skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think that minimizes the fact that people were deliberately curating and designing perennial food forests, historically and contemporarily.

I don't see this minimization (after all, we currently do this unintentionally today and nobody sees this as lack of intelligence and I certainly hope I never implied that people in the past were in any way less capable than ourselves) but I do affirm that people were just as capable of understanding the causes and effects of plant reproduction as they are today.

I'm just freely speculating on how to find the most minimal path to explanation and it's easier to explain the differences in the rise of civilization in the middle east vs the new world with other factors rather than something cultural or genetic or otherwise abstractly geographically-bound factors. And besides, I like the idea that people in the past wouldn't have just sat around ruminating how to maximize crop yields but had more fruitful activities to attend to. I don't celebrate the egyptian engineer who figured out how to haul a multi-ton brick up a high slope, I mourn for him (or her)!

EDIT: softened wording a bit
Content is often publicly available and copyright protected. Paint a mural near a busy street. No locked door in that metaphor; locked door would be password protected site.
How did you iterate through product ideas go find one that worked?

And what tech stack did you use?
Putin caused the war, but the idea that NATO had no role in it is hard to justify.

The Americans knew that NATO expansion into Ukraine could provoke Russian intervention, and they did it anyway.[0] What security benefits were to be gained that were worth risking this horrific outcome?

The whole thing reminds me of the British security guarantee for Poland in '39. If it was intended to gin up an excuse to fight, it was masterful. If it was a good-faith attempt at securing the peace, it was asinine and catastrophically counterproductive.

[0]https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08MOSCOW265_a.html
I'd like to check what is the tuple explosion problem.
This is advice for how to never build a big company and and just do the indiehacker thing building indiehacker tools for other indiehackers (which is fine!).

But if you have bigger ambitions -- you might actually have to talk to humans and look into this weird thing called "sales” and this other weird thing called “human relationships.”

Remember, a vast vast majority of money paid for software and value to be created solving problems with software comes from organizations (businesses, governments, etc). Not consumers or other indiehackers, which are the folks you'll find using the playbook OP mentioned above. Indiehackers might sound like a fun customer base, but be aware they are also the people who will loudly complain "THREE DOLLARS A MONTH FOR THIS??" when you do your show HN post.
PS: Type Driven Development with Idris is mentioned in the final notes. OP, I could not recommend it more!
Still not your responsibility. If they don't cough up the cash to properly manage the security, they can't expect any. Just because a trucking company doesn't want to pay for a mechanic, doesn't mean they can expect their drivers to repair blown engines.
I actually don't hit too hard since I started on a Roland e-drum set and if you hit too hard on those, you risk breaking the pads, so I think I developed better stick control from that. On my acoustic set, I've only ever broken the Zildjian sticks and some cheapo Amazon brand ones. The Vic Firth have held up for over 2 years.

I also use the Sabian AAX line and it works great. I like to play along with rock, hip-hop, and pop. I found the Sabian's to be a good middle ground for now.

Judging by the feedback I'm getting in other comments, I guess the Zildjians are not any less reliable than the Sabians (and I understand the Sabians are derived from Zildjian anyway?). I'll have to give them another go at some point.
Connecting a graph isn't coding?

How about sticking wires into a breadboard socket to create ones and zeros: that must also not be coding since it's just hooking up a graph.
The Tech-Priests of Mars are calling
I think it is worth comparing this problem with the question of the behaviour of a particle placed at the apex of a cone. I claim it is clear that in this case, the problem is clearly not well-posed because the apex is a singular point: the slope at the apex is undefined. The singular nature of the slope (first derivative) is the issue.

This "dome" is essentially the same issue just with the singularity buried one level deeper: you need to take second derivatives to see it. Indeed a planar cross section containing the vertical axis through its center is a graph of the equation $y^2 = |x|^3$ (up to constants) and this is not twice differentiable at $x = y = 0$. Newtonian mechanics is governed by a second order differential equation, so we need a C^2 regularity assumption to get uniqueness.

So for me there is not really any more philosophically interesting than the question about a particle balancing at the apex of a cone.
The Most Reliable Scapegoat in Politics? Red Tape
The Linus Manifold
https://github.com/HastingsGreer/mandeljs

i’ll whack a license on it later today
Your careers page, which is excellent, appears to have a typo:

> No need to revise algorithms and data structures before interviewing with us.

It seems this should read: "No need to review algorithms and data structures before interviewing with us."
>If the latter were the case then one could get the best version on first attempt by telling it your grandmother's life was on the line or whatever.

Setting aside the fact that "best" is ambiguous, why would this get you the best version ?

If you told a human this, you wouldn't be guaranteed to get the best version at all. You would probably get a better version sure but that would be the case for LLMs as well. You will often get improvements with emotionally charged statements even if there's nothing to iterate on (i.e re-running a benchmark with an emotion prompt added)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11760
Is it too simplistic or abstract to think of types as merely contracts?
> protecting their IP is a fiduciary duty,

This is not the case, unless we are talking about trade secrets, and in case of trade secrets, only applicable to board members and employees.
You could try a chorded keyboard. Or just learn to type faster - I know you know of it, but it really isn't that difficult. Just be wary of RSI.

I haven't seen anything like your LLM cleanup idea, but I like it. Why not implement it yourself? A MVP could take your clipboard, clean it up, then dump the cleaned result into your clipboard.

In the long term you would want to fine tune a small model, but in the short term just call openai/anthropic's smaller models with a terse prompt.
shift + right click overrides it
This makes me sad. Have you tried being really nice and supportive instead? I really don't want to have to yell at my computer for it to work :(
Blame the politicians who failed to stop it and the voters who failed to convince the politicians to stop it.
I’m just surprised the English didn’t log the whole place to build more boats hundreds of years ago. Isn’t that what happened to England?
Thank you for sharing this—it resonates deeply with me. I share the same passion and often struggle to separate work from life because I genuinely enjoy programming. Over time, I’ve come to realize that as long as I stay connected to my family and relationships, I can find balance and even relax by doing what I love—coding. Knowing there are others who share these experiences is truly reassuring.

By the way, have you read Paul Graham's essay "A Project of One's Own" (https://paulgraham.com/own.html)? I really connected with his idea of being a "skater," and I wonder if you might relate to it as well.
> That doesn't read to me as "generate a list of 1 million random integers, then find the difference ..." but rather, "write a function that takes a list of integers as input".

This was the intent and it's indeed a common assumption for a coding question job interviews, and notably it's fixed in the prompt-engineered version. I didn't mention it because it may be too much semantics as it doesn't affect the logic/performance, which was the intent of the benchmarking.
None of which are sufficient justifications...
I find it hard yet possible because I know I’m unable to function well when I’m not outputting my best work. It weighs on me. My goal is to be the best part of a team I can be, because the goals of the team (rather than my personal goals) matter to me (otherwise I wouldn’t be on the team).

It’s a little dumb but also a good sustainability mechanism for my career more generally. If I was promoted to incompetence I think I’d have a bit of a crisis of imposter syndrome, purpose, and meaning, and wind up needing an expensive break or something. My employment references would be worse, my network lower quality. I’m loosely hypothesizing here, but that’s the general idea. I want to be able to go to work and feel like I’m doing the right stuff, and doing it well. If it takes longer to advance, that’s fine with me.
Absolutely no. There is the suspicion that they even shut down the good engine after the bird strike.
Cyberhaven's preliminary analysis of the recent malicious Chrome extension
Today's world is just too exciting and there is too much to do, so I agree that kids are pretty low on a list of priorities for a lot of people.

Also for the record, in the US the birth rate per woman was below 2.1 for about 50 years.

So this is not really a new problem, it's just that there were enough young people back in the day and people didn't have the same life expectancy.
My point was just that all things aren’t equal when judging individuals - life is hard for people in unexpected ways you may not immediately see from their socioeconomic status. My original comment at the top of this thread was about how treating individuals as individuals has served me well, and was explicitly not to set up a contest between whether it is always better to be rich than poor. So if I failed to do so to your satisfaction, I suppose that’s why.
Two Turntables and a Microphone (2006)
They were with gear down, the retracted it, as part of the go around…
Zyn's Online Hype Risks Leading to the Nicotine Pouches' Downfall
I think I missed that one in the pile of options. That’s bizarre. I wonder if MOV from memory is like POP.
Yes and it didn't work. I've actually got Cursor/Claude to curse back at me. Well, not AT me, but it used profanity in it's response once it realized that it was going around in circles and recreating the same errors.
Yeah... you nailed it.

In the same situation, same age, I just didn't retire (but I can), because I still like my job.

I am mostly at home, working and doing hobbies, and most people would say that my life is lame and that I should travel more or something (and they do). But 2 me, it's the best life now ever and every day I say "everything is awesome", especially when I feel down a bit (hormones & friends, nothing else, waiting to pass).

You don't need anything except enough money so you don't have to micromanage your life expenditures (the only other thing money can't buy is love, and I was lucky there too (was it luck, really?))

I do have delusions of grand projects. But I don't mind that, even knowing the probability. Consistency needs to be practised anyway...
For a good overview in ADHD see

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.giv/books/NBK441838/

It is not “a dopaminergic disorder” any more than many other neuropsychiatric disorders. Nothing much happens in CNS without some level of modulation by dopaminergic receptors, and to the best of my knowledge variants in these receptors are not known to contribute strongly to ADHD (I just confirmed by reviewed the GWAS Catalog: ebi.ac.uk/gwas/efotraits/EFI_oo3888 ).

Furthermoe lack of attention is considered an important facet of ADHD—-common to about 15-20% of cases.

Humans tend to think in terms of metaphors. Similes and metaphors are crucial in learning and thinking. And yes, sometimes problematic.

Explaining what is wrong with a particular metaphor can help.
> used by a ton of missions and spacecraft for determining sun up/down times, pointing angles for heavenly bodies, time and precise keeping, etc etc.

Yes. My use case was/is determining pointing angles between a telescope at L2 and various nearby stars, to be sure it's not pointing anywhere near a bright body like a planet (around Sol) when it's expected to be observing exoplanets.

There are a lot of diverse use cases!
Random Recent from Hacker News: Sampling the Mind of the Crowd
Every piece of the digital experience is (in this case) simulating the real world imperfectly. Paper is, screens are pixels and direct light and refresh rates. A pen is, a menu option is not.

There are definitely advantages to digital, but there's no denying that, by adding a middleman between yourself and the world, you lose raw experience.
There are 3 different hydraulic system plus one electric that can be operated out of a battery… anything is possible, but it seems until now they failed to lower the gear.
Try hard refresh? In a private window, I see the title says "Typeform development in a video" and beneath that "Unlisted".
> abundant in their mind

Can you elaborate on what you mean by that?
Thank you for the respones. Do you find that your side projects are mainly guided by general interest mixed with utility? Taking an example from myself, I find Sudoku pretty interesting. By interesting I mean that I find them fun to do and I am pretty sure that generating them is an interesting challenge that _seems_ like I could accomplish it, in some form.

Now at this stage, I'll end up doing some preliminary research on Sudoku solving and generation programmatically. I'll realize this is a by and large solved problem and someone has already written a program that will do anything I would do in every programming language under the sun. I start to wonder - Is this worth my time to do? It's that question that starts to cast doubt. Also partially if there is so much literature on the topic I wonder if I am just "copying" or if I really am doing something valuable/learning.

Your comment on learning budget is insightful and appreaciated, I can already think of examples that I can apply that to, so thank you.
I performed that exact incentive analysis in a previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39495476

That said, it was done with ChatGPT 3.5/4, I suspect Claude 3.5 Sonnet would behave much different.
The compromise that was supposed to be in place was strong, short term, copyright protection, to help the author (a person) financially during their lifetime. That compromise was destroyed by rich people using corporations as owners and extending copyright duration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
~6.5X in ~18 months put you pretty near, getting into hyper growth, in my book (~350ish%>) - very good work. Keep it up, and good luck!
They're doing that thing that happened to DevOps. It started out as a guy who wanted a way for devs and sysadmins to talk about deploys together, so they didn't get dead-cat syndrome. It ended up as an entire branch of business management theory, consultants, and a whole lot of ignorant people who think it just means "a dev who does sysadmin tasks".

Abuse of a single word to mean too many things makes it meaningless. SRE now has that distinction. You've got SREs who (mostly) write software, SREs who (mostly) stare at graphs and deal with random system failures, and now SREs who use a framework to develop a complex risk model of multiple systems (which is more quality control than engineering).
> This is a truly bizarre and random attack.

It is a discussion, not war. Nobody got attacked. That comment is not an attack, this comment is not an attack.

> it's the widely known history, and are we attempting to contradict that?

No. One can reach true statements with faulty reasoning. Just because the statements are true doesn't mean that the logic behind them is right.

> I don't think OP claimed the book as "proof" of radical socialist fervor in the first place

I can't read the sentence I quoted from their comment in any other way.
>I have always thought it was the only way to thrive.

You mean self teaching / pursuing personal projects on your own time ?
Weird that you brought race into it, especially when your supposition is incorrect.
they can't possibly be. One thing I appreciate about PlasticList and similar projects is that they are exposing how flimsy and preposterous most of our food safety protocols actually are.
> commits often (had someone committing per line changed)

As long as they squash their history before it goes into the branch everyone shares/branches off from, I couldn't care less how they do their work.

But, pushing that aside, what could be the supposed benefit of committing each line like that? They'd spend more time writing commit messages than actual code, assuming the commit messages actually had proper meaning in them,.
>it’s easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the general difference between Hollywood and Savoy style Lindy-Hop

You might be assuming too much, says the guy who read that article without any idea at all what it was actually about.
Some of my suggestion:
- Add Top Product.
- Add night mode.
- Add a way to put screenshots or demo video.

Overall i think it's nice. I also like its simplicity, just description and link similar to Show HN. I think it would be better with screenshots or demo. Also platform like Product Hunt tent to be full of marketer with few real user so careful with that.

Edit: I am sorry, it looks like the product need to be approved to display. I think this can lower the risk to getting full marketer with less real user. Good job!
I'm simply pointing out the limitations of LLMs as code writers. Hybrid systems like ChatGPT-o1 that augment LLMs with tools like Python interpreters certainly have the potential to improve their performance. I am in full agreement!

It is worth noting that even ChatGPT-o1 doesn't seem capable of finding this code optimization, despite having access to a Python interpreter.
My original comment was a bit in jest. However, thinking about it, don’t make the same mistake as we did in Europe. You need heavy industry if you want to remain competitive. Not just the presence of it, you have to own it even if you sink money.
I agree Python is hardly replacable. Btw, I only mean inference, not training. Training imho should stay pure Python, you can achieve mega throughout with it for batch processing.
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I picked up the Gulag Archipelago as a young adult and found it really challenging to read. Not sure if old adult me find the same.
it's not sentimentality. They represent a truly amazing effort to gather both the raw data and the underlying mathematical models to make unbelievably accurate predictions.
AI crawlers do not render JavaScript, so sign your texts
> There is no real purpose and never was.

Some people find this utterly depressing and nihilistic, but personally, I find it freeing.

The universe does not expect anything from you. That means you should do the most to simply enjoy life. Have fun and experience wonder. If you have the money to do whatever the hell you want, then do whatever the hell you want.

I already know what I'd do. I'd spend an entire summer on a massive road trip around the USA, visiting every major theme park. When winter hits, I'd go somewhere tropical and sip Mai Tais on the beach. Or travel to the north and drink a beer under the Northern Lights every night.

When free time becomes unlimited, I'd no longer feel like I need to min/max the usage of it.

Shit, just being able to go without an alarm clock for nearly every day of the year would bring immense happiness.
The excuse would be that it's not free and the revenue from lost customers is less than the cost of upgrading the peering points.
Using EAX is one byte shorter, so it might be doing that inadvertently.
Except in many, if not most, cases a company’s inefficiencies IS your problem. The perfectly informed rational consumer doesn’t exist. We’re forced to buy what’s on the shelves that we can afford, and the water in the pipes and power on the grid. When the businesses collude and price fix and lower the quality of your goods you DO suffer and your only recourse is regulation.

And get out of here with that libertarian “services I don’t use” nonsense.
In 2014 I was just learning how to program, and sent Noah a cold email with a question. He took the time to respond to me with an essay. He was kind and helpful. Rest in peace
Which would make the founding fathers founding... nothing?
Yeah, DOGE is going to fix the government? Um, wut...
I have complicated feelings about this...... mostly reminding me to love. Thank you very much for sharing.
> working for money is a waste of time for almost everyone

No. Chance doesn’t fall evenly. It falls more often on those who work.

Thinking that Trump is full of rage is missing the forest for the tree. It’s a forest of journalists who are full of rage that this race and gender unapologetically exists, who try to depaint Trump as full of rage. It’s a forest of selfish crowd who wants the fruit of the labor of the second half of people, who complain that Trump is selfish.

Looked at the tree. Missed the entire forest. Not surprising that you think people are struck by a lightening to become billionaire.

Chop chop chop, back to work, quit being jealous.
New Year resolution: sponsoring some of the open source projects I use
Fellow intellectual Lenin started killing them, Stalin finished the job. And no, the country didn't need them then and they don't need them now (see Russian history of the twentieth century for more details).

As Stalin has been quoted as saying "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic"-- subsequent purges/famines following the revolution resulting in roughly 25% of the Russian population (without even counting WWII casualties) being killed, so it's not exactly a strong sell for "intellectuals sparking social changes".
Learning – From the Many to the Few
DRM is actually negative sum.
How do you judge performance of a terminal ? I know graphics in the terminal is an edge case and all but when I'm running a chafa [0] application Windows terminal on Windows is about 1000x slower than alacritty on mac, I run into issues where if I hold down a key all the key events get queued up as if the graphics thread is blocking the applications ability to react to key events, so I just have to baby it and hit one key at a time.

[0] https://hpjansson.org/chafa/
MyGiftCardSupply exposed hundreds of thousands of people's identity documents
Wouldn't it potentially make it less rare, if it turns out to be an additional mechanism? (Isn't it possible that there'd be multiple paths?)
> As a professional developer, as an API user, as a grown man who knows how these things work, I should have the option to turn the safety filters off. Not "dial down", but "off".

> Google image search lets me turn the porn filter off.

Google images let you turn the porn filter down, not off. It's not going to readily show you child porn. Actually, the whole internet has this filter, including "unfiltered" sites like 4chan. The darkweb exists, sure, but this isn't a model any company in their right mind will surface to users.
Godot C# packages move to .NET 8