skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Architects have to build to codes and have their plans signed off by an engineer that is very much liable for the basic safety of the structure.

I’m a CFO and the CPA credential helps a whole industry of accountants avoid outright shenanigans that would take place if we could report financials the way sales, marketing and some others would prefer. We also have a whole layer of audits to help make sure what we say is true, is true.

It’s obviously not perfect and There’s always going to be bad actors but having industry guardrails does help a lot more than is obvious. This is one of those things we’re the absence of data is the data. The fact it’s pretty rare for a skyscraper to structurally fail and Enron type financial fraud situations are relatively rare. It’s hard to imagine how much things around us would be worse without checks and balances.

As for pharma example, I think it’s a good point but also a bit of a case study in where this should have worked but didn’t. Those sometimes are necessary things. Just like how originally technologists thought social media was beneficial to society, it could perhaps be revisited with a different opinion with a different perspective with benefit of hindsight. It’s pretty subjective and opinionated but I personally think R&D should be pretty loose. In pharma, you have to be pretty open minded as it seems sometimes things are discovered while in search of something else. The business of pharma, the sales people pushing those addictive pain meds, should be able to push them (with an expectation of presenting accurate data of research/side effects/etc). Prescribing physicians are ultimately the best check. Even when lied to about addiction stats, they didn’t seem to perform the appropriate check/balance as their profession would normally have done and sound alarms / stop prescribing. Instead, as a whole, they leaned into the idea that pain should be more aggressively managed than it has been in the past. They were all very slow to act even when addiction had been identified as a problem. The confluence of all these things has caused the industry to become introspective and change some things in hopes to avoid a similar repeat. Just like Enron did for finance and household accident data drives improving building guidelines. Software remains the Wild West without something similar in place.

To circle back to the CPA example as that’s what I’m most familiar with, it doesn’t tell me not to work in a particular industry. Like, private prisons need accountants. But it tells me what type of accounting practices are acceptable. I’d imagine a similar example for the context of this topic, is you wouldn’t be told not to work for an adtech company but in that employment you would be able to say certain types of data sharing is decidedly inappropriate according to your industry standards and you would be putting your career in jeopardy by building a feature sales requested. Furthermore you have things like whistleblowing hotlines and eventually other companies that couldn’t work with your adtech company because doing so would be considered an ethics violation on their part. Etc etc.
> You don’t have to use pronouns if you don’t want to.

I'm pretty certain that that is not true. Language policing was a big problem - "use the wrong pronoun and lose your job" is not a meaningful choice to many people.
What is the SotA OSS for face tracking these days? I've never been able to make face tracking work without having alignment issues during movement.
You will never generate enough money from information about your consumption to fund your consumption. Obviously there's other data, but you get the point.
> The best barometer I found so far was to set up a small collection of files making up a tiny app and then have candidates debug it with me.

This is a great one! I wish more companies tried that.
Hot take: this is bad architecture.

The solution seems to be solving for the simplest use case (internal stateless functions) rather than the most complex use case (external state-impactful functions).

Furthermore, the words used aren't really what they should be talking about.

>> Because workflows are just Python functions, the thread can restart a workflow by simply calling the workflow function with its original inputs and ID, retrieved from Postgres.

>> For this model to work, we have to make one assumption: workflow functions must be deterministic.

Yes, "deterministic"... because all state modification is aligned to ensure that.

If instead of a single print() the function/step had 2 print()'s, the state leaks and the abstraction explodes.

The right abstraction here is probably something more functional / rust-like, where external state modifications sections are explicitly decorated (either automatically or by a developer).
It’s not like we haven’t already had experience with his actions. We went through that discovery process from 2016-2020 already
Both North Korea and South Korea use the Korean language. So when the language is set to the Korean language do you hide the North Korean flag or the South Korean flag?
But... how does it work? The documentation is really confusing . How to make it aware of code file and project structure?
Another fun biomass-related fact: spiders eat more annually than the weight of all human adults [0].

[0] https://newatlas.com/worlds-spiders-insects-tons/48403/
The more I read about these Zizians, the more I'm reminded of Final Fantasy House, whose members had been led to believe, or at least go along with, the idea that they were spiritual manifestations of Final Fantasy VII characters, and were manipulated and exploited by the house's dysfunctional leader, "Jenova":

http://www.demon-sushi.com/warning/

But with deadly consequences in the Zizians' case.
St. Louis is similar: you can walk from downtown to empty grass-filled blocks in about fifteen minutes.

My favorite story is the origin of the City Museum (which, shoutout to the City Museum, it's awesome). The City Museum building is in a former factory, it's about 11 stories tall and fills a city block. It's on the edge of downtown about a dozen blocks from the Arch. The artist behind the museum bought the building in the '90s for something like $700,000. That's a whole-ass industrial building, walkable from anywhere in downtown St. Louis, for under a million dollars.
The amount of unneccessary, self-imposed damage being done to the US right now is absolutely staggering.
The briefing on the Act talks about the risk of overly broad definitions. Why don't you just engage in good faith? What's the point of all this performative "oh this is making me so tired"?
Insurance premium increases have killed a lot of the housing cost advantage that Florida used to have.
The one that stands out most to me is that it doesn't bundle the AI features with the editor. This is a standalone application that runs on the side of your editor/tools of choice.
The 'damage' they can do is tax their own people. It will harm them as much or more than the US. Totally nonsensical Jonestown massacre economics.
I'm not entirely sure you picked the best example because the Democrats aren't pushing for that to be a right at all. It's certainly true that Republicans bought into the hysteria, my home state passed a bill banning it despite it having never once occurred and such a thing already going against the standards of care.

But Constitutional Carry does allow for anyone who can legally acquire a gun to be armed if they choose. I honestly don't mind this since basically anyone can get a concealed carry permit already and these bills just remove the paperwork and fees. I would love to see annual car registration done away with in the same manner, pointless busywork.

So if you're doing a bit on a comedy show or news program that's "what does $bill maximally allow for" then you do get everyone is armed in public without a permit (which again is fine I don't know why people care, this could already happen right now) but you don't get "every child gets a sex change."
https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/1977

More recently deepseek 2 had a space after the assistant turn, causing issues with output quality and language https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1dko6rp/if_your...
GitHub sponsor is donations in long term for open source projects. In this platform the repository ownership isn't transferred, and seller gets paid for every collaborator added and forked.
He went to jail for stealing someone's identity, but it was his all along
Firstly, there are many tiny subcultures that by definition you will not know about if you are not part of them. Secondly, I think that there is a hidden assumption in western audience that sub\counter culture are universally good, So when we see negative ones they do not register as counter cultures.
The Man-o-sphere, N-th level gender advocates, Fascists, National Purity, Marxists, Libertarians. If anything there is so much fragmentation that we have fractured to endless stream of sub cultures that can no longer talk to each other. There is no longer any cultural center to even deviate from when everyone lives in a personalized media landscape.
Weather is a thing, along with infrastructure.
You don’t understand international economics apparently. Take care.
Even Old New York used to be call New Amsterdam..
How do you know what your management consider of prominence and your version of prominence is the same? Do all managers even align in same definition of prominence?
> For somebody who knows their stuff it'll have zero impact

I just tried and it's: hard.
It feels like being ask to keep one's breath like writing something.

I need to focus too much on keeping my eyes closed, I don't have enough bandwith left to thing about anything relevant.
Gift. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/iowa-identity-theft-se...
OpenAI: Out of Ideas
Accelerating Python & NumPy up to 900x with Codon
Sounds like an old-school Google interview question
A Malloc Tutorial [pdf]
This number doesn't surprise me. I live within the Arctic circle and there are a lot of wood ants [0] in my area. Among the various reasons wood ants are fascinating (aphid farming, formic acid spitting/squirting) is that they live in very large mounds that can reach several feet high.

Each of these mounds are estimated to have a population ranging from 100,000 to over one million and there can be dozens of them within a 100m × 100m square. I imagine it similar to the state of New York full of NYCs, just a few miles between each. A Finnish study found that these mounds can be connected into super-colonies which span kilometers. [1]

I have also lived in California and have experienced red ants beginning to stake out territory near or in my home. Remember that they are not there just because of the food sources, but in spite of us making the terrain otherwise utterly inhospitable to them with pavement, insecticide, diatomaceous earth, and all of that. And still they can be incredibly difficult to get rid of.

The way they operate as a colony makes them very interesting. I can see why so many people have caught the ant-fascination bug.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formica

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27859791/
They are still consuming less natural resources and someone is sharing in their wealth. I don't see the problem here.
Asking experienced engineers to do a coding test is stupid and will only give you candidates that can't think for themselves.
These are not the same people, obviously.
Nice to see a principled stand by a regional leader. I've seen people (e.g. Shopify's CEO) complain that Canada should be more compliant to the U.S.'s demands. But that implies there is something reasonable to be complaint to [0]. The amount of fentanyl and illegal immigrants that cross over from Canada is relatively minuscule, not any more egregious than the traffic of illegal guns from the U.S. It's absolute insanity start a trade war with our closest and oldest ally.

[0] https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-pr...
If a presidential aide ordered USAID staffers to not go to work and physically locked them out, it would violate multiple federal laws and protections. Here’s why:

1. USAID Employees Have Legal Employment Protections
USAID employees—both civil servants and Foreign Service officers—are protected by federal employment laws. A presidential aide cannot simply tell them to stop working without a legal order, such as an official reorganization approved by Congress or a government shutdown following a funding lapse.

Under Title 5 of the U.S. Code, federal employees cannot be arbitrarily removed or prevented from performing their duties.
The Anti-Deficiency Act (31 U.S.C. § 1341) prohibits government officials from unilaterally stopping agency operations without congressional authorization.
2. Locking USAID Buildings Would Violate Security & Property Laws
Physically locking the doors to prevent USAID employees from entering their offices would likely violate:

18 U.S.C. § 371 (Conspiracy to defraud the U.S. Government) if it were done to obstruct lawful government operations.
18 U.S.C. § 1361 (Willful injury of government property) if it involved unlawful restriction of access to a federal facility.
Federal Continuity Directives require that government agencies maintain essential functions even in emergencies.
3. Presidential Authority Has Limits
The President does not have unilateral authority to suspend an entire federal agency’s operations without following proper legal processes.
Only Congress can permanently dissolve an agency like USAID by repealing its statutory mandate.
Even if a president wanted to reorganize or defund USAID, they would need to work through legal channels—such as submitting a restructuring plan to Congress.
What Could Happen If Someone Tried This?
If an aide illegally ordered staffers to stop working and locked the doors, several things could happen:

Congressional & Legal Challenges – USAID officials or Congress could sue, arguing the action was unlawful.
Federal Court Intervention – A court could issue an injunction blocking the order.
Potential Criminal Charges – Any official involved in obstructing a federal agency’s work could face legal consequences.
Historical Precedents
Trump’s 2018-2019 Government Shutdown: While federal agencies, including USAID, were partially shut down due to funding lapses, career employees were still required to follow proper procedures.
Nixon’s Attempt to Defund Agencies: President Nixon tried to defund programs by impounding funds, but Congress passed the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, limiting executive control over funding.
Bottom Line
Simply ordering USAID employees to stop working and locking the doors would be blatantly illegal and would likely lead to immediate legal challenges, congressional intervention, and possible criminal liability for those involved.
We are only running out of critical metals because all industries are accustomed to design only how to make a product that they can sell from raw materials, expecting that it will be dumped as garbage in the future.

All manufacturers should have been forced already decades ago to slowly transition to designing for any product both how to make it from raw materials and how to extract all those raw materials, with only a few exceptions (e.g. the volatile non-metals, which enter biological cycles anyway), from the product at its end of life.

The transition should have been very slow, e.g. by imposing initially very low recovery efficiencies, e.g. well under 50%, but then raising slowly the mandatory efficiencies.

Nobody should have been allowed to manufacture and sell any products unless either the same company is able to completely recycle the product, or another company takes this responsibility for that product.

Such laws should have already been adopted long ago and then there would have been no risk of running out of critical metals.

In my opinion, the metal that is most critical today is indium, which is extremely rare but it is required, even if in minute quantities, in a lot of essential applications, like in all computer, TV or smartphone displays, in LED lighting, in GaN power supplies and in many others where no good substitutes exist.
Ethnicity is very correlated to skin color and eye shape and many additional properties, so I don't find it surprising.

But I didn't expect sex to be correlated at all, I can't imagine why different sex need a different minor changes in eye design.
Yeah, that's a great point!

But solving that tooling issue is hard (or we'd have a great solution already), and we choose our compromises based on the reality we live in. Neither is perfect, and we should continue thinking how we can improve the situation from all angles, including improving the tooling as you suggest.
> There would certainly be much less of it though

I doubt that very much. And making such a statement without any evidence seems... unscientific :P
Carnival.
Unless it’s for a senior role, why not just find the candidate you and your team can work best with? Skim through CVs and drop the first 20 an email asking them about their last team/boss or their day or to tell you the last thing they learnt. Something personal, the goal is to note their communication style. Pick 10 you feel matches the energy you want. From those 10 get 2 in the office every day for 2 weeks to see how they work with peers/competitors and your team. By the end of two weeks you should have a relatively good hire which you can work with to fit the team.
The second is very legally dubious especially if you're using torrents where you'd be seeding facilitating/making unauthorized copies even if the legal theory that you could download a copy instead of making your own held up.
Well usually it's levied at the border for physical goods so the importing company (usually not the end consumer for consumer goods) eats the cost (or prices it in/passes it to the consumer).

You're right though, with digital goods it's ambiguous. If the company has a US entity is that the importer? That's the scenario that popped into my (somewhat tired) head. Probably because Canada has been trying to impose taxes on US tech companies with a similar argument.

If you buy a good online in a separate country, where is the transaction made?
US datacenters in for shock as Canada mulls cutting the juice over Trump tariffs
The waiting time could be due to government agencies being overloaded due to shortages of personnel, but hiring more people costs money and people wouldn't like taxes to go up.

Also consider this: petrochem companies would have an easier time if they were allowed to dump waste into rivers instead of having to jump hurdles to process it properly. That doesn't mean that environmental regulation is bad and we should do away with it to let them innovate more.
The problem isn't endurance, it's retention. Early SLC was rated for 10 years retention after 100K cycles. The latest QLC is only rated for several months after 300 cycles.
Most companies will cut your pay based on where you live, though.

You aren’t usually paid the same. That isn’t the norm.

Secondly and probably more important is there is zero guarantees that WFH will be supported by the work places they can support it will, we have seen a huge RTO surge. I’d hate to be in one of these cities and get that call.

If WFH opportunities had legal protections and incentives it’d be a different story I imagine
Wow cool!

Sidenote, I'm the maintainer of the polyfill for this and its little script that extracts just the country flags from Mozilla's Twemoji font [0]. I'm not an expert by any stretch, but if it's in any way helpful that I chime into that Chromium bug then let me know. I'd love to deprecate the polyfill.

[0] https://github.com/talkjs/country-flag-emoji-polyfill/blob/m...
I’d argue this one feature is the core reason Bluesky has 30 million users.
I do agree about NED (what did they do in BD?) My parents voted for Trump. To say the least this is causing friction. I have a little trouble believing people like Mike Flynn have their safety and best interests in mind.

> A genius from SpaceX is probably substantially smarter and more diligent than the average.

This hardly strikes me as a democratic sentiment or one that has anything to do with Constitutional governance. I went to school with a lot of geniuses, people certainly smarter than your SpaceX employees. I don’t know that then or now I would give them untrammeled run of the government.

> Muslims should be supporting what Trump and Elon are doing. This is the first break in the bipartisan consensus in favor of American Empire.

I seem to remember an anecdote from partition of Bengal about a goat getting its head stuck in a pot and the village headman’s preferred solution being to decapitate the goat.
A new 'mini-CRISPR' flexes its editing power in monkey muscles
That's really interesting! It does seem that this is identically semantically to the library approach (as the logic your interpreter adds around steps could also be added by decorators) but is completely automatic. Which is great if the interpreter always does the right thing, but problematic/overly magical if the interpreter doesn't. For example, if your problem domain has two blocking operations that really form one single step and should be retried together, a library approach lets you express that but an interpreted approach might get it wrong.
Hi - Alex here from the Goose team. We do already support o3-mini. If you're using the OpenAI provider you can enter that model in the settings screen of the app. Let me know if you have any trouble.
As a native (suburban) Detroiter (who departed 20 years ago), I don’t want to throw shade but articles like these rarely give a good sense of the size or scope of decades of decay. There are still miles (and miles) of apocalyptic looking neighborhoods. As a teenager, we had our pick of hundreds of abandoned warehouses to party (“rave”).

I'd love to see it flourish, and maybe if the area could get past its car addiction, I’d even want to call it home again one day.

*Removed inaccurate statement about the city’s size.
See previous reply re: friendships, love.
And Canadians have been shedding property in droves due to high cost (USD-CAD), your comment on insurance and general antagonistic policies at a Federal level.
That's a pretty weird description of the British Museum. Yes, I know people can (and do) criticize the collection they have as the spoils of colonialism, but in no way do they present their collection as "merely aesthetic objects" -- they do explain what the artifacts are in terms of the cultures that created them.
The claim of the comment I replied to was "LLM's are not ready for prime time" and my opinion is that LLM prime time is already here. Using LLM's to code (or to learn how to code) is obviously super popular.

Who's talking about quality anyway?

Code quality is not and was never the number one most important thing in business, popularity of a product/service or keeping a job. You may find that unfortunate (I agree), but it's just how it is based on my own 15yr+ experience.
This start up might have a scalable answer with no limit on power generation
https://www.lumenorbit.com/
ArcticDB is more concerned with storage and persistence than with in-memory processing, so it's complementary to Polars/DuckDB etc, rather than an alternative.
Leaking Memory is Safe [video]
Kudos to you - this sounds like a fantastic interview format.

I especially like that you're prepping them very clearly in advance, giving them every opportunity to succeed, and clearly setting a tone of collaboration.

In person design and coding challenges are a pressure cooker, and not real-world. However, giving people the choice, seems like a great way to achieve the balance.

Honestly, I'm really just commenting here so that this shows up in my history, so I can borrow heavily from this format next time I need to interview! :) Thanks again for sharing.
It reminds me of that Mike Rowe kid that Microsoft threatened with legal action, because he had a domain for his web design business called MikeRoweSoft.com [0].

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft