skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Skype is ending this year. Some founders and investors won but only thanks to greater fools.

(notable that three of the four greater fools in your post are Microsoft)
Thank you for building up the nim ecosystem.
Is the history of China any more famine stricken than any other region if the world? In recent history (last two centuries) maybe, but before that? Typically you don't become the worlds most populous country by having frequent famines.
There is a significant need for a lower cost of living and wage increases to even entertain the notion of retirement savings first. Get back to me when you solve that problem first.
Do you think most gun violence is done by law-abiding hobbyists that collect guns, or gang members in the inner cities?
In my humblest of opinions, you are probably spot on about the autopilot vs. actually experiencing things.

As a concrete example, someone in this thread mentioned their older relative spending a lot of time with puzzles daily. I too watched my grandpa doing sudokus and crosswords, but in the end if there’s nothing much else, those too will quickly become uninspiring routine.

I really believe truly experiencing life does require some introspection so that you have agency.
> (specifically the lower segment) is surprisingly opposed to social protections

They are already in a weak social position and were taught that asking for any kind of protection or assistance is a bad thing. The last thing you want when society is already looking down on you is give more reasons for it.
Well, when most of your job is perception, this is part of the job.
Sure, but that's an awful user experience. If you've got something useful, and long-form to say a _micro_blogging platform might not be the best place.
No. I don't think in 'first person' words at all. I might consciously compose a phrase if I'm doing something like writing a poem, which is more akin to arranging a puzzle or something or I might recall words of a conversation someone said to me and i do think of song lyrics if I have a song in my head, but there's no voice in my head and it's absolutely baffling to me to imagine otherwise, as I imagine it is for other people to imagine my situation.

When I read a sentence in a book I don't hear any kind of narration or anything, but I do assemble a 'scene' of images, sounds, facial expressions, motions, etc. not like a movie, but more like a series of small related ideas if that makes sense?

I find that I understand dialogue and characters in books much better when I listen to an audiobook than when I read, not sure if that's related or not.

I am a relatively intelligent successful professional, but I wonder sometimes if I am missing some processing hardware other people have access to.
That sounds like a cocktail you might order in Avalon!
Design-first software engineering: Craft
8 GB RAM minimum for a non-graphical server software?! This thing must have more components and services than my desktop OS while having a few website open in Firefox and Chromium each
"Trust but verify" is a description of speculative execution.
Hmmm, you see any errors?
HN Blacklist userscript – Hide HN submissions from sources you don't want to see
A userscript which allows hiding threads on Hacker News from certain sources, filtering based on domain, title and/or user.

https://github.com/booleandilemma/hn-blacklist

https://greasyfork.org/scripts/427213-hn-blacklist

Originally created in 2021, first HN reference is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37745576
> working class in America (specifically the lower segment) is surprisingly opposed to social protections

A lot of social protections for them were shams. Worker retraining after signing NAFTA, for example. Unions that turn into hereditary job pools outsiders can’t break into. Hell, public-school taxes for universities they can’t afford because their public-school teachers couldn’t teach their kids math.
This is another thing I've been exploring, but I haven't had a whole lot of luck in actually slowing down time.

The "fix" seems to be:

- Add more activities to your day, every day.

- Try to break up routines. Eg. you may run every day, but you don't have to take the same route.

- Be actually present during those activities. Engage in conscious thought about those activities.

- Take photos, videos, recordings to recall those activities and jog the brain.
Is insider trading still legal for politicians? Pretty much, right? They just have to disclose it weeks after the fact?

Certainly I haven't heard of any news of the STOCK act from 2012 actually being enforced, e.g. no insider trading convictions or anything.
This is similar to what I do. Terraform for anything that can't be in K8s. Create EKS cluster and bootstrap it with Argo. Then everything else is blissfully not in Terraform.
> I agree with the notion that cheaters are only cheating themselves.

Everyone loses when someone cheats, not just themselves, if they only cheated themselves it wouldn't be a problem.

You lose by getting incompetent bureaucrats and engineers in the future etc, even if you didn't cheat.
> You contribute some % of your paycheck and your employer matches some amount of that (potentially with a vesting schedule)

This is actually completely optional, many employers do not. For example mine does not do any matching or contributions

> The money can be invested, and then at some age (55.5 i believe?) you can access the money without being taxed. There is a maximum you can contribute per year etc etc.

So the tax side of this depends on if the 401k was done as Roth or traditional. Traditional IRAs are tax advantaged but not tax free. Contributions are pre-tax from the employee's paycheck. Roth on the other hand is post tax and tax free on withdrawal (assuming no penalties).
I feel like that sentence aged me.
Ultra-Fast Spaceplanes Could Soon Fly Around the World in 90 Minutes
So the only reason the mac is faster is because the RAM is accessible by its GPU, right? Not because the RAM is faster than regular RAM, because AFAIK it isn't far off from workstation RAM speeds.
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I'm a frontend engineer with two years of experience, including some backend work. I’m open to full-time, part-time, or contract roles. I'm currently focused on expanding my skills and open to flexible compensation for the opportunity to work on cool projects.
Wrong.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/where_the_sun_don%27t_shine
The moon doesn't spin relative to earth so if you can see the earth in the sky, it will always be in the sky. If you watch the phases of the moon, you can easily see that the darkness is just covering the same face that we always see. A moon base would always have line of sight to earth but would be in darkness half the time. Great for comms, not as great for solar power.
Toyota meanwhile have made a point that all the front styling grilles in the Mk5 Supra can be opened up and used to house heat exchangers for tuners.

Nissan simply could’ve never acknowledged it. Instead made a point that the GT-R was untuneable, which to my knowledge, is the only time a car company has claimed such a thing.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18292061

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23968618

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39325146

See also:

https://mathsci.fandom.com/wiki/The_Haruhi_Problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpermutation#Lower_bounds,...
What percentage of candidates are you seeing that are attempting to use LLMs at various stages of the pipeline? It would be interesting to hear a data point how prevalent the problem is getting.
It could have been a mathematician , you never know with that Anon guy.
I loved the article! Even though I only understood about 1/3 of the technical details, I was honestly quite amazed at how “simple” was producing RF! The guy is using “sound” at 48kHz to produce the signals needed and then a Si5351A (signal generator for up to 200MHz or so controlled via I2C) to produce RF. I’m not sure, or don’t understand yet how the RF is being modulated, but conceptually is understandable! DSP is a field I want to dig deeper into, specifically DSP as it pertains RF.
Is putting RAM on the same chip as processing economical?

I would have assumed you’d want to save the best process/node for processing, and could use a less expensive processes for RAM.
Removing that money from contention over things like housing would be great. As it is, you either save for retirement and send you kids to worse schools than you could if you spent it instead, because other people are choosing to bid up housing rather than save for retirement, or you join them and don't have enough for retirement.
In Vancouver the issue of homelessness and drug use deaths has been in the state of permanent crisis for years and years with governments of all types vacillating between various actions, taking a bold step forward here, experiencing a set back, then taking a step back to the status quo and so forth.

All the while the simple reality remains that at no point has there ever actually been enough homes for everyone who needs one, and in fact, despite whatever homes have been built in the last decade, the city experienced a net loss of affordable housing in total, and the net amount of people experiencing homelessness has only increased.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here watching this because I don't understand how anyone expects anyone to get any traction whatsoever on resolving more difficult personal problems like drug use disorders or mental health when they don't actually have anywhere to live.

Whether it's "housing first" or "housing last" the insane thing that I see in Vancouver is that it seems to be neither!

Solving a big complex problem you gotta start with a good foundation here and the basics. Ok step one: ensure you actually have housing for literally everyone in your society. Ok if you've done that now work on the more challenging complex stuff.
This looks amazing.

From any other company I'd be skeptical. I've had my fair share of headaches with Google Cloud Run and Fly... But Bunny has been super reliable for us so maybe they really did pull this off.

Can't wait to see the whole thing with managed databases etc.
in the USA, most expenses related to raising a family got increasingly expensive, probably because aggressive business models saw that those are "essential" so people will have to pay. That is the logic that got us to plus-fifty percent of household income going to rent and food here in California. The investors in rental units are making a fortune. It is uncontrolled predatory capitalism playing out.
I'm confused about what this is trying to say. I assume the Mustang is the "muscle car" and the R35 is the "japanese sports coupe" but in many ways the R35 has been the blunt hammer muscle car of its era.

They're both fantastic cars on the track from all reports. I'm not sure whether you're denigrating the R35 ("just a sports coupe") or the Mustang ("just a muscle car") in that comment.

Also, price and performance benchmarks seem pretty darned important in the worlds these cars play in. We're not talking about minivans or even sport sedans here.
I used the following query in your favorite ai powered search engine, "what knowledge would I need to able to make an intelligent post similar to <insert above comment>, please give me some high quality reading sources"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchy_of_hazard_controls

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_minimization

https://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/hsprograms/hazard/hierarchy_...

https://epic.org/data-minimization-is-the-key-to-a-meaningfu...

I won't shovel the rest in here, but this is a good start.
The joke in California is that everything both causes and cures cancer. Because of all the hippies, and the generally massive concentration of people. If someone accidentally dumps a ton(2000lbs) of lead in podunk, nebraska, it might affect 10 people. it might affect 100. That same ton of lead on Sepulveda Blvd in the basin would affect millions. So i get prop 65, i get "CARB" - in california you want small engine exhaust to guarantee no sparks, because California is a tinderbox. I gave those two examples to show that i understand that things can have nuance and be good for the general public.

Uh, i am unsure if i used "affect" correctly. Substitute "effect" if i used it wrong.
I have, for a long time, dismissed Scientific American as a pointless work of marketing. This article, on the other hand, makes me think I may be missing some things. The problem is stated in an interesting way that might be broadly understood and enjoyed. It gives some results that are explained well and easily understood. It also leaves some open questions that can be explored, letting the explorer dream about settling some famous open problem. The perfect sort of thing for high school math (and an old guy killing some time).

Thank you Manon Bischoff (author), Daisy Yuhas (editor), and Scientific American for giving me this to think about.
Poverty in America is a moral failure and why would you give money to people who are immoral?
Social Security isn’t a savings or investment program.
We are building our future support for the system languages for now directly on top of RR recordings: credit to Robert(roca) and Kyle and all other contributors for RR and Pernosco, they're amazing technologies.

We've researched possible alternative approaches/tools as well, especially keeping in mind Windows/Mac support.

The traces for Noir and the scripting languages work in a completely different way, capturing all the relevant data which is later indexed into a db-like structure. With some future optimizations this can be very useful for various shorter programs in scripting languages, and generally for blockchain languages(as the running time there is usually low) and we hope that eventually with flexible record filtering it can be practical even for capturing important segments/aspects of long-running real world projects.
https://archive.is/5Hekg
Nissan's Skyline/R35 lines were largely wildly expensive projects that Nissan had no business doing, at the expense of their company's future. They were a form of a charity (bless them) to the automotive world. But then they had to pivot hard (see Carlos Ghosn) to be try to be profitable and killed their brand. (There were of course other issues than just these projects, though.)

RIP Nissan.
What version of macOS are you on? We've been building for macOS 15.3 (Sequoia), but haven't tested earlier versions...
How are treatments tested on humans safely?

Select some cancer patients and ask their consent to some novel treatment with Aspirin?
HN's most-needed feature is the ability to block users. Though this isn't bad.
> there's a nice tutorial for how to set it up

A simple 12 step process...
The interest income on money created by fractional reserve banking should be used for this instead of making rich bankers richer.
I agree. If the anti-trust regime had been different Microsoft would have bought Databricks years ago. Satya Nadella has surely been tapping his foot watching their valuation grow and grow.

The Trump folks have given mixed messages on the Biden-era FTC; I'd put the odds that with the right tap dancing (sigh) Microsoft could make a blockbuster like this in the B2B space work.
Bring back meme distros, please.
Taming a Voracious Rust Proxy
Good luck getting into brick and mortar clinics (I really mean it!). It is so incredibly hard to get established, small businesses to do anything regarding IT or tech. They are all incredibly overworked and the last thing they want to deal with is tech or learning how to use a new platform.
I would go so far as to say it quite literally is a small business trying to harden their systems against a state actor, only the systems here are organizational systems.
It's also the accuracy. I'm able to do light photo editing work right from the trackpad, even basic sketches and airbrushing. Have never been able to do anything remotely close with other laptops
European rocket Ariane 6 launches on first commercial mission
The first images of humpbacks having sex, and they're both males
"A Republican would happily eat dog shit if he thought a Liberal would have to smell his breath."
> and no one's having enough children for that to ever be the case again.

Immigration, increase the threshold, means tested distributions, lots of ways to solve this.
Old Sitcoms Are Being Upscaled with AI with No Attention to Quality
After US disabled Himars for Ukraine yesterday Im waiting for Poland to cancel $10 billion Himars contract.
The only reason we are in this situation is extreme wealth inequality. And the only way to fix it is to tax the wealthy appropriately.

We are currently taxing the young when they already are struggling on every front as compared to the previous generations. This problem will only get worse.
Tesla had a scientific foundation for inventions like alternating current because he could do the experiments.

He didn't just story-tell about how they might be true like how Peat claims walnuts are carcinogenic due to unsaturated fat and sucrose cures disease and his other crockpot ideas.

When one or two of his ideas happen to sound reasonable, it's the research that should get the epistemic credit, not a guy shotgunning 100 dumb ideas. What about all his claims that go against the evidence like avocados being carcinogenic due to unsaturated fat?

This is a common problem with cult followings. Their followers keep bringing you claims to debunk, they watch them get debunked, and they never stop to ask themself why they are still playing human centipede with the guy shitting these claims into their mouth.
People are somehow really convinced their thing is uniquely special and worth stealing.
I dispute nothing you write. Looking at the paper that graph is not within it.

Either my eyes skipped past it or that dispute notice was added after I linked the image. Regardless it belongs there.

I have previously seen a similarly shaped graph with Dunning-Kruger effect discussions many times, including on Wikipedia I believe. Now I'm curious what the source of the misrepresentation is since it does not appear quite derivable without artistic interpretation from the paper's data.

Regardless, I'm glad to update and add to my beliefs.

Please note that despite the implication that seems to be in your final statement, I did not mean to say the graph was correct, only that it is a graph commonly associated with the paper's message and thus understandable for the author to have used. From that, the use of it doesn't quite come from nowhere. I'm fact, I didn't really say much at all. While Wikipedia is the first search result, the Decision Lab is next which has a similar, even more distorted graph on their page [0] and yet is a fairly well esteemed organization.

Glad to improve my knowledge but that the graph is in common use is not misinformation even if the graph itself misinforms and isn't from the paper.

[0] https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/dunning-kruger-effect
"Forced savings account" is a bad proxy for a public pension. Why, for instance, do I need to bear the risk that I might live to 100, and therefore have to save for living to 100 even though statistically I'll probably die before 85?

A public pension is a "forced savings account" that pools a whole bunch of risks together across the entire population. It's forced savings plus an insurance policy.

Now someone will probably say that everyone should be forced to save with a private account and also forced to carry "old age insurance" or something, but hopefully people can see that's just a public pension but worse, because you're at the mercy of middle men and grifters.
I do not want the definitions of my infrastructure to be Turing complete.
>I think we should revisit the policy of an actual forced savings account - rather than the bad proxies for it: social security, home equity, 401k.

I think social security is a far better setup than forced savings account. The fact that it's much harder to raid, that it's not really 'your money' locked up somewhere is a big reason why it has lasted as long as it has.
Global sea ice hit record low in February, scientists say
I assume they are shipping iOS apps
> I think it's safe to say if it's recommended for cancerous old folks, it's safe to take for average people.

I'm not sure why you would think that. There are many things we are willing to prescribe to older people because they are unlikely to suffer long-term negative effects.
Yes, but we also operate 1,000 servers across 400 cities in 130 countries to generate one of the most comprehensive internet measurement datasets possible and process more than 2 trillion yearly API requests.

Still, we really appreciate users and software that only use our service to get their public IP address.
That takes a really long time though. Most domestic dogs can still breed with wild wolves after ~14,000 years of being pretty well separated by humans, and after some fairly substantial phenotypic shifts.
> was a capital crime

> track down witnesses

Am I too naive that I think that's a worthy use of that information?
The biggest flaw of Discord is the federated nature and how disconnected each discord is from any others. As a casual game enjoyer, I found myself somehow juggling over 50 discords in ca 2021, each with their own server rules and conventions for how to use @all tags, alerting thresholds, etc.

It's too much burden on the user to manage the incoming information and resulted in a kind of anxiety about reading red marked messages and frustration at realizing how I didn't care for 95% of them, but I was unwilling to completely separate myself from that community (e.g. quitting or muting the discord)

It becomes a question of which friends you want to implicitly abandon and I ultimately decided to just abandon them all.

If the competitor even has a slightly more unified product it could easily displace discord.

Transferring a bot from one chat format to another chat format isn't some kind of insurmountable moat, and I think it's likely this project could make a few changes to support them with no modification required.
Making the payroll tax apply to wages beyond $176,100/year would greatly extend the life of the trust fund which should allow getting past the death of most of the last baby boom.
Determinate Nix 3.0 featuring stable flakes
Leaping AI (YC W25) Is Hiring Founding Engineers for Self-Improving Voice AI
I'd consider beancounter to be best case. At least a beancounter works for the company and gets paid. It's like they know they're Koolaid drinkers but every server is riced up with Discord's product pipeline like an aftermarket Honda.
Discords performance is unmatched. I hope that’s one of their goals as well
> We don’t have traditional defined-benefit pensions, or not outside of the public sector.

That's a fairly popular belief, but even now (well, as of March 2023), several decades after the general move against them, 15% of private sector workers have access to a defined-benefit pension plan.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2024/15-percent-of-private-indu...
it tells you that your neighbors voted for trump, and we might ask why. It isn't meaningless, if you live in a historically "blue" county and it went red, why did it go red?

I understand that counties can have various sub-regions and cultures and all of that, but not every county does. there's 3300 counties, and people live in all of them. Knowing that your neighbors voted for Trump might incline introspection.

at least that's what i hoped i could point out. Apparently shoot the messenger!
This paper is a great resource if you're unfamiliar with zk-SNARK and how it works:

Why and How zk-SNARK Works (2019)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07221