skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US has an enormous problem with the costs of litigation gumming up society’s gears. From healthcare to police to even just having a neighbor’s kid get injured in your backyard.

Anyone that has an option to earn good W-2 income would need a huge carrot to incentivize them to forego that low liability lifestyle and instead opt to start their own business, especially one where you invite people into your premises.

Until you are making good money (and this can take 10+ years) and can afford lawyers, you are at the mercy of the legal system.
It also makes some weird claims such as "The constant need to tweak and fix things when something breaks has become too frustrating". its hardly typical.
Could you get your experience approved as equivalent to a degree, if there is such a thing - like the VAE in france.

My brother had to get a degree with evening classes for the same reason but since he was already doing the work, it was fairly easy - assuming the cost of studying isn't prohibitive where you live.

That said it is such BS. The whole contractor vs. FTE thing is.

Where I work, FTEs get laid off before contingency staff is fired. What is the point of having contingency staff if they're more permanent than FTEs?

Contractors who do the work for years can't get interviews because they're overqualified for the FTE position they apply for but the same hiring managers are happy to string them along doing the same work they're overqualified for, on the same team but as a contractor with less pay and none of the benefits.

I understand contractors applying to a junior role to even get a foot in the door when it is the only FTE role that opened for over a year... But you'd have better odds landing an FTE role straight out of graduating from college than with a track record of doing the work well for years as a contractor.

And they're "cool" so they let contractors attend a bunch of FTE meetings which has the primary effect of rubbing in all the great diversity and inclusion initiatives they are excluded from due to their second class citizen status.

At some point those companies don't deserve to have you. But even if you get paid half what the FTEs make, it's still a guilded cage with a 6 figures salary so it's hard to just give it the finger and move on.
Unfortunately, the scientists who study actually brains have all sort of interesting models but ultimately very little clue how these actual brains work at the level of problem solving. I mean, there's all sort of "this area is associated with that kind of process" and "here's evidence this area does this algorithm" stuff but it's all at the level you imagine steam engine engineers trying to understand a warp drive.

The "open worm project" was an effort years ago to get computer scientists involved in trying to understand what "software" a very small actual brain could run. I believe progress here has been very slow and that an idea of ignorance that much larger brains involve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWorm
This is cool, but I'm pretty sure you get these off the shelf. I've scavenged them from old computers and I doubt people were building them themselves.
At least one ingredient in 'Food' must, in fact, be food to be labeled 'Healthy'.
How Nat Traversal Works (2020)
Matrix imaging for high-res monitoring of deep volcanic systems /w seismic noise
Not a "fan" by any means, but I am a full time Windows + NixOS in WSL user and for me it's really hard to beat this level of general "it just works" plus an officially supported Rust crate covering pretty much the entire Win32 API surface to make the DE do (mostly) whatever I want[1].

[1]: https://youtu.be/5XVG9dL5XY0?si=yBJZ7ANzYMnUi7B8
Hard to believe this is real but for sure it is -- incredible results
They had a lot or point because....

1. They were a major site that was an initial starting point for traffic

2. Search engines pointed to them and people could locate them.

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That was all a long time ago. Now people tend to go to a few 'all in one sites'. Google, reddit, '$big social media'. Other than Google most of those places optimize you to stay on that particular site rather than go to other people's content. The 'web' was a web of interconnectedness. Now it's more like a singularity. Once you pass the event horizon of their domain you can never escape again.
will add them both. Initially I looked at "about" and "why" as suitable only for the landing page
This is what I feel as well. I liken it to using an aimbot in Quake. Turn off the aimbot and you still win because the aimbot trained you how to get headshots. There are many times the Rust compiler told me I couldn't do something I had insisted would be fine, only to ponder and realize in fact what I was doing would cause subtle bugs in an edge case. Rust catches it at compile time, C++ allows you to write the code and sends you a segfault when the subtle edge case occurs in production.
The only thing to do is hvac management. We don’t have enough time to accumulate sufficient favorable mutations across the population given the speed we are affecting the earths climate.
I'm one of the authors of this paper - happy to answer any questions you might have.
Hobbyists are making drones that can go 0-180mph in 2 seconds top speeds of 300+mph. Anxiety all around

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wThmg8Ezm9w
I can imagine Windows being an ok-ish work OS once you manage to switch off all the assistants, ad pop-ups, cloud logins, password savers, home pages etc. But then, what's the difference still with a normal user focused Linux distro?
Yeah for sure there's an art to it that only comes with experience. But you better be 100% sure you need those three layers. My first big project as a developer was on an over-designed reporting/query-builder application that had like 7 layers of of abstraction between the browser and the database - stuff like just in case we ever want to switch from Oracle to Sybase, unnecessary connection factories, Java controller classes for every type of html form field, etc (still have no idea why we needed a back-end CheckboxController).

I ended up maintaining that thing and it was a great lesson in premature optimization. The bottom 3 or 4 layers remained a grey box that I did everything to avoid touching. Just changing the front-end query-builder flow from a series of forms to a flat panel that could do everything in one step involved ripping out half the back-end code. All those layers of abstraction and none of them considered a form-flow change, which is exactly why I never assume anything now.

It's so much easier to add a layer than remove an unneeded one, which can be practically impossible on a complex app.
I've done that a few times but not "regularly". Use the top rack, no soap, no heated dry, zip-tie a plastic bag over the connector. Afterwards let it sit on the counter face-down for a couple of days to air-dry. Comes out sparkly clean.
It's so easy to spot marketplace scams that I'm baffled people still fall for them.

Are you going to show up with cash on my doorstep (or another agreed upon location)? If yes, we can continue talking. If not, you are blocked and reported. End of story.
That requires the parents to be accepting and engaged, which is a great long-term goal but will take much longer to achieve than the first-order effects of losing access to peer communities. (There are also feedback loops: a group being less visible means that people in the group are less likely to realize it isn’t something uniquely wrong with them, there are fewer other people who know fact from myth, and so on.)
The IBM / Lexmark relationship persisted for years after this. IBM Thinkpads would be cross-sold with promos for Lexmark printers.

https://web.archive.org/web/19990423063310/http://www.direct...
Toyota just announced a massive paint facility expansion so they're not going anywhere.
Schools Squander Millions on 'Bullet-Proof' Glass. It Doesn't Work
> I think it's incredibly unethical.

The internet isn't built on ethical behavior, unfortunately.
Do thinner people fare better than obese people?
llms.txt directory
I wouldn't even know how to go about using Windows.

On Debian, there is a universe of software in the repos. I can install anything I need with just a

apt install <something>

and use all these programs in concert with pipes like

dothis somefile | dothat | thendothat

I was wondering how all that works on Windows these days and typed "How do I apt install ffmpeg on Windows" into Perplexity. It gave me this drama:

Download FFmpeg from the official website
or a trusted source
Extract the downloaded file to a folder,
such as C:\FFmpeg
Add the FFmpeg bin directory (C:\FFmpeg\bin)
to the Windows PATH environment variable

Holy moly. I can't imagine going through this "hunt it down, make sure it is from a trusted source, manually tie it into your system" for every little tool I want to quickly use.

UPDATE: Thanks for the replies. Looks like Windows has a repository and now too and you can install stuff from it via a program called winget.
Is this comparable to when two extremely old widowers decide be roommates and live out their remaining days?
Re: moonshining

Some quick notes about "it's just propaganda" with some "regulation is hard to do without tons of side effects" undercurrents:

1. When distilling you DO concentrate methanol but as a waste product. An unethical moonshiner could still sell this or cut it back into the main product (although the latter isn't usually a problem because of the concentration and the fact that ethanol is a treatment for methanol proving). You would definitely know if you were drinking straight methanol but you might not know in a cocktail (or might not care - lots of crazy stuff in these comments about drinking various dangerous liquids).

2. Other things went into the shine. A very common one was dynamite because nitroglycerin helps fermentation continue at low temperatures, like out in the woods where your secret still might have to be. Nitroglycerin can do all sorts of things to you - it is sometimes prescribed as a heart medicine.

3. Moonshining is, by definition, a criminal enterprise and things-you-might-not-like happen all the time just like with illegal drugs today. One common blindness cause wasn't actually methanol but antifreeze and other "engine gunk" because you could put your new, un-aged shine into things like car engines and it would come out the other side with the impression of being aged or in some way better.

So there is some fun-fact nuance on the "moonshine could make you go blind" lore! I like to respond to that with "yes, but probably not for the reason you think!"
This has me hoping the Vesuvius prize finds an ancient Roman bond that needs to get paid out.
They may have expected typists coming over from typewriters to hammer on it for 8 hours a day, or to give them a similar feel to ease the transition and limit complaints.
A counter example by Ed Zitron, buying a popular cheap laptop off of amazon running windows ( https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/ Dec. 2024 - scroll down):

> "When I opened the start bar — ostensibly a place where you have apps you’d use — I saw some things that felt familiar, like Outlook, an email client that is not actually installed and requires you to download it, and an option for travel website Booking.com, along with a link to LinkedIn. One app, ClipChamp, was installed but immediately needed to be updated, which did not work when I hit “update,” forcing me to go to find the updates page, which showed me at least 40 different apps called things like “SweetLabs Inc.” I have no idea what any of this stuff is.

I type “sweetlabs” into the search bar, and it jankily interrupts into a menu that takes up a third of the screen, with half of that dedicated to “Mark Twain’s birthday,” two Mark Twain-related links, a “quiz of the day,” and four different games available for download. The computer pauses slightly every time I type a letter. Every animation shudders. Even moving windows around feels painful. It is clunky, slow, it feels cheap, and the operating system — previously something I’d considered to be “the thing that operates the computer system” — is actively rotten, strewn with ads, sponsored content, suggested apps, and intrusive design choices that make the system slower and actively upset the user.
[...]
The reason I’m explaining this in such agonizing detail is that this experience is more indicative of the average person’s experience using a computer than anybody realizes. Though it’s tough to gauge how many of these things sold to make it a bestseller on Amazon, laptops in this pricepoint, with this specific version of Windows (Windows 11 Home in “S Mode” as discussed above), happen to dominate Amazon’s bestsellers along with Apple’s significantly-more-expensive MacBook Air and Pro series. It is reasonable to believe that a large amount of the laptops sold in America match this price point and spec"
I have pretty bad ADHD. It comes and goes over cycles with a frequency measured in weeks/months.

When I'm doing poorly, I have a hard time functioning as an adult. So, I use checklists and phone reminders a lot, even for simple things. I use them to start the day with things like:

-make coffee.

-check calendar for schedule

- block out time / add reminders as needed for the day

-plan morning (I have a list of mandatory and optional morning activities, along with the time it takes to do them)

- pack lunch.

- take meds.

-pack for work: (laptop, id badge, work phone, headphones, sunglasses, phone charger/cables)

- make breakfast for kids (along with a recurring reminder to start this by 06:45)

-wake up kids (reminders at 07:00)

Etc, etc. You get the idea.

I can't make my brain remember to do basic activities, and I naturally vary my routine, and at the same time I really struggle to remember to do things unusual to my routine. But I can use my engineering side to work the problem. When my brain is performing poorly, these checklists are essential.
You don't need GPT-4o, 4o-mini is also good
Thanks for the info. That's what i thought the process would be. Although i do consider worldcoin to be irrelevant, and eventually to fail at some point in the future.
Photography, Go, & AI
"one ringy dingy... two ringy dingies" - Zanni probably

for the uninitiated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT4__Nz5HWY
Isn’t this what Tesla does for their driving data? However it would fall apart if they didn’t have real world days to feed into it, right?
> show me those candidates

Not speaking for where you work but they might not even pass the automated resume filters anymore unfortunately.
I have found LLMs are a great tool for metaprogramming. I think the template error problem has been wanting for a sufficiently advanced compiler, and that's what I see LLMs as being. ChatGPT has been a great help in debugging programs I've written in C++ templates, both in generating the template code and trying to decipher errors generated, leading to suggestions for the template code rather than the expanded syntax.
Thanks, I forgot about the PYTHON prefix, fixed it.

On MacOS, can install via homebrew's `expect`: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/193152/330523

Apparently I knew about this 2.5 years ago as I commented on the accepted answer back then.
Is there any printer company that is not 30+ years old? What is stopping a start-up from making a printer people actually like?
Low hanging fruit probably would be smaller body sizes, and early onset baldness in both sexes.
Given this, we should be thankful that the NYSE is maintaining this at a loss. It occurs to me that NYSE might be the best owner of this bond, as the primary value isn’t monetary, but the demonstration of stable financial institutions.
I eat processed, ready-to-eat stuff at home, heavily use microwave for heating, but I don't do/use any of the things you mentioned. I generally prefer loose leaf tea, but sometimes tea bags are easier, so I only buy brands that use natural tea bags. It's possible to reduce exposure to pollutants if you're willing to sacrifice some convenience.
I think a more nuanced take would simply be that the long tail of a perpetual bond is unlikely to be worth that much, which is why these days bonds with extremely long maturities aren’t issued.
I'll build an agent that talks to my service that makes the actual request with the user's desired configuration.
Compile time fill a lookup table. Run time read 1 value from it. I call it O(1) in time, O(n) in memory. You call it O(1) in both, right?

Now move the compile time code to runtime.

I call it O(n) in time and memory. What do you call it?

If your say O(n) in time and memory - why is moving the code changing its complexity?

If you say still O(1) - then everything is O(1), thus proving P=NP among other things :)

Either way your interpretation isn't very useful.
Love this, but iirc this was very common back in the day. Many of the XT, AT, 286, 386, 486 clones came with these types of triple AA battery packs, some with shrink wrap around them. It was easy to cut the shrink wrap and replace the cells with generic AA.
<form> <textarea /> </form> is a product now?
That may have been true once upon a time, but there have been several threads over the past month or so citing that folks can't get calls back and encounter a ton of ghost job postings. Or maybe we have differing definitions of "high value"
Thanks for sharing the context! I'm mostly curious as I hope to walk along the path of predecessors. I have a bit of fetish about programming in assembly language so emulation/vm is one of the interesting fields -- and after writing a couple of simple interpreter emulators it's natural to go down the dynamic rabbit hole.

Apple caught my eye exactly because of what you said: it went through 3 big transitions in a relatively short period of time (about 25 years), so everyone involved are still active in the profession. And I'm sure they used dynamic translation extensively. I agree that all is going to be, or was thrown away, but it is interesting to know how did they do it.

BTW April VENOM is a pretty good pseudonym, somehow reminding me "Raul Bloodworth", the pen name of CSM from X-Files.
It's not actually empathy when the motivation is just to criticize someone else.
I can't explain it - I would be at a less loss for calories for the day yet not lose weight. Aspartame may interfere in some way with CO2 production? Dunno.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34379483/
I throw the whole teabag, rope and all, into the compost and the mealworms make it into incomprehensible brown slush along with the rest of the pile in a few days. It’s always way more productive using insects in the compost.
As I said, you can write down the recovery seed and initialize other security keys from it, so you're able to deal with a hardware wallet breaking, unlike most fido2/webauthn security keys. Hardware wallets also require a pin to be entered, so they're more secure against being lost or stolen too than security keys that don't need a pin.
Interesting. I have seen large scale department stores like Nordstrom die one after another. Nordstrom Canada actually failed a few years ago. I am not sure if I was rich and owned Nordstrom in some way, I would invest my own money into Nordstrom. Instead I would do everything I can to diversify.
As a developer, I agree. Give me a great CLI, please, not a server rendered TUI.

This gives me another thought though, a "server-rendered" CLI. A tiny shim binary that just sends argv to the server, and the server sends back stdout/stderr. Haven't seen anyone try that.
I haven’t heard much about Broadcom before. Is this why Rally is so awful? They just rent seek on old software and don’t improve it at all? Like the people who bought Heroku?
After (well) over 10 years on Linux, relief is not what I ever feel when I have to use Windows.

I still get regular exposure. I know what I'm "missing".

It does not just "do what it needs to", and is not a relief.

One individual opinion exactly negated by another. Result: null.
> Although I’m not a big Windows fan, it does what it needs to, and that’s a relief.

Ironically, Windows has become the "It just works" platform.

Apple is so afraid to change their OS that it's forever locked into worship of itself. And desktop Linux refuses to make any choices for you.

To everyone's point, it doesn't mean you have to pledge allegiance to Microsoft. But I also take umbrage with the Linux community's idea that you are personally supposed to endure suffering to build character or for the greater good.
Quantum computing actually isn't super-Turing, it "just" computes some things faster. (Strictly speaking it's somewhere between a standard Turing machine and a nondeterministic Turing machine in speed, and the first can emulate the second.)
It seems there wasn't an official one before; the one used was from or derived from a book which is understandable why it could be problematic.
C++ has modules for small values of "modules": https://arewemodulesyet.org

It's a bit tongue in cheek but: "Are we modules yet? Nope. ... Estimated finish by: Wed Sep 20 2541"
I keep forgetting that Perl is still alive.
I used to do a lot of Perl like 15 years ago. It was already legacy back then...
Good debunking of Genesis: "The new hyped Genesis simulator is up to 10x slower, not 10-80x faster" https://stoneztao.substack.com/p/the-new-hyped-genesis-simul...
That's a really nice way to trick people into subscribing to a subreddit. Create a controversial post and watch angy bystanders join and participate.
It really never ceases to amaze me how many basic affordances terminals lack, that we hack around with bash configuration or helper tools.

Of course, I know it's a genuine hard area, and not one I've put any time into fixing, but it's also so high leverage--so many developers spend a ton of time in this environment.
Early windows versions were actually very well designed to not get in your way and be both minimalistic and usable. Things went south after win2k, any OS 'feature' added after that is considered bloat in my book.
Is scooping out your food out of the crappy plastic takeout container into a bowl before microwaving an example of “panic and sudden lifestyle changes”?

Seems like a pretty minor change to me. I’m already going out of my way to not put metal in there anyway…
If app is repeatedly asking DB for same data and it's immutable for a period -- the persistance choice is wrong

There is potentially a whole lot of memory/callstack overhead involved in a request like that even when memoised

It likely should be in a memory structure all the time or Redis if sufficiently complex / shared across processes etc. as all the other processes will likely be doing same

Only in Ruby world would someone say yeah what we need right there is a Gem with some define_method sprinkles
Its literally just an input box/form, and a summarizer. I was at expecting something that had hidden mics everywhere and recorded everything people said about your business. Or maybe a Slack bot that was in every single public Slack channel and listened to everything people convo that mentioned your business.

Yes, privacy violating, but thats what i was expecting based on the tagline. I mean u gotta live up to your claims!
Fortifying the Fediverse: Decentralised Trust and Safety 2024
Julia Evan's article is a great write-up indeed, I'll submit it as a main link.

It's "Julia's article", not "The Julia article".

Update: it is was on here just a month ago actually: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42275033
> Hints at deep stuff between the two simplest prime divisors of integers: 2 and 3, you have this iterated function that branches based on divisibility by 2 and changes proportional to 3. The addition of plus one really throws a spanner in the works, ensuring it's no longer divisible by 3, but whether it's divisible by 2 or not after the addition seems almost 50-50.

Are you sure you said what you mean? If `n` (is an integer that) is not divisible by 2, then `3n + 1` always is. Maybe you were thinking of the model that incorporates this by replacing the iteration formula for `n` odd with `(3n + 1)/2`?