skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I noticed some people are on the map with no socials. Whats the point? Add a way to contact you...
tRNA has a lot of weird nucleotices. I expect no problem with another one, but I'm not a biologist.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_RNA

> A large number of the individual nucleotides in a tRNA molecule may be chemically modified, often by methylation or deamidation. These unusual bases sometimes affect the tRNA's interaction with ribosomes and sometimes occur in the anticodon to alter base-pairing properties.
Pretty sure those things above New Jersey aren’t aliens, the law requires them to be US citizens to hold a clearance.
I struggle with reading speed, and concentration in general when reading. No idea why. However, I love listening to podcasts, audiobooks, videos etc. at 3x speed.

Using text to speech has also helped. No longer do I delay reading long messages from coworkers, or dread reading boring documentation. I just use text to speech. It works really well on Windows (my current work laptop), but unfortunately not so much on Linux (personal laptop) or mobile (too fiddly).
> What else is there to research about Social Networks? They’re bad, but people get addicted.

This is a social network
I was really excited to checkout
https://codeforamerica.org/ but then it became hard to find any code that was made publicly available same for https://adhoc.team/

I think this highlights the point I'm making, we need real opensource solutions, not just more non profits.

I'm not trying to say they don't do good work, its just that its not accessible to the public. I personally feel they maybe are missing the point of opensource. Where is the source code?

Also thank you for sharing these.
De novo design of high-affinity protein binders with AlphaProteo [pdf]
> Note: I'm not saying that Rust would be slow or anything, as you can precisely go as low-level as you wish and circumvent the price of any form of GC.

Rust can also circumvent some of the overhead of Arc<> as it can update the reference count whenever a true "owner" is added or removed, as opposed to just any reference to the object. But yes, you're right that relying on automated reference counting as the default memory management strategy involves some overhead, and tracing GC may be preferable to that. This is a big issue wrt/ Swift.
I'm skeptical of claims like this. How do the claimants define reading? If we mean extracting a subset of information from a particular, arbitrarily defined block of text, well then I can read tens or hundreds of thousands of words per minute: I know how to pick up a typical business paperback, flip to the last chapter (or even just the conclusion), and skim for the 1–3 big ideas.

But try to read a text like a complex SCOTUS majority opinion, or one of the Great Books, at anything close to that speed — good luck! Even trained and very experienced appellate attorneys can study such texts for hours, days, weeks, and still find important intricacies that require not just perception, but ingestion and digestion.

As an exercise, one might grab any text and have one's computer read it aloud at 900 WPM. If one were to glean a single sentence, let alone the important bits, let alone all of it, I'd be shocked.
I would argue that people already dread going to the doctor because you still have to deal with all the insurance garbage. Remember that even with a copay, you still could get a bill after the visit depending on deductible.
That's how I read it too? And while the documentation has lots of examples, I get a bit lost in that you start with some form of JSON file, which consumes either YAML or HTML files, who in turn can consume Markdown files. It doesn't seem (from my reading!) to have the level of abstraction I would expect from a SSG.
The other side of that is that some expensive services and drugs are simply unavailable in other countries, or are very tightly rationed. The USA has higher 5-year survival rates for most types of cancer than France, Germany, and Japan. I'm not saying that the US system is better overall, but it does do some things extremely well. We should make sure that any reforms don't sacrifice our unique advantages.

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)33326-3
First off, congrats on getting this published! It's a big jump from "this kind of works for just me" to "tested, documented, flexible, and ready for others to use", so good on you for seeing it through! Seems like it has some nice DX improvements from sops, dotenvx, and other encrypt-your-secrets-within-your-repo type of tools. While that strategy may not work for every project, it is certainly valid and makes sense in some cases.

If you are looking for a tool that solves some of these problems, but also provides a more complete toolkit for dealing with config, check out https://dmno.dev

It has a plugin system and while we have an encrypted file plugin that works like places-env, we also support syncing secrets from places like 1Password, Bitwarden, Infisical, with more plugins in the works (aws, gcp, azure).

Additionally it handles:

- validation and coercion

- full type-safety (currently only for TypeScript, but generated types for other languages are coming soon!)

- built in documentation for your config

- sharing config across projects in a monorepo

- composing config any way you want, not just limited to an
env switch and string templates

- manage all config, not just sensitive values

- better conrol of static/dynamic config (which values can be replaced at build time)

- security features (log redaction, leak prevention) for JS/TS

- drop in integrations for many frameworks and tools

- additional tools for dealing with various platforms (vercel/netlify/cloudflare/etc) that provide pre-built schemas defining env vars they inject, and additional tooling

- flexible type system to reuse existing config type definitions that come with built-in validations, docs, etc

It's built in TypeScript, and you define your config schema in a TS file, but it is designed to be used in projects in any language, providing a unified config system for your whole stack.

Would love to hear what you think. Pop into our discord and say hi :) https://chat.dmno.dev
Oh wow, what a thrilling offer.
What is this weird game?
Ok https://github.com/18F this is what I'm talking about! <3
It is only tangentially related, but this reminds me of the apocryphal story of the USAF trying to designing the perfect cockpit sized for the average pilot. The result was that none of the pilots actually fit.
No, still there. If you are curious though I made a site to answer that specific question for myself:

https://orangesite.sneak.cloud
This is an active area of research: https://github.com/SpursGoZmy/Awesome-Tabular-LLMs is a good starting point!
Why I Joined the YPG in Syria [video]
[There is, and by some estimates 1.3M people use it.](https://docs.ros.org/en/rolling/)
Interesting idea, cool concept. I tried asking "What is the best SNES game most people haven't played". The top answer (Terranigma) was unfortunately the same as I got just asking any of Claude/ChatGPT/Llama/Qwen (maybe too easy a question) but the rest of the list did seem a bit more balanced. Thanks for the free try without a login!

Thought: there is a marquee of example queries but it doesn't seem like there is a way to see what an answer looks like without individually consuming a search as a user. Maybe if these were clickable to a cached version it'd be easier to get an idea of the outputs without costing so much?
> The timelines you would have to exit over would be very long, so disclosure also causes market reaction.

Your claim seems to revolve around the idea that a fire-sale would crash the market, but no one is arguing for a fire-sale.

Again, structuring a sale over a long time span isn’t a big issue, since you can get cash now by selling the future revenue.

The real hard question would be to find $400bn worth of stuff to buy.
LinkedIn Built Its Own SQL Bot – The Results Are In
Meeting 1-1 is way harder to organize. You need a specific reason to go.
Amendment and Extension of the U.S.-PRC Science and Technology Agreement (STA)
Move over and make some space, Voltaire's Bastards are coming through.
Soz for the late reply. I think you kind of answered your own question. It's not can't, it's won't as you are willing to add tipping but not a paywall to your content :D

So for context, we built a lightning paywall(now defunct). All you had to do was add a single line of js to your site, as easy as Google analytics/ads. The cost was 0.01% of transaction. You could even move to self hosting and not pay us. Finally, we even built an "auto payer" so users could approve a site and auto pay a few cents with limits. Anyways, our experience is content publishers said they wanted to monetize their content but when it came down to it, were extremely reluctant to add a paywall and would maybe think of adding tipping.

Anyways I think our solution was great but no product market fit. I was especially proud how private the whole thing was but users didn't seem to really value that
Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit
Actually I conveniently linked to the section within the article so you could find it.
To us the 60lb is the joke. Same for 960 ounces. It stays funny pounds for pounds.
Nobody has a right to another’s intellect. It’s totally unreasonable to criticize someone’s life choices like this.
Woot! I'm just waiting on AsyncDrop...then the async rust story becomes mostly usable
You need 31 karma to flag and 51 to downvote. Here you got 1! Use the flag and downvote wisely when you get them.

More info in the unoficial collection by minimaxir https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
Show HN: Zipnosis – Safely analyze ZIP contents before extracting
As someone who has been using APIs for automated retail trading the last few years now, this is highly interesting to me. I've heard of FIX protocol before, but never thought to use it as a retail trader - would this be practical for someone like me?

APIs from the popular brokerages have done the job, but I've experienced more than my fair share of request failures. This sometimes can be the trades themselves, which includes opening/closing higher risk < 1 DTE option positions. This doesn't give the warm and fuzzies if you know what I mean. I have quite a bit of coding experience and feel good about the limit/failure checks in my code, but there is no walking away from the trading terminal when the code is running.

I realize your software is a parser and I may have went on a bit of a tangent, but I'm always open to new ideas and ways to make my project more efficient.

Edit: Also, nice use of the linear gradient on a couple of your buttons in dark mode. I feel like I remember that css trick on HN one day and thought it was clever.
Sorry, posted the wrong link earlier: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/the-...

It’s not about stalling the conversation. It’s about forming opinions based on actual facts.
Go 1.24's first release candidate is now available
Has nuclear power entered a new era of acceptance amid global warming?
Genuinely: why does this exist? It's so hidden as to be an easter egg, but also provides zero entertainment value.
The only reason I'm not immediately answering is because I need to check whether it's a trade secret. We do our own thing that I haven't seen anywhere else and works super well. Sorry for being mysterious, I'll try to get an OK to share.

Edit: yeah I can't talk about it, sorry
For PDFs it's entirely a wrapper around https://pdfminersix.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial/highle... - https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown/blob/main/src/markit...

So if that's your use case, PDFMiner might be better to integrate with directly!
Elon Musk's Playbook for DOGE Has a Precedent: X
He was beaten for not taking his hands out of his pockets.

If he had taken his hands out of his pockets, he would almost certainly have been shot, on the grounds that the officer feared there was a weapon.

Not being in the courtroom, I didn't hear the testimony. Sometimes, with stories like this, there are factors that are left out of the headlines. Like that story last week, about a white man exonerated for killing a black man, which often left out that the black man had been behaving erratically and violently.

Still... I can't help but be struck by the damned-if-you-do, damned-of-you-don't situation here. There is a saying that if you have a problem, and you call the police, you now have two problems. The cops were called out for something that absolutely did not merit police intervention, and became much, much worse because of it.
> Anyways, I do slow down dramatically when it's technical. I'm learning then, and limited by my learning speed.

Do you also find that this happens with different types of fiction, or are they all basically the same?

Personally, if I'm reading someone like Toni Morrison or Marquez, I find that I like to slow down and savor what's going on. It's like ready poetry. If it's something I can read fast, I tend to find it's not something I'm drawn to spending the time with.
To add on to the siblings one of the major motivating use cases for rust is to interact with another GC, originally the JS runtime GC for the servo browser. An on-by-default one would interfere with that usecase heavily. What I could see and there have been some half-hearted efforts in this direction is to standardize on a `Trace` trait so that users who want to bring their own GC can do so safely and can allocate std lib objects into the GC heap without concern.
We do meet each other all the time, except at industry events. If perhaps we wore special HN buttons, maybe we could signal to each other our involvement with the community?
Well yes, but 100% attendance of zero people is still zero people.
I'd like to use it internally as our non-fund is investable and participates across multiple asset classes and is flexible in a way to use financial instruments, so this would be helpful
I once met with NEC who was wanted to hire some consultants to help them on your cloud journey. They wanted to become a cloud managed services and hosting provider - but had never done anything in 'cloud' before, this seemed odd to me and as I dug deeper things got weirder.

They demanded that their 'engineers' must be able to build out and manage both their own and their managed infra on AWS but never write any code - in fact they thought automation was outright dangerous, they said their engineers would never write any terraform, cloud formation or similar and that they wanted to become a MSP of cloud services preferring to write everything down in runbooks... and print those runbooks out.

The managers would turn up to meetings with huge stacks of paper that were just AWS documentation converted to pdf and printed.

We refused to work with them and essentially walked out. I'm sure this is something that someone like an Accenture or Deloitte would and probably did jump on.

This was 2019.
It's true that some people don't add any socials and don't have any info in their HN description.

But sometimes they modified the string they pasted from meet.hn and it broke the parsing, causing their socials not to be displayed on meet.hn.

That's why I would suggest to check their profile by clicking on their username.

Note: I'm not parsing socials across the entire HN user description because some people want to keep some data outside of meet.hn. By having a clear start/stop of meet.hn data, it allows me to parse only socials users actually want to display on meet.hn.
Do you think it could be a mutation that allows your eye muscles to move faster?

My reading speed is limited by how fast I can move my eyes, if I use one of those apps that just flashes the words in the same spot my reading speed at least increases by at least 4x
Obviously it doesn't, but government officials everywhere are technically inept by default. It's a FUD.
I'll bet The Verge has more direct traffic, users with intent rather than SEO being primary
I personally believe that things like automatically calling `PureDeref::pure_deref` (or similar) on patterns (similar to the apply/unapply methods in Scala) would be a better way to improve that experience.
If you write a command line program, please don't introduce random keybindings for simple actions, or unnecessarily fancy colors when standard 8 would suffice. These rules (or rather conventions) exist for a reason.
Ah this is sad news. I came to know of him by way of UIUC's Engineering Open House. Back in 03' or 04' a rag tag group of us put together an "asymmetric capacitor" exhibit -- a sort of simple ion thruster. A kind hearted TA put our project in for an award Bitzer had sponsored, and it went in our favor.

It was not a large amount after dividing it up, but it was so rare in the college days to have any spare change for anything, and it sure meant a lot at the time.
https://ece.illinois.edu/academics/ugrad/scholarships-and-aw...
I almost bought one, but then I realized I have to manage the water temp myself. Sorry, but that's too much work, which means this will likely end up collecting dust after a month.
But.. no one suggested that the kid kill his parents. The chat bot is not a person, it didn’t ‘suggest’ anything - it can’t illegal for it to produce the text “you should kill your parents,” because there is no intention, it’s just a jumble of the most statistically significant pattern of words it pulled out of its training data.

If anything, that’s an argument that the authors of the data it was trained on should be held responsible for what the bot generates.
I've gotten used to lack of Async closures, but the lack of AsyncDrop is still a big foot gun.
Animals as Chemical Factories
“if that person doesnt know your number“

I’m saying that if two people have each other in their contacts lists and are on friendly terms, it’s not rude to call them if you need to talk to them.

Maybe I misunderstood, though. Sounds like you were talking about cold calling someone you don’t know. I agree that’s rude if the person is not expecting random inbound calls or isn’t in a professional context were there’s an expectation of receiving a call, and has been for generations.
> Tons of stuff to figure out.

I am in New Zealand

The people behind d this policy do not think there is "Tons of stuff to figure out."

They are like many commentators here, they (think they) know it all.

It is, I hope, the last gasp of the old Thatcherist guard. "There is no such thing as society...just individuals "

They see everything through a materialistic lense, are desperate to reduce taxes (it is a fetish), and are doing incredible damage to the infrastructure of our society

Politics, sigh

The government they replaced (earnest left wing types) had some good ideas but were very centrist, paternal, and astoundingly incompetent

The prognosis is not good for my home country
No, that's not how it works, and yes you're speculating.

These companies outsourced these services to highly efficient call centers, powered by software designed by these tech bros.

The people working there are incentivized to up sell you all manner of crap. They make a pittance and everything extra on commission.

If you don't speak the language, if you don't know your rights, if you don't know the channels you can use to exercise your rights, they will deceive you, this is what's going to happen.

And no, it's not a bottle of Porto that's going to fix the issue.

It's a letter to the ombudsman.
Hi,

I created a starter template for next.js 15 and react 19.

Therefore, I would like to ask for feedback and any missing functionalities.

If you liked the project, I will appreciate if you leave a star.

You can also contribute to the project.
I think it's safe to say we're in the last generation of textbooks that are hallucinatory-free.

If you have kids, I'd suggest stocking up now on physical materials.
Imperfect Recall and AI Delegation
*Where is read

> Nevertheless, the above does not exclude what one can see,

should be read as

> Nevertheless, the above (unknown format of the data conforming the dump file) doesn't mean that one can't see how the pattern works,
I guess where I disagree is wrt. viewing something like the OP's implementation as something that's "on by default". To me it seems to be pretty much the opposite of that. You're right though that a standard Trace trait might be interesting.
I don't think anyone who has never used an espresso machine is in the target market for this product. I own an espresso machine that costs a bit more than this thing, but it took me several steps along the way to get to the point where shelling out $$$$ for an espresso machine was worth it to me.
Well technically a Roman emperor moved the capital there while it was still a Roman empire. It's a little bit more complicated than a clear cut "Rome or not not Rome". Rome started as a city and a specific people but after many many centuries it became a much more abstract thing
For me the biggest issue is to connect with people.
Having a some form of opt-in automatic email chain or private chat for people located in the same city to discuss and connect would be great.
Interesting, because in principle they don't need to bother so much. Starlink doesn't actually have the capacity to provide that kind of connection to everyone in a densely populated area, there are underlying limits to how much bandwidth they can provide to a given area, so it's not given at all that they will be able to grow drastically beyond that 0.5% or so (I wouldn't be surprised if they can get a bit more capacity, but it's just not likely to be able to meet even a large fraction of the demand).
That's the apocryphal Churchill quote.
I don't think it's just software engineers. In every discipline, there's a pareto distribution of people's time management ability.

My take away is that being in that caliber just requires a wide range of attributes, and put bluntly, most people just don't have them.

In order of necessity, and probably the order in which people screw themselves out being that way: energy, curiosity/purpose, discipline, and maybe above average IQ.

The example I gave the person, and I'm reminded of when I read your description, is dhh. Probably the most public example would be Musk. Joe Rogan is another good one.

There seems to be a group of people for which one life is not enough. I'm endlessly fascinated by this.
The hard part about document conversion is not finding a tool which can convert the formats but the tool which does it best. I wonder how MarkItDown ranks for the tasks for the various types.
And given how often I come here in the average day, looking for something new/interesting, you could make a case for addiction...
Myst is a very old game where you walk by tapping a series of pre-rendered 3d images. This is back when each image would take minutes to hours to render (like Pixar did with Toy Story 1), so graphically it looks amazing for its time, but it actually existed at the same time when Super Nintendo was popular (1990s)
Google Project IDX – Introducing Interactive Chat
Crypto payments for software licensing isn’t the worst idea I’ve heard, but pretty sure the NFTs-as-free-money ship has sailed.
I've been wondering if my own speedreading is a beneficial form of dyslexia.
A journey of optimization of cloud-based geospatial data processing