skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but I've never been unable to find their phone number. However, as I said, if Facebook really is the only way to talk to these people,

Sorry for the misunderstanding. I'm not communicating with home repair contractors exclusively via Facebook Messaging. I'm talking about browsing potential contractors to hire and the only so-called "website" they happen to have is their Facebook page.

It's not just the phone number. It's that their Facebook page also shows photos of their past work and/or has a bullet list of tasks they specialize in. For this purpose, there's no need for them to be computer savvy enough to install Apache or NGINX web server, or pay for website builders like Wix / Squarespace, or hiring a website designer, etc.

It's the business owner using the skills they already know (aka they know how to use Facebook) to update their web presence.

Somehow, my random observation that some owners that paid for a real custom website at one point in their life had it show an old phone number that was out-of-date and yet their Facebook page had the updated phone number -- derailed the discussion. It was just a datapoint on how small business people find Facebook useful enough to maintain accurate info but their "real website" was so complicated that they abandoned it to digital rot.
That's not what cyclomatic complexity is, and if you think 5–20 test cases is enough for sin(), open(), or Lisp EVAL, you need your head examined.
On vacation: set up auto response

Concerned about legality: reply that you are concerned about legality

Doing classified activity: reply that your work is classified

“Too engrossed”: over 48 hours of not checking email at all? I doubt any government job is that engrossing.

On a submarine for 3 months: the only people who this could possibly apply to are in the military, who weren’t subject to this requirement
not made up. or would you like me to send you a real-time photo of me currently receiving a life-saving immune boosting serum to prove it to you?
Type Parameters in Go
> Needless to say, something is deeply broken in our healthcare system.

As someone currently experiencing multiple unexplained systems and getting shuffled around to experts who continue to push appointments further and further back, I can't agree more. I've been using AI a lot lately, and some of these specialists I have actually met with are often surprised at how much knowledge I came in with (granted, I've always been this way, even before AI, it's just now even easier).

But yeah, I had a similar but much less extreme case where I had tests come back, and my primary didn't even look at it for four days. Luckily, I was able to supplement and resolve the (minor) issue myself after talking it over with AI.
Look at the pricing page. The cost has plummeted. Compute is cheap.

https://dnacomplete.com/tier-selection/

Nebula offered specials for full genome sequencing.

They’re now owned by DNA complete.

DNA Complete prices it at 495. I paid half that for 30x.

“By analyzing your DNA multiple times, we can significantly increase accuracy. 30x Whole Genome Sequencing means that 100% of your DNA is sequenced an average of 30 times, thus providing even higher accuracy. Typical DNA Ancestry tests sequence less than 1% of your DNA.”
Okay so your definition of “smart” sounds different than the definition everyone else in this thread is using. Sounds more like you’re talking about “genius” to me, specifically in a savant type way where they are incapable of relating to average people.
Probably because all the competent employees reported the first email as phishing. The only box it didn't check was asking the employee to buy and Amazon gift card.
I think you've confused Zstd (which they were not discussing) for Zlib (the primary implementation of DEFLATE, which is most commonly used by Gzip)

Gzip/DEFLATE is mediocre on most metrics relevant to compression but it's widely used of course. Zstd is better all-around, but much newer and thus doesn't have the same level of adoption.
That's an interesting approach, I'd like to see an implementation of what you're talking about. What language are you using that has such an expressive type system?

Oh, I agree that there usually isn't a scientific method to programming. I think there could be though. Not for everything of course, some things will always be up to personal taste and interpretation but the cursor could probably be moved with some effort in analyzing existing codebases at scale, doing surveys, internal testing of different approaches in large companies. Something more akin to what you see in social sciences, even if it might be a bad word in some circles!

We probably won't agree but I legitimately enjoy hearing about how people code.
What do you mean by "more aligned"?

Some names to search as examples of why this policy of incarcerating males in women's prisons is so harmful: Tremaine Carroll, Janiah Monroe, Demi Minor, Ramel Blount, Karen White.

To go back even further as to why prisons became sex-segregated in the first place, please look up the work of Elizabeth Fry. She documented the awful conditions in mixed-sex prisons of the 19th century, and how terrible this was for female prisoners. Her evidence helped bring in changes to the law that ensured female and male prisoners were separated.
Lots of gushing about AI but I'm not really too interested in that.... more about what's up with your missing platelets! I'm assuming it's not at all a good thing to suddenly not have any without any prior history of things related to this? Hope everything works out okay in the end :).
For Livebook, this looks really cool. Love that it calls CPython directly via C++ NIFS in Elixir and returns Elixir-native data structures. That's a lot cleaner than interacting with Python in Elixir via Ports, which is essentially executing a `python` command under the hood.

For production servers, Pythonx is a bit more risky (and the developers aren't claiming it's the right tool for this use case). Because it's running on the same OS process as your Elixir app, you bypass the failure recovery that makes an Elixir/BEAM application so powerful.

Normally, an Elixir app has a supervision tree that can gracefully handle failures of its own BEAM processes (an internal concurrency unit -- kind like a synthetic OS process) and keep the rest of the app's processes running. That's one of the big selling points of languages like Elixir, Erlang, and Gleam that build upon the BEAM architecture.

Because it uses NIFs (natively-implemented functions), an unhandled exception in Pythonx would take down your whole OS process along with all other BEAM processes, making your supervision tree a bit worthless in that regard.

There are cases when NIFs are super helpful (for instance, Rustler is a popular NIF wrapper for Rust in Elixir), but you have to architect around the fact that it could take down the whole app. Using Ports (Erlang and Elixir's long-standing external execution handler) to run other native code like Python or Rust is less risky in this respect because the non-Elixir code it's still running in a separate OS process.
Russian role in buying software for EU border system probed
CNAME bug must have had something so bad DigiCert didn't want people poking around. Perhaps it's worth taking a closer look at the bug thread. They were also pressing really hard to close it. Something smells.
I once took Ketamine, "fell through the bed" and spent half an hour in a different dimension, peacefully floating above and close to incredibly detailed, dull and dark colored patterns while unable to form language-based thoughts until I suddenly snapped out of it. The music I was listening to (HUSBANDS (Run Along, Son, etc.)) helped a lot and was just incredible, though I am still not sure if I could have had the same great experience with different music.

It was THE single most amazing and out-of-this-world thing I ever experienced and I highly recommend it to everyone.

I don't know if it helped me in any way with my depression though. No hangover. No lasting changes.
While I agree with your overarching point re:saturation,

> haven't found more than 25 million subscribers

There is a metric ton of demand for steaming services in India.. just that amazon prime and hotstar.com took most of the market. Most of this is due to pricing:

Prime: 999 INR/year
Netflix: 650 INR/month

Recently they've tried segmenting.. by packaging a single-device 720p-only plan along with the telecom plans, and I'd bet that's the majority of their customer base today since people get it for free. They also have a deal with samsung and other companies that make mid-range phones which most people in india own to have netflix pre-installed. So this + the telecom plans is the way they count them as users.

To be fair, amazon packages theirs with the 1-day delivery service on amazon.in, so it's a bit of an unfair advantage there. But even if you compare with hotstar, they charge 1499/year, which is about 1/6th of netflix's price.

Again to be fair, live cricket streaming is _huge_ here, and people get hotstar for that anyways, so a bit of an unfair advantage again.

Even twitch managed to make price cuts here. I bet netflix can as well. I doubt regional content production is actually a problem for somebody like netflix.
Being read by one human: you deepened their understanding of the thing.

Being read by one OpenAI crawler: you deepened the understanding of ChatGPT, thus offering knowledge of the thing to everyone that interacts with it about the thing.

One of these scenarios has much more collective impact than the other.
> it tells you you're fine, nothing is wrong, don't do anything

Fair point. I could see a lot of people doing that.
And so random people on the internet should be advising them to dump their genetic profile into chatGPT for medical diagnostics?
Not sure if related. The register link on this post is also broken: https://blog.google/feed/kaggle-genai-intensive-course-2025/
Accurate Problem description, which can easily be countered with .. [extra effort expended in idealized behaviours] .. [I could paste Lore Ipsum here everybody stopped reading at the idealization]
What's defensible? LLMs seem like gunpowder artillery to last decade's moats.
Set up auto reply. No I have never been physically incapable of checking email for 48 hours.
Why would they release Claude Code as closed source? Let's hope DeepSeek-r2 delivers, Anthropic is dead. I mean, it's a tool designed to eat itself. Absurd to close source.
Isn't that kinda scary? I mean when some parts of your brains don't work or not work properly?
1. If you really want to get into rules lawyering, the guideline was arguably broken when "mugging" was substituted for "theft" a few comments up. That most certainly is not "strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says". In fact it's the opposite. Therefore calling out "mugging" =/= stealing isn't "bad faith argument".

2. The original claim is "There are universal truths". Substituting that for "There are universal truths in every circumstance" isn't "strongest plausible interpretation", it's changing the argument entirely and attacking a strawman. It's like claiming "a^2 + b^2 = c^2 holds for right angle triangles", someone else objecting "yeah but it doesn't hold for all triangles", and then invoking "strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says" when he's called out for changing the claim.
That's good to know!

Thanks for sharing, it feels nice to know that people actually have an interest in the concept.
Why spend your personal time and effort for someone else with a deeper pocket to automatically extract value from your work.

People releasing their code under MIT or BSD licenses might be able to give good answers to this.
Faster-Than-Light Communication can be enabled by Microsoft's new Quantum Tech!
`stow` is covered here widely.

Here are some other ideas:

git has advantages with and without stow

Learn how your tools use lists of file names. xargs, the vim quicklist, all that stuff. Use fzf and learn its shell acceleration (Ctrl-T in bash).

When you realize something shouldn’t be in your home directory, mount an S3-compatible bucket there.
That sounds pretty amazing. What a metaphor that is. Hope you fully recovered but kept some valuable mental souvenirs from your trip. I do think people underestimate the dangers of LSD. It's amazing but I've known people who permanently injured their cognitive capacities using it.
You don't need to get Signal from an app store (unless you're on iOS I guess)
> Keeping the code organized is useful and is a part of basic hygiene, but it's far from the defining characteristic of the craft.

I'm with you, but I don't think it makes sense to elevate one absolutely over the other as the "defining characteristic." Either one can tank the development of a piece of software and prevent it from coming into being in a useful way.

Arguments about which aspects of software are more important than others usually arise between people who have personally suffered through different ways that projects can fail. Any aspect of software development will feel like the "defining characteristic" if it threatens to kill your project.
They’re nice for exploring a new API before programming around it IMO
If I search on that page for “Ancôoidions” or “convunced” I don’t get any results.
I do have the resources to validate.

I am smart. I am capable of understanding deeply technical subjects.

I have a team of smart doctors to present my findings to.

I’m looking for plausibility. Not the full diagnosis.
Really glad to see this, Elixir has languished in the AI wars despite being a better fit than JavaScript and Python.
I like Claude Sonnet and use it 4 or 5 times a week via ChatLLM to generate code. I started setting up for Claude Code this morning, then remembered how pissed I was at their CEO for the really lame anti-open source and anti-open weight models he was making publicly after the DeepSeek-R rollout - I said NOPE and didn’t install Claude Code.

CEOs should really watch what they say in public. Anyway, this is all just my opinion.
Anecdotal cost impact- After toying with Claude Code for the afternoon, my Anthropic spend just went from $20/mo to $10/day.

Still worth it, but that’s a big jump.
Rich Benoit would disagree

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuAMczraBIM
Yeah, c/p mistake, thanks for noticing. ~1% it is.

> Not that EV are a bad idea

From an engineering point of view, if we were to solve the pollution problem, and if the numbers above are not terribly wrong, then the EVs are not an answer. There is a huge (operating) cost attached to rebuilding the whole industry with apparently a very small impact. And I'd say with a reasonably large negative impact since we see many automotive manufacturers folding under the EV pressure.

> because people don't have often a viable setup to switch to EV

I agree and I would also add that not that many people can afford buying a new car for ~40k EUR. For many people this is inaccessible.
> deep feelings of profound thoughts.

I remember dreaming about profound answers and equations about everything and being extatic in my dreams in uni.

Then I woke up and wrote down what I dreamt and realize it was just garbage :).

The same this one time I was traveling with friends and bought some very dubious hashish and smoked it and I got incredible visuals where I could see, open-eye a matrix of videos starting from a common theme and all evolving differently.
I could see visual kernels of ideas and how they all worked together.

But at that time I was very interested in variational autoencoders, so after the effects wore off, I realized the experience was just like the deep realization of the dreams -- utterly meningless and just a hallucination that felt profound in the moment.
Matt Mullenweg has no vision for WordPress in 2030
These consultancies don't have experts as you mean it and don't provide then. They have very good talkers and management can offload unpopular decisions on them.

But, they don't have expertise, just confidence. They generally leave companies in worst shape as they were originally.

The actual experts are then hired from elsewhere.
If you're not interested in letting your blog posts be used to train AI, remember to update your robots.txt regularly as AI crawlers come up. This is assuming they respect your robots.txt, and don't change their user-agent. There's a service for this called Dark Visitors[0], though I wish there was a FOSS project to track AI user-agents.

[0] https://darkvisitors.com/
Thanks for the great feedback! I've added pace units to the speed convertor, do check it out and let me know if you need any changes. You can send all requests at the contact form on the site too: https://www.calcverse.live/contact

Will aim to implement it within 24 hrs. Thanks again!
Another Startup Implosion Set to Brick $700 'AI Pins'
Pandemic scientists were laid off, so I don’t think this is even a joke.
Toledan Tables
Red spots on the skin -> coagulation problems

is fairly basic medical knowledge. Even a cursory Google search would be enough to get that answer.
> Signal to leave Sweden if backdoor law passes
I can speak for german law: If you buy something, it becomes your property, and you have full power of disposal ("Verfügungsgewalt") over it. If vendors deny you from exercising this right, they are violating their part of the purchase contract.
> But I would put stickers of Musk doing his nazi salute on Teslas I find in the streets.

I know people who were so upset about the other side (in that case, Republican voters) that they said that they (the other side) should be deported from the US. I think this level of mania is too much and it is the real life manifestation of what people do on the Internet. I recommend that you put a sticker on the car when the owner is there, and look them in the eye.

> Go tell Ukrainians that they should buy Russian products because "life shouldn't be politicised that much".

I am likely much-much closer to this problem than you think (personally and physically), and I absolutely think that what's happening in Ukraine and what is happening in the US right now is incomparable.

You know, Ukrainians and Russians still live and work closely in many parts of the world because they can differentiate between Putin and the person who's in front of them. You're not beating Elon with your stickers, just screwing up a day of a random human person who has bought a car they liked.
What happens when they do get pregnant and must raise a child while also dealing with weekly or daily hallucinations that no drug seems to treat?
> It looked like alien unicode characters or some shit.

That's how my iPhone keyboard looked when I took a moderate amount of shrooms. It was weird, I could still think and talk coherently, but the keyboard was an incrophensible, vibrating, round, green-energy-sparks-decorated mess.
Agree. Both of these were critically important components.
does pytorch count
zlib-rs does use ARM CRC32 instructions though.
> It may be wrong, but it proves that technology can't beat politics and policy.

There's definitely a strain of thought which perceives almost everything in society as being outcroppings of the progress of technology (however you define that), and especially in the 1990s imagined/expected everything to fall over under the mantle of "information wants to be free" etc.

I think you're right that this is an intellectual dead-end. Many of us lived through the 90s hype wave and into now, and have watched things take a complete circle. The Internet didn't transform society into utopia, the real-world dystopia transformed the Internet into a high definition image of itself.
Have you ever lived with a chronic condition for decades for which multiple doctors literally have zero answers for?
Cheers, ty
I have always wanted one, but they are too expensive sadly. But they are definitely very good gifts for engineers.
She Fell in Love with ChatGPT. Like, Actual Love. With Sex
The 6th image on the page, of a woman lying in a hospital bed, has a speech bubble with garbled ai-generated text inside of it, and the next image has a classic-style walking robot, half submerged into a rug, saying similarly garbled text
Whether it's useful to the current "grand majority" or not / holds the value it does today is orthogonal to whether the technology can be stopped and whether it still provides value to those who continue to use it.

I did worry this example would be too political, hence including the BitTorrent example as well.
Hahaha. There is something in the aether today. I just posted here about my own similar tool, but doing it with REST apis.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43173022
Artists release silent album in protest against AI using their work
> You are hinting at something important here. Let me strengthen your point: to own an object means to subject it fully to your own will.

Let’s explore that.

If the law says I can’t ride my motorcycle the wrong way down the street, does that mean I don’t own it?

What about if we add traffic cameras that absolutely guarantee I will be prosecuted?

What about it if we add a black box that reports transgressions automatically to the authorities?

What about if the black box automatically cuts power to the engine?

I don’t think ownership is a binary using your criterion, or perhaps it’s simply that different people will put the dividing line in different places.
This of course goes for pretty much every personal story ever posted here.
But funding that equity growth organically from revenue, rather than raising external capital.
We don't care about Vance expressing his backwards views in public, we care about America allying with fascist Russia against Ukraine and Europe, then claiming insane shit like "Ukraine started the war", then having that slimey Heritage Fundation lackey come and tell us our "freedom of expression is threatened". At this point you're either a complete lunatic or appalled by Trump and his circus, there can't be another way.

Elon Musk is an idiot, he did abandon his child [1], he did do a nazi salute [2], he did have a neonazi background even before that [3], he did cheat at video game for attention [4]. The guy tweets an average of 800 times a week [5], how is he finding the time to work on his companies AND run a governement agency? He doesn't work, that's the answer.

Obviously you won't open these links, you won't change your mind. You won't document yourself on how Elon failed several ventures through his management, how he didn't build his succesful ones, etc. I'm starting to wonder what is would take for the likes of you to reconsider your position at this point. Have the guy yell "BLOOD AND SOIL" during a rally, maybe? Would that even be enough?

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/21/the-gestu...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Views_of_Elon_Musk#Race_and_wh...

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/22/elon-musk...

[5] https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/14/elon-musk-tweets-so-much-p...
Agree with many of these. But changing to a parliamentary system would make the GOP even stronger: they won the House popular vote in 8 of the last 13 elections, including comfortably both in 2000 and 2016.

But there is no such thing as an “independent electoral organization.” The Framers never credited the idea of an “independent” body that could be trusted to be somehow “above politics.” That’s why the constitutional government is like a game of rock paper scissors. Everything can be checked by everything else.
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