skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know you are joking, but, since z/OS is the direct descendant of MVS (which stands for Multiple Virtual Storage) and predates DOS, the PC, the 8086 and most other things, it'd have been wiser to rename the PC and it's OS as SPS, or Single Precarious Storage.

Abort, Retry, Fail?
I'm not well versed on modern pg for this use, but when I managed a Solr instance ~5 years ago, it was the ranking of the results that was the killer feature. Finding results fast most systems can do. Knowing which results to present is harder.

Our case was a domain specific knowledge base, with certain terms occurring often in many articles. Searching for a term could bring up thousands of results, but few of them were actually relevant to show in context of the search, they just happened to use the term.
The regulators in this case are the problem. What's driving massive hoods and massive trucks in general is fuel economy regulations.

The CAFE regulations specify a target fuel economy based on the "footprint" of a truck [1], which is the wheelbase times the width between the tires. Trucks with larger footprints have less stringent fuel economy requirements. Unfortunately, the formula they use to determine this makes compact trucks practically impossible. A truly compact truck like a 90s Ford Ranger or Chevy S10 is supposed to achieve 44 MPG, while a full sized truck only needs to get 27.

The irony is that many people would prefer to buy a smaller, easier to park, less expensive, safer, and more fuel efficient truck, but these regulations make them unavailable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_economy...
> In movies you don't usually have the luxury of choosing the original face you want to replace

Hiring an actor that roughly resembles the person you're trying to deep fake seems doable.
Candles where expensive, manufacturing them may have been part of a farmers income but only the relatively wealthy could afford to use them regularly. Similar to say honey.

Also to clarify they definitely worked more than a few weeks a year, but rather the absolute limit on how much you could get done during planting and harvesting limited how much you needed to work the rest of the year. Maintaining extra fencing is as pointless as having 3 plows if you can only use 1. Starting a new farm is an extraordinary amount of work, but when people have been farming the same area for generations there is only so much to do.
Visit some museeum, exhibition, laboratory, hack space with a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_chamber and make up your own mind? :-)
People will sell bugs on the grey market no matter what Google pays, because not everybody can do business with Google.

A reminder that grey market exploit purchases are tranched; the figures you hear for them are payout caps, not lump sums. If your bug is burned before all the tranches pay out, you're SOL.
They don't have to be in LEO to provide service to the oceans the GEO sats provide service for ocean going vessels. They're over the ocean because there's no way for them to provide solid coverage over land without providing solid coverage everywhere between a set N/S latitude band. Any gap to avoid satellites over oceans would be a gap over land periodically it's just how the orbits work.
Why iPad only?
Nobody is selling XSS bugs to NSO.
I don't know if 'extremely valid' is good English but it's how I would characterize your assessment. I totally agree.

The challenge, however, is constructing a sustainable model to incentivize product teams to reciprocate this closer working relationship. I would say all but the smallest of companies running bug bounties also have an internal security function that is already doing reporting on vulnerabilities, time to fix, etc. etc. So whatever internal 'reputation' there might be across product teams is well established (and in my experience the culture around bug fixing across product orgs is consistent from both internally discovered and externally reported bugs)

Another thing that happens is that there is typically a backlog on bugfixes, so if a researcher reports a new bug that's Medium priority, it's not going to get prioritized against a backlog of Criticals or Highs. Most of the lack of feedback from devs is simply the fact that there's been no action. Once the bug is front and center, the fixes are extremely simple and done within a few days and rolled out.
It's much cheaper/faster to use USDT because if you are the "in crowd" you don't have to actually pay and back it, and if you own/print it, you can wash trade to infinity with it.

The point is that the amount of money that supposedly exists in the crypto ecosystem (which is, at best zero sum, but really negative sum in most cases) is as imaginary as tether's backing.
Perl, Postgres, Java, Solaris
In a similar vein, ranching falls prey to some of the same misconceptions.

source: grew up on a ranch. nearly every day involved working when I wasn't at school.
I have lost count of the number of HN posts questioning why Company X "should" need anything more than Y number of staff. If all it took was the tech stack, then everybody would be on ConvertKit or MailChimp or Tinyletter, companies with a long track record.

And yet, within months of is announcement, Substack is better known than any of those other tools. They are paying six-figure advances to shore up their portfolio of writers. And, like all VC-backed startups, they are spending massively on Google and Facebook ads.

Building name recognition that quickly isn't cheap.
Facebook Reduces Advertising Targeting for Teenagers
"How I Found a Vulnerability to Hack iCloud Accounts and How Apple Reacted to It"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27564236

Spoiler: Apple didn't paid him (even they tried to fool him a second time). By reading HN its not the first time it happens..
Tax is not the answer. People are already paying the stupid tax on the $60k pickup truck (I laugh at your down votes), but that does not stop people from buying them. They know they are overpriced, maintenance costs are higher, environmental costs are higher, tight parking is an issue, and garage space is too tight, yet they buy them any way.

It used to be people bought trucks because they were the tool they needed but they are a status symbol now. For gods sake can we please go back to small sporty BMW status symbol?
Canva has this feature, but it's only available to premium users. I use it quite a bit when making YouTube thumbnails that contain my face. It's nice to have a free alternative.

Here's another free option: https://www.remove.bg/
Crystals Cryptographic Suite for Algebraic Lattices
Aufero.co launches new software release platform
Man, I wish Slack would implement Discords "reply" feature that automatically quotes the post and @mentions the poster.
The funny thing is that I was happy to finally see Reddit get a new UI back in the day and hated using the old website. Now I find the current situation abhorrent but I'm still addicted to it. I think I spend less time on the site though because I can't open the subreddits or even some posts.
That definitely smelled like an intentional muddying of the waters.
I used to live in a city with light pollution laws. It was always nice being able to see the stars from virtually anywhere in the city. I now live in a regular city without such laws and I haven't seen stars since the last time I traveled. But it's not just about seeing the stars, it was that night felt like night, but now night is so lit up being out here that I frequently see drivers at night without their headlights on, probably because it makes little difference to the driver and they can't really notice them not even being on.
Blogs are great and I encourage everyone to start one. Mine has never been popular but I enjoy occasionally writing a quick article on something I found difficult or even just venting into the void.
Have you seen what this, from a few years ago ? Your project is different, but it can be a good inspiration !

https://www.ted.com/talks/hugh_herr_the_new_bionics_that_let...
Interesting. I would see the occasional failure as actually a further indication that the system is working— that it's maintaining a balance wherein most practice is within the bounds of what is safe, but it's not NASA-level lockdown where there's massive waste due to unnecessary redundancy and safety factors.
Instagram Debuts New Safety Settings for Teenagers
Just wanted to say thanks for building this.
Don't forget that western liberal democracies look pretty un-attractive at the moment. When the choice is between a raving loony geriatric dementia patient and Trump a lot of people think they'd be better off without.
My original comment and point has not changed. The GPL is only compatible with the GPL. The only way for a license to be compatible with the GPL is to have the ability to license under the GPL. We have proven that is the case.

There is a lack of awareness and understanding of how this can transitively affect things accidentally.

For the record I am all for GPL code. I think the GPL is a fantastic license that has enabled great good in the world. But there are reasons why a company may not want to release code that is compatible with it.
> "I can execute the "full plan" at any time, but I find myself to have sufficient autonomy and be comfortable enough at my current position."

I don't know if you realize it, but there is probably a strong connection between the "I can execute the 'full plan' at any time" part of your life and the "autonomy and [..] comfortable [..] position" part. In other words: In our times there is no downside in preparing your independence and working on your autonomy except that it is a lot of work. There is no real alternative either, even and especially if you plan to be dependently employed until retirement. Once you are in a dependent position and you don't have the option to leave short term, sadly the risk of being taken advantage of is real.
The collapse of fisheries worldwide, soil degradation across nearly all arable land currently in use, broad ecosystem collapse (see decreasing numbers of insects worldwide). All of these are signs of unsustainable use of the planet's resources. Hell, absent fertilizers from fossil fuels, the green revolution (and subsequent population boom) wouldn't be possible.

There are too many people living living lives that consume too many resources currently. While we've slowed our growth, we're going to shrink our resource utilization absent extra capacity from space. That reduction will either be managed or unmanaged reduction (e.g. collapse).
The other half of this is the chicken tax. Internationally, small trucks are widely available. However the tariffs make it much more difficult for the market to bear the sale of these small trucks (vs domestic mid-size truck or imported small passenger car) in the USA, CAFE notwithstanding.
They suck because Slack's implementation of them suck. It's basically a feature MVP that hasn't been touched in years. Hopefully this Discord feature release will put some fire under them.
TV ads.

Where you can't measure response rate directly.
Symfony console broke Magento 2 today. Same story.
Pfizerleak: Exposing the Pfizer manufacturing and supply agreement
This would be a bigger issue if Apple cut off support for older phones like Android vendors do. The iPhone 6 got OS updates for 5 and a half years. I think that’s enough. It’s actually impressive that Apple created a phone that still works well enough after 7 years that some people continue to use it.
In the sense that I was discussing, you know, just existing and expressing yourself at a bare minimum, and suddenly having strangers swoop in to get you cancelled, it's relevant enough to me.

My point is very simple, and it goes for blogs, Twitter, Facebook, or bumper stickers on your truck: there's a lot of people out there who looking for the barest thing to fixate upon to get you in trouble, right down to a simple knuckle-crack.
> is really the only major threat

Soil degradation, ocean acidification, basic resource scarcity (running out of copper or phosphates for example)

Others which come to mind that are "fixable" through technology vs psycho-cultural features:

Overfishing - > global enforceable legislation of the seas
Meat consumption - > high quality meat analogs
Plastics endocrine disruption - > improved discovery of protein folding to discover problematic endocrine disruptors
Batteries - > novel types of battery chemistry
Lack of Water - > drip irrigation, desalination (desertification itself can't be per se fixed)
Lack of Energy longterm - > SPARK, ARC nuclear type reactors

Even soil degradation could be tackled with GMO crops and improved nitrates/phosphates, it would not be ideal because these also generate toxic algae blooms on river deltas but "would make do". Ocean acidification is the scary one just like most other effects related to global warming
Same experience here too! It's one of the first apps that I install on every new system.
Not trying to impose guilt. One of the dance nights I worked on my grocery order because it needed to be done. Like someone else said, its more directed towards wanting to scroll mindlessly instead of delihhting in your child. And it's also about me fighting that. We all struggle with wanting to be on our phones.
You can bootstrap without fossil fuels. It’s tough to rely on biomass with ~8 billion people, but if the population is smaller, it works fine. Also, we used to rely on hydroelectric produced hydrogen for nitrogen fertilizer for decades before steam reforming of fossil fuels became cheaper and proven (around 1950). Trains ran on biomass in much of the US. Early European American settlers used biomass and bio-sourced iron (bog iron made of deposits from iron bacteria) for iron implements. We used a lot of hydro for industrial prime motive power, too, in the 1800s in the US, for grinding grains, etc, etc. before that, the Netherlands and others harnessed wind for industrial purposes. Wind, hydro, and biomass is enough to kickstart a hydrogen economy and bootstrap into solar, modern wind, modern batteries, nuclear, etc. Fossil fuels are just a convenient shortcut and not always as useful as they seem (see: the Resource Curse, how resource-poor Japan is still able to industrialize, etc). If the Fracking Revolution hadn’t happened, the US would still be burning a lot more coal, but we’d probably have more electrification of transport, etc.

So I think if humanity used up every scrap of fossil fuel, we’d still be able to bootstrap to industrialization and modernity. But using up all fossil fuels is actually pretty hard (which is why climate change is hard to mitigate…). There’s hundreds of years of gas and oil, probably a thousand years of coal, etc. Biomass can be used up over a faster time, but if you modulate its harvesting, it can last indefinitely and even when you scour the landscape of trees and desertify the landscape, over tens of thousands of years, nature will reverse what you did (minus extinct species).
I think it's a case of "I don't want this kid to change these features unless there is direct parental approval". Sure those settings exist, but unless there's some policy way to prevent them from being changed it's pointless.
That sounds like a maintenance problem rather than an old problem. If you stay on top of maintenance old cars can be just as reliable as a new car (and potentially even more reliable since new doesn't necessarily mean bug free).
Fair point, but I’d assume the parent meant outside of YC. To my knowledge, YC doesn’t have any connections to LDS or the Mormon church. :)
The best thing about San Francisco for me was being able to run around and find Mainland Chinese to register me!

Even Hong Kongers couldn’t register Americans at the time.
How Git Branches Work
Does Mattermost also have "uncollapsed" threads like Flowdock? Personally, I think hiding conversation in a group channel is terrible UX. I don't know why people are aping Slack's functionality when I hear almost universally that it sucks.
the chicken scene from footloose comes to mind.
I kind of feel similar. I already thought that the Replies feature was a better compromise for a chat room than Slack's threads (which I hated because so much conversation would just "disappear" from channels only to find out it was still happening in a thread from days or weeks before), but I'm also in several Discords that migrated from Slack and I know how many of my friends have been complaining that they missed Slack style threads for whatever reason.

I'm going to give this a shot a bit: an in depth reading of this blog post has given me some appreciation that Discord is trying to keep it better than Slack's. They have moderation mentioned front and center, so that feels good to me that they kept it strongly in mind. I also like that they will be visible in the channel list as "sub-channels" and that they will auto-archive with a time limit (defaulting to 24 hours to start). Those two things do try to address things I disliked about Slack's implementation, so I'm hopeful to give it a shot.

Maybe my remaining criticism here is I think I'd prefer the default time limit to be something smaller and related more directly to activity. Maybe something like "after an hour or maybe two hours of silence" to keep them to "active conversation sidebars" only. I also don't like that currently changing the time limit is a Level 2 Boost server feature if I wanted to explore options on smaller servers I control/moderate. On smaller servers your main option is just to turn them off entirely. (Though I sort of understand that it is a Level 2 Boost because from their perspective servers are going to want to increase the time limit as a perk. I wonder if they could make it free to decrease it, if it's not a "perk".)
My comment above was meant as a reply to you.
Posted many times before but this is
the only one with comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12872304
Hello 2003.

I remember when the "great firewall" seemed like a joke, as did digital copyright compliance, online censorship or basically any means of controlling the internet. Information wanted to be free, and neither man nor king could stand in its way.

Maybe that is true, and the last 15 years have been an aberration. But... that would mean a reversal of a trend, not a continuation of the current one. To me it seems likely (careful with inevitabilities) that the internet will increasingly become a way of controlling people.
I don't think an authoritarian leader dictating cultural norms is really the same as a country 'choosing' it on it's own.
If you ever tried using WeChat you’ll find that signing up was already a ludicrous experience. I contacted several other WeChat users who tried to vouch for me in South East Asia and none of the accounts were good enough for WeChat. Absolute nonsense.
I feel like a lot of frustration in the west are due to a lack of voice from within China, who can explain the context and give their point of view. Instead all you get are these disjointed news and headlines without any depth to it. People then make assumptions based on it.
I wonder if you could make a setup where you have actual human volunteers in a vr environment, have the agent instruct the human on what action to take, and then reward the agent on the correspondence between the instruction and the human’s behavior. Maybe there would be too many degrees of freedom in the actions humans could take for this to be useful. Also, the setup has clearly dystopian elements.
I built a search engine that quantified the expertise of authors of comments. Then I created what I called “expert rank” that allowed me to build a really good search engine.

Super good if you’re at a company or something

https://twitter.com/austingwalters/status/104189476543920128...
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This makes me sad. Threads suck in chat.
> And what if we really are the only hope in the galaxy, or even beyond that, to propagate life that can truly appreciate the universe?

That’s assuming that there is any value in humans spreading throughout the universe.
Exactly, the essence of farming is actually complying to the harsh physical realities of the world (which doesn't give a single fuck about you.) You have strict deadlines on when to plant and harvest crops, too late and you're fucked. Even worse, even if you adhere to all those deadlines there are always special events like droughts and rainstorms which will definitely make you starve. No wonder why all those early agricultural people made religions to pray for the rain to please drop - you are now at the mercy of Mother Nature.
As for an informed choice, the company (and their clients) that I am thinking of is in a crowded market. Not having to make employees download a new app ended up being a surprisingly (to us) compelling selling point.

As for safari, we supported IE11, chrome, Firefox, mobile / android chrome, desktop and mobile safari. Safari easily added about 10% to our development budget, and safari users got a downgraded experience in certain cases. Not ideal, but close enough for me to not feel bad calling it the "new IE" (and yeah, I remember developing sites for IE 5.5 and 6).

Edit: speaking of auto updates, I have it turned on myself, and just yesterday had to wait around to update my mobile bank app to virtually deposit a check- log in, get kicked out to update, wait to download and install, then log in again before I could proceed. Not sure why, but auto update isn't a cure-all.
Man, how terrible must their working conditions be that they talk about what day, instead of what hour, they will leave for home.
>If you've never worked triage on a bounty before, my guess is that you can't really imagine how terrible the median interaction is.

I deleted three sentences about this very topic in my earlier comment because it turned into an ugly rant, lol.

>Maybe the next evolution of these programs will be long-term contract relationships with trusted, successful vuln hunters

I'm actually somewhat surprised that bounty programs missed the whole 'gig workers are employees' issue.
This is pure (probably sponsored) propaganda. So empty and baseless article.
>how shall we accurately assign blame for the final outcome?

That's a feature not a bug.
It works pretty reliable with discoverbank cards, but that's because they are unionpay compatible. It was a complete mess getting the app to the point where it would let me use it for payments at all, though.
Safari didn't repaint scroll-attached linear gradient background on container content change (thus resized). If you don't also recreate the container. Your background is going to be screwed.
No they're not. Money is supposed to be scarce and has been for the vast majority of the history of civilization.

But let's agree to disagree there. Even then, money has multiple roles: unit of account, store of value.

Currently, Bitcoin plays the role of storing value. Like a savings account, or "digital gold". Not for payments. It might play a payment role in the future on layer 2, or it might not. Too soon to tell.
How would you make the argument for plants or AI?

It seems sensible to say - these creature with nocicepters and familiar aperture for feeling pain, who react to to bodily damage in ways that suggest that they can suffer, and for whom pain can obviously serve the same evolutionary benefit as it does in humans - they have a moderate to high chance of feeling pain and being conscious to some degree, so we should be careful.

Plants may release chemicals in response to physical threats, but they don't have the pieces of the nervous system we attribute pain to, don't seem to have any level of consciousness, and don't have an evolutionary benefit to subjective suffering. Therefore, morally, there's no reason to treat them as more than an inanimate object.

I feel like AI could theoretically someday have the potential to suffer, but that isn't really a current concern.

Based on all available evidence, the article's argument for at least being careful about insects' potential suffering seems sensible, but the plant argument strikes me as absurd.