skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's because a person is not operating the water in that statement. In this case, we have a person who was directly accused of typing "angrily."

If "Poseidon angrily pounded the shore with waves," you'd think yes, he's pissed about something.
"The phone app appears to use text-to-speech based on the device's locale. On my laptop, it's speaking English with the worst French accent imaginable
> Domestic silk moths are entirely dependent on humans for reproduction, as a result of millennia of selective breeding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombyx_mori
Cybertrucks rust pretty quickly:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-cybertruck-rusting-compla...

https://www.torquenews.com/11826/tesla-cybertruck-becomes-ex...
I was so frustrated. The number of times companies take the lead then sit on their lead until it dies has often bothered me deeply!

The downside to being a passionate customer & engineer.

—

I felt similarly with Netscape. If Navigator had been consistently both web browser and editor, it would have been a better product, a real service in keeping the web a two way tool for most people.

Tim Berners-Lee’s vision tied creation & browsing together, which is why the web happened at all.

Staying true to that would have produced more value, and maintained enough (constructive) lock in for Netscape to keep innovating in a way that mattered.

Instead they announced their imagined threat to Windows, before that threat was realistic, then drowned in Microsoft’s response. And the disparity in their emphasis on browsing vs. creation left a big hole in the side of their boat, leaving them extremely vulnerable to browser competitors.

Microsoft was convicted in court for product tying & other over anti-competitive behavior.

But Netscape was convicted in the market for not fulfilling the full circle value of the web they were pioneering. They commoditized themselves. And the web has never recovered from the unnecessary creation/browsing dichotomy.

I was so mad at them! (Laughing tears emoji)
That's how we know we're out of touch: we don't immediately reach for a firearm to solve our problems.
And most importantly, no Twitter.
I bet hairspray isn't good for you.
Oh, I didn't understand what you had meant by driving onto the tracks.

I've been at least one crossing where I almost turned left onto the tracks instead of left onto the street before or after the crossing [1]

If this is happening much more often at one crossing than others, there's probably some feature of the crossing design that is encouraging this improper use. It's possible an inexpensive intervention could help a lot: painting lane lines and dashed turn indicators from the left turn lane could help.

Otherwise, it might be possible to put a gate over the rails, that was down at rest, and only raised when a train is crossing; but I've never seen that outside of rails at a park of some sort.

[1] https://maps.app.goo.gl/Vrz5HtB23dDV3mcg7?g_st=ac I think this should be a link to the street view. If not, Sunnvale Ave and Hendy Ave in Sunnyvale, CA. Heading south on Sunnyvale. I feel like this intersection has changed since, but I'm not sure.
Europe isn’t known for being progressive.
Tesla Cybertruck Becomes Extensively Corroded After Exposed to Magnet
I used this for a few months and went back to the vim emulator [1]. I can't recall what but some of the things kept breaking in Neovim. And the frequent, near daily extension updates were annoying.

1. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vscodevi...
> However when you put together one volume of helium and a one volume of argon the entropy calculated under choice (a) doesn't change but the entropy calculated under choice (b) does increase. We're not calculating the same thing in different units: we're calculating different things. There is no change of units that makes a quantity change and also remain constant!

Agreed, this is not like a coordinate transform at all. But the difference from a coordinate transform is that they are not both equally valid choices for describing the physical phenomenon. Choice (a) is simply wrong: it will not accurately predict how certain experiments with the combined gas will behave.
Maybe this is telling more of the company I work in, but it is just incomprehensible for me to casually contemplate dumping a generally comparable, installed production capability.

All I think when I read this is, standing up new environments, observability, dev/QA training, change control, data migration, mitigating risks to business continuity, integrating with data sources and sinks, and on and on...

I've got enough headaches already without another one of those projects.
I wondered how long it would take for someone to do this. An amount of time approaching zero apparently. Nice.
"This is safe enough for kids! Let the VC roll in!"
"Kill yourself"
"Oh, hey...we'll get right on that in our next sprint"
Gotta move fast and break things...like human beings.
Thank you for the thoughtful replies. It helps a lot in understanding the kinds of problems React was facing.

With all due respect,

> For this reason, you really are writing a pure function with respect to props and state.

A pure function by definition is one which returns the same output for the same input. The output (html) of the React functional component with the same props can be different based on the changed state. It is not a pure function. It's really no different from an OO object with internal state.

> There's no difference in handling state update ordering between React and others.

> > it is not possible to read an intermediate value.

There is no intermediate value. All value changes are in the final form as there is no multi-threads reading and mutating the state. The block of code mutating the value is executed fully before another block of code can read it.

As for multiple handlers reading and rendering the state and some might miss the change by another handler, again it's a problem of React's inability to detect change for each handler. If every handler can detect change by any other code (other handlers included), there's no problem.

> That's because React is built in a way to provide a set of very specific guarantees when it comes to managing state and rendering it.

React requires that set of guarantees because its design decision - its use of diff to detect changes. It's a non-issue in other frameworks and solutions.
I’m curious why you’ve been striking out? What seems to be the issue with the people you’re trying to hire. I’m looking to get into being a fractional CTO and would love to talk with you if you’re interested. You can reach me at the email in my profile.
The company led by the petulant bully is worth trillions and the one led by the accurate, ethical, and reasonable person is defunct.
Isn't this an emacs joke? Hearing this for the first time for vim.
I doubt it. I'm pretty sure the % cotton would wear out much sooner, but that's just my intuition.
Nvidia 5000 series to release 6 January
There was a lawsuit about apple, google, intel, and adobe agreeing not to poach from one another. https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/apple-google-others-...
Thanks, I'll give that a listen. Here is the Apple Podcast link to the same episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-joe-reis-show/id16...

I've also experimented with duckdb whilst on a databricks project, and did also think "we could do this whole thing with duckdb and a large EC2 instance spun up for an few hours a week".

But of course duckdb was new then, and you can't re-architect on a hunch. Thanks for the aricle.
Ah, sorry about that. If you go to https://smarthome.steviep.xyz/talk do you see any en-US voices on your device?
So you were mocking them.
Good job. It seems I had similar idea with bullshitremover.com

It was even listed here previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41545335

I have to say that I prefer your design

May I ask what are your plans for the future of this project? Do you plan to monetize it?
https://archive.is/5MhOW

Why wouldn't it work in the other direction though? The mirror cells would be competing for the same ambidextrous resources (for my lack of a better term). Sugar is chiral isnt it? Would they be able to digest normal chiral resources?
Why not just... do the thing you want? IE, the solution you alluded to in your comment: have a dumb [which here exclusively means not internet-connected] TV with an externally "smart" device like a Chromecast?

This is essentially your own preferred solution to a problem that just cost you several hundred dollars when you "had" to replace your 2015 TV
I don’t think we can even reasonably talk about Palm circa 2007 and iPhone 2007 in the same sentence.

PalmOS was an aging clusterfuck that was a PDA with cellular glommed onto it (and the good Treo’s of the era ran Windows Mobile, which was better in some ways but a ridiculous mess for its own reasons) and the iPhone, even without apps or 3G was such a revelation and improvement that it single-handedly reshaped not just mobile, but personal computing, nearly overnight.

The software the iPhone did have was truly impressive — at least for the core feature that really set it apart: the web browser.

The capacitive touch screen and the on-screen keyboard made mince meat out of every other mobile operating system in existence or even in development; Google completely changed Android from being a Palm/BlackBerry clone to being an iPhone clone as soon as they saw it. People were willing to jailbreak and reverse engineer their iPhones to run apps on it.

Palm, like most everyone else, was caught completely flat-footed. They weren’t working on webOS in 2007; their next-gen version of Palm OS (the name escapes me) was not going to set the world on fire and Windows Mobile (who they increasingly had offloaded software duties to) was also not doing super well. It took new investors (and management changes that included ousting Colligan, who by all accounts is a pretty great guy and who did lead Palm and Handspring well in different environments) and a brand new engineering team for Palm to create webOS, an OS that had a lot of promise but was still largely better as a tech demo than a finished product, and even with insane work, webOS launched 2 years after iPhone and couldn’t compete on hardware or software.

Foleo, which was from the older era of Palm, never could have worked. Ever. Even in a world without iPhone, it’s a dud. But with iPhone, it’s DOA before it even gets to production.
Ok nvm I can't resist wasting my time and typing stuff on the internet again, probably gonna regret it later.

How is it not obvious to the dullest of the dull that this visual proof is not supposed to work for goddamn commutative rings lmao

It's probably not even supposed to work for negative reals, 0 or the case b>a. It's supposed to demonstrate the central idea of the visual proof. Also yes, by choosing suitable ways to interpret the lengths shown in the diagrams it's absolutely possible to extend the proof to all reals but I'm not convinced it's meant to be interpreted like that.

But bringing commutative rings into this... man you're funny
fractional : pre-owned
Chirality
That would be a bit too strong a wording. I would just say that certain theoretical microstates (ones that assume that position and velocity and so on are real properties that particles possess and can be specified by infinitely precise numbers) are not in fact physically distinguishable. Physical microstates do exist, but they are subject to the Heisenberg limit, and possibly other, less well defined/determined precision limits.

Beyond some level of precision, the world becomes fundamentally non-deterministic again, just like it appears in the macro state description.
I'm a Fractional CTO in NL. We're quite a bit more expensive than regular employees or even freelancers (per hour), so I think they mention the lack of payroll taxes, bonuses etc to persuade companies that it's less expensive than it appears.

We're still paying taxes, the only difference is that the client isn't paying for it, and maybe there is a bit of a discount for starters.

As a fractional/freelancer, I enjoy the freedom and mutual expectation that I'm in this for the money and for the short term. (In my case it gives me the resources to bootstrap my own product company).

In NL the regulations for false self-employment (enforcement kicks in January 1st) is primarily aimed at low-wage jobs like meal delivery etc. High paid professionals with multiple clients per week (like most fractionals are) are not the target.
My solution for this was switching careers. I found that anyone hiring engineers wanted someone doing 40 hours a week at least, which makes sense since you have to have such a large mental model to build a system. Content and copy writing on the other hand is much more flexible because the unit of work is so much smaller. Any content marketing manager would love a real engineer to write for their blog once a week and help sell their product. Then just stack up different clients until you reach whatever weekly load you are comfortable with.
Dupe, discussions

(58 points, 2 days ago, 40 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42403886

(63 points, 2 days ago, 42 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42408361
Great post but it seems like you still rely on Fabric to run Spark NEE. If you're on AWS or GCP, you should probably not ditch Spark but combine both. DuckDB's gotcha is that it can't scale horizontally (multi-node), unlike Databricks. A single node can get you as far as you or can rent 2TB memory + 20TB NVME in AWS, and if you use PySpark, you can run DuckDB until it doesn't scale with its Spark integration (https://duckdb.org/docs/api/python/spark_api.html) and switch to Databricks if you need to scale out. That way, you get the best of the two worlds.

DuckDB on AWS EC2's price performance rate is 10x that of Databricks and Snowflake with its native file format, so it's a better deal if you're not processing petabyte-level data. That's unsurprising, given that DuckDB operates in a single node (no need for distributed shuffles) and works primarily with NVME (no use of object stores such as S3 for intermediate data). Thus, it can optimize the workloads much better than the other data warehouses.

If you use SQL, another gotcha is that DuckDB doesn't have advanced catalog features in cloud data warehouses. Still, it's possible to combine DuckDB compute and Snowflake Horizon / Databricks Unity Catalog thanks to Apache Iceberg, which enables multi-engine support in the same catalog. I'm experimenting this multi-stack idea with DuckDB <> Snowflake, and it works well so far: https://github.com/buremba/universql
This guy says "I live and breathe Spark"... I would take the conclusions with a grain of salt.
Cell-free synthesis is really nice for R/D (it's fast!) but honestly kinda sucks for producing things. Cells have a really nice property of making more of themselves for the cost of basic chemicals (salt, sugar, nitrogen).

TXTL also can be pretty finicky generally - cold storage is required, have to store chemicals separately, ribosomes tend to fall apart and not get recycled, etc. Cells will heal themselves perfectly (sometimes too perfectly, kicking out your construct)
Implementing a CPU, if you're not trying to hyper-optimize it, is reasonably straightforward. This is a very simple design. It would take a little bit more work to add proper video output and mouse input, but those blocks are easy to find for VGA and PS/2 mice. I think this would run > 100 MHz very easily on anything made in the last decade.
Barry Lyndon is sublime.
Homochirality
> The investigation identified that the individual had exposure to sick and dead birds that are suspected to have been infected with H5N1.

It all comes down to this. All the scary H5N1 mortality numbers have been from people in close contact with poultry, especially ones in the developing country where they live very close to the birds.

Everyone is just waiting for the first evidence of community transmission then we can panic buy toilet paper like its 2020. (if that "disease X" doesn't make it first).
Fractionals are typically senior++ that work part-time for a company. "Part time" can be any seniority level so it gives less information.
Good write up. The only real bias I can detect is that the author seems to conflate their (lack of) familiarity with ease of use. I bet if they spent a few months using DuckDB and Polars on a daily basis, they might find some of the tasks just as easy or easier to implement.
More important than a job?
Not if you define progressive as allowing exploitation of people. But if you follow the normal definitions of the word it is.
Jobs was evidently pissed to lose those 3 people, so it’s safe to assume they were very senior folk. They likely were involved in the iPhone design to trigger this CEO panic

Imagine having vested stock before the release of the iPhone. Imagine getting paid a top dollar package to take your experience to a competitor.

Those three people made out like bandits. One could only wish to be in their shoes.
Your translation seems much more apt than the one provided in the article. Side note I guess the villain in the Sonic series is 'the perfect worker' by name.
Useful comment when it was first posted (17 hours ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42421620
Isn’t this just a 1099 contractor.
Do you still use file formats at all in your work?

I'm currently thinking of ditching Parquet all together, and going all in DuckDB files.

I don't need concurrent writes, my data would rarely exceed 1TB and if it were, I could still offload to Parquet.

Conceptually I can't see a reason for this not working, but given the novelty of the tech I'm wondering if it'll hold up.
Visualization of cities with similar road networks
Sugars are chiral. The wrong-handed glucose would be a great sugar replacement, but it's too expensive to synthesize.

The only major non-chiral nutritional molecules are fatty acids.
The reason people don't like to read the average design doc is because the average software engineer doesn't have enough writing skills to express the concept clearly and concisely without editing. The design doc becomes a mumble jumble of raw notes that nobody really understands except the author. And then people dread reading this kind of raw notes.

However, if someone tells that design doc writer that this is something like a term paper at school that is being graded, they can actually improve their writing by quite a bit by doing some editing. So the symptom is really the same as prototyping: people write draft-quality design docs and magically hope it to be a good quality piece of writing suitable for a wider audience. What they need is a few rounds of editing, just like when they write prototype code they need a few rounds of refactoring.
Like any over techy way to display… a Boolean basically.

People have fun with what they like I guess, wondering if surgeons find ways to create busy bar using biological material or medical stuff.
> We're still paying taxes, the only difference is that the client isn't paying for it, and maybe there is a bit of a discount for starters.

How can the client not be paying for it somehow?
Interesting. So what does that look like on disk? Possibly slightly naively I'm imagining a single massive file?
Honestly, I would rather join an IRC server for people seeking tech jobs.
OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji ends life in San Francisco
Ugh, I just noticed it's even worse - the display is double-buffered, so you actually need 384KB of ram (128KB for system RAM and 2 x 128KB display buffers!).
TheRasteri on YouTube made a video on how CGA works at the hardware level, specifically the brown detection, and how to make a CGA to EGA converter: https://youtu.be/vwKA1z8tg1g?t=184
“Top 1 Quality”
Million users

Yeah. Ok.
I mean, they did face repercussions.

The DoJ reached settlements with 8 different companies and there was a civil penalty too. Whether the repercussions were enough is a valid question, but Jobs was dead by the time the civil action was ruled on and on medical leave when the DoJ settlement in 2011 took place, so it’s hard to play a “what if” game here — especially since these lawsuits and DoJ investigations (correctly) caused tech companies to have to change their policies.

But Apple’s egregious no-poach agreements and collusion with other companies to do the same didn’t cause Palm’s collapse. And being able to more easily hire Apple employees wouldn’t have saved Palm.
Hey, you have some silly thing rendered at your product's landing page chewing CPU.
> LDH detects first presumptive positive human H5N1 case in Louisiana

Now we need vaccines. Quick. And a bit of lobby. (vdL) /s
I made an executive assistant on WhatsApp
I started to work on Coco in August after seeing how I can improve "text yourself" productivity hacks. Ended up expanding/pivoting to an AI executive assistant.

I text myself a lot many others do too for quick thoughts, reminders, to-do lists, and other 'brain-dump' items. While there's a few text yourself apps out there, Coco is the only one that doesn't require any new apps or logging into a website. It's a freemium plan (unlimited free reminders, other features behind stripe subscription) - this is needed to cover per user GPT & WhatsApp template message costs.

Features:
* WhatsApp-native reminders
* Sending reminders to others
* Creating and managing lists (read/write/modify)
* Google Calendar manager (read/write/modify)
* Image / voice message analysis
* chatGPT-style ask questions about anything
* Built-in memory (search over your notes and messages from any period)

Tech stack:
* Hosting on Render w/ Docker + Postgres + FastAPI
* Next.JS frontend
* Meta API
* Helicone for LLM requests tracking

I'm pushing for as much feedback, let me know what you think!
I'd have to disagree - it is perfectly fine to show a visual proof and simply state that we can reduce b>a to a>b and this proof therefore covers both, optionally with a little "I don't believe you, show me the math" pop out.

The visual proof is the neat part that people literally can't think of unless you show it to them, after which things might suddenly click for them. The algebraic proof is boring AF and doesn't make for a good maths hook ;)
AI models pushing back: A cautionary tale of the artificial confidence of o1 pro
I'd mused about how we learn solve the cube in a structured approach and that there perhaps could be a better way and in my mind it would be exactly as you described. Have any humans mastered this approach despite it's hyper organic label?
Show HN: AlgoSpeedRun - Solve as many algorithms as you can.
Is it really the case though? i.e. aren't there fractional interns or juniors?
Previously (6 points, 2 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42414452

Related OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment (979 points, 2 days ago, 404 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42412718
It is strategic. You can only look at it through that lens. For an ethical measure of a company or exec: see what a company does for the greater good despite it reducing their profit.
Having a totally different flavor means it’s not really a direct sub and needs different partners in spice blends.

White pepper is most often found in Asian cookery, particularly Chinese, and in seasoning blends for fried chicken.
Adobe, Apple, Google, and Intel paid a $415M settlement for this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
Vector Streaming enables you to process and generate embeddings for files and stream them, so if you have 10 GB of file, it can continuously generate embeddings Chunk by Chunk, that you can segment semantically, and store them in the vector database of your choice, Thus it eliminates bulk embeddings storage on RAM at once.
They pay a higher hourly wage. As an entrepreneur you typically you see "monthly salary of employee is X" and translate that to "actual cost is X*1.4". With fractionals you don't have to do that. The hourly wage is simply what you pay.