skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m in a major metro with no good internet options! I assume the cost of laying down fibre optic is too high due to the buildings, roads, etc.

Seriously considering Starlink instead of old copper.
Background: https://man.sr.ht/ops/id-unification.md

Will update later once the migrations are done.
Apple has confirmed that it will abandon Lightning
Congrats from reaching godwin point so early. The former 2 are not really the same scale as they refer to real events that occured, an ideology and agenda.

I don't think I would be annoyed by a software called cripple, especially if it also stands for something else through the acronym., I would probably take it as a joke on the potentially beta status of the software at some point in its life. Again it is not targetting anyone in particular, unlike the former 2.
1. Some application processes ask me to upload my resume and then want me to manually enter it again in a series of web forms. I'm not interested in spending 30+ minutes manually copying and pasting the resume I just uploaded. I figure that lack of common sense is systemic in the company, so I don't want to work there.

Workday! If the "Apply Here" button takes me to a Workday link, that's my off-ramp.

I have no idea how Workday is so ubiquitous when its user experience and aesthetic is so terrible.
*most people
well if you look at world history, it always has been like this -- look at all those proudly-written enslavements, crimes and massacres.

But we're starting to grow out of it, and tech is helping us track down crimes that were near-impossible to track down.
> Gitea has been growing in support and popularity, and as such, it needed to put some legal structure in place to deal with increased income and distribution of funds so that it's not abused.

None of that requires turning it from an open-source into an open-core project.
Fyi... current http response is:

502 Bad Gateway
nginx
So, yes, (to answer both followups here) - obviously there's a danger that the OSS version gets less time and attention, and in many cases it'll start prioritising actual customers (ie those paying money) over folks using the OSS version.

I certainly understand why those who are using software for free see this as the thin-edge-of-the-wedge, the start of the product morphing to something that is less free.

On the other hand, despite the health risks, eating is still enormously popular. Developers want to get paid, and so they tend to gravitate towards models that, well, earn money. OSS is great (I'm a fan) but it doesn't pay the bills. OSS should be what you do in your spare time, not your day job. If OSS is your day job then either you're lucky, and someone is funding it, or it's only a matter of time before you need to switch to a different day job.

Bottom line - if OSS doesn't sort out an actual funding model that works - if users (of the Libre version) aren't willing to pay real money, on a regular basis, en masse - then don't be surprised if the developers need to switch it up to earn a living.

There's this perception that "big companies" should just fund all OSS for everyone, but I'm saying that this can never work - that's pretty much exactly what "big companies" are set up not to do.
The Linux Userspace API (UAPI) Group
> While hunter-gathering is no Garden of Eden...

Without electricity, we would be back to 200 years ago. That's still like 10,000 years after most humans were hunter-gathering.

Did we forget that for most of civilization's time, we had technology to help us do stuff, just not electricity-based technology? For example vapor engines would work just fine without electricity. Agriculture would require a lot (really a lot) more people, but would still be possible with manpower and animalpowered machines, like it was for thousands of years.

Also, it's not like our knowledge of electricity would just disappear... we would just have to repair and make new machines, which may take a while but most people would probably survive that.
It's expected, but still very sad to hear. He seemed like a very cool guy.
Haha, duh. http://sprunge.us/wojZXf
on the face I use an exfoliating gel cleanser
I'm saying that you can be admitted without test scores. You leave money on the table when negotiating the bill when you do not take the test. Opting not to take the test could be an optimum strategy if you already know that the offered awards will not apply to you.
Seems like most of London i supply blocked...
A less stringent requirement would be to "build for longevity" and part of that could be planning for the end. Because things do end and that isn't always bad.
Fleeing your birth country to avoid national service, applying for citizenship in your new host country, and then never returning to your country of origin is a pretty strong signal. Naturalizing in yet another country is a fairly decent emphasis. Not sure what you're looking for. There is more to citizenship than holding passport you haven't used in thirty years.
Vaccine mandate is unlawful to begin with so there is nothing to sabotage.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying? You'd lose a lot in conversions with the laser setup, but you'd gain flexibility and the setup would be far more compact.
I have similar pedantic objections to that, since "a lifetime" isn't even well-defined. "Forever" might be an unachievable goal, but it's a goal which implies specific priorities.
I did this quiz, I think the quiz question I failed on was "have you ever told a lie?" which I answered with "yes". Can't be sure though.

Also for a KFC job.
The author gave an update at the bottom of the article:
Sunday update: Russ from Open Infrastructure Map has knocked up some code which generates a precise map of Greater London's pylons. Thanks Russ!

Link to Russ' update https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1mYa
I keep looking at small round displays and think about building something with them. If we could get our hands on a legally available disk image for, day, DtCyber, it'd be feasible to build a cyberdeck-style laptop with 2 round OLEDs (or, more practically, a cheaper rectangular one and a with two circular cutouts.

I am looking at https://www.panelook.com/VLT236-RDP-600-23-6inch-848x848-ROU... right now and thinking about making something cool (the resolution is crap, sadly)
I once got banned from Yelp for scraping. (I was indeed scraping, but it was for a class project. Nothing nefarious. So the ban was fair, and I was expecting it.) They have some mechanism for getting unbanned that I don’t remember at the moment. So I did that. Crickets. Still banned. Did it a couple more times. Nothing. Weeks pass. F!! So I filled out a yelp job application with random fake great-sounding stuff, and in the cover letter explained that it was fake but your unbanning system doesn’t work. Unbanned in (as I recall) under 24hrs !! and got an email both apologizing for the problem and asking if I wanted to come in for a job interview. (Since this was my real account they knew perfectly well who I was and presumably looked up my LinkedIn profile, or something, since I told them that the filled in resume was faked just to get their attention.)

Moral of the story (maybe?): Just fill the thing as needed to get through the automatic gate-keeper, then wow them in your cover letter and real uploaded resume. Maybe some - maybe even most - will be pissed off, but you only need one job!
As an employer I always read the cover letters. You had better have a slight clue of what job you are applying for or your application ends up in the garbage.
Admissions departments re-norm GPAs and many of the best high schools do not engage in grade weighting.
Electricity needs of data centers making it harder to build new homes in London
I have often thought that conscience must somehow be an artifact of the way our memory works without being able to describe it further.
Yes, bank accounts for commercial purpose have different fees, but unless they pick a completely stupid bank it's still multiple orders of magnitude cheaper than any other transfer.

Only downside of SEPA is that it is a lot less common outside EU/Europe and then more expensive and instant payment is not really possible (there are some vendors offering solutions ...) but that doesn't seem to be their aim. (Would be: "click here to get a license for a commercial download")
So according to this very sensational article, we should now trust all login credentials to Apple, Google and Microsoft. So just like the horrible (in my opinion ) OAuth setup where we sign in using one of their services, we will now have even less control as we won’t even have a password to save in a safe etc.

Basically, if you loose access to your device and need to login from somewhere else (not your device) you won’t be able to at all.
There's the intent behind it. Some systems expect you to do get right first time, but often doesn't. Others expect it to be wrong first time.
I missed this reply earlier and expect you'll miss mine now!

No one. Twitter should position itself effectively in line with allowable speech in an ideal liberal democracy.

But it doesn't it's extremely opinionated around what is and isn't allowed. And in some topics much more restrictive than any countries law, and in others more tolerant.

Basically get banned for transgressions around gender but not for violent threats.
Thanks. Looks very interesting!

My main observation just looking at your example pictures is that its closest competitor is Gaussian Processes which I've long been a fan of.

Just looking at those pictures it looks like GP and TabPFN are very similar where there is data but TabPFN is more happy to extrapolate while GP is localised around the data (look at the top row for example).

I can't decide whether that's a feature or a bug. I guess it's good to have a choice whether you want to show that you're uncertain in regions where you've never seen data before or be able to extrapolate on what you have seen.
Very often tech is enabling these crimes. Monitoring and punishment of millions of people was much more difficult before.
Anyone have a theory of how I’m me consciously but I could be any other person or being?
Little kids absolutely love learning to walk, you can see it in their faces and their behavior. When they start walking, they are so excited and happy to do it.

After a certain point, performing a complex task subconsciously becomes routine and one needs to sort of “level up” to a more difficult version to notice the flow state. The subjective experience is that the activity “slows down” and feels easier, allowing your conscious mind to wander.

You see this even within sports, where the best athletes need the biggest races / competitions / events in order to feel the same way they did when they were younger learning the sport. The best surfers seek out the biggest waves, or the hardest moves, or both.
I can count on zero fingers the number of times I've worked with a non-technical QA person who's written tests, let alone benefitting from cucumber. As the GP says, the rest of the time is just wasted maintaining a pseudo-natural language programming language.
Maybe you could compute the spectrum or some other characteristic of the noise and compare it to the type of noise you would expect from a camera.

I guess you can always mimic these things to some degree if you are determined enough though.
Most companies have recruiting backwards. The interview process is not about selecting the best candidates but about selling your company so the best candidates are actually willing to even entertain talking to you.

Recruiters, HR people, etc. mean well but they kind of just put up a lot of hurdles for the best candidates to even get far enough into the process that there's a meaningful interaction. The profile of the best candidate is that 1) they are probably not bored or unemployed 2) they have many options if they want to change their current situations 3) they are unlikely to engage with cold outreach via email or phone. 4) in the rare case they show any interest in your company at all, you should be ready to go and talk business.
The english version of "cook your pasta without boiling water"?

https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2022/09/02/news/gas_pasta_...
The main drawback you have to keep in mind is that you cannot modify pool size. Every pool can have one or more volumes. For advanced features like ARC caching, I'm just using sensible defaults.

Also, keep in mind that ZFS need at least 8GB of RAM, possibly 16GB for up to 16TB of data.
I once had ubuntu change that behavior but for some reason they reverted quickly...
Why not just use shaming to get big companies to contribute? Name them, keep a list, put them on display. I mean, they should be ashamed to use a free open source and not contributing in any way.
> Would you rather they use your data without your consent?

the wording was different, it was meant as we will filter your application automatically based on the data you provide, are you ok with that y/n
I would expect their code to be written in ancient C. Probably not an easy read (I once tried to figure out how to use non-bitmap fonts by reading xterm's code - so I could help Paul Mattes in adding my font to x3270, but came out with a headache).
This is a company so shitty that their website does not even have a privacy policy: https://www.malwarefox.com/privacy-policy/

The exploit suddenly looks much less impressive if it relies on the user having installed something like that.
That's a great idea and honestly I'd love that.

But at the same time you could have the same with bonuses based on how much money your team made. The more granular, the better (albeit there are limits).
Ask HN: How can non-developers build products/MVPs?
Hi all,

I have a number of ideas for which I would like to build a MVP (a basic website, web-app) and put it out to the market and get feedback. For some people these are side-projects.
However, being a non-developer makes the process rather lengthy and tedious.
I have tried and built web-apps with no-code tools and also learnt web development on Flask (thanks to CS50!), however the learning curve was rather time consuming.
You end up consuming a lot of time just to learn the language/tool itself before you can actually build the product, tinker with features, get customer feedback etc.

Are there forums out there where I could find and team up with developers to build such product MVPs faster & validate my ideas? Basically like a tech co-founder (but not in a startup). Or is there some other way I am missing?

Suggestions welcome
Thanks!
I kind of agree with that. I think the UX field got lost in the way of being mixed with marketing for conversion and keeping engagement instead of real usage. Everything ends up with a dumbed down inefficient eye pleasing UI. I find it hard to find UX designers that want to invest in taking the time to really learn and understand expert usage instead of just seeing everything as websites to be optimised.
Can definitely relate to the GitHub example. I sucked it up and went through the application, assuming that if I was putting this much effort into an application then I'd at least get some feedback. Got a short blanket email saying they'd gone with someone else and no feedback as to why.

I don't mind being rejected at all, but it's clear they have absolutely no concept of how much time it takes applicants to submit. The thought of ever going through that again means I'm unlikely to ever re-submit in the future.
Might also be how it’s displayed. Germany has quite a bit of solar but its less concentrated in giant solar parks and the country is smaller than US, China, or India.

So for example US has multiple solar farms over 500MW and several over 200MW but none of Germany’s solar farms are over 200MW and only 4 are over 100MW.
Microsoft Surface defined 10 years of Windows PCs
The Apollo Protocol: unifying digital twins across sectors
> Sometimes the best questions come while waiting for a train.

Very much yes. Maps to the theme of thinking space we’ve brought up here over the past 4-5 days.
Letters of Last Resort Are Post-Apocalyptic Orders for UK Vanguard Sub Crews
We read it, but, still it's hard for someone with little experience with X window managers (fun story - I built a minimal graphical WM for the Apple II that fit in 1K) to have an idea.

Also, I'm a visual thinker - nothing picks my curiosity about software like a nice screenshot.
For anyone with time to spare, overpass-turbo is a great way to find/learn/do all kinds of things map-related.
Shout out to Home Assistant!

I have a docker instance of it running on an Ubuntu server at home, and I bougth a few pre-flashed Tasmota electricity meter plugs from Delock. I added another docker container for mosquitto (MQTT) which reads the plugs and integrates into HA. This way I learnt my NAS eats as much electricity a day, as does playing Horizon Zero Dawn on my PC for an hour. Ikea Smart lights on half the brighness are basically non-consuming, and the router is best kept shut down when we're not home for a week or two.

In the end, small household appliances don't make as big a difference, as letting your car charge with solar when electricity is cheap, and reducing charge speed when electricity is expensive (which is also doable with HA). There were great threads in HN about how you can even save energy by heating up or cooling down your house in advance with cheap electricity during the day when demand is low, and turn down the heat/ac in the night when demand is high, thus storing energy in the form of heat. But as a junior programmer with a wife in an already expensive apartment, small savings add up. We realized that running the washing machine less often but fully loaded, and with the lowest temperature water, saves us approximately the cost of Netflix. Few people know it's even fine to wash clothes with cold water.

Ultimately though, our apartment is pretty well insulated, and I would do all the home automation that I have just for the fun of learning. I definitely spent more money (and time) on the server and smart things than what they save us in our bills. Although I hope to apply my knowledge soon at my parents' house, where there's a lot more potential in energy savings.
Lawsuit claims Google knew its ‘Incognito mode’ doesn't protect users’ privacy
Looking at the video posted elsewhere in the comments, I'd say he made his own lens by buying a large rectangular sheet of acrylic and using a (homemade?) lathe to machine correctly shaped groves on it.
This is the basis of a major plot point in Greg Egan's novel Quarantine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_(Egan_novel)

Heartily recommend it. sci-fi detective story which asks "what if the Copenhagen interpretation of QM was real?" (note: author acknowledges that it's just a plot device: https://www.gregegan.net/QUARANTINE/QM/QM.html - good writeup, but spoilers).
Havent looked for a job in about 10 years but even back then it was already loaded with these huge forms that you have to fill out which i loathe.

I get it that they want to automate stuff but how much would an extra employee or two cost to analyse the resumes? The scraping software is also not that cheap.

I guess it also says a lot about the companies itself if the first experience you have with them is using some shitty tool that nobody really wants to use.
> those who received at least one vaccine shot were 24% less likely to infect close contacts

At best you could claim “reducing the spread” (but marginally) and in now way “preventing”.
“We’re trying to create a dose response curve with ethanol – basically get them ‘drunk’ and see if they play the game more poorly, just as when people drink,” says Kagan.

Actual sentence from the article.
I'm pretty certain that is just the panel out of an old thick plasma tv.
that lens would be a piece of poly-carbonate. Cheap as chips.
Back in the early Robot days you would write the tests on a tabular form, HTML based.

The Python code would parse those HTML tables to execute the code, lovely.
This is exactly backwards in my experience. The OTAs are full of dark patterns and really want you to create an account. I don’t think that I’ve ever had to do so on a hotel website—-name, phone number, credit card, done.
> Hard to imagine it happening at that scale in the West.

I think this idea is quite dangerous and reeks of superiority. It has happened before and it could happen again.

Sister comment made a point about forced prostitution and human traficcing being common.

I want to make a point that to get rid of this as a matter of policy, we've had revolutions and guillotines. To enforce this, we have well armed, strong goverments with long reach.

The fact that this keeps happening in every area without a strong government -from failed states to international waters - undercuts libertarian argument quite a bit. Youd think they would move to somalia en masse and turn it into the promosed land
No need to be rude. He’s making an analogy based on the parent comment and an experience he had.

It’s a good story.
Could one achieve PV quality silicon using zone melting?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_melting
When You Wish Upon a Beard: Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
The problem is the potential for malice in a place where incompetence reigns. Management incompetence is malice waiting to happen - not necessarily by the incompetent ones which makes it really hard to fight when it does.
>They are mechanically fairly simple.

Compared to an RTS, yes. Compared to tactical shooters like CS, no. Once you reach a certain level of aim, movement and the associated mechanics become the main distinguishing factor along with using the sounds in the game to track your opponents position and conceal yours.
In my locale the installer does just that. Install. Perhaps some calculation in order to sell you a bigger capacity, but certainly not optimization. Even talking about optimization with only high school physics with the people like installers and energy advisers gets you blank stares quickly. I think the benefits could be like 10% on your gas bill, but alas it’s untapped potential for those not into DIY.
Whatever the official purpose is going to be, there will be lots of people trading the relevant token and people who got it first are going to cash out during one of the many pump and dumps. And the "why aren't you collaborating with (whatever Web3 project)" / "why aren't you promoting the token more" spam will start too. I've seen it before and it's not going to be pretty.
Great blog post. Sometimes it's useful while testing to set random future and past times on Unix systems to see how programs handle that.

https://blog.darkinfo.org/timestomp-for-linux/
Seeing the example[1], I suddenly realised how nodejs and C++, which started so far apart, are slowly merging into one language...

[1]: https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets#battery-batteries...
Whait linux is polished compared to illumos? Man you need a reality check.
No-one's making you use it. Choose a distro that doesn't package it - there's plenty to choose from.
> Earth isn't designed for human life, but human life most certainly is designed for Earth.

The word "designed" isn't correct here, unless you believe in a designer. I think it's more correct to say humans are adapted to life on Earth.
Yes, I am expecting exactly that, many developers want to try to make a living from open source.

GPL was never about doing charity.
If your brain and body aren't in tune then you're not in flow.
Shutterstock partners with OpenAI to sell AI-generated content
You can use:
https://player.vimeo.com/video/11137816