skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does domestic coal ash compare to this stuff?

Do the higher temperatures and pressures in power station liberate more of the harmful stuff, or is it basically as bad?

UK homes were commonly coal heated as late as the 1980s, a few still are. Its contribution to air pollution was well-understood, but this has got me wondering about ash exposure, as people would routinely handle the stuff with basically nothing in terms of protective gear.
Whiteboards for creative expression and sporadic learning
Yes, I have felt it worse with the kinds of managers who try to drive you by making you feel insecure. They're always making sneaky or not-so-sneaky comparisons.
True, I'd just tend to call exceeding the stack limit a stack overflow, rather than the more generic running out of space.
Discouraging others from learning to code is the worst career advice ever given
It is possible that prices would go down but that will be an incentive to rent instead of selling. So less houses on the market. That could keep the prices up. And no matter how low the price is, if people have no savings and no credit even one year worth of salary would be too much of a price.

The combination of all those factors could lead to a final state of a lot of houses owned by companies and a few extremely wealth people. Everybody else would be paying a rent.
Any co-founders are internally sharing startup related podcasts?
We are 2 co-founders with 5 early members. We found many startup related podcasts are valuable to early teams in experience sharing, industry knowledge, or market insights. Not sure we should share the podcasts to the whole team.
We are considering:
- too long to listen
- leader pressure for the whole team to finish listening
- they do not catch the main viewpoints, waste of time

Any suggestion or experience sharing?
Show HN: a tool to misuse Unicode and break compatibility with resource-constrained devices for the sake of useless fanaberie
damn that's extremely disappointing. I use Proton Mail, VPN and Drive and pay quite a bit of money for it.

Proton is a Swiss company why the fuck is the CEO glazing an american fascist. Time to look for alternatives.
Wouldn’t you rather have a player concerned with worst case scenarios?
Do you really believe creditors would just leave all that interest money on the table?
A dupe of my comment from another post on this (relating to the US arbiter ruling that she may not promote the book https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43351949)

People may be interested in the interview with Wynn-Williams (the whistleblower) on the News Agents podcast: https://www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/episodes/7DrpKCA/ (it's a UK news/political podcast very popular in the UK).
From what they said at the beginning I think this is her first big podcast interview about the book/her claims. I wonder if she chose a UK podcast because of the US arbiter ruling.
Congrats. Always wanted a second brain on my iOS devices.
We have free at point of need healthcare here in the UK, and still have a lot of choice in private healthcare if you want it.

In the nearest city to me there are 3 major private hospitals, and if you head into London there are loads of them.

Private is still able to compete and to be profitable. Just no one needs to die from preventable diseases.

(not saying NHS is perfect, it is a shadow of what it should be right now)
Perhaps, but that was 2000 years ago and not necessarily identical to how people feel/believe today.
going to use this for my bank account password
I wish we'd just say ok, people like Medicare, let's drop the age of enrollment by 1 year every year for ten years and see how that goes. If that works out, drop the age of enrollment by 2 years every year for the next ten years. Then figure it out from there. Could start as a paid option rather than just lowering the age when you get coverage based on work history, too.

Maybe something for children too, start with making Medicaid or something automatic for the first N months of life, and increase it every year too.
Congrats. Always wanted a second brain on my iOS devices .
It's generally pretty easy. Any time some organization's name comes up for cuts, just do a quick search + equity, gender, or various other buzzwords. It's always the same, because that's the reason the funding for these orgs is being cut. In this case here [1] is a page they removed.

It's difficult to find the breakdown of where the job cuts are going, but as only 247 of the jobs being terminated are in the US, it's suggestive that the cuts are weighted towards their international branch - jhpiego (which is where the above link is from).

[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20240807150252/https://www.jhpie...
That was likely intentional because CPP is one of the many terms used for C++.
Location: Banglore/ Remote-first

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Yet another article linking to the '10 rules of safety critical development' as a way to bash recursion.

If you're going to cite this, at least make sure you're not allocating any memory after startup.
I got a loan for a house 2 years ago. The process included showing our 3 last pay slips, the expected cost of the house (new build) and showing the bank how much money we had in our accounts (I loaned at a different bank that gave me better rates). There was a base percentage that lowered based on your level of income and the ratio of own contribution/loaned amount.

I live in a Central European country.
Credit scores are a good system actually.

They significantly improve the ability of a lender to model the default risk associated with a borrower, which results in lower borrowing costs for higher quality customers, as well as stopping debt spirals for people struggling.

In the absence of credit scores, higher quality borrowers will be charged higher interest rates or require higher collateral, since they are less differentiated from average quality borrowers, and/or access to credit will be restricted to a narrower proportion of the population.
Presentation has it's place, but writing what deserves to be read is far more important.
10x managers
Government run systems are alot cheaper all across Europe. So yes.

Unless you are saying there is something exception about the US and profit extractions?
A book without expecting any knowledge of mathematical notation would be a good start.
I've bought 3 math books to get into it and quit all of them within the first chapter.
Show HN: I Built A game in >1 day; Red flag or Green flag
Hi ya'all

I have been making a little game, why? Well certainly not to solve any big problems, more for fun.

What is it?
Its a simple, yet fun, mobile game, that aims to spark real world conversation. You get presented with a situation, and then you and your partner can vote either "Red flag or Green flag".

For example:
Situation: "They brush their teeth 8 times a day or more. They brush after every time they eat food, or snacks, or drink anything."

Discuss and vote!

After you vote you can see other peoples answers, as all users answers gets anonymized and added together.

One day soon I hope to create a feature where you yourself can have a 24 hour or 48 hour post. So you as a user can have other people vote on a siutation you made!

I got the idea when my wife and I were on a date a few months ago. The conversation kind of died out a little, which is strange for two extroverts .. So we played a game. Well now after today we can play Red flag or Green flag!

The design may need a bit of an update soon, but for now i'm okay with the it, afterall I built the app in less than half a day.

Ps. We launched today 14'march on product hunt, please check it out, and give an upvote if you like the idea ;)

Enough blabbing. Please check it out, and as last time I posted in here, I really hope to get some feedback.
Right, I read Aristotle's metaphysics, the terms used refer to concepts for what we use a different word, today.

So what you said is very important to take into consideration.
> Are there risks associated with sending DB info off to these third parties?

You can use AWS Bedrock and get access to Claude, and then just have something that proxies from your tool over to AWS. It'll work provided you can set a provider URL for the LLM.

So provided that you trust AWS you can use at least Claude (the best LLM anyway [at least today]) with confidence.
Booking System for Meeting Rooms
Just going off specs sheets from manufacturers and reviews (mostly consumer products, so enterprise should be the same or better).

There are only a few major NAND manufacturers: Samsung, Micron, Kioxia / Western Digital, SK Hynix, and their branded products are usually the best.

There are also several 3rd party controller developers: Phison, Marvell, Silicon Motion, which I think are the largest, and then a bunch of others.

I hadn't looked at this in a couple years, so 16 channel controllers are more common now, but only on high end enterprise devices.

4KB random read/write specs are definitely not trustable without testing. They are usually at max queue depth and, at least for consumer devices, based on writing to a buffer in SLC mode, so they will be a lot lower once the buffer is exhausted. Enterprise specs might be more realistic but there isnt as much public testing data available.
If you wanted to actually use it day to day though, it would cost so much more. Just the temperature control for such area would be either super expensive or require a complete redesign of the space to split it into lower floors.
This depends greatly on the denomination. Pious Catholics care greatly about their church buildings.
Tone deaf maybe, but his arguments are solid I find – most of all when compared to the reactions int eh thread.

(And I profoundly despise Trump, he’s near the bottom of my scale when it comes to politicians)
Sure if it's indirect I agree it will get messy fast with a dozen functions suddenly needing to handle an additional parameter, but unrelated to that... I'd really like to know who needs recursion for this that's deeper than 3 or 4 levels. What's the use case? Such xml surely would be unreadable and unwritable to humans, but if it's used as some form of exchange format between systems, what would that be? How would it end up with such deeply nested entities? It sounds like something you deliberately implement that way to show how "smart" you are, but not "hey that seems the reasonable thing to do here".

This makes me wonder: does any of the popular xml libs have a sort of safe mode, where custom entities and similar features are disabled, those schema urls ignored, and namespaces just flattened (and whatever else I forgot or don't even know about)? You know for when I know I only need to parse simple xml files that should contain a couple plain tags and attributes, and want to reduce attack surface.
The full 15-page proposal from OpenAI to the White House:

https://cdn.openai.com/global-affairs/ostp-rfi/ec680b75-d539...
Which countries use credit scores? I didn’t know it was a widespread thing, I always thought it was an American deviation.

Here in Sweden we don’t have it. When you apply for a new loan the bank can request information of other debts you have. And you have to send info about your income and answer questions about your expenses (living costs, number of children living at home, etc).
Bottom line: Trump intends to abdicate and dismantle American leadership of the free world.

Who would applaud and benefit from this? Russia and China.

Why is this bad for America? Because about 25% of GDP can be directly tied to this leadership role. A withdrawn and isolated and friendless America is also a less prosperous and less safe America.

Personally --- I blame failure to recognize the above on our poor education system. What our schools failed to teach is about to be learned the hard way.
She also did an interview with BI "hours before an arbitrator ruled in Meta's favor" https://www.businessinsider.com/former-meta-executive-sarah-...
For example I reckon in my country say I'm on 150k TC as a senior eng and a senior designer may be on 75k. Using USD conversion. So 2x may be normal.
10x would make me probably in the top 100 highest paid devs in the country except those who got lucky with share comp or own a chunk of the biz.
> For a start, everything would become much cheaper for you

That, I doubt. Most stuff already is dirt-cheap on the App Store (and riddled with ads). It’s not like, for example, getting into Apple’s App Store is so expensive that it adds dollars to the price of apps.
>One million .io sites - grab one while it lasts
> seems odd to blame Musk directly for that even if his tweet did kill the bill

Musk tanked a bill he obviously didn't read with zero plans for its replacement. So instead of a $1.7 trillion bill in December, we get roughly the same bill (that's what a continuing resolution is) plus $100bn in giveaways in March minus the PBM reforms.

Musk killed PBM reform. The fact that he was too high to know what he was doing isn't exactly redemption.
Like others have already said, it’s an accessibility nightmare. On the other hand, it’s not like this is going away anytime soon – maybe screenreaders could learn to understand and read some such “fonts” (e.g. bold/italic at least)?
Show HN: SumThatUp – Generate Summaries and Mind Maps from YouTube Videos
I built SumThatUp (https://sumthatup.com/) to generate summaries, key takeaways, and mind maps from YouTube videos. No sign-up required.

Why I Made This

I often get YouTube links from friends, but watching long videos isn’t always practical. I wanted a way to quickly grasp the main points without sitting through the entire thing.

How It Works

SumThatUp pulls the video transcript and generates a summary from the text. This has two advantages:
• Efficiency – Processing text requires fewer tokens than analyzing video directly.
• Speed – Summarizing transcripts is faster than processing raw video.

Limitations
• It only works with videos that have transcripts.
• It can’t capture purely visual information.
• Extracting transcripts from very long videos can be a challenge.

I also tested Gemini’s YouTube summarizer for videos without transcripts, but it ran into token limits—a 15-minute video needed over 1 million tokens.

Open Questions
• What are other good approaches for summarizing videos?
• How to handle videos without transcripts?
• How could the mind map visualization be improved?

Next Steps

I plan to add PDF and text exports soon. Feedback is welcome!
Makes me think of PRQL: https://prql-lang.org/

I always found the idea of written SQL making you specify what you want to select before you know what you're selecting from odd.
Fortnite, Fall Guys, Delta (Emulator for Nintendo DS, Gameboy, N64, NES and much more).

Torrent clients. QEMU. YouTube Apps with Sponsorblock and Adblock.
She said Wynn-Williams’ allegations about Kaplan are false, and in a Thursday statement, she called the book “defamatory” and alleged that Wynn-Williams had skipped “the industry’s standard fact-checking process.

(emph, mine)

This, coming from a Meta spokesperson, is rather rich.
By, in my European country banks just check you up and you get your loan.
Would describe e.g. social democracy too though. And in practice most govs work like this.
He didn't, once all votes were counted.
Ideally, also invest some time and work through the CMU Intro to Database Systems course by Andy Pavlo.

That's how I would have started if I had to start from scratch
Feel like I should be able to explain this, but I can't. What's the downside of using unicode? I note some webpages have UTF-8 in the head. Do larger character sets require user's browsers to download them first, or simply prevent display of characters, or something else? If bandwidth is the problem, how large are the files (i.e how delayed will the site load be). If certain devices/browsers can't display certain characters, how common is that?
Programmers like recursion because some algorithms are much, much more pleasant to write this way. Others are easier to write iteratively. Both are easy to do wrong.

Example: depth-first tree walking algorithms. Implicit stack makes it trivial to express as recursion.

It is not smart, or special, or something.
The situation you described sounds so stupid. To break emails and websites of many people simply because the two letter acronym isn't matching reality well

Maybe the ICANN management is like this. But their system administrator actually conducting the change is not, breaking things is against the philosophy of system administration
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It is teams in a functional organisation. Once everyone is performing then how you organise work: how you communicate complex ideas, how you order work, how you set up each other for success matters a whole deal.

If you measure something meaningful it's teams. If it's LOC or some macho measure of productivity (rewrites in Rust using the hardest frameworks) then yeah it's those "tenexxers".
I don't know how World Hunger Index get their DPRK figures but that is not important. There are about 110 countries with better hunger indices than India. A country that tells its citizens that we are going to be a superpower by 20xx should not be doing that at meeting basic needs.
no i get it its amazing engineering same thing with firecracker wish there was something like that lighter than docker for all 3 major platforms
We could really take a page from this style for teaching advanced computing. We try to imagine that architectures just kind of come out of nowhere. Starting with mechanical computing and unit record equipment makes so much make more sense.

Plus, unit record equipment was cool.
> Make sure to initialize newly allocated memory before it is read.

The FreePascal compiler would warn about the missing init (first example of the "The Heap and Use After Free" section).

That being said I think that uninitialized locals is really something from an other age. Modern languages should always default-initialize locals. Speed of execution is not an issue as optimizing-compilers are able to remove dead assignments.
After all what Meta did? Who could have thought.
And yet people love to upload photos of their children on pedobook.
The News Agents are political hacks. Not a good source of balanced information.
My goodness, the audacity.
They are the ones who allow getting into a walled garden. Short of calling them "gates" gatekeeper seems pretty apt
Couching your stance towards a policy in terms of its effect on "innovation" is a surefire way to lose me.
Minor nitpick - shouldn't you first define the service and only then a timer for it? Otherwise since you enabled timer and are still trying to figure out how to write service, systemd won't have anything to run when timer triggers. Maybe I am wrong, but that just feels like logical order. Anyways, after years on hating on systemd I also started to embrace it and porting my cron jobs to systemd timers and I must admit it's really nice, the overall overview with list-timers, next execution timestamp, total execution time, ordering of services so one can run after another is completed and of course the logging in journal so I can filter output and keep track of everything it's just wonderful experience.

EDIT: yea, the email reporting is certainly missing, but it was hard to control it since whole STDOUT was shipped, which is not what I wanted most of the time anyways. It would be good to come up with some way to still have small overview emails sent about important jobs done, maybe a dependency service which starts when important job finished and just sends an email about that
It's entirely possible the wires would get hot enough to get useful heat, but I think the much more practical challenge is moving the air and insulating it from the outside.

Beyond that, you're likely also decreasing the maximal electrical current the wires can carry, as they won't be able to dissipate the heat as effectively with the additionally insulation.
The 10x trope was something Steve Jobs really learned from his days at Atari.

If you look at virtually all the games programmed from 1975 to around 1995, the programming "teams" were incredibly small. Until the Sony Playstation came out, virtually every videogame was written in assembly with no source control whatsoever. Even PC games like Starcraft (released in 1998) had code review done by printing out the physical code and going over it with a marker [this was about the last time Elon Musk had a programming job cough). There was no source control and graphics APIs (if they existed at all) came in thick manuals.

For context, the credits to the Sonic the Hedgehog, a multimillion (now billion) dollar franchise, had just one "Chief Programmer" Yuji Naka, and 2 "assistant" programmers. Most of the time the assembly code would be incomprehensible to anyone but the person who wrote it. I believe there was very little actual "collaborative" programming going on. The gulf between a programmer who could merely code (which meant moving sprites around in assembly), and someone who could ship an actual game, let alone a decent one, was quite immense. When it came time to develop the first 3d Sonic game for the Sega Saturn, Yuji Naka was busy, and an American team was set to the task. Working 14-20 hour days, and forced to write a 3d game engine on Saturn hardware in assembly (due to the crappy state of C compilers at the time), this team could not ship an acceptable game in the 1 year timespan needed by the company.

I think quiet advances in tooling have made both collaborative software engineering more feasible and more effective compared to the 80s and 90s, where entire multi-million dollar industries by necessity sat on the shoulders of a handful of high skilled software engineers.
$800.000.000 / 2000 Positons = $400.000 / Position

Wow. Even with expenses apart from income, that is a lot of money. Most companies I receive job offers from do not make so much _revenue_ per person.

I not a fan of DT and EM, but boy... there seems to be an unsustainable spending issue in the US.
This is the best you can come up with? Supporting women's rights is propaganda?
I thought you wanted to test your program, but seems you want to make sure that your unzip library keeps working :D
Seems rather premature to call the experiment over when Bluesky/atproto has only been generally available for a year since they opened up registrations to all in February 2024. That’s a very short amount of time to explore the affordances of a brand new platform and ecosystem.

A couple days ago one of the most prominent alt-networks in the ATmosphere, Blacksky, received a $30k dev grant: https://bsky.app/profile/rudyfraser.com/post/3lk6gfblhdk2b

In a week from now the first ever atproto-specific conference of its scale will be taking place: https://atprotocol.dev/atmosphereconf/
Yes, that's the guy and he has written a lot of good sci-fi since then. He's pretty active on Mastodon too.
OT: funny quirk in the article mark up ...

> Individual engineers don’t own software; engineering teams own software.

the portion "software; engineering" -- just because the words are adjacent here, even though they belong to separate phrases, are treated as one term and hyper-linked to articles tagged with "software engineering" :

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tag/software-engineering
In Germany you just get a mortgage amount calculated as your yearly income multiplied by some factor (iirc depending on the city)

In Spain they look at your last few months of bank movements and calculate how much to loan you (usually something like max a third of your income can go to mortgage payments)