skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The gen part of transgenic comes from genes, not gender.

Transgenic refers to an organism or cell whose genome has been altered by the introduction of one or more foreign DNA sequences from another species by artificial means.[1][2]

Trumps’s team grabbed the term to anger credulous people and get their support. Trump might not know what it means, but his team does, and they don’t care. I expect depatru knows what it means as well, or is capable of finding it out. But he’d rather add to the manipulation.

I’m linking to both genome.gov and to Wikipedia in case the government site is taken down.

[1]https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/Transgenic
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgene
The siren song of infinite flexibility
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Generally, societies value human time far less than we might wish they should.
You guys really have all the FFMpeg flags memorized? It’s absurd to say it doesn’t save time sometimes. Also, aren’t these the guys that were whingeing about how we need to turn it off before the world turns into paper clips three years ago?
The latest JCVI recommendations are here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/childhood-varicel...

The shingles vaccination programme (for older adults) has existed since 2013.

The JCVI recommendation from 2023 took into account new evidence that had emerged since the original decision in 2009, using a new model to evaluate cost-effectiveness and better evaluate the impact on QALY from infection.

The original 2009 reasoning's decision is available here: https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130107105...
> The remote construction site had virtually no labor, no sizable port, few roads and insufficient electricity. The design involved an amusement park built 1,000 feet up and theaters suspended in the air between the parallel towers.

This just seems like willfully making the project harder / more expensive without much benefit…
If you don't support the political narrative of the weird world, then you get downvotes from the HN NPCs. It's just the way things are.

Downvotes in 3-2-1...
Logic and Proof (2002) [pdf]
Walmart having a very large fleet of corporate private jets likely made the decision and trip easier for him.
Whether or not Dahl was influenced by the behavior of the state of Israel, he extrapolated his hatred towards a group of people. It's not really more complicated than that: it's wrong to be anti-Russian because of the actions of Putin, it's wrong to be anti-semitic because of the actions of Israel.

Whether or not you agree with the state of Israel's actions in recent years, it's very concerning to me to see comments like this that seem to justify or explain away racial hatred. You have to disentangle the two.
This is exactly
EXACTLY my experience as well!
await is a keyword so it can't be a field. Same way you know if(foo) isn't a function call.
Unless you are counting Android as a Linux system, Linux isn't in common use. Ask the top 5 PC makers how many Linux setups they sell and it's going to be a pretty small number.
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I was given to believe that a lot of numerical code in python is fortran with a little bit of wrapper?
The greatest technical ones are:

- Countering aging / human rejuvenation.

- Atmospheric carbon capture and utilization.

- Strong materials / bringing materials up to their theoretical strengths. (The theoretical strength of fiberglass is ~40GPa; the best samples generally measure at ~5GPa.)

Yet it's the non-technical challenges surrounding governance, how to handle social media, how to deal with falling birthrates, etc., that are much more pressing.
Anecdotally, I’ve found that theanine radically increases the vividness and memorability of my dreams.

Of course that might be be a great effect depending on the content of my dreams.

That could mean deeper sleep, but I’ve not really measured that.
Helps that my phone renders the layout shifting at ~5fps
True, I need this one. Especially as ggdocs is barely impossible to customize.
The Nintendo Switch Joy-Con Engineering Teardown
Do the type of project you specified, but unprompted for companies that did not request it, meaning a higher delta between you and other candidates. Because you are defining the project rather than them, you can also heavily recycle it within the same industry, so it still stands out as impressive but also scales reasonably well. You can also do it with ChatGPT quickly and it is not noticeably messy AI work because there is nothing to compare your work with. Your work stands out to for its quality, but for existing.

I did this back when I was an intern for an innovation role and got it.

Did a bit of consulting for others on this years ago as well. A remnant of that time:

https://simbi.com/matthew-gaiser/pre-interview-project-help

The project idea is fine, but if everyone does the project, you are still stuck competing against many others on the same field.

When I do this kind of project, I stuff it in with my resume as a single file.

On the employer side, I am not sure what you could do that doesn't deter a lot of people.
Animal testing should be banned, so that's fine
Most of the stories in this thread end as quietly as possible.
Sure it does.

Did you read the article?
- Completely ignoring the portfolio side of his comment
No, we’re saying the majority of economists are more likely to be accurate than this particular economist.
Nope,
not with today's open plan offices.
Body doubling works because both people involved are aware of support each other's intention and focus.
At work you're all there for the same reason, broadly speaking,
but you may have radically different and conflicting tasks.
There's no way everyone can be fully accommodating of everyone else's needs.
Plus, the environment is some unpleasant aggregate of barely tolerable for everyone: noise levels, temperature, lighting, ergonomics.

Want me back in the office? Give me an office, with one, maybe two, office mates that I get along with. A door I (we) can close when needed.
That or switching you to a SOTA model briefly, instead of the regular fine-tuned GPT-3.5 or something.
I’m not saying just leave everyone to their own devices, but some individuals should be able to have ownership and make decisions without layers and layers of process.

Ofc decisions can have consequences, but that’s what the high pay should be for.

It’s not a black and white issue and I don’t think you need to present it like one.
"uncapped"?
I might be unusual, but I’d be quite happy to pay more than my ad value (less than a cent per pageview in most cases) to sites, but there’s no system to do so.

There’s zero chance I’m going to subscribe to every site that I might hit a few times a year.
Granted, he did. At the same time, Asimov was well known to be a groper, and even wrote a satire book called "The sensuous dirty old man" which would probably have landed better as satire had he not been fairly well known in scifi circles to be in fact a dirty old man.

There were some decent scifi authors at the time - not least, Ursula K LeGuin.
A bit late, but there was a bug in the GitHub Win32 OpenSSH that was introduced in last October 2024 cumulative update. This was precipitated by a PR from September 2023. It performs a permissions check on the logs and other folders, and apparently enforces the permissions it expects, as the service crashes/does not start. This seems to affect Windows platforms more as opening an affected location in Windows Explorer probably prompts the user that access is denied, and would you like to update the permissions. https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/issues/2282
I think it's important to say that ethics are lacking from top to bottom. It isn't just devs who lack ethics. Companies do incredibly unethical things all the time and many folks act like not going along with it is somehow bad.

When the lil person gets a lil revenge we blow it way out of proportion because we're so incredibly desensitized to the constant barrage of unethical acts by executives and corporations.
I think this is what is missing from most people (especially here, where its more likely to be dream driven?).

Once you have a kid (and properly well adjusted), your life is no longer yours. You can't go on a sabbatical as a father. Your child's future will appear to be the most important thing to you and everything becomes secondary.

I think this is probably what life is for the majority of people. Work is just something they do to sustain the life of their family. They don't have the time (nor interest, nor care) to keep up with C++ conference, the latest JavaScript libraries, etc etc.

This is one of the reason why I think that "dead jobs" is not necessarily a bad thing. It points to a much larger question of "why are we even doing this in the first place?"
Having lived in the Boise (Idaho) area, I saw this happen over and over with Micron and HP. I knew dozens of people who had worked for one or the other (and sometimes both) and were then let go in those companies frequent mass layoffs. One person I knew had been laid off → rehired by Micron 3x in the span of 10-years.

I think the biggest issue is that it is far too often the _first_ tool that companies reach for, instead of the last. Oh, the market feels unstable? Better cut 5% "just to be safe". There's a national event that might impact our business? We're going to drop 10% of our employees before we know anything.

While it certainly doesn't apply to every company, I wonder what it might look like for executive leadership to make a pledge that it always comes from the top first: The leadership team agrees that it will take a (public) $X financial cut for N months in the event of a layoff-level event/period to help guide the ship through the storm (with compensation on the other side). If it works, you have the loyalty/respect of your employees. If it doesn't, you do the layoffs anyway and those who remain know that you tried.
Love it - Great work. I’m gonna give it a go.
You should also try the same prompt multiple times to see how this works.

Sometimes you will get better or worse answers completely by chance.

I think Claude is pretty good if you have it write a function and give it the inputs, output and a data example. You can also put to ask clarifying questions as needed because there is a good chance there are aspects of the prompt that are ambiguous.

My prompts are always better if I write them in a separate text file and then paste them in too. I think I just take my time and think things out more that way instead of trying to get to the answer as fast.
GDP does not pay my bills.
> Who knows what's in their heads

Expansion, colonization, power and wealth. Classic
I was thinking the same thing. Europe should build its own cloud. All purchased US goods and services are now a potential target for a match of arm wrestling.
In my circle, nobody with some education considers crypto a scam.. And more joiners every day.

The fact that backbone financial institutions are replacing their dinosaur infra with XRP is a big indication that crypto is here to stay.

All the arguments against crypto are still superficial and non-convincing. It seems like most financial institutions could be replaced by smart contracts. People who are into speculation also have a place away from the exclusive stocks club. Others who dont trust governments and banks have a solution now (truckers protest in Canada)..

We are somehow back to the "is internet a scam", or before it "is electricity a scam".. They are not, they are a necessary evolution to meet people'd needs.
Is it not incumbent on the company who hired the employees to ensure they are utilized sufficiently? Why imply it’s the worker’s fault for their own mismanagement?
You can greatly improve DX with something like this and get the best of both worlds.

https://github.com/t1mmen/srtd
Not speaking for OP’s experience but I suppose that you might default to all this fancy serverless edge worker stuff if you learned how to code on their (usually generous) free-tier plans, or they were the only things you dealt with at work.

Meanwhile setting up a little VPS box would come more naturally if you learned in the era of the LAMP stack and got your hands dirty with Linux.

In fact I wonder if for some people that’s made worse by the tendency to split frontend and backend web development into completely separate disciplines when originally you did the whole thing.
I do not quite understand that it runs on BEAM and Javascript with runtime.

Most of the great things I like about Elixir is tied to feature native
to BEAM. (I think).

And I would expect that BEAM has not been ported to a Javascript runtime?

I would also expect at Gleam for Javascript can use and interact with Javascript libraries and what not, not possible under the regular version.

I would also expect that it is possible to write useful code that mill work on both platforms. but with a lot of limitations.

Do I have this completely wrong?
Depends on the library, it is a mix of C, C++, Fortran, and using Python as JIT DSLs.
Good point. If you hadn’t met the deadline, there would be no opportunity to encounter the software functioning in any state.
It doesn’t sound like the type of iteration matters at all.

If your leadership is good and competent, they can drive the company any way they feel and have it work.

The most productive I’ve been in my career was when my PO put all tasks that needed to be done in a Google sheet and the whole dev team spent a week just picking tasks off the list. It ended with us shipping our app on time.

No planning, no grooming, no nothing.
It was a high trust, high ownership team.

I miss those days.
I completely get your point. What would you suggest, then?
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I wouldn't say "the break of getting out of their house/from family/partner" is misguided.
I remember during COVID wfh, my co-workers with spouses and kids were not at all happy having all those people together all day, trying to accomplish tasks on different schedules and needs for quiet or collaboration. Add to that most of them didn't have a set up for two adults to work in one office space, and all of them trying to share the home internet.
Noooooo you can’t just run independent experiments you need institutions and phds and bureaucracy and gold plating nooooo
I'm always a little surprised how we (HN readers) are so against paying for software. If any group understands the work that goes into major software packages and the value we derive from it, it should be us.

Who do you think should pay for it? What is the value to them? Do their incentives align well with yours?
I wonder if we worked for the same company?

In my last job, requirements, such as they were, were based on some idea that someone in authority thought we might need. No consideration was given to the needs of the clients of the code. They weren't savvy in the any of the current technologies, so it wasn't even the latest fad.

I developed the skill needed to implement their dumbfsck idea-du-jour quickly and without breaking existing code. However, the resulting code was increasingly more convoluted and incomprehensible. I had inherited a god object that I only added to over time.

When I quit, my boss knew he was not going to find anyone that could keep up my pace, much less understand the code. He tried to get me to stay, but I told him that I will never work on this code again, so there'd be no point in staying.

A couple years later a former coworker told me that the guy that had taken over had a bug in some code that was convoluted but rock solid when I left. I figured he had noodled with the code and broken it. Sucks to be him.

Told my coworker to tell him that my advice it to look for another job.

So yes, I hear you when you say they're perfectly capable of sabotaging themselves.
I noticed you can create custom chips using Verilog which I will definitely try at some point. Seems like it could be a pretty useful tool to learn/test designs in.
Interesting times indeed https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/03/yes-biden-spent-...
This all sounds like the post-mortem justifications of a sclerotic executive suite.
CDOs, the financial instrument behind the 2008 financial collapse, had a tremendous amount of market value too. A "LOT"(sic) of businesses were built on selling tobacco products, lead based gasoline, and high sugar ultra-processed foods too. Perhaps you should rethink your argument?

Creating economic activity doesn't justify harming people and it has become thunderingly obvious that titillating and outraging viewers constantly to maximize ad impressions is harming the public.
Really fantastic.

I've been using theanine for a long time, but never for any of these purported benefits. And the benefits I do use it for would be near impossible to measure. I just use it to make a over-caffinated monkey brain state tend toward a "lock-in" mental state. That's super hard to measure, and just as likely the theanine is a trigger for a mental deep dive that could just as well be sugar. But the ritual works, and that's what's important to me. It just took the intial "It helps mellow out caffeine for deep focus" idea to establish the ritual.

Science? No. Effective? Yeah, I think so.
It was never a bad idea, chasing trends based on vague "articles" like this is a bad idea though.
Some people will really do a lot of mental gymnastics in order to consistently blame workers instead of laying the real blame on poor leadership for company failures. If your company is failing because Tammy isn’t a “rockstar” at her job, you have a terrible company.
That’s really the key part: if the managers who created the problem are still there, layoffs will just make it worse. There are cases where getting out of a dubious business line can lead to long-term benefit but I’ve seen that a handful of times compared to losing useful people while the bad managers failed upwards.
People like you are such a pain. Yes, companies are duplicitous and we should be wary of them. But that doesn't excuse the fact that a company that says we will find you the best deal, and then not only does not but actively colludes with the merchant to decide which deal to offer, if any, is lying and needs to be held responsible.

We have to collectively hold people responsible for lying. People like you make lying nothing to be worried about.
Sorry my ai credits got exhausting. Should be working back now
Yup, I don't understand why Google would sponsor McLaren F1 team. They've already done a better promoting Chrome.
I have friends working on the French Rafale.
Really expensive plane, mildly successful so far.

They are really busy right now.
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Whether there is a kill switch or not is somewhat irrelevant. There is a larger than nonzero chance that there is a kill switch, and the US cannot be trusted anymore. So we have to assume there is a kill switch.
Ask HN: How to get started writing a blog?
I'm a programmer, currently pursuing a bachelor's in computer science and I'd like to start blogging to share my thoughts and experiences about various topics, not just programming. But in case of technical topics, how do I get over the fact that I'm not good enough or experienced enough to write about that particular topic? In general how do I get started writing blogs (not asking about the tech stack) and share it with people across the internet and form a sort of community?
Who would have thought that the POTUS would be the person to kick foreign arms industries into sixth gear?
How would you correct for it? As someone who works with ten year olds, they would ask you what causation and correlation is.
> Our writings are a complete fingerprint of the thought process, because we are able to pick up any thought process from a book, without ever seeing or otherwise having contact with the author

That doesn't follow, even a simple encryption program can make that possible without an intermediate actor being able to crack that.

Humans all run very similar software/hardware so we can read what each others write, but so far the computer isn't close to the same behind the scenes thoughts. Meaning all the things we humans leave out when we write are actually important, so the text isn't everything.
I think business relationship is not that dissimilar to other relationships. I think you should voice your concerns, while still letting the manager know that you are open to disagree and still commit. Only when your disagreement becomes too strong, then you leave.

If you have concerns and constructive feedback, I found most managers to have agreeable reactions to it.

Maybe I was just lucky, but I did have this experience across four companies. What you should not do is bare criticism without constructive feedback. Most managers will respond positively, even if nothing happens in the end. And after voicing it for several times, you can feel better for leaving, because you also did what you could from your end.
Because any credible contenders for power are killed, imprisoned, or (as the article describes) forced to destroy their own credibility.
As a user of this application, this is not even close to the same thing as having the ability to change the search engine in the browser settings itself. If I need to actually search something on one of the other search engines for reasons then I have to go disable the plugin, or set it to a specific search engine which I am unlikely to use. I am also curious if my typing into the search bar still sends my quick search pre-submit to my search engine selected in the browser unless I remove the pre-fetching. So no, not perfect. And this is not Kagi’s fault that’s just the unfortunate situation Safari leaves them in.
Congrats to Ondřej Čertík and the team working on LFortran, this is a big milestone!
In 4 years another administration could come in but there's still damaged trust. If something happens in 5, 6 years from now and article 5 kicks in then even if the US comes to help what is there to say they won't suddenly pull out again 2 years into a war when Vance takes charge? The reliability is gone.
Yes. Of course, I have new ones now. I’m still working on those.
The biggest Russian fuckup in this war was to put their elite soldiers in one plane for Hostomel Airport without knowing that Ukraine had SAMs in position and enough intelligence to know this was coming.

After that the Russian "elite" units were elite in name only.

This was in hour 8 of the war and it's worth bearing in mind that this war could have gone very, very differently.
a) You can set up your own advertisement/sponsorship system and, unless some bloke took the time to specifically write rules targeting your website, the ads would not be blocked. Bonus points: this prevents most malicious ads, which are another major reason people use ad blockers, from appearing on your website, simply by virtue of you not letting them in.

b) You can always follow a combination of free (unpaywalled) content + premium content behind a paywall/Patreon/etc + merchandise + Kickstarter for more ambitious projects.
Do you also hire two different kinds of programmers - one that never wrote a test in their life, and is not allowed to write anything other than production code, and second that never ever wrote anything other than tests, and is only ever allowed to write tests?

It makes no sense to have "two distinct, independent LLMs" - two general-purpose tools - to do what is the same task. It might make sense to have two separate prompts.
The DOJ logic is its going to fix the search market! Are you seriously believing that it will take a year for people to give Microsoft a monopoly position in browsers (which Google still hasn't achieved) when Google divest itself from Chrome?

Get real, the DOJ forcing Google to get rid of Chrome is one of the best tech news in years!