear then that whether it's Musk or Zuckerberg no one should have the ability to push political content.
I wouldn’t be surprised if states like Idaho and Florida that don’t have functioning public health departments start having TB outbreaks to go with their measles outbreaks once the CDC is decimated and can’t provide a backstop anymore.
Its getting there. They just need to allow replying back into the fediverse. But making it all opt in kinda has limited how many people use it. Perhaps that was intentional due to infrastructure needed and potentially overwhelming the fediverse. Or its just their way to say "we tried!"
I look for music on bandcamp, 7digital, and then amazon music in that order. All offering drm free mp3 and flac files. I don't think there has been something I wanted that I havem't been able to find yet.
IQVIA is a Global CRO with like 80-90k employees. They do two things really well. Running clinical trials (Phases I-IV) and vacuuming up healthcare data (claims, EMR, sales, etc., https://www.iqvia.com/insights/the-iqvia-institute/available...)
I've been thinking about this a lot. First, the author should replace security with compliance. Currently they are two different things. There is a huge divide between compliance teams and developers, they speak completely different languages. I'm writing an entire series about it. I do think we can fix the problem, but it is going to be a lot more work than it was to get development and operations on the same page.

https://productgovernance.substack.com/publish/posts/detail/...
Heh, I commented this exact list in order before reading your comment :D
Requests for Startups – Y Combinator
it was never going to die overnight though. It's had a steady decline since the takeover.
Testing Einstein's predictions by calculating the distortion of time and space
That's... not how it works.

You can't just throw people at a problem and assume they will get it done for some fixed cost. Experience and existing infrastructure and solutions actually matter, and can make something significantly cheaper than building from scratch.

Let's say you want to bake a loaf of bread. You're not a baker, so you don't have any of the skills, ingredients, or tools needed to bake this loaf. Also, you only want to bake the one loaf (just like building out a contactless ticket system is a single project that shouldn't need to be done over and over again).

Which would you expect to be cheaper and faster: 1. buying everything you need to bake a loaf of bread and doing it yourself or 2. walking to the nearest bakery and buying a loaf there.

Keep in mind that the bakery needs to make a profit, and you do not – so there is no way the bakery will end up being cheaper, right? And surely the seasoned professionals (who already have the necessary tools and ingredients) won't be faster at baking the loaf than you, a complete novice without those things.
I deleted my Twitter account a few days ago. I am so disappointed in what became of Musk as he teamed up with Trump and I don't want to support him any more. Of course it does not make a dent in his life, but for mine it does. The time I save I can do more useful things with. I aim to consume less and produce more. or consume more long-form media, like books, or actual newspapers. It will be better for my mood I think, to decouple myself from current events unless they are really significant. So what is the relationship of this to Bluesky? That I am not keen on trying it. I will attempt this change of focus seriously. I will not just change ships, I will stay in my new destination.
how are you running CUDA on the integrated Apple silicon GPU these days?
Yes, there are age-old debates between descriptive and prescriptive grammarians. But in my book, “pause = comma” is a crude and inaccurate tool, and “the commas didn’t stop you from figuring out what I meant” is the lowest possible bar.
Truth is less straightforward than might appear. More often than not, if you try to establish truth on some divisive question from first principles—honestly, without any hidden agenda of your own—you arrive at the unknown (no consensus in the field) and/or philosophical matter (out of scope of natural science) before you can blink.

(Of course, that’s in addition to the fact that all science is inherently flawed and biased, because we are.)

In case of politically divisive questions, as an example, these two sentences can contradict each other and be true at the same time: 1) “abortion is killing a living being”, and 2) “abortion is a free person exercising control over her own body”. The host of questions you’d need to explore in order to make a point of truth is vast and includes the definition of life, whether there is free will, whether consequentialism is better than deontology, etc.; and if you claim that this does not matter then congratulations—you have already adopted a position on some politically divisive question.

In philosophical terms, truth in absolute sense would require having some hypothetical access to underlying reality; since we can never have that (as all of our access to reality is mediated by our mind), we only have access to lossy models or maps; and because there is always more than one model or map that can be useful depending on the purpose, there is always a subset of claims where one has the opposite truth value (or no truth value) in one of the maps.

In short, not only no one “owns” the truth, but anyone who claims to actually “know” it is being delusional or misleading; the solution to alienating political divisiveness is not obtaining unobtainable objective truth but finding common ground.
SDF Headless Tests
Interesting. I've left the Steam client running for weeks at a time and have not seen that issue. I bet it was closed because Valve couldn't replicate the problem.
>I have to ask, are you president of his fan club? You seem personally offended that I pointed out that he doesn’t actually contribute meaningfully to any engineering work.

No. I'm not a fan at all. But I don't have this biased hatred for him that you seem to have.

>He’s not knee deep in engineering, at all. It’s ridiculous to imagine he is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYQxG4KEzvo

You are truly out of touch about this guy if you don't know that he's knee deep in engineering. Not even joking here. The fact that you don't know this shows that you don't really know much about him. Dude, just read his biography or if you don't have time watch the above video that sums it up from an unbiased pov.
So it's far better than anything anyone else has built.