skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who wants to be hired thread got me a nice little raise and the general knowledge/info that I see on HN make a difference in my job. I've got my finger on the pulse of the industry and there are many languages/frameworks/concepts that I first learned about reading HN that I use in my job. Sometimes I spend too much time here but overall HN is a net positive for me and introduces me to things that I wouldn't see elsewhere, even on the tech-related subreddits.
I still want that near-0-driver GPU: there is still a huge amount of tons of hardware setup to have the gpu ready to render, display something, that beyond "normal hardware programing" (usually coherent mappings of bus addresses to expose the command rings).

And it would be nice if they start to be compatible with royalty-free RISC-V cpu/gpu ISAs
So what if Microsoft is such an activist? Implying from their tool, which conforms to this ideology.
It's not supposed to be easy to change these things. The easier it is for you to change legitimately, the easier it is for someone else to change illegitimately.
Yes! I came to the same conclusion. Realistically the post office is the best way to do this. Furthermore, what's always frustrated me is how identity in the US is associated with an address. Why not just generate a one time code that resolves to a registry, and enable the receiver to modify the address that the code resolves to. This could even be done while the address is in transit. This also has the benefit of not losing mail to old addresses anymore. As someone who's lived in an RV full time, this was a particularly frustrating problem for me.
Fan of Ryan Holiday ? ;-)
I’m always wondering : is this guy just a marketing scam or does he worth listening to ?
Generation of simplified representations of objects for Cyberpunk 2077 [video]
Whatever happened to the 80s Japanese computer game / cartoon naming conventions?

Plus slightly disappointed this isn't some obscure nes game.
It is an absolute truism that, if someone suggests that doing X isn't great in emacs, someone will come along and disagree. ;)

SSMS is really, really useful. I cannot imagine an emacs approach would equal it, and if I have to have it around for OTHER tasks, using it for writing SQL is much, much easier than using something else.
Their security team should vet all of these devices, create environments where it's safe for them to be on the network, and ensure they're kept up to date also?

Yes? How else would they test anything?
A year and a half ago I started building a better personal finance simulator / retirement calculator, mainly for myself and friends/family to use.

I was about T-minus one week from halting work on it and starting something else when I posted to Show HN on a whim: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26969173.

I didn't even think to check back on it until during a meeting I noticed my inbox was suddenly filling up :) I was astonished and inspired by the response, and haven't stopped working on it since!
I don't see the relevance of his personal beliefs or prejudices.
> This seems more like an attempt to strangle wage increases.

It is that and more. There aren't many levers to pull but one that is available is interest rates which in a kludgy way allows you to slow down investment in businesses which in turn results in preventing wage increases, hiring, and eventually results in an increase in terminations or eliminating positions. Less money going to workers means less money can be spent in the economy and less demand for goods and services. Inflation then drops or depending on severity bursts some bubbles and enters into a deflationary period. So yes the whole point is to cause painful decreases or elimination of wages.
> Predictions about anything are vulnerable to change from new information.

The problem with predictions is that an event might be 99% likely to happen, but it might still be prudent to consider the 1% of cases where it doesn't happen if that's sufficiently high impact.
Yes, you are right. No way for a dating site for example (as stated by the original comment) to make a relation between an IP address and the person behind it. It's all fake profiles or some other strawman argument anyway, right? Like who uses his real name, address or even picture for something like that?! That'd be just ridiculous ...
That number is total spending divided by number of tents, not the price of just the tent.
Pivot tables in Excel. People who don't know what a pivot table is, but use Excel regularly, naturally gravitate to re-creating pivot table functionality using formulas.

I will also add tables in Excel, and learning to format them properly, which enables all the table-based and pivot-table-based functionality in Excel.
> It's obviously not good in general, it's 'obscurity' (as in 'is not security') really, but it seems pretty harmless for a gradual roll-out feature toggle?

Not at all. How often do people complain of temporary solutions becoming permanent? Doing it wrong out of the gate is a surefire way to ensure it makes it to production if there's no further review.
I grew up around a large extended family and now live in a large metro away from anyone I’m related to other than my wife and kids.

I wish my kids could grow up like I did but my siblings don’t look like they’re having kids soon and neither do my wife’s siblings.

But, I feel so sad for my children when it’s just us on Christmas. It feels lonely because growing up, Christmas always had like 20 people.

We’ve thought about moving back closer to my family now that I work remotely but my wife is from a different part of the country and that makes it tougher because it would take us further from her family. She’s also from the city (not our current city) and doesn’t like the idea of living somewhere rural (she considers it rural, the metro we’d consider has 500k people though).
Pretty much, you want a smooth bowl that won't hold a greasy residue on the surface. Plastic holds some greasy on the surface, so it doesn't work well even with good cleaning. It won't be impossible, mind you - I've used the plastic container with my stick blender to beat an egg white - but generally is more difficult, especially if you are using arm muscles to whip it instead of electricity. Ceramic, glass, stainless steel and copper all work well, though, just make sure they are clean.
Nutrition solution can help heat-stressed cows as US warms
Regardless of the pros and cons of Bayesian methods, here is what I believe is needed:

- Pre-register all studies, declaring sample sizes and power analysis.

- Report results regardless of outcome. Eliminate the "we only publish stat sig results" baloney.

- Report confidence/credible intervals, adjusting for multiple comparisons as appropriate. Plot the posterior distribution of the effect size if appropriate.

- Publish all data and code.

- Provide funding for duplicating important studies.
I perosonally believe any US research there was purely alturistic in intention - actually finding vaccines and cures to bat coronaviruses. Scientific hubris is a simple and "satisfying" explanation for the leak.
Wouldn't a spammer almost always be more able and more willing to dedicate resources than an actual user?

Let's say it takes a legitimate user 60 seconds of PoW on their phone. That's a dealbreaker. Now a spammer that takes them 15 seconds on their server, they will still spam.

I guess it could rate limit against high throughput of spam (more like DoS prevention than antispam really), but an IP rate limit would probably work as well if not better. An attacker with a large pool of IPs will probably have a large pool of CPUs anyway.
So are video games, alcohol, candy, pogo sticks, and about a million other things. I get that climate doomers are hyper fixated on lawns ruining the planet and leading us all into the apocalypse but you should just be honest about believing that rather than using lazy and trite arguments.
Hey, thanks for the reply!

Specific scenarios require creative solutions. For a search engine, how do you differentiate between robots and legitimate users? It seems a rate limiting step is likely the best solution.

If query rate from the same IP exceeds a threshold, throttle them creatively. +100ms the next time, +250ms the next, etc.

The upside is these bots will adjust their strategies to hit your site slower, which is the whole point, isn't it.

If they spread requests across IPs, perhaps try fingerprinting. I'm not sure how effective that is on the backend though.
The article shows only a single and relatively short “purgatory” session. Are there more? Is there a place that lists or provides a ranking of them?
You're just adding a step for generating the hash-as-password from some other information. Just because you label something in that generation step the "password" doesn't mean you're avoiding the hash being the password. From your and Steam's perspectives, "X" is still a secure value that Steam has to see in plaintext and not store.
I don't disagree that many people struggle to properly interpret frequentist statistics. But adopting a Bayesian perspective isn't a magic talisman. The number of people who are competent Bayesians but don't understand frequentist statistics is zero, and no pedagogical changes will improve that.
I don't think any offer exists that competes with R2 currently, if you want to deliver large amounts of data. That's why I consider access to this service critical for business.

The closest you can get is renting servers with unmetered 1-10gbit connections and serving it yourself, but because you don't have the economy of scale that Cloudflare does, it will still be much more expensive than R2. You can't balance out your costs against those of hundreds of other customers that don't serve as much data, or against customers serving data at different times where your unmetered bandwidth would be wasted.

Starting up a service with pricing like R2 is only really possible at Cloudflare scale too, so it's not like it's possible for someone like us to see this gap in the market and... fix it?
Starlink trials 250GB data caps in France
"Is there a HN post that made you money?"

Nope. I assume very few people made any money from an HN post, directly or indirectly.

Edit: Why disagree without reply? Most of us (even on HN) are just normal devs and nothing we do on here will make us money.
I get a ton of spam from my contact me pages even with a captcha in place, i've been experimenting with loading an initial dummy form and replacing it within a few seconds of loading to the real deal which seems to have cut down on bots submitting stuff.

Rate limit everything you can and use a captcha where acceptable, there are also a load of public IP and email blacklists that you can use to run a quick check. Working in a field where there is a large amount of bots and incentive to abuse we invest quite a bit of time and money in fraudulent traffic detection using a cornocopia of different services in tangent and at the end of the day we still see a small percentage of traffic getting through that is fantastically human like.

With that out of the way, I've been engulfed in AI and GPT3 functionality lately and I thought this post was going to be doomsaying the coming apocalypse of bot spam, because the level of human like quality coming from the AI is going (already has) to make deciphering human vs bot traffic/posts/emails/comments nearly impossible. It will be fun here soon when we see forums entirely dedicated to bots conversing and arguing with each other outside of reddit.
This. Both are informal greetings, but "hi" is more informal. Mostly interchangeable, but I tend not to use "hello" much - usually either "hi" when passing a peer in the hallway or "good morning/afternoon" if I need to be a bit more formal. FWIW, I was raised in the US, but with Scottish parents, so my speech & vocabulary differ a bit from most Americans.
Not sure if saving money counts here, but several years ago, some HN comment linked the MMM blog, from which I learned about the importance of investing and specifically index funds.
I have a hybrid with a little battery and a small gasoline engine like this... The 'mountain problem' is real. If I drive up a long hill when fully loaded, the electric bit runs out, and the gasoline engine is really undersized. You end up limping along on the highway at 25 mph with the engine revving like crazy and your foot on the floor.

I could imagine the trucking industry might even have different models with different ratios of battery to fuel cell to motor depending on the terrain of the places it's likely to drive.
What do Kindles have to do with their business?
I heard on a podcast that this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suiso_Frontier new hydrogen tanker could only go 30 days with the hydrogen it carries. Which is why it runs on diesel. It's 40 days to Europe.
Are there any reputable Indian law/policy news sites or individuals who you (or anyone) might recommend following?

To be fair I can't think of any specific sites like that I follow for US law/policy news, just a variety of people on Twitter.
This troubles me and I can't tell why.
I misread that as “in prison” and was briefly very confused about what kind of shady business model you were planning.
Besides the clean layout, I honestly cannot tell what sets this apart from other recipes websites.
I'm on the East coast and I do mulch leaves with the mower for most of my lawn. However there are parts of the property where we have more trees and where leaves accumulate from being blown by the wind from other parts of the lawn. In those parts the lawn would probably die if I didn't clear the leaves myself.

However I also have honeylocust trees which drop loads of these large bean-like seed pods and these stems after the leaves fall which bunch up and can only be best described as like "wads of shaved pubic hair." I also have sweetgum trees which drop these hard, spiky seed pods that I also need to rake up. The mower can turn those into projectiles.

Really the best solution, in my case at least, would be to alter the landscaping in that area to something that would be unaffected by the leaves, but I don't have the time for that now. So clear leaves I do.
To be frank, I think you are now overselling a product where it really doesn't need to be sold as much as it already has a lot of value in itself. E2E tests deserve better tooling to debug them, not because they are flaky, but because they need to be analyzed anyway when they fail. That's basically what rubbed me slightly the wrong way initially and what mostly inspired me to comment on the flaky E2E test remark.

E2E tests will always be more "flaky" compared to tests further down the pyramid. That doesn't mean they are less reliable, but is inherent to the place where they are executed and is absolutely fine. What your tooling here promises to do is make debugging of failed tests much more convenient and streamlined, which is awesome and in itself is already a huge selling point if I am being honest.

Some points you mention:

> but it relies on the assumption that writing higher level tests inherently means you're going to have slower tests that are more unreliable

Unreliable, to some degree, as there are just more components involved, so any disruption in any of them has the potential to make your test fail.
Slower, most certainly, but that is the nature of e2e tests and not necessarily a bad thing when used within the right context.

As an extremely simplified example when faced with a login screen in your e2e tests you should just want to test two things:

- Happy flow where the user ends up being logged in.
- Unhappy flow where a feedback message is shown.

This because loading the page with the login windows does cost time. Sending the request and waiting for the page to process the response also costs time. So anything that doesn't test the UI should not be tested in the UI. There likely are a lot of different ways login in can fail, but those can easily be tested at the API level.

The same is true for functionality only available for when users are logged in. Sure, you can set up an automatic session so you don't need to go through the login screen and all that during your test. But, you still need to set all that up while the logic behind it can likely much more easily be tested further down limiting the need to do as many UI based e2e tests.

> to things users actually care about (which is the most important part of testing at all!)

Is it? It does depend on the application of course, but I'd say that it only becomes important once the underlying logic functions correctly. Certainly for applications handling and processing critical/important data. A proper foundation there is needed to be able to provide the user facing parts in a way that is reliable. If you don't focus on that underlying base you are effectively doing unit and api tests through a detour.

Again, I think you made a really cool product. Just nitpicking on some of the arguments you made here :)
Would you rather the changelog just say "We don't want to actually want put anything here because our software is evergreen and any given release is just a bunch of random PRs that happened to make it before the cutoff date that isn't worth any amount of human effort both to organize on our end or read on yours but it's not allowed to be blank so here's a random cat fact."
Seconding this. That's how it works at my university.
I have literally never seen this anywhere I’ve lived. It’s always been the opposite.
Regular Expressions.

10x for any text-based work
No. I like having my email service provider in a different jurisdiction than where I am geographically located so at the very least an international warrant is required for any evidentiary information. I'm not up to anything nefarious in any way, shape or form btw ... I just enjoy 'fuggin wid da man' and making their life slightly more difficult should the need ever arise :) so an 'In Person' password re-set would be out for me since international air-travel with the risk of in-flight diversion, an unscheduled stop-over diversion or flying over the ‘wrong’ country’s airspace would be unaccpetable risks but everyone has differing threat models and differing aims and objectives when it comes to security.

[Edit to Update]: It also strikes me as an excellent water-hole attack vector.... Attacker triggers a password reset and then just waits for you to show up to reset location and bam! you got your man or you can tail him back to his home and get them there. Useful against both bad guys and people with large cold wallets. Ouch (in more ways than one) but see my point above about differing threat models.
>For a homeowner, a 2 or 4 stroke gas engine has no compelling benefit these days over a cordless electric string trimmer

Cost.

I would have gone electric if I could but seeing as I don't obsess over my lawn (i.e. I let it grow out enough before cutting it back that most HNers would be hand wringing if I were their neighbor) there's no amount of mental gymnastics that makes it a sane tradeoff. I'm not gonna double the cost on something I run maybe 20min/mo. If I were one of those people who bought overpriced premium equipment I didn't need then it might make sense.
Good intention but in my opinion this is a non-starter. I believe a more reasonable approach that could get traction would be to invest in research groups that are trying to improve fuels and jet engine efficiency. This would actually make a dent in emissions and fuel waste and most notably, the bottom line for airline costs. Money talks. If you can show that there is potential to save {x} percentage in fuel costs for an airline, they will get behind it and might even help fund it.

For short trips one possibility may eventually be EVTol aircraft using renewable energy. Those are evolving weekly and making steady progress. Some commercial airlines are already buying them and planning to use them to get people to/from the airport. One advantage these will have over private jets is the ability to land on private helipads. These only have a tiny fraction of the range of a private jet however and also do not have the same speed rating and will only fill a tiny fraction of the business needs.
This, same in Australia. Blow it into the road or the neighbours. Then no longer my problem. What is so difficult with using a rake and picking it up?
It's rare enough within software development that not every company can hire only those people.
Okay buddy, how about you let your car/truck/SUV be hit by a 150,000 lbs “airbag” and I will watch from afar to see what happens. I’m thinking pinball and the lanes as bumpers, yeah?
Is this the beginning of the end of HN as it becomes a target for free advertisement?
The US "agencies" too, and google business "intelligence" departement too.

Yes, this global information would be used to get an unfair advantage in one way or another (linkedin is own by microsoft...).
There's a bigger problem in that schools are doing a terrible job of teaching programmers proper development practices. If you're lucky, as a student, your school might have an add-on course for secure development. The problem is, secure development practices shouldn't be an afterthought but rather a baked-in core philosophy.
We're targeting engineers with access to company-provided learning / professional-development budgets. From speaking with customers, we're seeing companies offer employees between $500-$5000 in annual allowances.

Which course intrigues you most? :)
This will work on some spammers but not forever. This is an infinite cat and mouse game.

For better or for worse, "publicizing spammers pain for our pleasure" has a guaranteed effect of shortening the useful lifespan of this tool. Unless of course no spammers ever read that article, OR HN.
There should be four state variables for a double pendulum system - angle 1, angle 2, momentum 1, momentum 2. But they don't have to be neatly divided up like that. Angle 1 could be represented by some proportion of all four quantities. The individual variables can have no physical significance in of themselves whatsoever as long as there is a mechanism for turning them into the final answer.
>Largely the main issue is reliability has nothing to do with it. It is all producibility.

We are talking about the same concept - I am calling it "reliability of supply chain", as for me, that's included in the metric when talking about the reliability with which I can get from A to B. If I want to get from A to B but can't order a car to arrive within the next year, then I don't have reliable transport.

>Vehicles that people are not as excited about like the Prius or the Bolt are available right now.

Where? https://priuschat.com/threads/how-long-did-you-wait.233009/
https://everydaytoyota.ca/toyota-vehicle-wait-time-guide/

I think we can agree, though, that minimising electronics maximises sustainability.
Literally one of the first software I've ever used since the first 2000s. Still used to date. Love me some Total Commander!
One interesting angle, that I've not seen explored is the impact of this on CfD contracts.

Basically the UK government told renewable energy providers that they'd top up their income to a minimum amount per unit of electricity, to de-risk investing in renewable energy and remove volatility in expected income.

If the electricity price rises, by one pence, then that's one pence less the government needs to pay them, and since people are the government, it's a (very convoluted) no-op, except that you're paying the money up front, and not in taxes.

It appears we're saving 10s of Billions via these schemes, but not sure exactly how much of that is just because renewables are cheaper than other energy providers, how much because of this particular scheme etc.

https://www.current-news.co.uk/news/cfd-projects-to-save-bri...