skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if it's very uncommon, unfortunately even one incident like the one in GP's comment is enough to convince someone that they're unwelcome and abandon working in the field. In fact, an argument for workplace diversity initiatives is that it can re-assure people that they are welcome, and that kind behavior of is fireable. Personally the kind of "DEI" I most strongly support are the initiatives that lay out clear rules and expectations for what kind of employee behavior is allowed, and tell people who to go to if they see it occurring.
Chinese cyber-spy on officials probing real-estate deals near US Military bases
Answer: so you can go help Anna's Archive visualize all ISBNs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42652577
lol...weird brain fart: "similar" was the word i was hunting for
A strangeness: Belligerent and Useless Island has a typo in the body text. Any idea how?
It was always puffery, just money was cheap before 2020. Engineering managers I worked with before then were gung ho to grow their head count, even if it meant hiring iffy engineers. After 2020, they got told new head count would be much more limited and hiring got a lot more selective.
> due to bad treatment options and often very inhumane conditions and cases of misdiagnoses.

I thought that it broke down due to a Supreme Court decision (O’Connor v. Donaldson, 422 U.S. 563 (1975)) but perhaps they were interrelated.
This will help you sort by number of connections by IP address. Has been handy for me many times.

https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/1767/number-of-o....
Not sure whether I'd like to send potentially sensitive documents to a lesser known provider. Or even to a well known.
I think the issue is more about the angle of the lights than their brightness. lowbeams are only supposed to illuminate a fairly short distance in front of the vehicle. this is a big problem with lifted trucks. the owners don’t bother to realign the lights.
No. robots.txt is not in any way a legally binding contract, no one is obligated to care about it.
Most of what you said is just wrong.

"Poor students" have the most support in the country: https://www.mackinac.org/blog/2024/are-poor-urban-districts-... Baltimore public schools get $30k per student. Carmel, IN public schools spend $10k per student.

You should look into heritability. There is no longitudinal impact on adult outcomes as a result of parenting/schooling practices.
Testosterone eliminates strategic prosocial behavior in healthy males (2023)
Right, if I tip I am heartless? If I am heartless I may as well not tip. Delusional.
Why does DeepSeek v3 route to 8 experts per token?
Cool! Carbon is doing exactly this. I had asked leads if there was a paper on this approach, but they didn't have anything for me. I'll send them this post!
No, that is not what I'm saying. Notice, I never said we shouldn't do anything.

I'm saying reaching the state of "no homelessness" is dependent upon finding something to do with the worst of the homeless.

For a tech analogy, imagine you've architected a system that has 99.5% uptime. You might be able to imagine a way to get to 99.9% up time.

With enough resources, you might even be able to get to 99.99% uptime. With laser focus and a giant dedicated team and an immense budget, maybe you can get it to 99.995%.

But what would you do if some exec came in and said we need 100% uptime, and we are a failure as a company unless we reach that?
Lowbeams on sedans are blinding me in my small truck (not lifted, headlights aligned as intended). Something must be done.
I didn't spend the time reading the comments to see if this has been said already, but crossing your eyes works but learning to diverge your eyes is better in some situations. It's easier to learn to cross because you can just look at your nose, and you can bring together two images that are further away by crossing than by diverging. But diverging is the way we are normally (when looking across the room say instead of at a book in front of us) so it's more comfortable.
> That's the thing that's being treated as FALSE. That UNKNOWN. Not the value of NULL itself.

No, it's being treated as UNKNOWN, and the semantics of SELECT...WHERE only returns rows where the value of the condition is TRUE.

I think you need to look into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negation_as_failure
I'm happy to read evidence I'm wrong (I want to be wrong - it would make me much more optimistic about a fix), but my own life and everything I've read suggests the opposite - once someone develops a serious drug or alcohol addiction it leads to them destroying everything good in their lives and inevitably they either sober up or end up homeless. Nearly all of the people who stay homeless in the long term have some severe mental illness (including addiction). Short of an involuntary commitment which is its own kind of hell, helping these people is incredibly difficult.

I have multiple family members who fit this pattern and it's absolutely godawful. The addiction literally rules them. They will perpetually ask for money for "needs" then spend it on drugs. If another family member houses them, they will sneakily maintain their addiction and steal from family to support it when necessary. If you offer them housing on condition of getting sober, they will choose addiction and homelessness. If you offer them housing without condition, they will use it to stay an addict in perpetuity, who everyone else is paying for. I don't think this last is a remotely viable solution with the number of addicts out there, which is only growing.

I'm not saying this to condemn addicts/mentally ill people. I just want to give an idea of just how hard this problem is to fix.
They didn't have to announce shit, much less announce it right as the new regime is taking over. If they wanted to sunset these programs they could've slowly ramped these programs down without saying anything and nobody would've noticed.

This sends a very clear message about what they're trying to do and whose side they are on.
Your suggestion that bad behavior by all-male teams would be improved by the addition of women rests on a couple of assumptions that are not true: that women are inherently better behaved than men, and that women naturally see each other as being on the same team.

I have been through some really awful experiences in the workplace in the last few years, and some of the most egregiously abusive behavior came from another woman. Women can be incredibly cruel to each other, and this woman in particular seemed to have it out for other women. Women are not inherently saints, and they are not inherently kind to other women.

On the other hand, I have often, often worked on teams that were (except for me) all men, but by and large they were men who had mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters that they loved, and who therefore had no trouble relating to me with respect and affection. While it is true that some men treat women specifically badly, and that some men treat people generally badly, it is not true that men in general treat women badly. Quite the opposite.

It does take a moment, as a woman, to find your feet socially in an all male space. But does it not always take a moment to find your feet in any new space? I have generally found that what makes it go smoothly is the fact that we are all hackers. If anything, it is all the walking on eggshells about sexism that makes social integration awkward at first. People are trying to figure out how they are "supposed" to behave around me, worried that I will be aggressive socially and legally. When we focus on the work we do together and the love we have in common for the field, we become friends naturally and get along well.

I myself think all the hand-wringing over demographics has been a waste of time at best and counterproductive at worst. I think it makes more sense to focus on developing virtue, civility, and good leadership among the people who find themselves here.
Glad I'm not the only one that feels this way. For a small application when you just want some metrics and observability, it's a big burden to get it all working.

On my own projects, I send the metrics I care about out through the logs and have another project I run collect and aggregate them from the logs. Probably “wrong” but it works and it's easy to set up.
RBS comes by default with Ruby, Sorbet is 3rd party.
Biden and Harris aren't victims, they are leaders; they have have power. Their job is to guide people. They can frame the issues, inspire people, lead them. They can persuade people just as well as others, or better given their authority.

Musk and Zuckerberg and lots of others don't hesitate to lead.

> And when Congress doesn't back them up? Should they just... say "Pweeeaase" louder?

No, that's pretty ignorant about politics. Again, they aren't victims. They make things happen. There are ways to persuade the public and compel Congress. But the Dems have completely abdicated any such thing, as if they aren't politicians or leaders.
Another theory is that C inspired languages are very mechanistic and easier to visualize. Same goes for OOP with the Animal->{Cat,Dog} explanation. But that's just surface level and once you get to the difficult part (memory management in C and software design in Java) where the ability to grasp abstractions is required, we're back to square one.

I believe once you've got to some point, dealing with abstractions is a way of life. It's either in the language, the technical requirements, or the software design.
It's not hairsplitting, and it's not what everyone means, just the people you talk to. Languages without typing are things like assembly language(s), which underlie everything you do on a computer and is (are) still in the TIOBE Index's top 20 https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index, as well as much more obscure languages. The distinction between untyped languages and dynamically typed languages is night and day.

I'm pretty competent in Python, C, Java, JavaScript, assembly, and a number of other languages†, and my experience in Python is nothing like what you're describing, although I do have my own frustrations with it. It's possible that when you're more experienced you'll have a different perspective, but it sounds like you're stuck inside a pretty small bubble right now.

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† Last year I also programmed in C++, Lua, C#, bash, Tcl, Emacs Lisp, Forth, Golang, OCaml, Scheme, Perl, Common Lisp, and the ngspice scripting language.
As a kid I learned to see stereograms in 3D by crossing my eyes. Exact same technique. Comes in handy for Mars images today.
It wouldn’t even necessarily need to be a real GZip bomb. Just something containing a few hundred kb of seemingly new and unique text that’s highly compressible and keeps providing “links” to additional dynamically generated gibberish that can be crawled. The idea is to serve a vast amount of poisoned training data as cheaply as possible. Heck, maybe you could even make a plugin for NGINX to recognize abusive AI bots and do this. If enough people install it then you could provide some very strong disincentives.
Stay warm! And thank you for stepping forward to share your story and perspective. HN needs much more of it.
void* is leaps-and-bounds different from void. It is an expression, it has storage, you can actually assign something to it. You can't have a variable of type void; "void var;" is meaningless. A function doesn't "return" void. void simply denotes that a function doesn't return anything.
I've never been able to 'lock' the two images together like this with my eyes focus. That was incredible.
Agree w what's said here.

Pass the ball if u want the ball. It's a team sport.

Be brief and on point.

Use your emotions.

Listen.
Paying for the social services is possible. The difficult issue is some people don't want to go to a homeless shelter because they want to maintain a level of freedom while others fear they will be robbed/raped at the shelter.

Do you force them inside?
That's a wrong chronology. Before the 1950s we did not have effective treatments for schizophrenia other than incarceration.

In old books you read about

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catatonia

being intractable, now it usually clears up in 15-30 minutes with benzodiazepine medication. In the 1950s we got the Phenothiazines which were the first hope for many patients, there has been a huge amount of progress since then and managing most of these people outside the hospital is possible. People also came to see involuntary commitment as immoral as described by Thomas Szasz, depicted by the movie "One Flew out of the Cuckoo's Nest" and shown by this experiment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment

The trouble isn't that we tore down the old system but that we didn't completely build a new system to replace it. There are deep issues involving people's agency. Right now we are in a society that thinks it is wrong to make people to take drugs they don't want to take, a different society (maybe even ours in N years) will think is it wrong to not make people take drugs for serious mental illness.
At the company I work at, IMO, their DEI initiatives are counter productive so they claim "we support DEI", but in actual practice they're making the problem worse not better. It might be true that removing DEI is performative, but at least at my job, removing DEI would be a net positive for actually diversity, equity, and inclusion.

There might be other things they could do proactively. But, the ones they actually chose are derisive, racist, and do nothing to actually make the world a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive place.
As I understand it, Magic Eye stereoscopic images were originally developed by brain scientists studying how we see in 3D (i.e., how the brain processes 2 eye inputs into a 3D image).

There were two competing theories:

1. The brain first does a recognition pass (that's a house, that's a person, etc.) and compares the two eyes to see which objects have moved.

2. The brain compares the two eye inputs first, at the "pixel" level and figures out which pattern of pixels has moved, then afterwards, applies recognition to the resulting 3D image.

Magic Eye would only work if #2 is the correct theory (because in Magic Eye, there is nothing to recognize until AFTER you convert to 3D).
> Indeed but wealth extraction from already piss poor countries by artificially dumping prices that cannot be sustained by domestic industry has been a problem with Africa for decades, and that after centuries of colonialism on top of it.

You also need to work out what is happening with the money that is saved. Sure, people working for the local ISP are probably out of a job, but more people can access the internet at much more reasonable rates. This boosts the economy; probably more than the local ISP did!
Ask HN: Why using Laravel framework make me feel cool?
Personally I feel if you want to make an impact, you need to provide resources early on when people are growing up and in school.

There’s nothing like gaining inspiration because someone you know growing up is doing it. e.g. It’s much easier to go camping for your first time when someone in your life is “the camping person” and can guide you through it. And the earlier you do it, the higher chance that you end up pursuing it.

In a lot of impoverished communities, they don’t have as many as those kinds of people. Especially not compared to a well-connected family in a wealthy suburb.

I don’t know how you would provide those resources and maybe these big companies already are, but the availability of professionals that young people surround themselves with should not be overlooked.
Previously (16 points, 1 day ago, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42647606
Not really. People deliberately persuade the public of things all the time. Some persuade them of absolutely false, awful things with regularity.
anybody try this and have a good result?
if everyone openly has your back, consistently, and for years yet you’re so fragile that a single dickhead (who will be fired) derails your entire career then honestly you were too fragile to do the job anyway..

I don’t know a single engineer who doesn’t get imposter syndrome.

As a man, I have been openly derided for doing something stupid, if I were a woman I might internalise that as if it was sexism- so how do you deal with that? When people are so convinced that if anything critical could be based on gender?

At some point you're treating people like children.

Again I’ll say it: every single educational institution and workplace I have ever been in has intentionally mentioned that anything that could be perceived as misogyny or sexual harassment have a zero tolerance policy.

Am I really the outlier? I’ve worked so many places and across so many countries and industries…
not true for taxes. most get their tips paid out in cash at the end of the night and don't pay taxes on it unless they report it all, which they rarely do.
Yeah, I was thinking that the while modern social media has made the "cost of entry lower," and everyone can theoretically reach more people than ever, it's hard to even describe most of it as "fame" anymore. I mean, does content even "go viral" anymore, with users subdivided into the tiniest niche communities or audiences? Even if things get wider traction for a while, there's so much competition with so much other content that everything seems to get quickly drowned out and then can't even be found again later through search.
The subject matter is nominally the same, but I don't know how comparable I would guess the situations are. I 100% could see Meta making a very similar statement still today.
If your keys are multiples of the table size then all your keys will hash to the same bucket, in a naive hash table at least.
> Like what makes one an expert?

Your skin colour of course.
Any actual possibilities of AI project in medicine like this one?
I have exactly this as well. My optician explained it as my brain would use the information from the lazier eye only if there wasn't any information from the good eye. Just tried the eyes crossed trick on the easy image in the article and the 3rd image in the middle is the right one. If I let them drift apart so there are 4 images I can see the left one and the difference (because I'd already found it), but as soon as I force them to overlap the left signal disappears and I'm only seeing the right image. I've also never managed to do a magic eye or anything, and 3d movies just give me a headache.
What is the point? Not everything has worked, so do nothing? If we read the OP, we can find out about some things that have worked.
There is nothing inherently illegal about filling a small store to occupancy capacity with all of your friends and never buying anything.

Just because something is technically possible and not illegal does NOT make it the right thing to do.
Yep, well at least 98% sure anyway. But you're right, that 'second level' image does look a lot like a tulip, much better description than what I said about W's :) And of course this led me to try zooming out a bit and going for level 3+... kinda feels like I'm looking down at the top of a strangely shaped wedding cake, which would also go nicely with the flowers and heart theme. Thanks for giving me an excuse to take another look!
No, it is obvious that there are not any qualified 14 year olds, and it is also obvious that there are qualified minorities - if you can't find qualified minorities, you should look more closely at your recruitment pipelines.
> I think firefighting is an extreme example, where the actual job competence should be the most important qualification, and DEI should absolutely have no place.

DEI simply posits "there are probably some women just as qualified (or more!) as some of the men you already hire, so be open to it and perhaps encourage their consideration". Very few organizations manage to hire the absolute best person on the planet for a particular role and over-estimate the extent to which their interview process manages to successfully filter for it.

There are absolutely differences between men and women, but there's a lot of overlap. The absolute six-sigma ends of the bell curves likely matter if you're, say, at the Olympics, but my local fire department has visibly overweight men in their 60s on staff.

And that's fine! But it probably tells you that quite a few women (like the one in your video) are also capable of doing what they do - of which a significant portion is not carrying unconscious people out of burning houses.

(I've selected male/female simply as an example here. There'll be different excuses offered for not hiring black firefighters or gay firefighters in reasonable proportions.)
Charitably, I think they mean we are starting to see explicit alignment between government and the ultra wealthy, which definitely is a threat to democracy. You can either do what is good for the majority or what is good for the 0.0001%.
> Instead of allocating Expr objects willy-nilly on the heap, we’ll pack them into a single, contiguous array.

This happens naturally if you bump-allocate them in a garbage-collected run-time, particularly under a copying collector. Free lists also tend to co-locate because they are produced during sweep phases of GC which run through heaps in order of address.

Don't make me bring out the L word for the billionth time.

> A flat array of Exprs can make it fun and easy to implement hash consing

OK, it's not a case of L-ignorance, just willful neglect.
I rewrote jank several times, during these eight years, with a different design each time, trying to find something which felt right. I wanted something

I'll be blunt here, I see it as just a proloned phase. You wanted something, we all wanted that something at some point. You're not the only one who sees problems and thinks "it could be done differently, if", that's why you gather auditory. You'll end up realizing that no language can replace all these years, and that the amount of real useful work that could be done in that time with boring tools is mind-boggling compared to what will ever come out of this optimistically. Every new real job brings some new insight into what could make it less job-y and more fun. These problems never end and most solutions do not fit together. Feeling that something is not right and it could be done more <adjectively> is just part of the job. If you truly believe in it and have a reasonable source of financial stability, godspeed. But I think you might be living an illusion that almost every programming enthusiast had at some point.
We are already in the backlash.
>to have an impact you must have courage to say no to the vast majority of social issues you could care about, and then commit deeply to the ones you decide to work on.

I strongly agree, but sadly I think what you're saying here is probably almost incomprehensible to a broad swathe of middle-class white Americans, to whom being seen to be outwardly supportive of every DEI-ish cause has essentially become something like personal hygiene -- a thing you do perfunctorily and without thinking. It's just "what you do", "what a civilised person does", etc.

I'd be interested to hear more about what you have seen work and not work for economic development in these communities.
A 21-year-old deferred PEP is probably safely described as dead with only the most distant hope that it might one day be revived, or, more likely replaced with an entirely different PEP addressing a similar domain with a new approach.
Paper title: Prediction of misfolded proteins spreading in Alzheimer’s disease using machine learning and spreading models

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
In Canada the majority of shelter beds go to refugee claimants. I believe it is highly like many illegals in the US are homeless and make up the majority of homeless people. They are not part of the numbers you provided.
> just

the most dangerous word in software engineering
Building Bauble
Honestly this is my only criticism of datadog. The product is great but good lord that pricing.