skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve had raw honey straight from both domesticated and wild hives as it was collected so unless the bees themselves are adulterating it, I think I’ve got an accurate baseline for how honey is supposed to taste.

Go out and buy a good manuka or wild Himalayan honey and you’ll quickly learn how to spot the real stuff. The honey I buy isn’t meant to look like filtered golden sugar syrup so adulterating it is practically impossible. That said I buy it from ethnic grocery stores so unless you’re getting the good stuff at Trader Joes YMMV (I like their manuka)
I was summarizing the general debate. Your position is idiosyncratic.
"Don't use Kotlin's removeFirst() and removeLast() when using compileSdk 35"
"Putting down roots" is the wrong way to look at it. You have to ask yourself if you're certain that you will be in one area for a long time. Everyone wants roots in LA or NYC, many of them wash out.
I'm surprised all the discussions here missed an obvious point, even if it's implicit and not explicitly stated: the shady support this candidate had was the only support he had

He's declared 0 campaign spending. For all we know, the only way he was promoted was by a swarm of foreign-controlled accounts bypassing TikTok's own anti-swarming policies, knowingly or not. The growth in his account was not organic. He had practically zero other exposure to justify his growth

Accepting him as president is tantamount to Romania accepting a president chosen by someone very high up in another state. That, for me, is Romania becoming a puppet state of that power, be it Russia, China or both working together

No, thanks, I'm happy with a borderline legal decision by Romania's Constitutional Court. There were enough red flags in the way this candidate conducted himself for his case to not stand as precedent if a legit candidate is challenged in the future for minor (and even maybe significant, but not exclusive) foreign support
The vulnerability was not in the source code of the repo. See https://blog.yossarian.net/2024/12/06/zizmor-ultralytics-inj... for a deeper analysis - a great read!
At the same time it was one of the few media platforms that allowed criticism of Israel to go viral.

Actually, it has been the 76 years of increasingly brutal occupation with no end in sight, along with all the compltely ludicrous propaganda the State of Israel (and its right-wing support base abroad) continually transmits about itself this state of affairs, with the weird expectation that the world should actually believe it for some reason -- which has allowed criticism of Israel to go viral.
We buy from Costco and most/all of it crystallizes after some time.

Not sure if that makes it good honey, but there’s that.
True. But if the sites performed well (big if) and feel responsive, look nice, don’t break middle click and other browser functions - well I don’t see the problem, then. I don’t think the “hate” is irrational.
No need for any tricks, just go to your registrar and extend/restore the domain. The fees are huge though, usually.
Bit to get honey would mean to rob your hive friend.
we already have this in the FDA. it’s just isolated to nutrient labels for most foods. the deposit is your business. failing a random annual FDA inspection is already extremely financially impactful

what you’re looking for is deeper analysis than nutrition labels. this is actually something small local brands start with. they pay for private “certifications” like organic, non gmo, etc.
Oh man. You can write tests after the fact. I have done it sucessfully many times. I write something to see if its viable, if it is I find the repetitive parts and break them up to functions or components in which you can unit test. Later you can also write end to end tests for all the important flows.

TDD is just a way of doing things but it's not faster. It's testing for testings sake. Why should I write a test if I don't have a single paying customer yet? Unless its something massively important, like money or health data there is just little incentives.
Not sure you understand what orders of magnitude means.

3 orders of magnitude is 1,000 times larger, so $100,000 salary would become $100,000,000.

Never going to happen.
Show HN: macOS menubar app for reply and mention monitoring on HN
hello there,

I initially wrote this as a small thing for my own use but then decided to add a few features and to publish. Anyway it serves three main purposes.

- Get notified when someone replies to one of your stories or comments here
- Get notified when someone mentions something that your interested in; maybe your product or that of a competitor.
- Follow users here to get notified of their posts.

It also has a few other small features to make it nicer to use and I'm actively developing it. However it's not intended to be a replacement for this website, just a small helper.

Oh, I had to untick app store distribution to the EU for this due to a new EU rule that meant I would have to publish my address and phone number on the app store and I don't have a po box for this yet.

thanks for reading!
I don't know if my math is right, but they are claiming the infrastructure will require between:

0.00042100 / 24 × 256 × 256 × 256 ≈ 295 BTC
0.00004000 / 1 × 256 × 256 × 256 ≈ 670 BTC

Further, they tell you to contact them on Discord for support, without providing a link to said Discord, from what I can tell.
China was refining rare earths without much concern for their own environment: they were basically ****ing in their backyard to provide the west with cheaper rare earths to work with.

This of course is unsustainable, and should have been stopped earlier by either Chinese or western governments with some concern for the environment as well rewarding bad self-destructive behavior.
It also speaks books worth of implications that the TikTok CEO would never straight up state to Congress that they would not promote CCP material or disinformation strategies if they were told to do so (not like they have a choice either, its literally a CCP law)
Yes. Now look at the sanctions. It's a ban on distribution through app stores.
Reminds me of a joke we have in racing, noobs often carry too much speed into a corner, reluctant to brake too much thinking that is quicker when in reality braking harder, earlier, often enables better lap time.

To get over this mental hurdle we say ‘it’s not slowing down it’s reaching your minimum speed faster!’
"Because they do this one bad thing it is 'empty-brained' to think they are capable of doing something worse"

Pretty strange logic there...
I wonder what inference of big LLMs might look like with that much cache and memory bandwidth. Not trivial to get a benchmark for that but I wonder
Not true. Kent Back’s 3X is a much better take, test and good practices for what is high risk and hard to change, move fast for most of it on the rest to try to find that black swan as soon as possible.

Yes, I do feel this time is different and that I am a top-notch coder (I feel more comfortable sounding like a jerk when on hackernews), 1 year later into my startup, codebase is big, but I’m actually coding faster than ever, as foundation code is more and more complete.

One of the huge reasons for it beyond the right architecture is type safety. Someone that was well seasoned in strongly-typed FP but is now pragmatic can move incredibly fast with enormous safety by just adding the most cost-benefit type strictness, and being flexible on where it doesn’t pay off.
It is easy to make mistakes when you margins are razor thin. They might be stupid mistakes it still happens and you notice them more because your margins become even smaller. I have been there, being really poor was hard on me.

Not an excuse for using credit cards, just an explanation why you should sympathize.
> Each AMD EPYC 9v64H CPU physically have 96 Zen 4 cores

> 8 Zen 4 cores per EPYC 9v64H CPU

The two consecutive lines of text give two different core counts. I know initial reporting on this CPU has been unclear, with everyone initially saying 88 cores, then updating to 96. But the author could have spent a couple of words on what the extra 8 cores are used for (best I could find is "used as overhead").
"Is my team shipping? Are they happy?" is a simple yet powerful metric for success. If more managers internalized this, I suspect we’d see healthier teams and better products.
To the author: Thank you for this blogpost. I'm in a difficult situation myself and your writeup helped me reflect. I wish you all the best.
Must be nice to have $5k to burn. Probably means you have too much money.
Yeap that's fair and truthy.
My position is idiosyncratically well-informed. When you begin your comment with "we've argued this before" and go on to lay out the position you're opposing, you impute that position to me. Why?
Because shell is absolutely miserable to work with, whereas Just has decent syntax.
I work in infra. I don’t want an incident to be the time that I find out my coworkers don’t actually know how anything works, and are frantically posting questions to ChatGPT.

That said, I also don’t know how to adequately test, other than to carefully watch people’s eyes during questions; even that isn’t foolproof.
From their list of the five strongest arguments for a lab leak:

> 4) Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with a COVID-like virus in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market.

> 5) By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced.

For #4, how do you tell that from an ordinary flu? Virus researchers get the flu about as much as everyone else does and WIV employed several hundred people. Having a few of them sick at any given time is not unusual.

For #5, they are overestimating how easy it is to find origins of viruses. SARS took 5 years. The 2013 Ebola outbreak origin still hasn't been found. It took until 2016 to track down the origins of the 2009 swine flu pandemic. For novel viruses the norm to finding where they came from is between "years" and "never".
The lab-leak issue is missing the bigger picture. The question we should be contemplating is if, the next time a country like China becomes ground zero for the spread of a novel pathogen, they will be fully cooperative and transparent with other countries. I think the answer here is "NO". This answer is somewhat obvious given the nature of China's Communist government.

Another important question is if most major Western countries are going to handle any future nascent pandemics with competence and due caution. All this finger-pointing over COVID's origins is a disappointing signal that nothing has been or will be learned regarding preparedness, so personally I think the answer here is also "NO".

Responsible individuals and organizations should plan and act accordingly.
I'm sorry, did I give the impression that I trust the UN when it comes to Israel?
Pomaranč: "A Celestial Spectacle Captured…"
Judging by my iPhone's FaceID, you just need to wake up groggy in the morning. The first 15 minutes are PIN-entry only.
The moment you need to build the same software on windows its already justified IMO
Navigating hard conversations is arguably the crucible for new managers
It's not "slightly simpler", it's massively simpler. Shell scripts are pretty much the worst syntax in existence (barring esolangs that go out of their way to be weird).
> like make, it encourages an imperative mode for project tooling and I think we should distance ourselves from that a bit further.

Um, what? `make` is arguably the most common declarative tool in existence ...

Whenever people complain about Make in detail, it's almost always either because they're violating Paul's Rules of Makefiles or because they're actually complaining about autotools (or occasionally cmake).
I’ve seen people spending 10 minutes to test things by hand, would have taken them less to write and run a test, specially with AI now

When writing test actually makes it faster to code, THEN it’s worth it. You can even throw the tests away later, doesn’t matter
> For instance, I asked if there was any mental health counseling provided for the employees, in case they had to interact with something as part of their work that disturbed them.

There are a few misconceptions layered inside this statement.

First of all, there is a <0.1% chance you'll ever see anyone actually using your company's products in their intended environment. You might see some training drills played out entirely on friendly turf. As far as I can tell, that's as close as you'll ever get. So, the idea that some dev somewhere is going to get exposed to the traumas of a battlefield is very far-fetched.

Second, every defense contractor will ask you to talk about your feelings on their product (and their customer) in your interview. They flat out tell you "we make war machines" (in marginally more flowery language) and you have to grapple with that in front of them before you even get an offer sheet.

In other words, they probably aren't worried about providing counseling, because they intentionally weed out people who would need it before they're ever hired.

I'm not endorsing this approach, nor am I suggesting it's the wrong approach either. Just my own observations.
For LLMs you'd want to use the MI300X variant and benchmarks should already be available.
First point lauds rapid approval which it claims was successful and saved millions of lives. Second point criticizes a "rushed" and "dangerous" approval.
This isn’t true at all in the United States at least.

Sugar syrup or even honey adulterated with sugar syrup behaves differently. I’ve had some cheap generic brand bottles that flowed too easily, dissolved too quickly, and never crystallized. Probably sugar syrup.

But I haven’t seen this once since over a decade ago in my college days when I shopped at some questionable neighborhood supermarkets.

Everything I’ve bought from local supermarkets and chains like Costco has felt, looked, flowed, tasted, and crystallized like real honey.

You should probably be more suspicious about those roadside shops, too. With the rise of “farmers’ markets” as a side hustle you can no longer tell what’s what just by the fact that they’re operating out of a stand and taking cash. Around here, a lot of the “farmers’ market” and even roadside stand operators are reselling products they get from other entrepreneurs who sell them the produce, honey, and other goods. There’s a group of people here who have roadside stands with signs spray painted by hand to look like mom and pop DIY operations, which tricks people until they realize those exact signs are in 100s of locations across the state. It’s just another business preying on people’s lack of trust in institutions but implicit trust in anything that feels mom and pop, just like your comment implies.
Tectonics would be very unlikely.
Oooof I don’t think it will, but that bogey man is always in the back of the mind after SCOTUS essentially made the office of the President a 4 year kingship where you are immune to all but the most heinous crimes as president as long as you can cross the I’s and dot the T’s of “official business”
That's what it wants you to think!</sarcasm>
Management might feel frustrating to those who thrive on fast, solitary problem-solving
An America without TikTok is still vastly more free than China. Our constitution is not a suicide pact.
Fair point, no coercion. Encouraged.
The “reasonable people” phrase is so abused in this debate. “If you disagree with my logic, you’re not a reasonable person” is rhetoric that would not fly in any other debate setting but is standard in the discussion of firearm laws
No, handguns are more tightly controlled than long guns.
> VW grew complacent by leveraging "Made in Germany" branding to sell in China

Designed in Germany, almost all VWs sold in China (including black Audis government officials loved) were made in China under three 49/51 JVs (with VW as the minority owner). The majority owners in tern graduated with VW technology/know-how and combined with EV tech to sell under their own brands, although not as successful as BYD. Even BYD had its own 49/51 JV with Mercedes for a decade.

The only foreign auto manufacturer allowed to operate in China outside of a minority JV is Tesla.
While you can get T-shirts made in USA for reasonable prices, there's not a great selection out there, and you might want to check to see where those American Apparel T-shirts are being made. While they were known in the past for being USA made, they heavily outsource now.:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91Y+xeS+HoL.jpg
The guy is a GP at a VC so I think this spend goes from their marketing budget.
For some reason people on HN imagine that, but it's not how it works in reality.

There are many, many international agreements - decades and in some cases centuries of them - that are effective, and new ones all the time. The UN Security Council has great power - that is why countries work so hard to promote or defeat Security Council decisions.

The ICC has been effective - warlords know that they can, in many cases in wartime, murder people with impunity, and in the past that was the end of it. But now they know that will be liable forever after, subject to arrest, trial and imprisonment, branded an international criminal, and unable to travel to ICC signatory states or (I think) to do business there.

No law or system of laws is perfect. Everywhere, some escape them, some manipulate them. But it's not 100% or 0%; the standard is not perfection or a complete waste - otherwise everything humanity does is a complete waste.

But everything depends on you (and me). Do we find ways to make it better, or just idly tear it down? Sitting on the sideline and complaining has become a normal behavior, but there is nobody else - nobody is on the field, except some very bad people.
Yeah and they’d also lose top AI talent as well.
Recruiters are the tried-and-true method of thinning the herd effectively. A good recruiter relationship might cost your company some money, but it's likely to be an order of magnitude less than the cost of ATS systems and AI resume scanners. Recruiters have always been the best path forward, as they serve as valuable "social grease" between high quality applicants who aren't extroverted enough for the network game, and employers who need help digging through reams of documents.

That said, I suppose I should amend my conclusion: no single employer can fix this either, as this problem is the collective result of businesses forcing shorter cycles of tenure in general; short-termism, in other words. Your company can make it easier on yourselves by retaining a great recruiting firm or retaining good hires for longer, but you'll still be inundated with a glut of paperwork until and unless other firms do the same thing in large enough quantities to affect real change.

If everyone is struggling to keep their heads above water, those dwindling few manning the lifeboats are undoubtedly going to get swarmed.
Thanks.

It seems to me that their survey intermingles two very different groups – the larger group, those who moved due to extreme financial insecurity (who would do MUCH worse), and those who moved under "positive" circumstances.
If it's super easy to get to orbit, it's also super easy for your atmosphere to get to orbit.
The problem is that industrial policy seems to be incompatible with effective capitalism and universal rule of law to some extent.

It's not very clear (at least to me) how and why. But it never seems to be a positive thing after some point, instead, it seems to have very negative impacts on more developed countries.
Somewhat tangentially, I really dislike that Ultralytics (and others) started slapping higher version numbers of their YOLO variants. Redmon used the numbering scheme v2 and v3 for his improvements on his original model. But Ultralytics' 11 is it's own thing with no connection to Redmon. I just think it gives a misleading impression of what the history is.
It's also not the top part of a sweater, just to be clear.
You can use the usual cmd (I do). You're not limited to Powershell. Also, you do understand that if a tool has first class support for Windows, that does mean it prioritizes Windows tools, right? Imagine I made a command runner, and said it has "excellent Linux support", and then someone comes along and complains that you have to install Powershell on Linux to use Windows recipes.

You can have Windows only recipes and Linux only recipes.

Furthermore, if you have bash installed on Windows (e.g. via git bash), you can put a shebang in your recipes to use bash.

We develop in Windows and deploy in Linux. Most of our recipes work in both OS's - either we use bash or Python for the recipe. The few that don't - we just mark as Windows only or Linux only so they're not available in the wrong OS.

> So not only do you need just installed, which is yet another dependency,

You do realize that Windows by default comes with almost no development tools, right? So yes, you do actually need to install things to get work done. The horror.

I'll also note that while you complain about just, you provide no alternative.

Weirdest rant ever.
He can make sure that they aren’t prosecuted for the next 4 years since he is essentially the “sheriff and DA” that brings this stuff to court. He has made it clear that the DOJ, FBI, DEA, etc will be his personal police force and not independent. This is a yuge part of his Project 2025 plan
On the arguments involving modeling inference as simply some function f, the specific expression OP used discounts that each subsequent application would have been following some backpropagation and so implies a new f' at each application, rendering the claim invalid.

At that point, at least chaos theory is at play across the population of natural language, if not some expressed, but not yet considered truth.

This invalidates the subsequent claim about the functions which are convolved as well, I think all the GPUs might have something to say whether the bits changing the layers are random or correlated.
it’s not really that kind of book. It’s more physics than tech.

Highly recommend to a certain type of person. Many of whom frequent this message board !
This seems obvious, but you're forgetting the inputs may actually have low entropy to begin with. Lossy compression is non-reversible, but usually the expectation is that we don't care about the parts we lost.

How might this cash out with recursive LLMs? Generalizing is very similar to compression: imagine recovering the Schrodinger equation from lots of noisy physical experiments. You might imagine that an LLM could output a set of somewhat general models from real data, and training it on data generated from those models generalizes further in future passes until maybe it caps out at the lowest entropy model (a theory of everything?)

It doesn't seem like it actually works that way with current models, but it isn't a foregone conclusion at the mathematical level at least.
Syrian rebels begin to encircle Damascus
Both seem to have great value. Some information is missing from Vercel's tables.
Innovating is all of those, and many managers will be open to cool new ideas and let you try stuff out if there's real promise. You might need to only spend a fraction of your time on it, or do it after hours. The problem is that many developers have bad ideas, or they can't market those ideas effectively. Remember that they will be able to claim a part of any success you find.
Fair enough. From what I know about being unemployed, I am not sure I trust his retrospective narrative, but based on the information we're presented – have my upvote!