skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The definition listed online in dictionaries reads as though it was defined by someone who did not really know what “doom scrolling” was - they understood what “doom” and “scrolling” were independently, so they made the claim that the “doom” in doom scrolling had to do with the themes and tone of the content, where in my experience online the “doom” in doom scrolling actually represents then endless and mindless consumption of vapid content. Existing in a state of mindless repetitive dopamine scrolls equivalent with being “doomed”, the stagnation of other pursuits for the nothingness of scrolling, I could go on. This is all my opinion of course.

I think the proper definition for doom scrolling has been mentioned multiple times by others in this thread and it would be something like:

Rapid consumption of mobile short form content for extended periods of time, often with no end goal in mind.

Others have done better than me, but that’s my two cents.
How does that contradict what I wrote?
people who voted for trump is not going to change their mind based on evidence. They're essentially voting on faith, it's almost like a religion.
I sure hope they make some progress because current treatment seems pretty archaic. My wife recently went through chemo and rad.

I'm thankful that I was able to go to her treatments, because the first chemo. Shortly after it started, I pointed out that she was really flush and had started "breathing funny" (kind of repeatedly sighing). She hadn't noticed, but decided to pull the "oh shit string". A couple minutes later 8 nurses were in the room with a crash cart, working feverishly while one nurse kept taking her BP and calling out smaller and smaller numbers until it stopped registering. Meanwhile, I'm stuck in a chair in the corner, trying not to be in the way, and coming to terms that I might be going home alone. Which, thankfully, I did not.

Cancer is bullshit.
> "The hiring freeze is governmentwide, whereas a pause on communications and travel appears to be limited to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), NIH’s parent agency. Such pauses are not unprecedented when a new administration comes in."
COPT cardinal optimizer,
Optverse from Huawei,
MindOpt from Alibaba
I can't imagine getting an engineering job at an engineering company and asking them if I'd be allowed to create an opensource IDE that would never be a sold product. I can barely even get allowed time to write SRE tooling to improve our own engineers lives.

Some C-levels newphew into computers and need a school project or something?
Surely, Trump can just preemptive pardon any App Store that breaks or will-break the law?
Interesting theory -- maybe trying to diluting/confusing the technology market with alternatives that phone home [to the LLM] with your content.

I just had to talk someone I know out of using RedNote as the TikTok shutdown loomed last week -- they had ZERO IDEA about its provenance. Unless you're paying attention, it's actually not clear what's what.
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-gives-gun-drug-age...
Re:Optics, I agree, but I think they would be counterweighted by the dimension of the issue fixed.

To put a hypothetical example, if I fix a life threatening electrical or structural issue in a children's hospital unsolicited, whatever hit to my reputation I take by charging for unsolicited work, is dwarved and possible restored and reversed by the gravity of the issue fixed and the consquences avoided.

Of course this is contingent on whether the value was actually provided and whether it is provable.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/former-fbi-informa...
https://archive.ph/fs0Fz
As someone who has worked at a few of the FAANGs, having thrift/grpc is a godsend for internal service routing, but a lot of the complexity is managed by teams building the libraries, creating the service discovery layers, doing the routing etc. But using an RPC protocol enables those things to happen on a much greater scale and speed than you could ever do with your typical JSON/REST service. I've also never seen a REST API that didn't leak verbs. If I need to build a backend service mesh or wire two local services together via an networked stream, I will always reach for grpc.

That said, I absolutely would not use grpc for anything customer or web facing. RPC is powerful because it locks you into a lot of decisions and gives you "the one way". REST is far superior when you have many different clients with different technology stacks trying to use your service.
Correct, I wasn't critiquing gRPC. I was critiquing a type of person who might push for gRPC. That developer probably thought of it as a novelty and made up reasons to use it. It was a big hassle that added to that teams workload with no upside.
Raindrops in New York, California and Mississippi are indeed not responsible for floods in Arizona and Pennsylvania.
I’ll have what they’re having /s
Can confirm https://github.com/jonls/redshift works great; been using it for years.
to add color, here's the text on the popup on android the day it was back:

Welcome back!

Thanks for your patience and support. As a result of President Trump's efforts, TikTok is back in the U.S.!

You can continue to create, share, and discover all the things you love on TikTok.
Your point is true but it is too narrow. A similar argument was bandied about regarding the CPU clock which hit a wall which was defeated with multi-cores and parallelization. The atom wall you are talking about is crushed with 3D semiconductors (hybrid bonding, wafer to wafer..., HBM), wafer scale CPUs like Cerebras, larger clusters, faster networking... Incidentally, massive parallelization suits AI just fine. Do you seriously think that computing power will stop growing? Ever?
At the point you actually want a secession movement people aren't worried about the optics of it. It's not happening because the actual cost of secession, civil war and everything else is staggering. These are one way, permanent changes where a large number of the agitators will not live to see the better world.

It's compromise, carnage and collateral damage. Doing anything else is a better option 100% of the time.

Nobody's going to hear "we're seceding because we're sick of dying from lack of healthcare" and think "ooh, I wonder if it's secretly about slavery?"
There are many use cases:

- Download games from Steam
- Download or upload AI models and datasets from Huggingface and similar
- Any kind of remote work where you are regularly working with multi GB files

A little server I just put inside my apartment has dual 10Gb/s ethernet ports.
Fujifilm's new hybrid instant camera features its widest lens yet
Physical barrier could simply be getting a timed K-safe lock box an sticking your smartphone inside it for a configured amount of time
I was unfortunate enough to have a job that gave me Kaiser healthcare. My job was not my only source of income. Everything about the experience of Kaiser sucked so much that I often paid out of pocket to go to other orgs.

Example: I transferred my prescriptions to Kaiser, walked in and saw the dozens of people standing in line, and immediately transferred them back to CVS (where Kaiser doesn’t apply). They called me before I got home with my scripts ready for pickup. I walked in and it was one of the rare moments when no one was in line. But even when they’re busy, I’ve not seen more than ~10 people and mostly more like 1-3.

Kaiser sucks. It’s the worst healthcare system I’ve had to deal with in terms of my effort vs my satisfaction. I’m very happy to work a job that lets me choose again so that I can go where I please.
See, now that seems like a pretty cool use case, I’m glad to hear this technique is serving you well! I guess it’s cases like these—where I’d be inclined to do the reverse, taking “20-year-old dialog” and asking Claude to give it to me straight—where the promise of LLM personalization shines…

I suspect the downvotes have less to do with your good intentions here, and more a mix of confusion over the context and HN’s hostility toward LLM content (which tends to have a low effort-to-quantity ratio).

Personally, I probably would have reacted more positively if you’d introduced your original comment with this explanation (although I’d suggest just leaving a link to the LLM conversation rather than pasting the whole thing).

Thank you for engaging on it!

But yeah, to me the LLM version strips out the most entertaining part: the pictures of these crazy things! Who but an autocrat could look at those and think “good idea”…
This actually makes sense and mimics the results I got doing experiments with flashed high-intensity UVC for sterilizing surfaces a few years back. You don't really need to leave UVC going for a couple of minutes. Two high-intensity pulses similar to what a camera flash would do for an exposure does the trick, assuming you put enough power per square millimeter down on the surface. Obviously I wouldn't try that on important living tissues, but microorganisms certainly don't survive what amounts to a photonic nuclear blast.
I just want to thank you for wireshark. I use it almost every day when I'm troubleshooting why this or that piece of industrial controls hardware springs a leak in its bit plumbing.

You have the rare distinction of developing a tool that will probably outlive us all. So, thanks!
Raw compute power won't make AGI happen.
I'm with you. Tailwind would be great if it could be SASS'd but Tailwind is a post processor and it would be silly to build a post-post processor just to make tailwind reusable. It simply isn't a good tool for large enterprise applications. Toys, home projects, sure. But then, why learn CSS twice for occasional use? Until they solve the post processor problem, I'll stick with bootstrap. But if they do, I would definitely switch. That would be the best of both worlds.
I would find this useful as long as there is a way to filter out all 5 stars.
It would be interesting to see the opposite of this; which papers are really interesting and look useful, but did not end up having a significant impact?
You both agree: when he writes ‘format of your URLs,’ he literally means the format of the URLs, not the format of the resources. Like you, I clicked on the article expecting yet another blogger who doesn’t understand REST but it appears this author has at least some basic knowledge of the concepts. Good for him!

I like gRPC too, and honestly for a commercial project it is pretty compelling. But for a personal or idealistic project I think that REST is preferable.
Not to take anything away from this amazing achievement, but if you want a similar open-source laptop, also based on an RK3588, that will actually be manufactured and sold, check out the MNT Reform Next: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next
Trump just mandated a legally binding and fundamental shift from equity-based hiring (eg: affirmative action, DEI, et al.) back to merit-based.

This by its very nature necessitates a temporary freeze on all human resources activites pending reviews to see if any as they currently stand violate equal opportunity guarantees and other requirements based on objective factors.

Personally, and I say this as a minority (Japanese-American male), I 300% approve of all this. People must be hired based on their character and capability, not because they happened to be born with the right skin color or sexual organs.
You can't pardon future actions.
Divvy Homes, Once Valued at $2B, Is Sold for Half That Price
The magic words I think are “occupational multifocals”, which have a small area at the top for distance vision and the remaining 75% set for whatever your occupation is. You need to be very specific on the distance setting
https://archive.ph/fKgk2
Real REST is a very, very small minority.

Fake REST (i.e., JSON RPC) is really ridiculously common.
I put wads of toenail clippings like ))))) in my Lisp code.

Didn't work; still at it, 25 years and counting.
What does America or even Trump have to gain by installing a dictatorship? Assuming he even could, which is probably worth arguing. He is already the most powerful executive of the most powerful (by far, it is not close) and future-proof (again, by far) nation on Earth. His actions in my view are more aligned with getting America the best deal ahead of whatever unfavorable population and trade collapses await the world in the next few decades. As an American, I only half expect democracy to survive putting my cohort (millennials) through retirement. Industrialization has left the world on a pretty bleak course, with America most equipped to weather it. Most of the moves I see the current administration readying itself for are ones to strengthen our already dominant geopolitical advantages worldwide. Hard to do that if you have a civil war to manage on top of it.
> the $47.4B is unaccounted for in coloquial dialog, is it not?

Almost all of it is research grants for biomedical research, with priorities set by congress, e.g. they set what specific diseases, etc. should be worked on. This represents more than half of all funding for academic scientific research in the USA.

> Unless, there's a more rampant amount of fragility in the well paid health community?

Most of this work is done by graduate students and postdocs, which are paid very little. Traveling to conferences is part of doing their job, but they generally couldn't afford to pay for it themselves. They are already required to keep travel expenses down to the point where the hotels are often dirty and unsafe- usually whatever is cheapest in town.

Grad students in the USA currently make about $34k/year and postdocs (with PhDs) about $60k/year in the USA. They're usually in high cost of living urban areas, and in practice, they're often expected to work 60-80 hour weeks if they want to produce enough to remain in academia. This works out to less than minimum wage in the places they are generally located.

When I was a graduate student, I made just enough to rent a single bedroom in a large group house full of strangers, and as a postdoc I had a 4 hour round trip daily commute to get to someplace I could afford to live.
> GraphQL is even better

just a casual sentence at the end? How about no. It's in the name, a query-oriented API, useless if you don't need flexible queries.

Why don't you address the problem they talked about, what is the cli tool I can use to test grpc, what about gui client?
Bytedance created all internal tools by themselves. Personally I'd definitely love to join such a company if I'm in that tooling team. Whether they are being used by outsiders is irrelevant because I already bagged the skills.
Given Broadcom’s handling of acquired products like VMWare and VMC, and its treatment of its paying customers, I have lost trust in any open-source project backed by them.
Canon has developed a 410-megapixel full-frame sensor
Also, but rarely:

Some engineer wants it bad enough that they just build it -or some version of it- and then some executive gives the go-ahead to invest more into it.

At the end of the day, ideas are just ideas. Execution is everything.
I'm curious why you think we're close to an amendment being passable? 2/3rds Senate and 3/4th of the states does feel impossible for anything with even a slightly partisan angle to it?
How does one even write an API client against a REST API that only publishes the initial entry point? in particular, how should the client discover the resources that can be manipulated by the API or the request/response models?
Surprised the Bitcoin paper isn't on here.
Why not just list chromosomes?

I mean, descriptive information on an ID isn't used for like tying someones appearance to their name or anything, right?

So it makes sense for the news to say something like "the police are searching for a female suspect 5'9" " despite them looking similar to the person in rpearl's example.

That description will really help the public identify or be on the look out for that female, right?
I have been happy with my pepper mill with a Crushgrind mechanism.

(The mill happens to be from Normann Copenhagen but Crushgrind supplies mechanisms to a number of pepper mill manufacturers as well as selling their own.)
Siri home-pod mini “Hey Siri- set alarm for…” or “Hey Siri- what is the time”. Added benefit of now glowing LED in your bedroom and you can play relaxing sleep sounds if needed.
I'm okay with the software being made open to the public. I think ultimately it's good for society as a whole. The US is welcome to do the same (I.E. actually opening OpenAI) but I don't think the drawbacks of AI are mitigated by making it more profitable to the American establishment.
> a few classes

You must be working with very good product owners then. The ones I've worked with love to specify the hell out of every possible detail. Like a web form is their personal HGTV renovation. I tried tailwind once and the classes ended up being an order of magnitude more than the markup. It got hard to read, quickly.
Are you planing to translate it into English? Post in other languages are usually ignored or flagged. Also, the English market is big.

Can I skip the tutorial? I prefer to wander around the site, and look at the tutorial later.

I think the video is too fast. It shows what I'd like to see, but the speed is too high.
My guess is what happening is influenced by and patterned after the Musk's Twitter initial period - getting rid of what Musk didn't like from the start, review and cuts/layoffs of what didn't pass the review.

With all the due respect to the science having been done at/with NIH, one can suspect that the bureaucracy there is out of control similar to what we see at academia. The huge sign that the things got really rotten is that NIH couldn't own its work in Wuhan on the coronavirus, and that Fauci needed preemptive pardon. So some dead tissue debriding seems to be in order.
It depends on the audience and context. If it's a stakeholder or key person, or you're in mixed company with people on various levels on the totem pole, then you need a few phrases grease the skids, placate feelings, and get the meeting participants' attention back to focusing on the most important issues.

You often still need people to feel like their ideas are being considered so they don't just shut down and contribute nothing in future meetings, or consider you to be railroading every meeting.

Granted, after the meeting, I'll often joking-but-only-serious point out "Look, our backlog is really long -- let's be honest, we're not going to revisit <that> for months at this rate, so I hope you realize it's not a priority and probably won't be unless the priority changes. If we need it on a shorter timeline, talk to <personName>."

I have very occasionally used hard-shutdowns of ideas or requests, but I think I have only used it when an idea was threatening to balloon the scope far beyond any hope of success. Maybe twice in the last few years.

("No, I'm not going to implement it that way -- it's needlessly complicated" or "I will not discuss timelines for phase 2 of this project until phase 1 is complete -- let's get back to closing out the outstanding issues with phase 1.")

There's a time to be frank, and other times you need to smile and gently redirect just to get things moving again before you waste an hour sparring or circling an endless unresolved debate.
Which has nothing to do with the hard evidence on Hunter's laptop
If you think that file system is a viable approach to web site, how would implement Hacker News? Hacker News is one of the old-school static-rendered sites. It may not even use a database.

But it needs to be dynamic. The ordering on the front page is dynamic. The vote counts are dynamic. What does the voting? These are all easier to have a database with values that query and then render the page.

The other issue adding new content. How would someone post a comment? How and where does it get written? How do you make sure they write to right place? How do you make it easy to use as typing in box and hitting button?

Dynamic responses are the special sauce of the web, they are why it is a success. Without it, it would be good-looking Gopher.
Protobufs vs. JSON are orthogonal to REST vs. RPC: you can have REST where the representations are protobufs or JSON objects; you can have RPC where the requests and responses are protobufs or JSON objects.
There you go trying to apply logic to where it is not welcomed. The people that try to squash science and promote whatever notions they prefer do not care about descriptive vs prescriptive. They will push their agenda regardless of facts. It just happens the periodic table doesn't threaten their agenda. These are the same types that threaten to jail those that disagree with them.
> The author of the press release is under the mistaken belief that unchanged broadband pricing is a good thing.

It kind of is.

In a reasonably competitive ISP market, I'd expect the plans to slowly increase in price over time and significantly increase in speed over time. Keeping the basic tier at $70 is a good thing, even without a speed change. Gigabit is fast enough to still be solid in another 13 years.
Damn that's spot on. Thank you for sharing! Glad to know I'm not the only one struggling with this at a mature age.
Eh, I make tooling for a living. It sucks to have nobody using your tools even if they were fun to make. You spend months/years putting something out there that you think will really benefit a company/team/foss and it goes nowhere. It's like painting a painting you love and it getting thrown in an attic.
Platforms need to be vetted to make sure they're not going to damage the brand. No one is posting on 4chan, because the negative attention would outweigh the positives. Companies have even banned advertising networks if their ads appeared next to content that would change people's view of the brand.
> economic gain to be had

Humans have one or two incentives beyond economics.

> assuming there are competing humans left

Indeed, one possible scenario is zero humans left.
It's always interesting to read these discussions from a misdeveloped country like Australia.

Where symmetric broadband is a pipe dream. And the lived reality in the city is 100Mps down and something like 17Mbps up. I mean it still works for everything. But in comparison other people are living in some kind of techno utopia.

At least our banking system is modern so we can pay for our shitty internet without having to fax cheques /s
wish him good luck! :D
You'll see way more non-locals working in konbinis than ever before. If you talk to locals outside of the major metro areas, they're kinda upset, but from what I've gathered, they started to accept the reality somewhat.

Yes, Japan has been making it much easier to immigrate in the recent years, you can ask anyone who lives here, especially recent immigrants. Government has been carving out special exclusions (like truck drivers) when the large businesses can't attract workers.
So many false equivalences and assumptions in these few sentences alone lol. Why don't we wait at least a few months before deciding if their actions are evil or not.
NIH-funded research generates IP owned by the university that contracted with the NIH to do the work. This is due to Bayh-Dole (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act).
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, because every time I try to use AI for any of my projects - including the "better" Anthropic and OpenAI models, I get terribly written, buggy code that has nothing to do with the domain or question. Unless I'm feeding it actual softball, single function questions it adds almost no value to my dev cycle. Mind you, all of this terrible code also costs a ton in tokens.

It's sad because I have seen some truly remarkable progress in LLMs, but I feel like we aren't allowed to be honest anymore that LLMs aren't going to replace programmers or moderate our expectations.