skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm happy with macOS, I know what to tweak and the display support is great. Ubuntu was very bad with fractional scaling for 4k displays. Maybe skill issue but the ARM Macs are just so fast, don't want to give up on that.
That's wild. Whats going on here?
that's an idea - a version of it on social media to remind them to go out and touch grass instead of believing every conspiracy theory.
The PEP page is really good at explaining the status of the proposal, a summary of the discussion to date, and then links to the actual detailed discussion (in Discourse) about it:

https://peps.python.org/pep-0723/
When customers are checking out they have the option to choose USPS, UPS, etc. I've seen prices to Canada be more for USPS than UPS. Shopify handles most of this. I don't charge any handling so it's just whatever the raw shipping cost that is calculated by Shopify/USPS/etc.
Try cycling (the world of).

Explain....
On long rides, I drink 500ml of water to 200g of sugar. Actual sugar.
My max-best is greater than 400km in 24hrs.
No sugar, no go.
Monday (tomorrow for me) I have an up-to-125k group ride planned. I added 25g of sugar, to get my body fueled, and ready, to my potatoe-based meal.
I try not to bonk (sugar crash), but gummi bears and Coke (ahem! [tm]) are your friends.
I have no direct experience with this, but I’ve read that prices went down by 10x or so in 2024, and it seems that OpenAI has plenty of competition?

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/llms-in-2024/#llm-pric...
I love Safaris too, but unfortunately I handwrite very seldom and the Safaris tend to dry out quite quickly in my experience. I've got the Kaweco Sport, which sends to last much longer, probably because of its tight screw-top seal.
Agreed with you, I'm also sensitive to bugs and it's not belittling.
Comic Sans was from Microsoft Comic Chat [1], which was a separate product from Bob.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat
That's not the only feasible way to go. The other way is

- God offers a choice

- Offenses against God (however few in number and short in duration) yet have an infinite dimension of being against Him

- God mercifully offers infinite forgiveness for a limited time, and consequences to get our attention and signify something is wrong.

- God executes perfect justice on the finally-unrepentant, which will take forever being in exact proportion to the offenses.

The disagreements here all boil down to one thing: not holding God in high enough esteem (even merely in supposition just for the duration of this conversation -- unlike podcaster Joe Rogan who did maintain the supposition for one of his podcasts)

It is like trying to discuss black holes with someone who refuses to suppose that space can curve, and who immediately tries to poke the first hole he sees based on the assumption that space cannot curve.

The thing to suppose for this conversation -- the reason why offenses against God are infinite -- is that God is infinitely worthy, that He currently holds all things in existence including our next moments, and there is no end to our obligation to Him and no end to what can be enjoyed of Him.

If a stranger insults you with complete sincerity, it's easy to brush it off. If the love of your life gives you the same insult with the exact same sincerity, that is a different matter. It is obvious that there is a difference and no one would deny it.

But then considering an offense against God, suddenly we demote Him and deny we owe Him infinitely more. We don't want to owe Him anything becase we believe we know better about how to spend our lives than He does.

As long as one refuses to suppose these things, one will of course disagree.

But once one maintains the supposition, one can see how it makes sense instead of saying the only feasible way is malthesim.

We do not naturally want to suppose these things nor reckon with their consequences. So we try to object immediately instead of taking the time to suppose it all and see.
New life goal: repeatedly poison LLM training data, so that everyone cheating on their homework, or at their jobs, starts 'saying' things like "Internet mobs are dumb as snot". :)
Heh, every function in every Lisp needs its own song (:

Here's one for clojure.core/lazy-cat

https://suno.com/song/d012fa48-d5c1-46f4-8561-9a031cfb8925

Makes me sad that Clojure has mapcat and lazy-cat functions, but they've never made any effort to create mapdog and lazy-dog variants. I firmly believe that is the unique and only factor that has prevented Clojure from becoming a mainstream language at the top of the RedMonk chart.
Would you use a platform to simplify building AI-powered agents?
Hi everyone!

I’m working on a backend platform to help developers build AI-driven agents and apps by simplifying access to structured business data.

Key features:
• Semantic Search API: Query business data with natural language (e.g., “Find properties under $500k in New York”).
• OAuth Integration: Authenticate users to access personalized data like saved searches or preferences.
• Custom Interactions: Send messages, subscribe to updates, or trigger workflows like bookings or notifications.
• Tool Integrations: Connect with platforms like Zapier or Make for automation.

We’re starting with real estate but plan to expand to e-commerce, travel, and more.

Questions for you:
1. Does this solve problems you face as a developer?
2. What data or integrations would be essential for you?

Your feedback will help shape the MVP—thanks in advance!
Result types would also make it less efficient.
> Isn’t disabling employee comments about working conditions (including at least one mention of a union) in violation of labor laws?

Genuine question: is it? (“Shut[ting] down comments on an internal webpage” versus deleting specific comments.)
Ha, man, this link is basically a dialysis industry propaganda page.

Our bodies evolved to survive -- whether with or without glucose. And you liver makes whatever those your body needs, from far, if necessary. Also keep in mind, industrialized wheat products would've been hard to come by back in the stone age -- if you ate at all, depending on whether your hunt was successful.
But OPs point is that people are not willing to give up modern life for these gains.

If you win and the legal system shuts down the modern lifestyle, you are going to have people anti the legal system, not saying 'wow, good on your for removing the oil companies and our way of living'. If you weaponize government against people and their lifestyle choices too much it's possible people break the government instead of the government breaking people's will to live as they currently do.
Disable JavaScript then ;)
The first thing I install is "brew".

Then I get the latest versions of everything.
“Not turn into a content junkie, churning out slop I wouldn’t want to read myself.”

What a beautiful value to have.
very cool! checking it out.
cargo culting programming approaches don't just not work, they saddle with both all the costs of doing things in a certain way and having to still deliver the outputs somehow.
e.g. hiding work until you know what needs doing before pretending to come up with the information during bikeshedding sessions.
I appreciate that they have a programming philosophy that they want people at the company to adopt. A common problem I see at companies that don't have onboarding is that people join the team with assumptions from previous jobs but you never level set them with the company. So 12 months down the line the new guy wants to change the process and you have to repeat the same discussions about what agile means for the nth time.

Amazon does a good job of training new hire on the 'Amazon way'. Amazon does 6 pagers, they do design docs. Amazon does SOA. Amazon does not use relational databases. Everything has an API. Because of the 'Amazon way' and the training they do new team members understand at least some of the context and expectations.

Is it the best way? Probably not but no one knows what the best way is anyway. At least they have a way. Saves a lot of effort compared to every new hire relitigating the process and architecture.
Why are these anti-dark matter articles upvoted on hacker news.

As I understand it, most cosmologists still thing dark matter is the most likely candidate as it explains multiple different daya points unlike Mond.
One of my favorite machines for classic Mac gaming is the first iteration of the iMac G4 (700/800mhz) , which allows booting into OS 9. Not only is it an amazing form factor, it's got a great screen and the official speakers are really nice. It's the complete package for a great gaming experience. The machine is powerful enough to run any game prior to its release (and so many after, of course). It's also a great conversation piece when it's not actively in use! :)
However, by leaving some customers to feed the competition, they're also providing an avenue for their competitors to grow stronger and also take away the customers they currently enjoy having.

In particular I find that Chinese companies are hungry for all business, more willing to provide up-front information, and more willing to send a direct quote no-questions-asked rather than scheduling a meeting with a sales rep. I'm not surprised when I see them win.
My 3D SWE Portfolio – Built with React Three Fiber
This has been a work and progress for a while now. A few months back the site used orbital controls, but I realized the UI/UX (Especially for non tech savy users) was unintuitive. Working to settle on a middle ground.
I knew from experience that they didn’t have the tastiest deals in town. They do have some a few frozen foods and marinated meats but the majority of what I have had from there I would pass on having again.
As someone who hasn’t been following this at all. It seems like I’m watching a digital mob go after a heretic which is interesting.
X is long dead. It is only reasonable for NVIDIA to focus on working wayland experience since that's where Linux desktop is.

For hw-accel, just use nouveau and VA-API will work out of the box. (Yes, nvidia is contributing to nouveau these days).
Using AI Agents to Flood Reddit with Marketing Slop
Also check out the projects/about page by clicking on the old mac!

https://jacob.dement.dev
replied at https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=m1n1#42664575
I'm not sure about x dmca check here: https://www.enforcity.com/blog/x-twitter-dmca
Which version of Mac OS are you running? Early versions of OS X were quite slow, but OS 9 should run like lightning on these.
not a narcoleptic but I remember reading about this, particularly the narcolepsy cases after pandemrix vaccine (a flu vaccine) there was a stromng correlation between upper respiratory infections and narcolepsy. This wikipedia article has some links to these: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemrix

interesting to see several people here mentioned they got narcolepsy after this vaccine.
I discovered a hole in the fetch specification
Macs have amazing resale value - IMO never scrap one. People will buy ones that need repair, even. Post on CL or FB marketplace and someone will snag it for sure. Just don't list a machine in disrepair for $400 like some people like to do because they saw a ridiculous listing on ebay :)
Similarly, I’ve had to privately advise coworkers not to use the term “let a thousand flowers bloom” as an idiom meaning “let’s get ideas from lots of people.” It sounds great until you understand the horrible historical context in which it was originally said.
This:

> I haven't felt like it's a minor improvement on what I'm using

means that this:

> I'd love if we standardized on it as a community as the de facto default

…probably shouldn’t happen. The default and de facto standard should be something that doesn’t get put on a pedestal but stays out of the way.

It would be like replacing the python repl with the current version of ipython. I’d say the same thing, that it isn’t a minor improvement. While I almost always use ipython now, I’m glad it’s a separate thing.
Swap the spinning rust for an SSD and you'll be blown away at the difference. the HDD is absolutely the bottleneck in these machines.
Let me shorten my point and maybe it’ll help you understand what I mean:

Increasing income inequality does not automatically mean that living standards are declining.

It can mean that the living standards of the wealthy is growing faster than the living standards of the less wealthy.

As an example, jump over to your LLM of choice and ask it to compare the rate of air conditioning in homes of people at the poverty line, comparing now to 1995. The numbers have jumped substantially since the cost including running cost (energy efficiency) of that technology has improved greatly.

You were confused at that statement of mine that you quoted. What I was trying to say is that you complained about posturing but then engaged in very similar posturing. You’ve made the baseline assumption that living standards are decreasing obviously without any substantiation.

And maybe you’re right, but you haven’t substantiated it, you’ve just engaged in the same style of posturing that you criticized.

Here’s a couple pieces that substantiates my point, which is that global poverty is decreasing (certainly with continuing challenges but overall decreasing): https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/WLD/wor...

https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty-in-brief
Nix people are more annoying than Rust Defense Force.

I use Windows, and not WSL. Nix does literally nothing for me.
Thanks! I love your focus on evaluation, it's missing in a lot of LLM products. I worked in the medical field and we valued model validation with similar importance. Our processes sound similar, too. One difference is that our customers still saw utility in models with much lower F1 than 90%. Rare events are hard to predict.
Nix is really the best experience I've had with Python package management but only if all the dependencies are already in nixpkgs. If you want to quickly try something off github it's usually a pain in the ass.
Old Testament, Isaiah 66:22 “As the __new heavens and the new earth__ that I make will endure before me,” declares the Lord, “so will your name and descendants endure. 23 From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come and bow down before me,” says the Lord. 24 “And they will go out and look on the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; __the worms that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched__, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”
If you do some work for someone one and decide to keep the source you wrote, so you can review it later in the privacy of your own thoughts, the only way you can get "caught" is if you release it some way that's recognizable.
Always useful to check past predictions from the author, e.g.

So, what would happen to those 6 million barrels a day if the West stopped buying? Russian officials have threatened to send it “elsewhere,” while the media have focused on stories of stepped-up sales to China and India. But this threat of a redirection to Asia is a paper tiger. - Apr 26, 2022

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/04/26/sanction-r...

Once sanctions are fully in place, Russia’s total crude and product exports (seaborne + land) could fall by as much as 3.3 to 3.9 million barrels a day from a baseline of 7.5 million barrels a day - Oct 19, 2022

https://navigatingrussia.substack.com/p/putins-looming-tanke...

Lots of convincing details and analysis about how oil would be stranded in Russia or forced to sell to the west at a deep discount due to the "price cap" strategy. So what are Russian oil exports looking like 2 years later?

Russia continues as a dominant oil exporter in 2023 despite global sanctions, maintaining a yearly export volume of around 7.5 million barrels per day (mb/d), as per analysis by the International Energy Agency.

With EU/UK/US markets turning away, Russia has pivoted towards India, China, Türkiye, and countries in the Middle East, retaining its position as the world’s second largest oil exporter behind the US in 2023.

https://qery.no/russian-oil-exports-pivots-towards-the-east/

According to the [IEA], Russian ... exports have remarkably steady around 7.5 million barrels per day (although there has been a big shift away from supplying the EU directly)

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/how-make-price-cap-russian-oi...
Emmanuel Mignot wins Prize for discovering cause of narcolepsy (2022)
Conversation Skills Essentials (2022)
But let's all be real here: the ability of __init__.py to do FUCKING ANYTHING IT WANTS is insanity made manifest

I am kind of iffy on golang's import (. "some/packge/for/side-effects") but at least it cannot suddenly mutate GOPATH[0]="/home/jimmy/lol/u/fucked" as one seems to be able to do on the regular with python

I am acutely aware that is (programmer|package|organization|culture)-dependent but the very idea that one can do that drives us rigorous people stark-raving
Then I think the counter-example is where function calls that can't fail are interspersed. Those are the cases where with exceptions (outside checked exceptions) you have to assume they could fail, and in a language without exceptions you can rely on them not to fail, and skip adding any code to maintain the invariant between them.

E.g. in the case you provided, if pop & push couldn't fail, that would just be two calls in sequence.
Eh, I think it is hard to get around the need for maintaining software, no matter how "worse is better" you are.

> But making it more accessible might just trigger enough people's "I don't want to push out absolute garbage if I can avoid it" buttons.

Yes, there is that too. Simple love of the craft.

> That's why I was wondering if there are already mainstream-accessible examples/explanations. It seems your search yielded the same results mine did :)

Just keep watching Lean. Now it is dominated by pure math, but people will be writing more programs over time also.
I’m on Windows and I categorically refuse to install Conda. It’s not necessary.
> what do other folks think is a better candidate for the biggest flop [in tech] of the 1990s?

VAX 9000, OS/2 2.0, OS/2 Warp 3, OpenDoc, Kaleida, Apple Newton, Pippin, 3DO, Philips CD-i, Sega 32X, Sega Saturn, Atari Jaguar, Amiga CD32…
I was waiting for some sensible explanation of Russia's "economic miracle" and this sounds at least somewhat satisfactory. Let's hope the theory is true and the debt crisis comes soon enough.
Better for whom, Putler and his paid bots?
The disease must have jumped the river from M.I.T.
> Git renamed the branch master to main

I get it. Ok.

But now I name all my main branches: "Mistress"

Mēh!
Well, newer laptops are built with poor quality plastics, so the hinge will break after 2-3 years. Older models are a beast though. Even the budget Dell Inspiron 3520 (2013 ~$400) is still running fine as a youtube streaming machine.
And since the Industrial Revolution, any labour is highly repetitive and therefore leads to RSI.
> Amazon does not use relational databases

Huh?
In this application, I would also be concerned about resilience in the event of an EMP strike. Not sure a battery-powered quartz timepiece would survive such, even if it would survive a failure of the ship's electrical systems (not sure if that would matter, as I doubt the ship's propulsion could survive such).
Bigger assistant/agent flop of the nineties was General Magic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Magic Packed with smartest engineers and usability people from the valley. Idea was to use smart remote agents "working for the user". Burned $200mil of 1995 money developing absolutely nothing usable.
I get what you’re saying, but I think there is too big a cultural difference for your advice to make sense for us.

Sorry for what you went through though, sounds like it was really painful.
This blog piece perfectly encapsulates an interesting discussion we are having as a society - "Do we need to care if a word has a hurtful etymology (if nobody using it nowadays knows that history)?"

Taking it out of the superheated culture-war lens, let's examine a more chill example: There's a popular meme with a girl crying and pointing and a cat sitting at a table. After some number of years somebody online pointed out that the panel on the left is some reality-tv personality going through a genuinely terrible life experience. They were sort of implying that everybody on the internet should stop using the meme for this reason.

Most of the arguments in either direction have thus-far been name-calling (due to culture-war nature). I'd be curious to see a well-reasoned from-first-principles argument in either direction, though curiously never have.
>They are being really smug...

Just out of sheer curiosity, I would be tremendously curious to understand what kind of personal/professional background/experience you have that would qualify you to certify their emergency systems as functionally ineffective and their messaging "smug".
You can get the technical report from Deepseek by Googling. Their reports are very well regarded.
Ask HN: Who's Best at Leveraging AI to Streamline App Development?
Hi all!

I've been using LLMs like most of us to help with code completion and suggestions and have been getting a decent productivity boost.

But I'm interested in learning who in the world is best managing to use AI tools to accelerate the development of web and mobile apps and how are they doing it.

Are they managing to get significant steps of the development process of building a new app fully automated or significantly automated?

Who in the tech world is doing this particularly well? I'd love to follow people or companies that are sharing their workflows and insights. Any recommendations on who to follow?

Cheers!
Oh, perfect! I didn't realize there was a choice during checkout. I can imagine the initial price is more, but it will be less in total once the package arrives to the door.

My "favorite" thing about UPS is they like to leave a COD invoice, when they were _supposed_ to collect the fee from you before releasing the package -- but that takes too long so they just leave an invoice. Except you can't just go online and pay it - there's no facility to do this on their website (you can find countless Reddit threads of people raging about this). I had to pay by phone, which is beyond ridiculous in this day and age.
A great post, well worth reading. The principles in the section on 'people' are applicable to any organisation in any industry.

I especially liked the simple 'career ladder' example, for a) focussing on mostly on behaviour rather than knowledge, and b) for being simple to use and track progress with. (I've never seen anything like it in any of the large organisations I've worked in to date.)
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