skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Specifically, because you will require vast human health records to train your model, and that model will interact with my health records, and I trust you just about as far as I can throw you as a steward of my or the public’s data. You will intentionally or accidentally expose me to risk, with no meaningful punishment.

Now as a person, of course I’m sure you are kind and responsible and we’d have a lovely lunch (and I mean that). It sounds like a fascinating problem to solve. As a group though, acting within a regulatory regime that doesn’t value privacy at all - excepting that one law from 1996 with more holes than my socks - you just can’t be trusted.

Would you claim personal responsibility for any downside risks your product introduces, in a “like for like” manner with respect to the actual damage caused? Like if a doctor relying on your product caused a death?
Hotel laundry services of any kind are unbelievably expensive in my experience. Usually US$10-30 per item, or the local equivalent, with e.g. socks and underwear being at the low end, slacks and collared shirts at the high end. Dry cleaning, of course, is a significant premium beyond that.

I thought it was just a US thing when I was younger, but I've found it to be true even in other countries.
I’ve been at several of the top tech companies and my observation is that most (though not all) the top executives do merit their positions. In terms of breadth of knowledge and perspective, depth on some number of key topics, and overall drive and impatience for inaction.

I could choose to be more cynical in order to feel better about myself, but I accept that if I was the quarterback at college, they’re the NFL.
I don't understand to what extent bots impacted Twitter's revenue or if at all that happened, after all, that only came up as one of a few tactics Elon tried using to get out of buying Twitter.

Thing is, as a public company, Twitter's revenues were public, amounting to $5.229B/yr (i.e., up to the sale). And, the New York Times reported they were doing $114M/quarter in early 2024. Annualized, that's $456M per year. So, an 87% revenue decline if we compare X's self-reported revenues against Twitter's last public disclosures before being acquired.
json5[1] is a thing.

[1] https://json5.org
I didn't ask about ID check. You make it sound like the process involves just walking in and asking for a ballot. I actually don't recall the detail from this cycle as to whether I was asked for ID. They did check out whether I was on the list and had already checked in. So they did look whether my name and address was registered to vote.
An index would be great
No, because there is no message passing in ATProto. So if you want eg. to know how many likes one of your posts has, you need to see the whole network aggregated through the firehose. No-one will push that "I like your post" message to your PDS.
This is off topic, but I recognize your username from a thread a couple weeks ago but your account is relatively new. Out of curiosity did you just find hacker news and decide to make an account, or is this a new alias and you have an older account? I guess I'd be surprised if there's still new people joining lol.
Using a list of heap allocated objects for a 2d FFT is an odd choice.
I imagine that at least one factor there is that building up is prohibited by zoning—a super brief glance at Concord's zoning map & code it looks like the only kind of residential buildings you can build anywhere without special permission are single-family.

Now there are surely people living there who would argue that this zoning has protected the shape and nature of the town they that they prefer, but the flip side of that coin is that, at $1.4m, a median home in Concord costs more than 3x that of the country overall.
In this case, EA released all the classic c&c games for free so its pretty easy to snag all the assets. I think the OpenRA launcher even has an option to download them for you.

There are 3rd party mods with their own assets too though, its a pretty neat engine.
It was so fun tossing that opening tag into a forum post and watching the whole forum disintegrate.
And ultimately every ORM allows raw SQL if you need to fallback
Because that’s the way China presents itself and that’s the way China boosters talk about China.
How Competitive Eating Works
As I noted in a separate comment, they do check whether your name and address is registered to vote.
Yeah. Isochrones are great, because they clearly show the inferiority of ANY type of public transit to cars.
These (avoid N+1, join across related tables) seem like problems that could be solved by writing the SQL by hand. Is it that much of a lift to treat the database like an API and just write a thin library/access layer around it?

ORMs seem like they are a good fit for dynamic queries, where the end user, not the programmer, are developing the models.

Maybe I’m missing the point?
A reassessment of the "hard-steps" model for the evolution of intelligent life
Ann Hodges, first known survivor of meteorite strike
I find that part interesting too. There are a lot of chicken-and-egg situations you have to solve with them. Interesting breed of challenge.
Eventually people will have enough of Little Bobby Tables and url spoofing and then query engines won’t allow string concatenation at all.

The only alternative I know of is to make a query engine that exactly emulates the String Interpolation syntax of the host language and can detect string concatenation in the inputs.

But the problem with non-builders is always going to be GraphQL and advanced search boxes, where there are any of a couple dozen possible parameters and you either build one query that returns * for every unused clause or you have a factorial number of possible queries. If you don’t use a builder then Bobby always shows up. He even shows up sometimes with a builder.
That is not going to happen without currently embargo'ed litography tech. They'd be already making more powerful GPUs if they could right now.
Currently predictive maintenance but previously have worked on simulation software development.
Not to hand, for sharing here, but just try it with something like your CV, in neat HTML. Set yourself some rules to not use classes (for the lols, not out of ideological hatred) or divs (there is always a better element).

If you can't do it, there is probably more work to do with your document structure. Also try and always have a h1-h6 heading in your articles, sections, asides and even navs, at the top. Headings should not be in a sea of paragraphs, they should be at the top of a content sectioning element, nowhere else.
> Yeah, if you're development process requires LTO you may be holding it wrong....

I spent a few months doing performance optimisation work. We wanted to see how much performance we could wring out of an algorithm & associated data structures. Each day I’d try and brainstorm new optimisations, implement them, and then A/B test the change to see how it actually affected performance. To get reliable tests, all benchmarks were run in release mode (with all optimisations - including LTO - turned on).
It's not a moral panic it's called "an extended engagement with law enforcement will be unpleasant and costly" and you probably don't want that.

And if you're wondering why it's that way, then casually observe everytime people declare that people under arrest or being tried "don't deserve..." something.
The recommended approach is to generate SQL that looks like:

SELECT \* FROM users
WHERE id = $1
AND ($2 IS NULL OR username = $2)
AND ($3 IS NULL OR age > $3)
AND ($4 IS NULL OR age < $4)

It's worth noting that this approach has significant dangers for execution performance--it creates a significant chance that you'll get a query plan that doesn't match your actual query. See: https://use-the-index-luke.com/sql/where-clause/obfuscation/... for some related material.
$1bn is revenue, not income. Income is much less.
I already knew about the whole “mathematically perfect corners” thing Apple does, so I was super curious how someone implemented that in CSS. I figured it was some sort of new CSS feature involving splines, but then I saw there was a folder called “masks” containing PNG files at 3 resolutions and I was immediately transported back to the mid-2000s.
As a white straight male, the only inkling that I may have been discriminated against in the workplace my entire life has come 100% from right wing media outlets and conservative politics. I have never been on the receiving end of any decisions that I felt that I was unfairly judged based on the color of my skin. I'm a single data point of course, but it would surprise me if this was not more common. But of course reporting the absence of discrimination isn't really newsworthy. Maybe we the un-oppressed need to stop being so beige about it or something?
What’s the value prop of your tool? I can’t tell from either your description or the README. Is it GitHub Actions UI integration inside JetBrains IDEs? Is there more that I’m missing?
Shameless plug, you can use something like pg_named_args[0] to at least have named instead of numbered arguments in your queries.

[0] https://github.com/tandemdrive/pg_named_args
What’s strange about these write-ups is they don’t mention much about what the brain does. We know it has dedicated portions for memory, from immediate needs to long-term storage. It also ties specialized areas into that memory to feed it and be checked by it.

The natural thought should be: can we do this with neural networks? And what have people made that works like the hippocampus? And, since content-addressable memories solve similar problems, can we do that with neural networks?

If you look into that, then you find that people have built these things. Now, ML engineers just need to build open-source prototypes that let more people experiment with them. I’d especially like to see them used where we can assess if they mitigate hallucinations. They might be great for synthetic, data generation, too.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1074338/

https://elifesciences.org/articles/77185

https://perso.uclouvain.be/michel.verleysen/papers/jssc89mv....

https://proceedings.mlr.press/v162/sharma22b/sharma22b.pdf

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA192716.pdf

https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(23)02448-3
The most powerful country on the planet has been taken over by oligarchs and your concern is for the investors? As someone who regularly invests in high risk stocks, you'd have to be a complete fucking idiot not to see this coming.

The investors backed Elon Musk, a man with a long history of picking fights with the SEC, breaking labor laws, and being a manchild - why would they expect something different?
I had a great time at VCF East 2024 looking at South American clones and talking to these guys: https://arjorge1987.substack.com/p/mi-experiencia-en-fotos-d...
I don't assign intent to the creation of the platform. I'm observing a change that happened to it at a point in time around when Jack left it, in the context of what else was happening
An interesting site I ran across while looking for a bit more:

https://www.bizleyart.com/gallery/prehistoric/palaeozoic/dev...
US Department of Labor to Cease and Desist All Investigation and Enforcement
Making identical updates to copies of the strings when a bug is discovered is hard though. People who act like it isn’t hard create most of the evidence that it is.
English translation: https://www-sony-jp.translate.goog/rec-media/info2/20250123....
Same thing happened to Google Gemini paper (1000+ authors) and it was described as big co promo culture (everyone wants credits). Interesting how narratives shift

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05530
But it shows OP is "one trick pony" and interviewer told him it will not be proper approach but then he still went with it.

We also had some freelancers like that and one employee who lasted 3 months - and always it was company owners who wanted to "bring help to speed things up".

Those guys ignored everything and did code the way they knew how to do it. Results were always bad and 3 months guy instead of speeding anything up trashed all team productivity for those 3 months and I guess even 2 more when we had to do the cleanup of his worst inventions.
Yes, it pulls them automatically, which is really nice.
Interesting…I literally criticized both sides equally in the comment to which you just replied.

And for what it’s worth, I am pragmatic, not a centrist, which means that sometimes I might have an unbalanced view according to folks that believe “if you are not always A you must be B”
What does this mean for us tech workers?
If you could conjure up any data or video product from thin air to make your life easier, what would it be?
And (some people here are saying that)* if they are up-to-date is because they're cheating. The copium itt is astounding.
Thank you for all this. Quite the dedication! How often do you play it?
> And if you come across such an environment and are offered a spot the consider it carefully, even if it isn't the highest paying offer.

Also be aware that places aren't always what they seem.

Several times, I've made the big decision to go to the place I want to be, with the people I want to work with and learn from.

The majority of times, great things followed. But don't get overconfident. One really bad move can wipe out all the others.

If I had to pick some guidelines from my small number of data points:

* Avoid the places where everyone has to be a kind of salesperson or evangelist, even for something that should have merit. (Manipulators and liars will thrive, and corrupt.)

* Be cautious when considering going to a magnet for the privileged and status-seeking. (I actually had a great experience at one of them, and still think well of it, but most are mixed at best.)

* Listen carefully to your mentor-types, when they hint that a move you're considering is a bad move. (They might not want to discourage you in some dream. So they might pause, have a note in their voice of concern rather than enthusiasm, and say carefully-worded advice for how to do well there. But it's advice they shouldn't have to give, unless something is very wrong with the place.)
The 'pattern matching' happens at complex layer's of abstraction, constructed out of combinations of pattern matching at prior layers in the network.

These models can and do work okay with variable names that have never occurred in the training data. Though sure, choice of variable names can have an impact on the performance of the model.

That's also true for humans, go fill a codebase with misleading variable names and watch human programmers flail. Of course, the LLM's failure modes are sometimes pretty inhuman, -- it's not a human after all.
Iridium: I use bookmarks quite a bit and like the way Chrome (and Iridium) do bookmarks.
> Some react devs literally don't even know that HTML can be rendered server side.

Sadly, many do. Only later do they realize it is orders of magnitude slower than rendering a template and more cpu intensive. Combine that with the fact that node.js prefers to have an IO heavy workload, but instead we get a cpu heavy one.

React is fine, but SSR has a long way to go before it is “good”.
I give it 3 years before it becomes a reality, you will remember my comment first time it happens.

But this kind of answers make me wonder, what do you exactly think war is?
Immutability Changes Everything (2016) [pdf]
What do you guys think war is?
I suppose it depends somewhat on why you're there and how well you can work in an ambient social environment. Mind you, I don't really disagree but, if I'm focused on a computer screen, I'm not sure how schlepping my laptop to a random coffeeshop is that different from being in my hotel room.
I know people (rightfully) loved them for the gameplay (I was more of a WC2 and SC player), but my favourites were the videos in RA3 with Tim Curry et al. It was just the right type of corny
One of the best RTS out there. I go there every night to get my ass kicked once or twice before bed.

I highly recommend it.
> I'm no city planner, but I would definitely connect the Amrtak station with the University of Arizona and on the other end make it reach the edge of downtown.

I went to U. of A. and have absolutely never even heard of any student ever needing to go to the Amtrak station, for any reason. Not trying to be rude, but that smells like unthinkingly-applied urbanist ideology — thinking “trains are cool” and working backwards from there.

But sure, people do go to that area for nightlife, so let’s assume you said something like “Hotel Congress” instead of “the Amtrak station”. Still, that’s less than 3km from campus — even if there were no transit options, you could bike, walk, take a rental scooter or an uber.

But if none of those options work, fear not, there is already a streetcar that basically covers exactly your proposed route: https://www.suntran.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Sun-Link-... . So why would it make sense to spend a giant sum on a subway to replicate the streetcar over this tiny area?

> The rest of the city is really spread out with all those detached houses, so I'm out of ideas

That’s my point. Your claim that any 500k city could benefit from a subway is wildly over-general. It entirely depends on the type of city.
Not an Apple product user so TIL Apple's rounded corner are different than usual rounded corner using CSS. I'm going to guess this is using CSS's clip-path!
> To be clear, Character AI’s counsel isn’t asserting the company’s First Amendment rights. Rather, the motion argues that Character AI’s users would have their First Amendment rights violated should the lawsuit against the platform succeed.
I wouldn’t exactly claim him credible in anything competition / OpenAI related.

He says stuff that’s wrong all the time with extreme certainty.
Making the Longest-Distance Radio Contact Possible
Whitespace works better in the context of statically typed functional programming, I’ll give you that!
Related:

Immutability Changes Everything (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27640308 - June 2021 (94 comments)

Immutability Changes Everything - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10953645 - Jan 2016 (4 comments)

Immutability Changes Everything [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8955130 - Jan 2015 (25 comments)

(Reposts are fine after a year or so; links to past threads are just to satisfy extra-curious readers)
I don’t know if it’s still true but some databases used to be able to process prepared statements more efficiently. We ran into a bottleneck with Oracle 9i where it could only execute queries currently in the query cache. Someone fucked up our query builder so a bunch of concurrent requests weren’t using the same prepared statement and should have been.

Which I specifically told him not to do.
I can recommend the RTS OpenHV, built on the OpenRA engine. https://www.openhv.net/
That was so nice about the og though, you have to wait so you just spend the time building some technically useless but nice looking stuff. Fast forward kind of ruins that.
> chatgpt censors much more than deepseek does

This is an outrageous claim with no evidence, as if there was any equivalence between government enforced propaganda and anything else. Look at the system prompts for DeepSeek and it’s even more clear.

Also: fine tuning is not relevant when what is deployed at scale brainwashes the masses through false and misleading responses.
I searched Actionate in the Goland and Pycharm plugins Marketplace and can’t find it.

Edit: Nevermind, this this looks to be a deficiency of the Jetbrains search. It seems it would rank similar results like “GitHub Actions Manager” with a lot of downloads (280k) over an exact match like “Actionate” with 10 downloads.

If you scroll down to the 11th result for “Actionate” you will find it.
This might interest you (RA2 in the webbrowser) https://game.chronodivide.com/
Wasn't this one of those "forbidden" conspiracy theories, censored from most social media, while most people (here too) cheered for "fighting misinformation" with censorship?
It's a state of being emotionally exposed in way that includes uncertainty. Like sharing emotions when you're unsure how the other person will respond. In this case, it might mean opening up more to an acquaintance as a way to develop a friendship but being unsure how they would receive that or reciprocate.
Absolutely, governments should work for the people. Sometimes in order to do more for someone, you do less for them. There's a balance. Sometimes what you or the country needs is not what you want.

A lot of people don't necessarily want us spending a lot on military and defense, but we need to. By spending on it, we maintain the private industries even in times of relative peace so that when we do need them they're still there and we don't have to build them up from scratch again. It also becomes an expected necessary cost, so any other initiatives we try to fund have to contend with that part of the budget already being spent. This way we don't accidentally tie up what used to be military funding in all kinds of other programs so that not only do you have to rebuild production, but you have to sort out the financial problems too.

Governments make all kinds of decisions based on calculations from analysts, politicians, geopoliticians and so on. What people want is a factor, but not necessarily the most important one.

With our government shutdowns, congress and the president both have to agree on where to appropriate funds and how much funding to appropriate for the government. This funding has to occur, because there are critical programs that everyone agrees on, so there's actual pressure to get it passed. At the same time, there are other things that different representatives want to get funded or programs they disagree about and they'll leverage the pressure to appropriate funds before a shutdown or to shorten a shutdown in order to squeeze out decisions that are normally delayed/ignored.

That said, there is a critical culture in the US around hassling the government and not treating it as your friend. The government may work for you, but it is not your friend. Governments are bears. Do not feed the bears. Respect them, accepting their co-existence and the value they offer in an ecosystem, sure. Just don't train the bears to come to you when they're hungry, because some day you'll find that it's not a good idea to have a hungry bear in front of you.

Even though this is historically true and deeply wise, people find themselves steadily expanding the government despite the government being in debt. We also get people in congress that will vote no on almost anything, because they believe in small government with limited power and are concerned every time it expands.

So the shutdowns kind of happen as they haggle over these kinds of issues.
Recent and related:

Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42797260 - Jan 2025 (319 comments)
(Also, please don't put Show HN in a title unless it's your personal project! See https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html for more)
Plenty of criticisms of mass immigration, but it can hardly be blamed for this, that's insane.
Meta is in full panic last I heard. They have amassed a collection of pseudo experts there to collect their checks. Yet, Zuck wants to keep burning money on mediocrity. I’ve yet to see anything of value in terms products out of Meta.
FOSS: https://github.com/rclone/rclone

Paid: https://www.multcloud.com/
Since we're back in the Conflict of Interest years, I'd note that DoL is also involved in the applicability of work visas, not just H1-B that most tech workers are familiar with, but also H2-B visas that used for "temporary non-agricultural workers", such as servers and cooks at the President's private companies.