skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple still indirectly controls what is distributed and charges developers outside their app store money[1]. So it hasn't been effective enough to actually open up the platform for arbitrary apps to be installed.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/support/core-technology-fee/
“Safety” was in air quotes for a reason. The Claude peoples’ idea of “AI safety” risks are straight out of the terminator movies.
The key to great teams is the key to great teams. Anything else is context dependent (what, who, when), nuaced, unpredictable, stochastic, often non repeatable, sometimes contradicting, changing with time (as in maturity of projects), requires adaptability, differs for different people etc.

I'm not giving up on answering the question. It's an aid for you to answer this question by yourself now from where you are.

Argument in this article feels like advice that key to writing best programs lies in writing functions with average LoC.
Soap ticks south on skin.
Fine hairs remind him of frost.
Downing a sweet beer.

Given https://imgur.com/a/lZKnjgM
The profit margins are not the only thing. There are tens or hundreds of thousands of people working on billing jobs at doctors and insurances that shouldn’t exist.
high cost of healthcare can be solved overnight: just mandate insurance companies to pay for healthcare for foreign hospitals (at rates not exceeding US rates).

so that Americans could travel overseas and get healthcare expenses reimbursed over there.

watch prices drop...
> 149,135,151

This is 8-point-something as you say.

1.49 is in between 1.2 and 1.6 and I have memorised log(1.2)=0.1 and log(1.6)=0.2, so I would think log(1.5) is close to 0.17, using sloppy linear interpolation.

That would make log(149,135,151) approximately 8.17. My calculator also says 8.17. Your guess was good!

I have found linear interpolation such an intuitive approximation method that the tradeoff of having to memorise more logarithms is worth it.
Reminds me of Pathway https://pathway.com/
The key is to imagine them as Zuul the Gatekeeper from Ghostbusters.
I tried finding a reason to use Porkbun over something like namecheap and I couldn't.

The porkbun UI is just barebones, it isn't better than anything else.

Porkbun's prices are equal to or higher than most registrars.

I don't see configuration options in porkbun that I can't utilize with other registrars/dns hosts.

It seems like maybe porkbun has good customer service? I've had that elsewhere though, so again not a huge benefit for me. Support for domains isn't something I've ever really needed though.

I don't really understand why people are recommending porkbun like they are.
>Every single economic analysis of NSF and NIH research funding that I have seen has shown economic return on investment from $2.5-$10 for every dollar of science spending.

But the academic institution didn't spend money on science. The did spend money on propaganda and promoting ideology.
I'd go further and apply something like the notary/broker approach to the collection of data. Types of data should be defined in law. Some (say, email address) would be "free" to collect, but subject to strict sharing requirements like you describe (e.g., you can ask anyone for their email address, but you can't do anything with it except use it yourself to contact them). Others (mailing address) would be allowed for certain purposes (e.g., you need to mail the person a package). Companies should expect regular audits and stiff financial penalties if they collect such data but cannot objectively demonstrate that they actually need it to perform a service they are providing to the person who provides it. (This means you can't collect someone's mailing address unless you actually need it to do a specific thing for that person; simply using it as input to your internal analytics isn't good enough.) Others (e.g., location tracking) would require an approval process akin to being licensed to transport hazardous waste or something, so that it would be straight-up illegal to collect such data without prior approval. That approval process would involve full public disclosure of all intended uses of the data. You can't collect sensitive data without telling everyone exactly what you're going to do with it.

A large portion of the data that is illegally shared should never have been collected in the first place.
Oh for sure, but they're still 'somewhere' while commuting.
In the NT and early history of the [Catholic] church it was explicitly the people and not the building.
Oh, it's noah smith

99% of his opinions are bullshits, but I like him, I like his art-level stupidity
What a bunch of nonsense. The article flattens the "10x" definition to mean quantity, where as in reality the most talented people can reach hights, qualitatively, the 1x cannot. The Infinite Monkey Theorem - no amount of 1x'ers would have produced Einstein's contributions. The same applies to software, in many ways.
It is not the least bit established that state driven budgets are paying for this, that wasn't even in the comment. So making that assumption is not merited, much less telling me I should be taking it as evidence.

> Prophylactically responding to your sure-to-come bad faith response,

That you think this is a bad-faith response is a weird way to put it.

I certainly don't want to pay for all the sales kickoff parties and conferences that the employees of my software vendors pay for, yet I still am forced to. Should we run the government like a business, where the benefits of exchange of information is permitted, or should that only be allowed from paid sponsors?

There is a lot of bad faith in this thread but it's odd you should place it on me.
That's nominal profit margins. It doesn't take into account the way that different parts of these conglomerates take money from one pocket and put it in the other (e.g. insurance and Healthcare providers), which means it doesn't show up in the profits for your first pocket. This is why the fact that Healthcare platforms are vertical monopolies (not just horizontal monopies) is important to this conversation.

(separately, profit capping rules means that once a monopoly is cemented, once a company has moved as much as it can from one pocket to the other, there's an internal incentive to spend money on bureaucracy).
The inclusion of the word “just” makes this comment not so relevant to the discussion. Nobody is claiming that.
On my phone (niche software) several fonts don't get rendered.
I prefer Gandi.
man see virtualization man happy man see it no crossplatform man sad
It just depends on your perspective.

Honestly, Americans are probably more tolerant and accepting of long distances compared to most peer countries. 45 minutes of driving to hit some kind of city is very far most of the time in Japan or most of Europe, where the population density is higher than the states.
no biases detected
Can you provide an example of this propaganda and ideology? Do you really think this is true?
You don't just prevent accessibility software from reading it, you likely stop most software from reading it: spell checkers, search engines, things that read it aloud (which anyone can benefit from), AI. If you want your message to get less attention, this is a good way.
But Unicode is such a historically grown monster that it violates its own rules in many places.
Worked great for the French too, right up to the Revolution.
Some of this is already achieved by the EU's GDPR, not the DMA
Great teams are made of great individuals. All of the policies and trust and rituals and expectations are based on the performance of the bottom quintile of the team. If the bottom quintile of the team is still the top quintile of "engineers applicable to this problem" you will have a radically different and improved culture and performance than if the bottom quintile of the team is a median engineer, and especially a bottom quintile of "engineers applicable to solving this problem".
Because most people have gotten sick of steelmanning the deliberate destruction of our country.

My own cutoff was June 2020. I figured Trump had to come around to accepting reality and leading by then. At the very least it would have made for a shoe-in second term. But nope! He really is that {retarded, xitter-addicted, foreign-controlled}.
Coal plants being dirty, toxic, and generally not good for the health of nearby populations isn't exactly new information of course. But they were important for energy generation for a long time.

That's the reason the resulting pollution and toxic waste is tolerated. Coal contains all sorts of stuff besides organic matter. When you burn it, the non organic stuff remains. It will typically contain metals, heavy metals, and other stuff that isn't good for you. That's also the reason coal smog isn't good for people. You don't want that stuff in your lungs. It's similarly bad as smoking is.

The ash needs to go somewhere and the standard practice with a lot of coal plants has been to just dump it outside, try to contain it with some infrastructure, and not worry too much about it. Nobody really cared. Except now a lot of these plants are going out of business and the the toxic waste remains. And most of these plants needed cooling water so they tend to be close to water ways. So, there's that.
There are great and normal juniors as well.

Junior does not mean incompetent, it means unexperienced.
I have solved some logic problems using Prolog, but Prolog is neat for text-based adventure games, too.

SWI Prolog has great libraries, BTW.
Hi, i'm one of the co-creators. Let me know if you have any questions.
They are Americans. No, thank you.
No scientific researchers have been fired. Almost all of the terminations occurred within the international health aid nonprofit.
This Developer Voices podcast interview digs into the juicy details of building a graphics engine in Rust through the lens of a purpose-built programming language made for graphics pipelines. This language, Graphene, is built on top of the Rust language and supports both JIT and ahead-of-time-`rustc`compilation of reusable image editing pipelines down to standalone programs (like full screen apps or CLIs akin to ImageMagick) and embedding in other apps like games or websites. And built on top of that language/engine, we talk about how our open source Graphite ( https://graphite.rs/ ) editor is being built to offer a credible alternative to creative apps like Photoshop and Inkscape.

In short, we're building an approachable, artist-friendly graphics editor that allows technical users to dig into its underlying technical details. Instead of picking one focus—like vector, raster, painting, photo processing, or animation—we're generalizing the technology and building something that's more like a "game engine" for universal graphics processing, where artist-friendly editing tools act like the "coding environment" or "IDE" for the underlying graphics programming language. Artists use industry-standard workflows to draw their artwork, and Graphite automatically sets up the Graphene node graph "code" behind the scenes for rendering their creations.

If your interest is piqued in languages/compilers, graphics programming, or rendering techniques and you're looking for a summer internship, applications are open for GSoC 2025 ( https://graphite.rs/volunteer/guide/student-projects/ ) working with us to build a better Graphene and Graphite, especially focused on the infrastructure for GPU-accelerated raster rendering. Get in touch (Discord is best) to tell us your background if that's of interest. We'll especially be prioritizing applicants with a languages/compilers and low-level GPU (WGPU, Vulkan, OpenGL, etc.) programming background. Even if you're not looking for an internship, but you can lend a hand with a compilers/graphics/game engines background, this is the area we are most bottlenecked on so your open source contributions would go tremendously far in helping us achieve our mission to recreate Blender's success, but in the 2D creative software domain.
Alpine executes system cron jobs (daily, weekly etc) from root's crontab. That simple way of taking care of it makes me smile every time I see it.
I came across a0.dev the other day, and I think your focus on Flutter specifically is a nice differentiator. I'll try it!
You make a good point about being quirky. People using these "font" tools for Unicode should at least know about the problems it creates so they don't think it works smoothly like proper font styling. Personally my brain classifies overuse of Unicode as visual spam and just moves on to other more plain content.
Peirce Edition Project
The reason people aren't motivated to do boring work is because of a poor culture of ownership, it has nothing to do with skill or "10x" stuff. Having a team of only great people allows a much deeper culture of ownership and its much easier to get people to work on the boring stuff. Allstar teams absolutely work and are the best way to work.
I'd like to see proof that Medicare does not evaluate QALY and spends unlimited money in general.
There were already several replies to this comment 20 minutes before you made your comment. There were no downvotes when I made my reply, and note that I can not downvote it because it was a reply to one of mine.
> React Native means bad mobile UX.

if that's the case, I'd think Bluesky has an advantage. Because there's open API and third-party apps actually works, compaired to very closed nature of X.com
Practically everything we take for granted today to be core, important science was considered science of questionable value if go back in time long enough.
My point wasn't that we should expect high performing teams to have a diversity of relevant values -- rather, that "diversity" is just a means of smuggling people of the same values in together under the guise of inclusion. In other words, its a kind of radical exclusion of those who do not prioritise this sort of diversity -- which is the vast majority of people. Looking around to see if the ethnic mix matches population statistics is bizarre to almost everyone.

This is a problem when these values become extremised in a population such that to select for them is to quite significantly narrow the plurality of values which would otherwise well-coexit. Consider, eg., religious communities living together before and after liberalism -- before = civil war, after = human rights. Classical liberalism is an ideology of values pluralism which thereby permits great diversity of ideas.

We should expect high-performing teams to have a diversity of relevant ideas (, and perhaps, ) of irrelevant values.

The concern arises when the benefit to team cohesion arises from an echo-chambre of shared values, at a great expense, of disruptive innovation and ideational diversity. And also, on my part, just honesty about what this sort of moralist is really aiming for -- to be surrounded by people who wish for a very narrow sort of values-homogeneity.

If "diversity and inclusion" were part of the pluralist fabric of liberal tolerance shared by the vast majority of people this issue wouldn't arise -- since then there could be a great actual diversity of opinon whilst values were shared. The issue is how peripherial prioritising these values is, de facto -- and hence how self-regulatingly narrow the "team" has to be.

If the chief value being pushed were "tolerance", such that we had, "tolerance, respect, effort" (, say) as the new moralist fashion -- then almost none would be excluded.

Consider what the impact of making "racism" a team value would be in these terms: how narrowing, homogenising, and the like. And yet, I suspect the number of people keen to work with "people as racist as they are" is not so different than "people as obsessed by diversity as they are".
I'm afraid i'm missing the point of the entire conversation, then. Nobody was claiming church was just a building to begin with either.
If you’re lucky enough to do something like this I can’t recommend it enough. I bought a second house in my neighborhood instead of renting an office and it made work a hell of a lot more fun. Felt healthier too, because I could open windows or take walks.
It’s not Fascism on its own, but it’s representative of the forces that push society to Fascism.

Start looking and you’ll find powerful forces shaping history. Sacking a city is extremely profitable throughout antiquity, which then pushes cities to have defensive capabilities which then…

In the Bronze Age trade was critical as having Copper ore alone wasn’t nearly as useful as having copper and access to tin. Iron however is found basically everywhere as where trees.

Such forces don’t guarantee outcomes, but they have massive influence.
He paid 75K which is not bad though.
I mean that I can't sign in during closed hours to manage that account.
Most universities do not contain sufficient capacity to host both the conference and the overnight stays of thousands of people. Even a major university would face significant disruption by hosting a conference, it is simply not built for it. Building venues at each university doesn’t make sense either because it doesn’t have 100% utilization.

Conference venues provide incentives by having cheap venue rent and minor discount on housing and the city makes money by having more people do fun things in their down time.

Purely from efficiency, disregarding politics or “waste” or “delusion”, conference centers are built for a very rational reason - it makes sense and saves money for event organizers.
Agreed with others that not being willing to name any of these "many" events means it is likely nonsense and manipulative to bring up as it's impossible to shoot down. Likewise, name the cancer research institution who is not feeling the loss of NIH, NCI, VA, etc funding and collaborators.

Ironically, the one deceptive truth I can think of here is still worse than wrong. Big pharma does hold fancy events, including at conferences, as part of how they attract and fund drug trials. However, cutting basic cancer research and the people who do it means the only people who will be left are the big pharma party people that you seem to dislike.
Show HN: Gomcptest – A Go toolkit for testing LLM agents (MCP) with VertexAI
I built a Go toolkit that helps test and interact with Model-Calling-Protocol (MCP) tools, primarily for developing and understanding agentic systems. It currently works with Google's VertexAI SDK.

What it does:

- Provides a basic set of tools for testing MCP implementations

- Includes a CLI that emulates Claude Code functionality

- Offers an OpenAI API v1 compatible server (with some limitations)

Try it yourself:

1. Clone the repo: `git clone https://github.com/owulveryck/gomcptest`

2. You'll need a Google Cloud Platform account with VertexAI API enabled

3. Follow the setup instructions in the README

This is strictly a proof of concept for learning purposes - I built it to better understand how agentic systems work and to have a simple way to develop and test various tools.

I'm especially interested in feedback on:

- Any use case you think it can enable

- Ideas for additional tools that would be
> What AI companies are doing (downloading pirated music and training models) is completely unfair.

We work in an industry built on leveraging unfairness. Expecting otherwise on this forum is very odd.
Do you feel the Trump & Musk dynamic duo are going to do a better job of handling it? They're cut from similar cloth.
AI model pickers are a design failure, not a feature
This happened in particle physics in the 90s. What you'll see is Europeans being hired in 20 years to fill all the positions, when the continent has LHC and the US doesn't. I think there was also a smaller, but also very significant setback at the start of the Bush Jr. era. We're stuck in a vicious cycle where every cancer researcher votes for the candidate they don't think will fire them, and then the other candidate tries to fire everyone who they know didn't vote for them.
I now have a torrent client on my iPhone.
To play devil's advocate, the common person accepts credit scores, and has no idea how they work. Should credit bureaus also be illegal? Or some medium whereby the credit companies _can_ collect the information, but can't sell it, or share analytics or even anonymized data?
Steam Year in Review 2024
Selling the government/land/public companies to the highest bidder, which in many cases would be him too
there is a mob mentality on HN where a certain group of people go burying dissenting opinion, because they can just downvote without posting a thoughtful response.
This might be a definitions issue, but my assertion is not that a "great engineer" is someone who can complete leetcode hards in 15 minutes for 8 hours in a row without stopping. My assertion is that about 1 in 5 people have 5-10x the business impact of the median software developer, and if you are recruiting or managing a team you should have the goal of having your team be entirely composed of these top quintile folks. The article specifically says that you should not have this goal, and I extremely strongly disagree with that assertion in the article.
I wish there was a mailing list I could subscribe to so I could know when the book os complete.

Or a pre-order on Amazon?
Diagnostic dilemma: Growing weed with bat poop left 2 men with deadly infections
yeah, most projects when you spot a config file, its complexity will tend to scale with the increasing complexity of the domain you capture.

so either it's very small/mature and you don't have to worry too much, or in the active development case your config files are pretty much the instruction set of some kind of logical foggy vm... and eventually a whole environment of tools etc. will "compile down" to your config files and you get a pain knot to endlessly massage...
nice anecdote. but how do you explain systemic differences in general if you really believe the way you organize stuff doesnt matter?
Rock n'Roll Racing in Unity: game is controlled by NES emulator
Car coordinates are mirrored from a live NES emulator running the original game side by side with the Unity port. It gives the game controls authenticity. To my knowledge, it is the first such attempt.
SQL queries don't start with SELECT (2019)
You can do that. But as a language feature, inter-procedural inference creates problems for humans. There's no way for humans to see what type a function wants.

Language design seems to be converging on the idea that functions should have human-readable type signatures, but within functions, automatic inference can be used freely. In one direction, we have the "auto" inference mechanism of C and C++,
and the local inference of Go and Rust. In the other direction, we have TypeScript for JavaScript and Python's rather strange unchecked optional typing. All those changes move towards the center position.

(Then, of course, there are "lambdas", but that's another subject.)
Also the old school HFT community (which I'm from).
Spurious Correlations (2020)
> everything we know

Please demonstrate what you know before making representations about what we know.

The restaurant sells more pizza than pasta, so they put pizza on the first page of menu. The strategy works, people come back for more pizza.

Google facilitates conversions by presenting paid results relevant to search intent. If nobody ever clicked paid results and converted, businesses wouldn't buy those paid spots. Admittedly, Google makes tracking success of paid ad spending a confusing nightmare, but not impossible to work out with some effort.

If there's only 10 organic spots on the highly sought after page 1, paid search is a way to fight it out in the market. Fair enough?

It's a balance of:

* Running a search engine business.
* Providing quality paid results that match search intent
* Surfacing quality organic results that match search intent
* Allowing various ways to filter and access results according to refined search intent, for example advanced search tools or other channels such as image, shopping search, maps etc.