skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate you sharing your thoughts on this. I would gently note that you addressed a question other than the one I posed:

> Why should code have to be in a monospace font? [emphasis added]

The short answer is that it doesn't. Many programmers prefer proportional fonts, just as the vast majority prefer monospaced.

Similarly, many programmers prefer light themes. Being somewhat older than most programmers, I find dark themes very hard to work with. There is a scientific and practical reason for this: A light theme causes the irises in my eyes to "stop down" so there is less blurring of the text. This is similar to the way a camera lens may give a sharper result when stopped down a bit instead of wide open.

> The only real advantage that a proportional font has is that you can squeeze more text into a particular space and as a result you can read faster.

Interesting that you mention this, as it relates to one of the reasons I like proportional fonts. It's not to squeeze in more text, it's so I can use a larger font. At my age, this is helpful! And I find proportional fonts more beautiful and readable.

Anyway, let's respect each other's preferences instead of trying to establish what is best for everyone. You like monospaced fonts, I like proportional, and it's great that we have the choice!
Maybe a bit off-topic if you are less interested in people and character studies, but it is one of the books I have read the most.

The Age of Uncertainty by Tobias Hürter

It’s about the minds who redefined our understanding of the universe, and I would say they were people who did a hard thing or two.

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL37331178M/Age_of_Uncertainty
I use bluesky and so far have no ads and lots of great journalism and academic lists to follow. Greatly enjoying it, feels like Twitter 2012 or so.
Getting error: Failed to generate voice
No, a modification of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscope
This would be my elegant solution, something like an endless recursion with a gzip bomb at the end if I can identify your crawler and it’s that abusive. Would it be possible to feed an abusing crawler nothing but my own locally-hosted LLM gibberish?

But then again if you’re in the cloud egress bandwidth is going to cost for playing this game.

Better to just deny the OpenAI crawler and send them an invoice for the money and time they’ve wasted. Interesting form of data warfare against competitors and non competitors alike. The winner will have the longest runway
I wish the home was better showing the stuff you followed vs. having to go into subscriptions tab.

edit: there are a limited number of tiles to show but yeah
> Every time you reach for python after a typed language, it feels like going through a barbed minefield blindfolded.

Using both Python and mandatorily statically typed languages regularly professsionally (my main working languages being C#, Python, and a mix of JS and TS), that's not my experience at all.

(Of course, Python has a variety of optional static typecheckers with differing degrees of type inference, as well as supporting explicit type specifications; its not untyped unless you choose to use it that way.)
Here's another trick: open the image in a browser, then zoom out. The smaller the image (up to a point and you can find a sweet spot) the easier it is to get them to overlap. Once you've got it, slowly zoom in a bit at a time, re-acquiring the overlap at each stage.
It’s been years since I’ve read the book or seen the movie, but I had the exact opposite impression of the book vs the movie. The book is very deep, I found it compared rather well to dystopian novels like 1984. The movie, by contrast, felt like a weird slasher film, more interested in gratuitous violence than telling a compelling story. The characters in the book felt more nuanced. For example, the main female antagonist (I can’t remember her name) was a victim of abuse, and her trauma motivates her drive to live and her lack of hesitation to manipulating others to survive. Maybe someone else who has read the book here has a different take away?
I do, and I am curious about the question. Is there something about syntax highlighting that would be different with a monospaced vs. proportional font?
Agreed. If a google account goes away, so does the access to all your google authenticated stuff.

I only use google for email logins for services I don't take seriously and am willing to lose.
I haven't seen one in several years, but they always used to run Red Hat, based on the boot screens.
Serious question - if robots.txt are not being honored, is there a risk that there is a class action from tens of thousands of small sites against both the companies doing the crawling and individual directors/officers of these companies? Seems there would be some recourse if this is done at at large enough scale.
I worked at one place where it probably cost us 100x (in CPU) more to serve content the way we were doing it as opposed to the way most people would do it. We could afford it because it was still cheap, but we deferred the cost reduction work for half a decade and went on a war against webcrawlers instead. (hint: who introduced the robots.txt standard?)
They're not at odds. "default-public accessibility of information" doesn't necessarily translate into "default-public accessibility of content" ie. media. Content should be served behind an authentication layer.

The clickbaity hysteria here is missing out how this sort of scraping has been possible long before AI agents showed up a couple of years back.
It's not semantics. Those founders have more voting power than their actual share in the companies, so they don't have the same incentives as regular shareholders.
Why not use python itself then? The design by contract PEP is old. Not sure if anyone is working on it.

https://adsharma.github.io/agentic-transpilers/

https://adsharma.github.io/pysmt
I think you forgot to add the links

Anyway tantivy is great! I love pg_search https://www.paradedb.com/blog/introducing_search (which appears to be built by another company, but on top of tantivy, which is a great feature of open source)

Now, I am worried about development being stalled after this acquisition. How does further developing tantivy in the open helps Datadog's bottom line?
I think the built in Mac hypervisor lets you do this as well doesn't it?
The particular issues around medicine and cars were more due to regulatory and liability issues than bad management culture or intentional discrimination. Pharmaceutical companies often didn't include women as subjects in clinical trials over fears that if one got pregnant and then had a baby with serious birth defects because of the drug that would be ethically problematic and potentially lead to huge monetary damages in a civil trial. The FDA has since changed their rules to require broader participation in clinical trials.

https://www.fda.gov/consumers/diverse-women-clinical-trials/...

Likewise with cars, the NHTSA originally had a single standard crash test dummy designed to mimic an average sized man. So manufacturers optimized around that. Now they are using a more diverse set of dummies.

https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/improving-safety-for-women-...

https://www.nhtsa.gov/nhtsas-crash-test-dummies
Do we have any numbers on the number of people that are in this system? I'm frankly curious if the numbers in the original article can effectively be completely explained by this system rather than the policies listed in the article.

In the US the system broke down in the 50s and 60s and collapsed completely in the 70s and 80s due to bad treatment options and often very inhumane conditions and cases of misdiagnoses. The widespread misdiagnosis problem only stretched the system further and compounded the existing problems. I would be curious to see where Finland's trajectory in this regard lies.
I cannot do this by crossing my eyes (focusing on a point between you and the image), I have a hard time getting the cross to stay consistent and it never really "locks in" for me. Instead of crossing my eyes, I unfocus them, effectively look through the image. Once I get the repeating part to overlap cleanly, after a second or two, my pupils adjust their focus and the image fades from blurry to clear in a really satisfying way and kind of "locks in" in a way that takes little to no effort to maintain. With a bit of practice, I can even move my eyes around and look at different parts of the two overlayed images without distrupting the effect at all.

I don't know if it's just my brain working differently or if a there is some confusion in the discussion between crossing your eyes and focusing through an item.
Unfortunately I got this as an audiobook and the author, who is born in the Bronx, decided for some reason to read it in a British accent which made it really hard for me to get through. Might have to get the book itself and give it another try.
https://archive.is/nNZga
“[…] if you give them a place to stay, smoke meth all day and make their apartment and nearby apartments health hazards”

You skipped a step or two in there, but I will note that if you had real health care, the homeless adhd and such would be on their vyvanse prescriptions rather than self-medicating with meth.
Was that in response to a new incoming administration, or a series of social and cultural events?
Usually I'm more in the camp of "let's preserve everything we can as cultural heritage, yes even those awful Nazi propaganda material" and I'm confident that some distant archeologist (or current close neighbor) will be glad we did.

But as time pass, I'm more and more convinced that wiping-out every peace of C that was ever produced would be one of the greatest possible gesture for the future of humanity.

I also have a theory that universe exits so we can have some opportunities to taste chocolate. Surely in that perspective, even C can be an unfortunate but acceptable byproduct.
One of my biggest problems was the local development story. I wanted logs, traces and metrics support locally but didn’t want to spin up a multitude of Docker images just to get that to work. I wanted logs to be able to check what my metrics, traces, baggage and activity spans look like before I deploy.

Recently, the .NET team launched .NET Aspire and it’s awesome. Super easy to visualize everything in one place in my local development stack and it acts as an orchestrator as code.

Then when we deploy to k8s we just point the OTEL endpoint at the DataDog Agent and everything just works.

We just avoid the DataDog custom trace libraries and SDK and stick with OTEL.

Now it’s a really nice development experience.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/aspire/fundamentals...

https://docs.datadoghq.com/opentelemetry/#overview
From the linked Article:

> Why it matters: The move is a strong signal to Meta employees that the company's push to make inroads with the incoming Trump administration isn't just posturing, but an ethos shift that will impact its business practices.

I would say the shift in policy is to avoid law suites, as the Federal Courts have held DEI programs are sometimes discriminatory... especially the equity parts. Diversity and Inclusion are important parts of existing civil rights laws, so those aspects of DEI programs are not very important except to actually ensure ethical hiring practices are in fact practiced (E.G. not being racist or sexist when hiring). But practicing equity, or sometimes called other things... like affirmative action, etc... are illegal (they are sometimes blatantly sexist or racist). I've been on technical teams blessed by the DEI hiring program, and it was alright... We got more ladies, and we hired people (who earned less) in other time zones around the world. It got weird, for a lot of weird reasons I won't go into, but the main point is the team stopped vibing like before, and that's fine to some extent but this was a disconcordant vibe, not a minor offbeat member of the band, but a bunch of folks playing their own tune...
Packet drops are not entirely separable from speed. One reason packets get dropped is congestion, and speed obviously helps with congestion, since it is an important determiner of capacity.

But, indeed, the speed of an uncongested hop is irrelevant, in that it could slower by some factor, yet without it making a difference to the packet loss.
Has anyone tried multiple iterations? That is, upload a real voice, get its synthesized version, upload synthesized version 1 to get synthesized version 2, rinse and repeat...
Sure, and we're talking about SQL nulls in this context, which is why I am strict in my definition.
Related: [How GLP-1 Development Was Abandoned in 1990](https://muse.jhu.edu/article/936213)
law abiDINg DRonE pILoTs
Parent post is about capital not workers.

Companies are filled with workers, and plenty of them do care. But unless they work for a co-op employees are disposable, and ultimately they serve at the whims of capital.

When capital decides that equity doesn't sell, the workers striving to create more diverse workplaces will be discarded.

The only counter to this is government, but Americans just voted for a government that explicitly wants to increase disparities.

There is literally no counter to this in the private sector, save co-ops or non-profits that actually sell their principals as part of their brand (e.g. Patagonia).
It is more painful to treat someone who is homeless and mentally ill as opposed to just mentally ill.
> it won't be long until someone smart realizes there's whole groups of qualified candidates who aren't getting the same offers as others and hires them

There's an argument to be made that this is exactly what pipeline-level DEI programs are!
> But there are differences between the ratio and the widely used unemployment rate, which Trump used in citing the percentage.

> The unemployment rate reflects the number of jobless people who are actively seeking work as a percentage of the available workforce - defined as those who have jobs or trying to find one.

> The May unemployment rate for blacks ages 16 to 24 was 18.7 percent. The rate for whites in the same age group was 9.1 percent.

> The employment-population ratio is a far broader measure that counts all civilians in its equation - even those who don’t work and aren’t looking for a job. In the 16- to 24-year-old category, it includes high school and college students who are not employed or seeking jobs.
I don't need to look up the Pareto Principle and I am well aware of the scale of 2 trillion dollars. I don't need a bunch of condescending examples about, thanks. As far as journalism goes, I call it a good thing to highlight to tax-payers wasteful spending and perhaps other people think responsible spending by the government is a good thing will as well. This is quite common the numbers are not always at the scale of trillions. Sometimes, you find a city, perhaps like Chicago, wants to raise a billion dollar property tax, but has spent 400 million dollars on supporting illegal immigration, largely to one corporation, for example.
Didn't the British control Hong Kong from the mid-19th century until the 1990s?
Python's `__hash__` used primarily for hash map bucketing. In that context, the identity of an integer is a perfectly cromulent bucketing value.
Totally indulging in this side discussion: I remember thinking in high school and college that fame was the end-all of life, telling people that my goal was to have my own Wikipedia page. I saw it as something like the combination of being a "cool kid" (but for, you know, the whole of society instead of just one's school) and a sort of immortality.

Anyway, over the last couple of decades as an adult, besides realizing the obvious - how terribly shallow that is, and missing so much of what's really good in life - I've realized how fleeting fame seems to be even for the truly famous. Even looking over the list of US Presidents (never mind lesser political figures like VPs, cabinet members, congressmen, etc.) as someone who has always been interested in history, I look at some names and think, "who?" or "I've heard the name, but know nothing about him." I mean, of course you can still read about them, but that even a US President can be largely forgotten as a household name within 250 years is really a stunning thing to think about; they are ultimately no more immortal than someone who only has their name in a genealogy database or on a grave marker.
Wife was not impressed. That hit home haha.
Somewhat related, hash() returns a result % sys.hash_info.modulus, so if you build a set or a dict with keys multiple of sys.hash_info.modulus, you run into quadratic behavior.

>>> {i * sys.hash_info.modulus for i in range(5000)}
0.40s
>>> {i * sys.hash_info.modulus for i in range(50000)}
29.34s
>>> {i for i in range(50000)}
0.06s
here's a nice project to automate this: https://marcusb.org/hacks/quixotic.html

couple of lines in your nginx/apache config and off you go

my content rich sites provide this "high quality" data to the parasites
Cannonball: An enhanced OutRun engine
Analysis of Marketing Consultant Rates
I think the point is that one can only devote a finite amount of time and energy searching for a job each day before they hit diminishing returns, due to both mental fatigue and physical limitations. Though as another commenter pointed out, volunteer work is a common resume-building and networking tactic.
The "surplus houses" are not just in Detroit but also around Central Park, NY, where people buy them as investment.
The example in the paper using an plug-and-chug algebra equation, and the step-by-step process to solve it, reinforces the notion that LLMs can only reproduce recipes they have seen before. This is really no different than how we learn mathematics in school, the teacher shows a starting point and moves, step-by-step, to the end of the process. Calling this "Meta Chain-of-Thought" feels like an aggrandizement of basic educational process to me. Next we'll be labeling the act of holding basic utensils as Layered Physical Kineticism, or something contrived like that. In school this "Meta Chain of Thought" was called "Show your work." Is this really a "phenomena" that needs explaining? It might teach us more about how we achieve logical induction (steps of reasoning) but we are pretty deep in the soup to be able to describe accurately the shape of the pot.
I am currently getting treated for Folicular Lymphoma, so I've been looking into complementary treatments for myself.

I saw a video on youtube -- wait, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikSlMlMFS7M -- from a medical journal former editor / writer guy who cured his throat cancer or maybe it was skin cancer, but he talked about both, with topical treatments using food grade hydrogen peroxide (h2o2). (I forgot the strength he used -- maybe 35%. But do not swallow this stuff -- very harmful to ingest, only apply it topically at specific points.) Anyway he was talking about brain tumors and how for some kinds there are no good treatment options and he conjectured that injecting these kind of brain tumors with the 35%(?) h2o2 could wipe them out. This is because most cancer cells are highly susceptible to h2o2 (way more than normal cells) A brain surgeon could do this using imaging guidance, etc.

Maybe you can find a surgeon who is already doing this type of treatment in a trial perhaps.

Three other options:

1. High dose vitamin C via IV. At very high doses, Vitamin C can wipe out cancer cells via multiple mechanisms. One of these is because VitC generates ozone in the cancer cells which destroys them in a similar method as if they had been dosed with h2o2.

2a. Get into ketosis via diet -- can selectively cause cancer cell death -- something to do with mitochondria metabolism changes in cancer cells. But, getting into ketosis is super difficult.

2b. Get into ketosis by supplementing with MCT (medium chain triglycerides) from coconut oil. The C8 component of this type of oil seems to have the strongest ketosis results. C8 MCT is processed by your liver and converted into ketones. Much easier than a keto diet.

3. Follow the Gerson therapy -- https://gerson.org/the-gerson-therapy/ -- lots of fresh pressed mostly veggie juices as the main component of the diet along with other things. This can also mimic a fast (another way to selectively kill cancer cells).

I'm doing 1, 2b, and starting to do 3 for myself. None of these are expensive and they are all very safe to do and you can do 2 and 3 at home.

I live near Chicago and I'm getting standard treatment at Illinois Cancer Specialists in Niles and the IVC treatments from Raden Wellness in Highwood. I'm working with an MD Oncologist and a Naturopathic Oncologist. So far so good!

Best of luck to your friend!!!
Jail: At this point 2nd and 3rd chances have been burned up.

And, to be quite blunt: If someone wants to be a meth-head, there's plenty of ways to consume it that don't create hazards for other people.

Edit: I think it's perfectly acceptable, in guaranteed housing situations, to say "If you create a hazard you will go to jail."
I suspect the conditions were the opposite at the time: competition for good non-white employees was fierce after BLM, making them harder to find. If I'm understanding the Bloomberg numbers correctly, a random non-white person would have 47x better odds of being hired than a white person at the S&P 100 companies.

Edit: another comment on hn says that Bloomberg's methodology was flawed, which seems more plausible to me.
Geopolitical commentary aside, the city of San Francisco has spent billions of dollars on homelessness and it has only gotten worse. I'm not opposed to paying higher taxes to house people less fortunate than me, but I expect the government to get their money's worth. If I wouldn't want to spend a million on a shoebox, then the city shouldn't either.
probably just oversold.
That rumor is the biggest obstacle. If you believed it was possible, and instead told others it was possible, it might actually be.
Fail2ban would have been all they needed. It's what I have, works great.
Launched Telegram Mini Apps web directory
Hello, folks. I'm glad to announce that I've launched the first, raw version of the telegram mini apps directory. https://telegram-mini-apps-eta.vercel.app It's not even MVP yet. I decided to try to launch so raw version to measure the traffic to understand whether it's interesting at least for ten people :D. Soon I'll drop a MVP with more content there and with the basic value what forced me to create it - the ability to search and filter.
It's not normal to start dreaming as you fall asleep ? I thought that's how you know you're falling asleep? That you're starting to see the dreams?
Clojure has some interesting advantages - which doesn't mean others might not.

Rapid application technologies, methedologies, or frameworks are not unusual.

I know some wonderfully productive polyglot developers who by their own choice end up at Clojure. It doesn't have to be for everyone.

I wouldn't rule out that Clojure doesn't deserve credit. I wouldn't think it's a good idea to discredit Clojure from not having tried it myself.

I do hope someone with extensive Clojure experience can weigh in on the advantages.

How easy something is a codebase grows is something to really consider.

This product regardless of how it's built is pretty impressive. I'd be open to learning advantages and comparisons without denying it.
> “Always remember that the people are not fighting for ideas, nor for what is in men’s minds. The people fight and accept the sacrifices demanded by the struggle in order to gain material advantages, to live better and in peace, to benefit from progress, and for the better future of their children. National liberation, the struggle against colonialism, the construction of peace, progress and independence are hollow words devoid of any significance unless they can be translated into a real improvement of living conditions.” - Amílcar Cabral