skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone pondering the exact same sentiment of "I like women so much that I kinda want to be one" but who hasn't fully committed to it yet, I really appreciated your vulnerability and lucid writing. I hope folks are kind here in the comments.

> It took me a while to remove my facial hair, I still haven’t trained my voice.

The facial hair removal really does take forever, it's so annoying :sob:. And I've found voice training (particularly around other people) to be really intimidating. I wish you the best of luck if you decide to pursue it!

Take care, OP.
Thank you for posting something unrelated to politics today.
> I’d be interested to hear how you’ve learned to moderate your response to frustration more effectively.

I loved @Schiendelman’s answer, and I believe that prioritizing mental and physical health is a prerequisite for tolerating frustration effectively. For me, it's been more about a change in practices and perspective.

For example, I never react in the moment to professional frustration beyond listening and asking sincere questions. I've learned that I need time to respond, and even to consider whether I should respond at all.

If I find myself awake at 4am ruminating about an aspect of my company or product, I remind myself that I may be taking it (and myself) a bit too seriously, and reassure myself that it can safely be tabled until tomorrow.

There's wisdom in the Serenity Prayer: "Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference."
Thank you! I’ll talk to the startup that’s hiring me soon to set up a consult with you through formal channels. Appreciate the responses here!
I have enjoyed most of Paul Graham's essays, and even been slightly influenced by a few of them, but let's not overstate his influence. We're in a real echo chamber here. Outside of a tiny tech industry bubble no one in positions of power reads those essays and they have virtually zero influence.
H-1B visa holders are tied to their sponsoring employer. Do you mean what they can do outside their H-1B employment? What other things are you interested in doing?
Hey Ron. I've enjoyed following your blogging since we crossed paths 20 years ago at Indiebuyer/Zerolag. I'm happy to hear you're doing well, and wish you the best for the next 20 years.
Quite expensive practice I must say
It seems the population using the GLP1 drugs are predisposed to pancreatitis. Causes of pancreatitis include Diabetes, obesity, heavy alcohol use. The first cause is the on label use of GLP1 drugs. The second two are off label uses for the drug. Article doesn't seem to touch coloration of these health issues and the use of the drug.
I've been trying out "write and perform an MST3K episode reviewing your previous answer" as a prompt. Have yet to get a funny answer from any model.

Older base models produce some great stuff though, at least if you're me and think RoboRosewater and dril_gpt2 are funny.
I'm just saying, this form of "Hungarian" variable names is useful, to always include the unit.

Not everything should be a type.

If all you're doing is calculating the difference between two calls to time(), it can be much more straightforward to call something "elapsed_s" or "elapsed_ms" instead of going to all the trouble of a Duration type.
full section:
"In reaffirming our heritage as a free nation, we must remember that America has always been a frontier nation. Now we must embrace the next frontier, America’s manifest destiny in the stars. I am asking Congress to fully fund the Artemis program to ensure that the next man and the first woman on the Moon will be American astronauts — (applause) — using this as a launching pad to ensure that America is the first nation to plant its flag on Mars. (Applause.)"
https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/re...
This looks really cool! Tools like Retool are great, but they tend to be yet another thing to maintain in the long run, adding to the cognitive load.

Would there be a means of limiting which services and functions each query can call manually to impose more specified guardrails? and how is the “human in the loop” thing enforced?
NodeBB v4.0.0 released, adds support for ActivityPub
lambda: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/serverless-application-model/lat...

dynamodb: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerg...

doesn't seem any harder than running any other db
I saw a working euv laser at TRW in the early 2000's.
https://www.laserfocusworld.com/lasers-sources/article/16550...
I’ve seen several blog posts trying to analyze HN data on the best time to post. However, the results are all over the place. For example, the below ones have different recommendations (weekend vs weekday).

- https://blog.rmotr.com/the-best-time-to-post-on-hacker-news-...

- https://medium.com/@mi.schaefer/what-is-the-best-time-to-pos...

But the precondition is that you’re submitting high quality content.
> Understanding how democracy, taxes, politics, resources, compounding interest, inflation, lobbying, corruption, etc and ability to connect the dots between these...

So how do you do this if you have an oracle that answers the exact question you have without any struggle? I find that the most useful things I learnt in life I bumped into after taking wrong corners while looking for something else.
Yes, assuming that you qualify, there's no waiting period but to be clear, the EB1C petition is filed by your employer, not you.
according to gedpeck, nearly everyone in Africa and Asia, and every single practicing Muslim, is a horrible person...

I said no such thing.
"I saw a dead head sticker on a Cadillac."
Someone want to remind me?, why can't China have these technologies again?
I tried this a couple weeks ago because they give you a 'freebie' run before gating the feature behind a Max subscription. It really is quite good, at least for basic conversation.

> The other thing you’ll notice about Lily is that her sassy personality really shines.

It's not sassy, Lily seems entirely bored and annoyed that she has to speak to you. It really is a curious choice and I wish they'd explain why they went this way. But I didn't find the personality off-putting at all. I just said my lines, got realistic responses, felt it worked well, and then went back to regular Duolingo exercises.
Hey Peter, been reading these threads for a while and really appreciate your support. I'm on STEM OPT and I want to keep my options open in case I don't get an H1b by the time it ends. What realistically are my options without affecting my future chances at a green card? I've heard that pathways like Day 1 CPT can lead to future I140 denials, which make me skeptical of going down that route.
I appreciate the effort but this seems really bad for both SEO and performance. My phone noticeably chugs while trying to load that simple example.
> did you have any plans what to do with that freedom?

Yes. I was going to solve really hard problems without any pointy-haired bosses standing in my way. I was specifically going to solve AI.

> So interested to learn if it was that you still had something you felt you had to prove?

It started out that way, but now I've ended up feeling like I gave it my best shot, and so I failed because I discovered my own limitations rather than any external circumstances (with the notable exception of Smart Charter). And I'm OK with that.

> what if ... you had a "Joy Experienced" (perhaps too corny) section as well.

What I find has given me the biggest dopamine rush over the years is getting something to work, especially after beating on it for a long time. And that includes small wins like fixing a bug in personal code that no one is ever going to see, or fixing something around the house, or getting something I've written on the front page of HN and seeing it well-received. The best way I can think of to characterize it is that I like to feel useful. I don't think I'm alone in that.
The amendment has another (deliberately?) vague requirement:

> All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States

Even in 1800s people argued that immigrants are not "subject to the jurisdiction thereof". And Trump is betting on this.
Ugh, I know this feeling too well. I've been pretty successful in life so far by societal standards but have always felt inferior and like I'm failing. Always. I think partly that's responsible for the drive that enabled earlier success, but it gets old. My first defense when those feelings bubble up is to remember we're all playing a game we can't win!
Nor will it help if infertility is the problem.
> My policy is to never let pipeline DSLs contain any actual logic outside orchestration for the task,

I call this “isomorphic CI” — ie: as long as you set the correct env vars, it should run identically on GitHub actions, Jenkins, your local machine, a VM etc
The European nuclear arsenal isn't for countering Russian invasion, it's for MAD. If Russia tried to invade poland, they get kicked out by Nato conventional forces instantly (and probably take Kalliningrad while they're at it). If, OTOH, France's nukes are to prevent Russia from using nukes.
The ultimate example of this is the incredibly accurate and expensive and complicated floating Advanced Inertial Reference Sphere used on the Peacekeeper ICBM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Inertial_Reference_Sp...
Same old same old. "Your criticism made me be a Nazi" is a pretty common sort of tactic. Relevant comic: https://x.com/TaboadaLucia/status/1378260183944728576
Could be a step toward formalizing stack ranked citizenship.
>> If it is not possible to give every program a finite model, that doesn't imply that language IS Turing complete. However, in practice, a Datalog-family logic programming language where some programs have infinite models is likely, in my experience, to be Turing Complete.

Thanks, yes, that makes sense. But I'm not convinced of arguments "in practice". In practice, why do we care about Turing completeness? It's not like anyone sells infinite tape. But "in practice" we end up having no idea what are the limits of this or that system, so some principled reasoning is sometimes useful... practically useful.

>> (For what it's worth, I don't know what it means for ASP to be incomplete in the sense of soundness and completeness. Incomplete relative to what other thing?)

Relative to proofs: a proof procedure is complete if, when there exists a proof of some formal statement, the procedure can always derive that proof. Consider Resolution; say A |= B; then there exists a Resolution-refutation of A ∧ ¬B (i.e. the derivation of the empty clause A ∪ ¬B ⊢ □) so Resolution is refutation-complete. As far as I understand it this is not the same as Turing completeness, which is about a system being able to compute every program a Universal Turing Machine can compute. E.g. the first order predicate calculus is Turing complete and its restriction to Horn clauses is also Turing complete, but that doesn't necessarily imply the existence of a complete proof procedure for Horn clauses- that has to be shown separately.

Or at least that's how I think about it. I might be dead wrong there so please correct me if you have a better understanding of this than me.
Computers Are Bad: Office of Secure Transportation
USA the parent of the world, grounding unruly teenagers like the PRC.
I‘m also struggling with gh actions. And none of my repos is a monorepo.
The "try-it-yourself element" was what got me. Very close to the top of the article was a simple exercise that the reader could perform themselves, and when it "clicked," it was magical. I upvoted it for this reason.

EDIT: Typo
Wink wink, nudge nudge.
Frankly, I may have serious issues with Microsoft, yet backwards compatibility is one of the few areas where there's almost nothing to criticize, and MS is almost off the deep end on the other side. You can install stuff from the 90's and it will still have the hardware drivers. It's really kind of ridiculous.

I tried compiling modern software in Visual Studio, and the number of includes for historical support was mind boggling. "Holy s*t, I think MS just added every printer for the last 30 years to my project. There's like a 1000 includes on a 5 file project. Doesn't even print." (maybe a teeny bit of criticism)
This is the only DevOps way. Abstract the build into a single step.
Can we call this the microwave paradox
Just thinking of it. 1% error rate, say 1 in 100 customers gets some wrong information. And they go to place trusting it. Just to hear that AI lied to them. Say you have 1000 or 10000 customers using system, now you potentially have 10 or 100 one star negative reviews... And this might be just answering to simple queries like a restaurant menu or opening time.
it's in Indonesia
Good thing I don't do any of those things.

I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that you came here to be snarky and tear down a straw man... one that doesn't exist.

I'm not going to bore you with my life story. But it has been an extremely bumpy ride and it's still not going well. Make what that info what you like. You'll probably say it's all my fault and I deserve it.
Accurate labeling is way way way better.
I feel like gains from running stay with you a long time also. Once I was a runner, it was so much easier to go back to running five miles easily if I ever quit and went back to it. I think there is some body and muscle memory that remains.
Yeah this is scary.
I may be looking at this too deeply, but I think this suggests that the reasoning is not always utilized when forming the final reply.

For example, IMMEDIATELY, upon it's first section of reasoning where it starts counting the letters:

> R – wait, is there another one? Let me check again. After the first R, it goes A, W, B, E, then R again, and then Y. Oh, so after E comes R, making that the second 'R', and then another R before Y? Wait, no, let me count correctly.

1. During its counting process, it repeatedly finds 3 "r"s (at positions 3, 8, and 9)

2. However, its intrinsic knowledge that "strawberry" has "two Rs" keeps overriding this direct evidence

3. This suggests there's an inherent weight given to the LLM's intrinsic knowledge that takes precedence over what it discovers through step-by-step reasoning

To me that suggests an inherent weight (unintended pun) given to its "intrinsic" knowledge, as opposed to what is presented during the reasoning.
Sure, but at this point, YC is a pretty big echo chamber. And for an individual inside the echo chamber, Paul's words can hurt more than most.
Just take a look at Panic - most of their stuff is perpetual license software, with really only Nova requiring a subscription if you want ongoing updates after the first year. They make this model work for them by providing compelling software that just works - no unnecessary feature creep, proper rebuilds on new architectures rather than lazy ports, understanding what customers actually need versus what the broader industry says is a must-have. They’re successful in spite of largely being locked to the Mac, too, proving you can find success in even niche market segments if you’re actually listening to customers and providing a competent product.

To be fair, they’ve pivoted a bit these past few years into more experimental areas - game publishing and hardware, for example - but even those experiments have bore impressive successes for a company of their size and lineage.

So yes, it’s possible, and you don’t even have to find a captive audience to find success. Just do good work while nurturing your customer base.
Snippy: A Productivity Game-Changer
Hey everyone!

I’ve been working on a Chrome extension called Snippy, and I’m so excited to share it with you all! It’s something I built to solve a problem I face every day: reusing text snippets across different websites.

Whether it’s email templates, code snippets, or just phrases I use all the time, Snippy lets me save them, sync them, and insert them anywhere in seconds. It even has AI-powered features to help me generate templates when I need a creative boost.

I’ve been using it for a while now, and it’s been a total game-changer for my workflow. If you’re someone who values efficiency or deals with repetitive tasks, I’d love for you to check it out!

Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback. Let me know if it helps you too!
Hardware first, but then their hardware isn't any better than NVidia's, so I don't see how that's a valid excuse here.

(Okay, maybe their super high end unobtanium-level GPUs are better hardware-wise. Don't know, don't care about enterprise-only hardware that is unbuyable by mere mortals.)
When the market cap rises, price of shares goes up? Do you know what a market cap is?
Show HN: Laundryroom.social – meetups without hostage holding
Hi HN,

I’m happy to share LaundryRoom.social, a free platform I built for hosting meetups. It was born out of frustration with Meetup.com's steep price hikes and their practice of holding your meetups, images, and messages hostage - deleting them if you don’t pay within a month.

The name “Laundry Room” comes from my early days in Berlin, living in a student hostel. The laundry room became a serendipitous space where I’d meet new people - random connections that often turned into lasting ones. I wanted to bring that same spirit to this project.

I wrote this as a stay-at-home-dad with a baby, so the project is still a bit rough around the edges.

For the future, I was thinking to release a "pod" kind of open source stand-alone version of it where you could host your meetup on your own hardware, but make it discoverable via laundryroom.social - I need to do more research on what standards this could be built on.

Monetization is another thing I need to consider. Hosting isn't expensive and I feel like I'm 50% there in terms of feature-completeness. So I wouldn't need a lot of income to make this work.

I’d love your thoughts, feedback, and ideas. What features would you like to see in a community-building platform?
I encourage you to expand on "In the real world, research is not a Platonic quest for objective truth" maybe by writing another article or linking what others wrote on a similar subject.

This is an incredibly common pitfall that people fall into time and again. Hell, even I am getting these vibes with all that recent hype about deep learning - despite I am no stranger to academia (in another area and some years back).
I agree with your premise that there is often an unproductive pendulum-like phenomenon in public debates where interpretations swing from one extreme to the other, making nuanced discussions difficult.

However I don't believe that PG's article meant to address the elephant, but rather was a meta-level thesis on how he sees debates being shut down by orthodoxy, and for that he does suggest what he thinks would be a possible solution.

Perhaps the thesis could have gained in being more balanced to as you say "avoid giving tacit permissions for the extremists on the other side"? On the other hand, does one always have to shield one's expressions with disclaimers and is one not free to share thoughts however raw in order to express, discuss and learn, update our beliefs?

There likely is a bigger responsibility when one has a larger audience to avoid misinterpretations, but ultimately I believe as long as there is a rational and nuanced discussion to take the good points and have a productive debate, it should be okay.

How can we create incentives to have a more nuanced discussion?
Sounds like you did, in fact, enjoy significant investment gains just by being in the market for a long time. This is by no means guaranteed to be true in the future.
expanding the swamp
> The issue is game-theoretic. There’s value in having money, absolutely, but most people end up having to chase it and never get any

We are on HN. The typical person here can achieve freedom for themselves and their family. And we should work to change the system also.

Remember that someone with 2mil can easily FIRE in America and still be closer to the destitute than the billionaires. 2mil is pretty achievable to most people on HN and we should definitely encourage each other to get there.

Vilifying small scale financial freedom is part of tall poppy syndrome and plays directly into the hands of wealthy oligarchs. The more people who think getting rich is bad, the better.

We gotta always remind each other that a millionaire is closer to us normies than they are to the billionaires.
Migrating Away from Bcachefs
I'm not often given to aesthetic pronouncements regarding code, but I have to agree that is rather ugly looking.
I don't have insight into what Elon thinks, but there's just no reason to make that sort of sign regardless of the context or history ("giving my heart" or roman or other salutes or whatever). Please don't attempt to downplay what was probably an intentional gesture, and if it wasn't intentional, simply shows how clueless he is.

I rarely comment on politics on HN but when folks start acting like Hitler, it's time to speak up and say no.
I use gitlab-ci-local to run Gitlab pipelines locally - does such a thing not exist for GitHub actions?
that would be an insult to Nazis
Totally feel this. I think all people should desire to be wealthy and to keep from being impoverished, but we should not define wealth and poverty simply in terms of our monetary wealth, or lack thereof.
People who have the love of family and friends, a clear conscience, health, their physical needs met, and thankful hearts, are far wealthier than a majority of people in this world who have a large number in their bank account.

Yet in our consumer world, people are continually thinking of their worth simply in terms of the money they have or the money they make. I’ve known many married working moms, who decided to leave the workforce and be homemakers, who constantly felt like their worth diminished because of the decrease in their wealth, not recognizing that the bond they had with their children, was growing stronger and greater, and didn’t recognize how incredibly valuable that truly was.

Note: I’m not saying working moms can’t have strong bonds with their children, I’m talking about specific situations where for them it was hindering their relationships, and their relationships improved but was at the cost of less money.
> Most of the top richest people in America are immigrants.

....because there isn't enough wealth where they're from to absorb a lot of failures.

Hence they come to the land of opportunity where there are gamblers with money to gamble.
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Lily is a teenager and she's the depressing-bored type. Like Wednesday Addams. This is quite coherent throughout the whole course. She always uses the little words possible, and when reminding you about lesson she says "do it or not I don't care"
That's good to know - thank you so much, Peter!
Thanks for this. trying it out. Can the sound quality be improved?
You cannot talk about Trump without putting him in context.

I can. I did. It doesn’t need context. It’s well documented the things he did.

The fact is, the reason why we have Trump for President again…

This is not an established fact.

… Harris fit that bill.

Harris’ moral and ethical failings are nothing compared to Trump. You can do what I did and not vote and not support either candidate. Stand up for truth and righteousness and stop trying to justify your support for a person as shitty as Trump. It’s a choice to defend shitty behavior. When you do so you end up smelling like shit.
There is nothing more French than this, except maybe Viagra laced cigarettes.