skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what people do with their personal lives

This isn't the issue. What people choose to do in their personal lives should be accepted or at least tolerated, as long as it's not harming anyone.

> what bathroom they use

This is the problematic part. A male using the women's bathroom is committing a violation against women.

> etc.

This includes males in women's prisons, males in women's changing/locker rooms, males in women's sports. All of which are violations against women.

It isn't about "hating LGBT people" as you suggest, but about compelling males to respect women's and girls' boundaries.

For far too long, a subset of males have been getting away with not doing so, just because these males express a desire to be female. It's quite absurd that it's taken Trump of all people to attempt to rectify this. The political left should have reeled in their activists, who were promoting all this, a long time ago.
Interesting that reduced sentence lengths appears to greatly predate recent declines in reading comprehension.

'The reason the average reader could have been smarter in the past is because literacy used to be more limited.'
Hum I'm definitely not the target for this but I don't see the value to obfuscate all the info in an UUID, I'd have kept things simple and stored things into an URL fragment, that way it's possible to operate client-side only and nothing gets leaked to a server I don't know much about like headers or whatever tokens or API keys could be passed in an URL.
Its a horrible article. Grey wolves and dire wolves arent even genetically related in a way that allows for this sort of gene editing and we have known this for a few years now. If anything, a dire wolf is closer to a red wolf.
If you're using Python, I would consider pure asyncio + worker processes ...

asyncio gives you the "straight-line" style of code like Go, and good timeout support, which is necessary for robustness

asyncio.Queue gives you backpressure, just like Go

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That's for using one core, and then if you need to use all cores, use separate processes. (Threads won't utilize all your cores)

And maybe hand-roll the worker processes the the async child process - I think anything that automagically uses the "pickle" module is bad ...

This way you're using 1 or 2 concurrency models, not 3!

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I think Go is probably more foolproof because you don't have to make as many of these choices. (It multiplexes goroutines across OS threads, etc.) But there are still reasons to use Python, e.g. if you application revolves around C bindings to some important service, or you just like using Python

And Python's type system is actually more expressive than Go now ...
My wife does silverpoint. A couple of bucks worth of fine silver wire in an old mechanical pencil, and you're set for years of drawing. Pretty much the cheapest way to do art (and it looks good, too)
Because I don't side with either left or right. Both did good things and bad things. Because I think there are useful left policies and useful right policies.
I am imagining a world where Bruce and Dmitry team up on a project together, maybe we need CNLohr as arbiter.
Also, no one seems to be taking into account that most countries are in active negotiations to reduce or eliminate the tariffs. So the US may end up getting something else in exchange for them being partially or wholly lifted on countries where a deal can be made.
Microsoft venture Wicresoft to halt China operations, lay off staff, report says
Agree that physical sciences, on one aspect, are inherently more difficult, Especially in research, the problems are more difficult to solve because they are limited by the physical world.

But also think that is what makes dev work so difficult, because our "build times" are so short. Because we aren't limited by the real world, we can build our entire system often in seconds and then test them, which allows us to move fast and generate enormous amounts of complexity. While with physical sciences, during an experiment, the "build time" for their tests is typically much slower, often taking hours or days, so they can only deal with a limited number of variables and information at once.

Also think that is what makes software engineers often good at working in other technical domains, we have a lot techniques and hands on experience in dealing with large complex systems, much of which carries over to non-software problems...

(... but my saying this is admittedly half theoretical, because personally, haven't actually applied this to an actual science field, only to things like small construction projects and to the field of music theory, and yeah, super helpful)
they purposefully chose miso... no one is making carbonated drinks on space because nasty stuff like CO2 floating in the stomach, without needing to go upwards)

why you need a airlock? just burb regularly by opening the can. you can also press the miso towards the bottom with some spring mechanism attached to the lid
> It's certainly difficult to predict which hype-y things are going to mature into sustainably large markets, and which are going to fade into obscurity, but a model of "things that are hyped are doomed" is not predictive

Perhaps this is where we differ. I offered a list of things that, granted IMO, were all hype with little substance. Or perhaps just on a timeline so long that many people got the hype timing wrong.

Your list was mostly things that were obvious winners. They were mostly building steam with real world use cases and trending hard before the buzzwords got associated with the movements (eg. Web 2.0 and saas). These were obvious enhancements to the status quo. I’m not sure they were overhyped as they did very much become the defacto standard for their time. It doesn’t mean they will hold that title for ever, but tremendous economic value falls under those umbrellas. I’d argue intrinsic value too (unlike crypto).

AI/LLM might do that in some regards. But doing it in a way that makes lasting business sense is still tbd. AI eating the world, still very much tbd. So I do think we agree on this point.
> if I want to add first party analytics to my site, the data from which I will use solely internally to try to figure out what pages people like and which they do not like,

This is doable entirely on the server side, provided there is no caching or CDNs that get in the way.

What you lose with that method, however, is all the spyware-like shit that analytics tends to gravitate towards.
It seems very particular about what curl options it supports. I keep getting “Please enter a valid curl command” no matter what I do.

Maybe the only solution is to somehow extract the actual command line parser from curl itself.
What kinds of problems are you trying to solve that can be solved by short program tapes but aren't obvious to a human?
Post it on reddit to roast you.
> Sounds like generational wealth to me

Generational wealth is where you inherent wealth from parents. What’s being described in the article isn’t a level of security for which you need generational wealth.

> to whom the "success sequence" sounds like what I would promote if I were a Capitalist.

I’m from a literally socialist country and the success sequence would be considered a no brainer where I’m from. The success sequence is even more important in a socialist society. Because such societies commit to the collective caring for the individual, they have greater motives to maximize the number of individuals contributing and minimize the number of individuals being supported. It’s in individualist, capitalist economies where people can tolerate a diversity of lifestyle choices, because nobody cares if anyone else lives or dies.
Even companies as well resourced as Microsoft made these mistakes well into the 2000s. Remember when they used plain old AES to encrypt the Viewstate for ASP.Net? It was vulnerable to padding oracle attacks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padding_oracle_attack#Attacks_...

Cryptography is such an esoteric and deep field that it's easy for a fairly smart but inexperience engineer to misjudge the security of a particular implementation or usage of a cryptographic primitive.
You can eliminate friction in your UX by not collecting data you don't need. It's way less work to, you know, not collect that data.

I'm not sure why the government is needed to solve a problem that you've gone out of the way to inflict on yourself.
Realistically, 30 minutes of walking a day is not enough to offset the long hours of sitting (no matter how great the chair is); standing desks aren't necessarily a better solution here either. Gym and healthy eating are a must, but not everyone can afford them (in terms of time).

Anyhow, unlike my non-programmer friends, I can never leave my work - whenever I'm walking my dog, working out, cooking dinner, or taking a shower - I still keep thinking about the things I need to solve, the failing tests, the PR comments, my open-source projects, etc.

Yes, I still love my job and wouldn't trade it for anything else. Sure, I'm very happy that I don't have to leave the house at 2AM to risk my life, but still, it isn't really one of "the easiest careers" - I am easily disposable, I don't ever receive a pension, whenever I need to find another gig - I have to go through seven circles of hell, and it never is the same hell to go through, I have too many bosses, I constantly have to keep learning new skills, routinely prove my worth, and defend my opinions, because even after twenty years of building expertise in various areas, in our field of work, one can never confidently call themselves an expert.
This is a fallacy I've seen enough on here that I think it needs a name. Maybe the fallacy of Theoretical Reducibility (doesn't really roll off the tongue)?

When challenged, everybody becomes an eliminative materialist even if it's inconsistent with their other views. It's very weird.
Perhaps because they know it wouldn't matter.

It's not like there is a ready drop in replacement for things people desire from the US.
Lawsuits are more common in Germany than the US. Possibly because the procedure is different, with lower overhead, and penalties are not reduced for reasons like: you don't have the money to pay.

I believe Germany is generally heavy on liability and light on ways to avoid it. If you damage someone's property, there may be a procedure to confirm that you damaged their property, and then you must pay the value of the damage - as well as the court fee because you didn't just pay it upon asking. No ifs or buts. You cannot avoid paying it in any way, including the clever use of paperwork to avoid paying it. That's why there's a high bar to form a GmbH. As you correctly pointed out, good insurance can also limit your effective liability. I think such business liability insurance products are very common in Germany.

After reading that, for all the talk the USA has about "personal responsibility", it doesn't seem that serious about it, does it?

I haven't been sued either, and I live in Germany. I did pay someone $100 to replace something I accidentally broke, and walked away with the broken thing. No court was involved there and I didn't bother to claim insurance.

Limited liability is something you should always want, and if it merely costs a $30 filing fee and some forms, you should get it, but it's obviously jurisdiction-specific and in Germany, with the much higher requirements, it's obvious that they really only want medium to large businesses to have it (though this isn't a direct rule, I think).

From this thread I just learned about the Unternehmergesellschaft (haftungsbeschränkt) which is apparently a GmbH that can be formed for less than $25,000, but instead, you have to set aside 25% of your profit until you have $25,000, at which point you can convert to a normal GmbH.
Indeed, science is a process of discovery and adjusting goals and expectations. It is not a mountain to be summited. It is highly telling that the LLM boosters do not understand this. Those with a genuine interest in pushing forward our understanding of cognition do.
There seems to be a typo in OP's "Visualizing Our Results" - but things make perfect sense if red is non-nullable, green is nullable.

I'd be really curious to see where the "attention" heads of the LLM look when evaluating the nullability of any given token. Does just it trust the Optional[int] return type signature of the function, or does it also skim through the function contents to understand whether that's correct?

It's fascinating to me to think that the senior developer skillset of being able to skim through complicated code, mentally make note of different tokens of interest where assumptions may need to be double-checked, and unravel that cascade of assumptions to track down a bug, is something that LLMs already excel at.

Sure, nullability is an example where static type checkers do well, and it makes the article a bit silly on its own... but there are all sorts of assumptions that aren't captured well by type systems. There's been a ton of focus on LLMs for code generation; I think that LLMs for debugging makes for a fascinating frontier.
most people who shoot RAW don't care for the in camera picture adjustments so don't care if RAW shows up looking what it did in the camera because we apply our own edits anyways, if we need something like that we shot jpeg
I'd like to eventually see the "import certificate" system that Buffett proposed in the 2003 article I linked above. It's a more free-market solution which does not pipe revenue through US government where a large chunk (or all) of it will disappear without ever reaching the exporters.
Trump Threatens Additional 50% China Tariff over Retaliation
I believe that many of them read Snow Crash and yearn for pushing society into "Franchise-Organized Quasi-National Entities"
I'm very clearly responding to the oversimplifying final sentence and I cited several instances where non-citizens can indeed be held for days without violating US laws.

The GP frames this as the US doing something nobody else does, which is objectively false, and even if his specific example is an egregious violation of someone's rights I'm sure if we looked through the last 25 years of immigration detentions for other countries we could pick out something equally upsetting from each one.
I avoid easy things I haven't tried
If for 1M I get 10%, the company is valued at 10M.

Going from 10M to 20M is not a big stretch, and that would net me 1M already. More than gold appreciation I believe.
If I type in 1/2, that means 1 divided by 2, or 0.5. If I then type +1, that means add 1.

1/2 I should never mean any kind of date, unless I'm entering it into a field that has already been declared a date field, or I have written that, then declared the field to be a date field.
True philantropists it seems.

(Never mind, that they never conserved anything)
Those have all been difficult words to define with much debate over that past 40 years or longer.
Yes a businessman might care about his trade partner. I was asking why should Joe a
Average from US care about Joe Average from Canada.
> rsync can do this (try -avSHAX)

That is exactly what I am saying, rsync do not do this by default either, you have to tell him to via optionnal parameters.
It sounds as if you regard the ticket syste, as taking over the role of the version control system, or do I misunderstand?
That hasn't happened yet, but it's close.
You are in a bubble if you think that "everybody has […] settled on they".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21179524
One thing not widely known: Be careful when using the projects feature or the addon integration window (e.g. vscode) with chatgpt or Claude. They both use RAG under the hood to save on compute (without disclosing it), even if it would fit in the context window of the prompt. This usually results in worse answers.
I don't think Europeans feel quite so driven to acquire wealth or feel so much that they have failed if they don't. It is the key to American financial success, but probably not good for you.
Thanks for posting this!

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Nonsense. The desire to control misinformation does not in any way justify censorship. The ends don't justify the means. And much of the content that was censored (or shadow banned or whatever) was either factually accurate, or simply opinions.
In fact, Apple has invested so much money in the iPhone. The only way they can make it work is if they sell the iPhone only to billionaires. Yes, just like Disney. The cost of Disneyland and Disneyworld mean that the only way it could provide a return is if the only people who can attend are the very wealthy. I think my model of the world is very good. It accurately describes things.
what format can i a change the white balance of the image on other then RAW in software, for all the years i have used digital cameras i can't think of one...
No, but I needed some kind of number (100k in equities would be middle/upper-middle class?). Ah; I should’ve gone with 10m-to-1m and 100k-to-10k income. Those are reasonable numbers for either end of the scale, and illustrate the point.
could also just do the request in javascript instead of needing a (presumably hosted) sandbox
> Neither Europe nor the US can compete with the level of disdain for the environment, labor laws and poverty that China brings to the table.

The issue is entirely subsidies at this point.

Labour costs have been steadily rising for the past decades and significant poverty hasn't been an issue for a long time. Emission wise, China is strictly ahead of the USA when you look per capita (unsurprisingly, they are not an oil producer).

China is not in a race to the bottom. Their hdi has been steadily climbing. They are economically more or less in the same position that Japan was in the 80s before the Plaza accord but with less prosperity, on the verge of becoming a developed country.
> Now we seem to have found an AI worthy of that title and instead start moving the goal posts on "consciousness", "understanding" and "intelligence".

We didn't "find" AI, we invented systems that some people want to call AI, and some people aren't convinced it meets the bar

It is entirely reasonable for people to realize we set the bar too low when it is a bar we invented
I'm sorry but I think you’re mixing things up in the traditional sense of risk management. The probability is covered separately in risk management. A brake failure doesn't guarantee a particular consequence, but it does bound it and general practice is to assign the worst consequence. To use it on the Max scenario, MCAS can fault and not cause a plane to crash, but it still should be characterized as a "catastrophic" fault because it can cause loss of life in some scenarios. The probability is determined separately. Then post-mitigation consequence/likelihood/detectability are assessed. Take a look at how FMEAs are conducted if you still disagree; it’s fairly standardized in other safety critical domains.

I agree there may be cases where there are no reasonably safe options. That means your engineered system (especially in a public-facing product) is not ready for production because you haven't met a reasonable risk threshold.
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>Thanks for explaining. I think the answer to your question lies in the fact that Hamas is not a regular army. They're fighting an army that has the most advanced weapons and tech on the planet, and they can't put a target on their back while moving around. This has been the case throughout history when the indigenous resistance fights a mighty colonial army.

I just don't see how that makes it ok to camouflage as civilians. If Hamas cannot take on Israel, then the war is lost and it's better to go to the table and take what you can get rather than let your whole population die while staving off the inevitable.

Japan was in a similar situation in WW2, where they armed the populace (men and women) and gave them basic instruction on how to fight. This was in preparation for a land invasion, and the emperor was ready to sacrifice as many civilians as it took to protect his empire.

But the bombs dropped, they went to the table (knowing they would get bent), and avoided mass death of Japanese civilian "soldiers".
They think they can run a government like a corporation.

The problem is that corporationa tend toward brutalistic psychopathic behavior, while the role of a government should be (IMO) to nurture sustainable growth.
Beyond a certain point, the tariffs become meaningless because nobody bothers trading legally anyway.

I don't know where the real cutoff is, but for an extreme example: if the tariffs are 1e6% or 1e7%, nobody's buying anything by lawful channels.

Also, there's not much stopping people from shipping to a country with a 10% tariff, that 10% country taking a 1% cut to slap a different "made in" label on the side and then re-exporting to the US, making it effectively an 11% tariff for whoever originally made it.
If you're going to check then you shouldn't be saturating, you should just be checking.
Just as I wrote. CR3 is used by Canon also during development and tuning of their sensors and cameras.

DNG would not replace CR3, because CR3 would still be needed before launch, and Canon has no incentive to change their entire internal toolchain to comply to Adobes DNG specification.

Especially not because the DNG format is patented and allows Adobe to revoke the license in case of dispute...
Variable duty cycle square waves with the Web Audio API
22 years later, modders are keeping SimCity 4 alive
At risk of pedantry and not to diminish the overall point. I think the graphite deposit was in Borrowdale which is in NW England. There’s actually a pencil museum in Keswick, a nearby town.
>Does it? And what about police brutality? As a tourist, I'd rather go to a country where I'm less likely to be treated badly by the police.

Why would the police treat you bad? I you don't commit any crime it's most likely you have nothing to do with the police.
> In some ways this feels like the country has been brought along on some senile old man's suicide pact.

He's owned by Putin, and a few billionaires that are willing to play along a la Project 2025.

How is this even a discussion at this point? Literally the only country that didn't get tariffs is Russia.
This was a fun read.

We’ll keep raising the amount of knowledge needed to be employed until it’s no longer sustainable. This is just the nature of capitalism: extracting as much value from someone’s salary as possible.
Hence the hourly reminder that most people don't think like the HN crowd does.
What if we find nothing in our search for life beyond Earth?
It's still entertaining, that's true. I like magic tricks.

The point is the analogy to LLMs. A lot of people are very optimistic about their capabilities, while other people who have "seen behind the curtain" are skeptical, and feel that the fundamental flaws are still there even if they're better-hidden.
Not a battery expert but part of the challenge is too much heat in some places, not enough in others, so heat management is a big challenge, but coolant routing is complicated. The heat pump is a big deal and far more efficient (4x?) than a 'block heater', and resistance heat is the old solution that the industry moved away from.

I believe the "microscale channels" are a better solution that reduces the amount of heat generated at the connection points of the battery, and also reduces the high temperature gradient at high voltage charging at low internal temps (high internal temperature delta), which I understand to be a primary cause of battery degradation.
Apple is racing to fly planes of iPhones into the US ahead of Trump's tariffs
> Our established 3 dimensions are actually compact, i.e. loop around

Do they not loop? What other option is there? I assume you can't sail off the edge of the disk, so to speak.