skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got on instagram[0] before you could post via the web and before I had a smartphone. I was able to run the app under android-x86 on VirtualBox.

I think the hardest part of the whole setup was setting the screen resolution to something the ig app would run under (it wouldn't run in landscape mode) and getting ssh/scp running to move files from the computer to the vm.

[0] for professional reasons. Link in profile if you're interested. My insta posting had been greatly reduced since I'm still not convinced that anyone has truly found a way to redeem imaginary internet points for dollars. At least not at my level of effort I'm willing to put into accumulating imaginary internet points.
f-strings are not an internationalization library.
You have to depend on your professional network to skip the BS of the modern day interview process (as an applicant and interviewer).
Women's sports just took time. I do sports photography for a lot of events which gives me some input for an opinion.

When it comes to soccer at Ithaca College the men play a very physical but kinda stupid game which has a lot of hard running and kicking and headers but very little sense of space. The women play much smarter soccer that looks more like good pro soccer, where, ideally everybody knows where their team mates are supposed to be and what to do to confound the opposition. More people turn up for a women's game in the rain than turn up for a men's game in the shine. They're both entertaining in their own way.

At Cornell I think the men play better than the women categorically but that's not about men or women, it's about the coaching staff, the recruiting, the priorities of the schools, etc.

Last Friday I went to a double header of women's and men's basketball at IC. The women's game was unequal but I was focused on getting good shots of the players and not thinking about the quality of the play. One of the men from the away team promised me that if I stuck around I'd see a much more entertaining game, I said I wouldn't miss it. It was 12-0 for Ithaca at the beginning so I was getting worried they wouldn't come but Hobart did and it was like 63-60 at the end. Side by side the men were so much bigger, so much faster, so much more intense. Still I like the competition and teamwork of women's ball and would rather show up in person at any college game of either gender and watch the NBA on TV.

I think time will tell what's right about fair competition, in the meantime women's soccer and basketball at the pro level is becoming a big business in the US.

In my mind 'patriarchy' is a thought stopping word. We picture the Hebrew god as an old man on a throne with a beard. One take on it is that it's got nothing to do with woman at all except as tokens, it's really a game of status where young men and poor men are dominated by rich men and old men. It's particularly harmful when it comes to discussing the 'incel' phenomenon which mainly affects straight men (slightly more likely to be black or asian!) but also affects women and gay men.

People like J K Rowling don't have a choice but to get cooked by right wing social media because there isn't a sensible discourse from the left.

I do believe in free will. If you think moral agency matters, you have to believe we have a choice. I think genes and epigenetics matter more than people want to admit and hell yeah there are bad environments. But in the end you've got a choice. The 'bad' thing I see is not so much virtue or vice but more like inflammation, as in the medical condition.
Hah, I hate the theater-wide trend. Most people are watching on 16x9 screens and it's so annoying that TV directors refuse to take that into account and shoot taller to use the whole damn screen. It's seriously non-trivial to get a wider setup than that for normal living-room use. And there's not even a wave of TVs on the way like when people started moving to 16x9 from 4x3. It's just a bad side-effect of prestige and money moving to TV from motion pictures.

Especially when you consider that the real snob format for many is IMAX which is taller anyway.
I do the same, but at 2 to 4x speed depending on the book, that cuts down the time significantly. I don't listen while working though, as I work in software not in the other fields that were mentioned in the answer to a sibling comment which are more monotonous in nature perhaps.
On X. I can't get a direct link but there are screen shots of the post at https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5uv2fzg5bj2wmfqqrc34opyf/po...
I feel that a lot of this can already be achieved via aider (not affiliated), and any of the top models.
You know it is /currently/ accessed on one thread. These are little landmines that add up over time.
I've heard of this being a problem at other solar plants, this one existing in the path of a pacific migratory path. However these migration paths exist all over the US and are fairly wide, therefore it would be difficult to build a plant that isn't somewhere near or in a migration path.

It seems to be a design issue that impacts most of these solar thermal plants without much of a solution.
Global objects need to be initialized. And if two are ever initialized you run into problems like the above.

Singleton is a pattern to ensure that a global objects is only ever initialized once.
I’m not sure I understand what you mean by “the button”. If you’re comparing this to DeepSeek’s copying, it’s not really the same thing right? DeepSeek essentially stole intellectual property by violating OpenAI’s terms of service. As I understand it, this is a copy of Google’s Deep Research
Oh yep! :) I'm the main author of it! :) If you have any questions on it - ask away!
>Fortunately this is changing with iOS 18 with "limited contacts" sharing.

Its not. Apple still owns your stuff. There is no difference between Apple and other 3p retailers. Apple just wants more of your money.
What's Happening to Firefox
Yes. The basic idea is that there's a specifier that allows a formatted string to transparently decay into an ordinary string (à la array-to-pointer decay) so that "auto" doesn't produce dangling references, and so that chains of more than one implicit conversion can take place.
You're absolutely right. Ditching the pointless corporate hoops, proving you can do the job, and getting paid like anyone else is what truly matters. Most hiring processes are just bureaucratic roadblocks that needlessly filter out great candidates. Unless you're working on something truly critical, there's no reason to play along with the nonsense.
It's a reason not to re-watch or even talk much about or recommend the show. Compare to something like Babylon 5 (plotted out well in advance) where a rewatch is rewarding because now you see extra significance of so many more early things. It's the complete opposite - everything interesting is now LESS interesting.

The enjoyment is capped at the initial run; a better-plotted show rewards you much more over time.
The sites showing flags for translations usually have no more than a half dozen.
Those quoting the 30% figure may want to research where that figure comes from and what it actually means:

“Derek Lowe has worked on drug discovery for over three decades, including on candidate treatments for Alzheimer’s. He writes Science’s In The Pipeline blog covering the pharmaceutical industry.

“Amyloid is going to be — has to be — a part of the Alzheimer’s story, but it is not, cannot be a simple ‘Amyloid causes Alzheimer’s, stop the amyloid and stop the disease,'” he told Big Think.

“Although the effect of the drug will be described as being about a third, it consists, on average, of a difference of about 3 points on a 144-point combined scale of thinking and daily activities,” Professor Paresh Malhotra, Head of the Division of Neurology at Imperial College London, said of donanemab.

What’s more, lecanemab only improved scores by 0.45 points on an 18-point scale assessing patients’ abilities to think, remember, and perform daily tasks.

“That’s a minimal difference, and people are unlikely to perceive any real alteration in cognitive functioning,” Alberto Espay, a professor of neurology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, told KFF Health News.

At the same time, these potentially invisible benefits come with the risk of visible side effects. Both drugs caused users’ brains to shrink slightly. Moreover, as many as a quarter of participants suffered inflammation and brain bleeds, some severe. Three people in the donanemab trial actually died due to treatment-related side effects.”

https://bigthink.com/health/alzheimers-treatments-lecanemab-...

And here’s a Lowe follow-up on hard data released later:

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/lilly-s-alzheimer-...
I don't speak Arabic but I wish I can perhaps later when I can get around and learning it.

If you say that your language is the best or perfect then present your case with examples and proof. Don't run from good arguments and justifications.
how do you know that? just about every serious bug i have ever written was when i thought i understood multi-threaded code, but didn't.
I like that you’re openminded to allow candidates to be who they are and judge them for the outcome rather than using a prescribed rigid method to evaluate them. Im not looking to interview right now but I’d feel very comfortable interviewing with someone like you, I’d very likely give out my best in such an interview. Id probably choose not to use an LLM during the interview unless I wanted to show how I brainstormed a solution.
Apparently, even google used a similar term for Gemini back in December. https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/11/gemini-can-now-research-de...
Trying some fun with napkin math to compare it versus coal.

1. That plant produces ~392 megawatts in^h^ while ~6000 bird deaths occur, meaning ~65 kilowatts provided per dead bird.

2. One ton of coal can give you ~21 gigajoules in a coal plant, or ~665 watts over the course of a year.

3. So the same output for a coal plant means burning ~98 tons of coal per bird.

4. Unknown: Does mining and burning ~98 tons of coal will lead to >1 bird deaths?

If the answer is yes, then the solar thermal plant is--on average--killing fewer birds. (Specific sub-populations near it are another story.)
Congress gave the president the power to set tariffs by statute. He’s literally doing what Congress empowers him to do.
6000 sounds like a lot, right?

But in context, crashing into glass buildings kills about 600 million birds a year.

Cats? About 2.4 BILLION bird kills a year.

https://www.fws.gov/library/collections/threats-birds
I like how Wikipedia mitigates that problem by placing "Suggested languages" at the top (I think the top choices are inferred from either the Accept-Language HTTP header or the most common languages from the user's country) and below that there's a list of "Worldwide" languages which include the most used languages in the world, and finally the rest of the languages are grouped by continent.

There's also a search bar for filtering and it works with either the native or foreign name of the language. So, for example, typing "Finnish", "Suomi" or "Fines" (the latter is even misspelled, should be "Finés") will all filter out the right language.

Of course, there may be an edge case that's missing, but it's as close as perfect as it can get without reading the user's mind.
Pura vida
From the spreadsheet Flynn posted, it seems mostly focused on https://www.globalrefuge.org/what-we-do/ (which was renamed recently from Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service). It seems clearly politically motivated given their mission statement and services provided.
I for sure do, because I'm thrilled out of my mind they were polite enough to not just ghost me. I know better than to ask for feedback, or to expect any subsequent exchange, though
The burden is on the programmer adding a new thread to know what they can safely access.

The conclusion of your argument looks like 2000s Java - throw a mutex on every property because you never know when it will need to be accessed on a thread.

Designs that spread complexity rather than encapsulate it are rarely a good idea.
Not sure if people picked up on it, but this is being powered by the unreleased o3 model. Which might explain why it leaps ahead in benchmarks considerably and aligns with the claims o3 is too expensive to release publicly. Seems to be quite an impressive model and the leading out of Google, DeepSeek and Perplexity.
> (this is usually successful, but can backfire badly -- CashApp terminated my account for this shenanigans)

When I was at a medium-sized consumer-facing company whose name you’d recognize if you’re in the tech space (intentionally vague) we had some customers try this. They’d find product managers or directors on LinkedIn then start trying to contact them with phone numbers found on the internet, personal email addresses, or even doing things like finding photos their family members posted and complaining the comments.

We had to start warning them not to do it again, then following up with more drastic actions on the second violation. I remember several cases where we had to get corporate counsel involved right away and there was talk of getting law enforcement involved because some people thought implied threats would get them what they wanted.

So I can see why companies are quick to lock out customers who try these games.
Trump's tariffs on Taiwan's chips likely to backfire
There's no extensive benchmarks, but I did do a Flappy Bird pass@3 test just to show that a 1.58bit model does in fact work well!

The goal was to showcase that MoEs quantized down to 1.58bit without any further training does in fact work!
I was tempted to do likewise, but then someone pointed out the risk there isn't that we might be incorrect about a very well publicised event that had already happened, it's that the other side has a successful coup to make their fantasy into a reality.

The odds didn't look so friendly when I considered them as a chance of a coup.

And indeed, then Jan 6 happened, and people are sill here on this website arguing that what specifically happened on that day doesn't meet their idea of an attempted coup.
To be fair that is all glass buildings everywhere compared to a single place.

Not quite a fair comparison.
> The problem is data access. Nothing more, nothing less.

I agree with this, but the problem with global variables is precisely that they make bad data access patterns look easy and natural. Speaking from experience, it’s a lot easier to enforce a “no global variables” rule than explain to a new graduate why you won’t allow them to assign a variable in module X even though it’s OK in module Y.
On the branding lesson:

OK Cupid, the dating website, used to have a blog that wrote on topics relevant to data analysis from their site (much of which was repurposed in the book "Dataclysm" by Christian Rudder, one of OKC's principals).

One of the topics refers just to this phenomenon. OKC data scientists found that among people who had similar attractiveness ratings (i.e., the hidden average rating you got on your looks by other users who rated you), people whose attractiveness was higher variance got many many more private messages.

In other words: imagine two people who were rated, on average, a 3/5. One way to achieve this is by always being rated 3, for 0 variance. Another way to achieve this is to be rated 50% 1, and 50% 5; high variance. The person who was half 1s and half 5s would get many more messages than the "straight 3".

OKC's blog theorized that this is because while half of the people rating the high variance person were not at all likely to reach out to them, the other half see the high variance peraon as very desirable. On the other hand, everyone sees the straight 3 as a straight 3, and are less motivated to message them.

The advice given by OKC was just like your branding advice: play up your divisive or unique characteristics, rather than downplay them. The people who like big noses (or lots of tattoos or whatever) are looking for you!
I wouldn't call it cheating but most of the time it's just stupid. For majority of software developer jobs would be more suitable to discuss the solution of the more complex problem tham randomly stress out people just because you think you should.
Because as a programmer I have responsibility for the technical soundness of the program, and I don't create threads haphazardly.

> when i thought i understood multi-threaded code, but didn't.

All the more reason to carefully plan and limit shared state among threads. It's hard enough to get right when you know where the problems are and impossible if you spray and pray with mutexes.
You need to have a wifi only android phone, rooted, no google apps, and uninstall anything that talks to the internet. That includes analyzing network traffic, open ports, and so on.

I did this with a Kali Nethunter distro back in the day for "reasons", privacy not being one of them. This makes the phone very hard to use for regular things.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

US targets trade loophole used by ecommerce groups Temu and Shein - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41536137 - Sept 2024 (103 comments)
This smells like when Google released Gemini to have a product in the space.
> The rules should apply to the ones foisting this system upon us as well. This is probably the only way to make anyone in power reconsider current setup.

Unless your problem is with the company doing the privacy violations, this doesn’t make any sense.
From what I've read, those drugs are very good at removing amyloid, but despite that, they don't seem to make much of a noticeable (clinically meaningful) difference in the people treated with them. I personally would not call that a "huge success".

If they are so good at cleaning up the amyloid, why don't people have more of an improvement? I think everyone agrees amyloid is associated with Alzheimer's, the question is how much of a causative role does it play.
Hard disagree.

If I have 500 functions, I don't want to extrapolate out the overhead of passing a state object around to all of them. That's a waste of effort, and frankly makes me think you want to code using an FP paradigm even in imperative languages.

Module-level and thread-level "globals" are fine. You gain nothing (other than some smug ivory tower sense of superiority) by making your functions pure and passing around a global state object to every single method invocation.
True, but that doesn't mean we can't talk about deaths of other species on the planet of which birds are completely without fault.
Is this "deep research" tool exploiting open knowledge creators, using their work without compensation?
> Granted, I read the Portuguese translations so there might be differences in the “writing style”.

I'm certain that translation could only improve the books; the English writing is quite poor.
Regulation of advertising is not "moral policing".
You can build bigger menus that a popup and sort them into usable buckets.

Take a look at tesla.com. The shitty CEO aside, the language/locale menu does it right: An understandable globe icon opens a menu, that menu is sorted by continents, countries and for those countries languages - with their name written in their local script.
I was just screwing around today with data like this. I was making it to have as a exhibit at a up coming event at my university

https://bsky.app/profile/balsa.info/post/3lh7z776lbk2w

You connect to a special WiFi SSID and compares your traffic to known tracking/ad domains (Pi-Hole Lists mostly) and the "food" is the packets being sent to those servers.

its crude and has some high false positive rates, but it does have a chilling effect for me when exploring what data is going where
All these people in this thread listing great recent shows, and no love yet for Fargo?!
Overall impressive.

Though, the jump for Gaia relative to SOTA is relatively not that high. Especially given that this is o3
"This was an absolute difference of 0.45 points (change from baseline, 1.21 for lecanemab vs 1.66 with placebo; P < .001)"

…

Sum of boxes is a 19 point scale.

It's an 18 point scale, but more to the point: the decline in the placebo group was only 1.66 points over those 18 months, and the mean score at baseline was just over 3 points. So even 100% efficacy could only possibly have slowed decline by 1.66 out of 18 points (what you would call a 9.2% absolute reduction) in the 18 months of that experiment. And full reversal (probably unattainable) would have only slowed decline by about 3 points.

I agree that the side effects of anti-amyloid therapies are a serious concern. The reasons for this are being understood and corrected in the next generation of such therapies. For example, I expect trontinemab to achieve better efficacy with much greater safety, and there is already preliminary evidence of that. Furthermore, there are improved dosing regimens of donanemab which improve side effects significantly.

Note that my claim is not that the existing drugs are stellar, and certainly not that they're panaceas. Simply that the amyloid hypothesis is true and there has been tremendous progress based on that hypothesis as of late.
It's not one-or-the-other. You can achieve all that customisability without having to edit the code, while also leaving it as an option for those who want to take it further.
Heaven forbid anyone read the Hackernews darling, Snow Crash in a similar light.

I sometimes get put in a position where i state my favourite book. Snow Crash. What's it about they ask?

Well there's a guy who delivers pizza, 'a deliverator' they call him but his name is Hiro Protagonist (yes seriously that's the main characters name folks). It's set in the dystopian future where you have to deliver pizza in under 30minutes or face public execution for the entertainment of the people who didn't get their pizza in time. He uses a skateboard and grappling hooks to get around and has samurai swords because he studies the way of the blade. He logs into the metaverse where he's a hardcore hacker by night. He ends up meeting a biker who has a nuclear bomb in a sidecar with a tattoo on his forehead that reads POOR IMPULSE CONTROL... (i could ramble on for a while like this trying to explain what it's about but you probably get a sense for it).

I actually think Neil Stephenson was intentionally trying to write the most ridiculous book possible but the truth is the book is FUN. I don't care about clever plots or prose. I want FUN. Da Vinci code is similar. It's an Indiana Jones movie in book form.
Well, let me be clear. No government can extort you here. There are laws. If you found the government agency in violation of the law, you should take it to the right court.

(A FAANG company usually has a lawyer or two. In an extreme case a fine would have been handled as a settlement for a complex series of violations by the company. The FAANG lawyer would understand it if the company still had a case or not. We know that FAANG companies have been in violation of various laws. Maybe FAANG got lucky and got a deal. That is unfair, I think a market access ban for several years is more fair for all people. The EU doesn't have a Trump. What you experienced was most likely competent and educated personnel from its executive branch. But you did not understand what your company did wrong. Hate me now, thank me later for giving a reality check.)
I have my dual 4K Dells for day to day work but I unplug one and scale it to something reasonable for interviews because having consideration is part of the signal that I'm sending (and empathy, because I hate trying to read purple text on a black background myself when trying to view other people's setups)
It was expensive as they wanted to charge more for it but deepseek has forced their hand
would it be open knowledge if it required payment to access ?
Sure it does. Or it should, anyway. Unfortunately the internet has spawned a couple generations of individuals that will gleefully take any form of bait that's laid in front of them and now here we are.