skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends. I'm extremely introverted, in the sense that I could be quite happy going days without interacting with another person. I'm also prone to minimizing my achievements, such as they are, as well as to avoid risk to the extent possible. This probably harms my career in some ways. Yet I managed to find a position that pays me better than I would have imagined ten years ago, and my reputation among my peers seems pretty good.

I think it helps to have certain traits that are not particularly "introverted". I don't like talking to people and prefer to be by myself, but I'm perfectly content to get up in front of a crowd and teach a class for two hours. It doesn't energize me, but nor does it drain me in any noticeable way. I had horrible stage fright as a teenager and young adult, but it doesn't bother me anymore. I can't say what flipped the switch ... it wasn't practice or exposure, it just sort of happened as I grew older.

What does hurt me is the lack of in-person networking. If people are coalescing into groups and chit-chatting I have no skills at my disposal for breaking into a conversation. And once I'm in a conversation, I find it extremely difficult to keep it going. I hate talking off the cuff and (maybe contrary to expectation) there's only so much you can do to keep the other person talking about themselves.
Seems reasonably, but you are simply assuming it's culturally appropriate. We don't know for sure.

When we consider most cultures want their stuff back from rich countries museums and that is soundly ignored I suspect its a distraction.
What is the gravitational force at the singularity? How does that reconcile with the maximum force?

c^4/4G

It seems like there is a contradiction there.

https://www.motionmountain.net/maximumforce.html
The actual paper is here: https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.181301

The summary says almost nothing, so here’s what I got from the abstract. First some context: we currently don’t have any physics theory that predicts the gravitational field of a particle in a superposition. This isn’t due to a lack of ideas for theories, but in large part because the predicted effects are much too small to run experiments, for at least a few more decades.

The paper is about a simulation based one candidate theory for such a gravitational field. The interesting result is that the simulation yields a range of black hole masses predicted by the theory, even though the authors didn’t specifically plug that assumption in. This could be an argument in support of the theory. (But could also be a coincidence, or stem from some underlying math that the researchers didn’t think about, that also underlies the mass prediction, which would mean the result is a tautology.)
Never liked Zuckerberg, but you seem correct.
Facebooks trajectory was pretty obvious. Creating a TikTok clone or such would just be chasing your own tail.
The only real future for Facebook is something new.
It's very high risk, and can rarely be done in a public company the size of meta, but he positioned himself to make it possible.
Time will tell if this bet was good (for him, for us I'm pretty sure a successful metaverse is awful)
There can’t be that many men who are married with one child, are roughly that height, had cause to be in the 12k population city and were gone overnight around the time that this was claimed and publicized.
Zuckerberg could help meta by retiring.
How I ported a Rails app to iOS and launched in the App Store in 7 weeks
> When you build something to have marginalized voices be heard

Why do we have to do that? Isn't the idea of having easy access for all enough? What people are so marginalized that they can't mute hateful speech and get on with their day?
Why boredom is anything but boring (2016)
A quick look at my home screen I see search, maps, calendar, keep, translate, Gmail, photos, and drive
It's literally a subsystem. It's integrated in many ways you would not use to describe a "VM". I don't understand the aversion nor the confusion.
I will admit to being continually perplexed at how no one in all of NYC can make a croissant as good as even an average one in Paris.

I don't like food nearly enough to travel around the world for it, however.
Not really, it doesn't make sense, I liked Windows 7, but the newer ones not that much.
They can be made to have almost any size. Even with a biosphere. Like the rings in Halo. You can walk and enjoy air that is as fresh as in any natural environment. The real disadvantage is that it is more fragile than a planetary environment. Also, civilizations living there would have to produce technicians that can maintain its systems. Planetary civilizations could choose to become low-tech.
Fair enough, but those were a couple sentences out of a multipage article. I just get tired of comments for any article that involves Microsoft in some way turning into generic arguments over whether people should like or hate Microsoft, overshadowing the actual content of the article. The arguments tend to rehash the same tropes over and over and are pretty tedious and not interesting.

But I guess I'm just adding to the problem by turning it into an equally tedious meta-argument. I'll stop now ...
You'd think it wouldn't be that hard to build a personal search engine on top of Lucene or Elasticsearch and on one level it isn't. But there are two very hard problems.

(1) Performance. Back in the day people frequently turned full text indexing on Windows off because it would slow down their computer too much. People won't be happy with the overheard of a search engine that is always scanning 10's of GBs of document.

(2) Search quality. People are familiar with Google being an effective search engine but they've certainly tried a number with terrible relevance scoring and probably learnt that it is not worth trying the search on a web site or the search on the help of an application. In the case of Elasticsearch the default similarity is BM25 but that has two tunable parameters. There are other similarities you could use but most of them have tunable parameters. It makes a real difference what you choice and there is a methodology for tuning them that is now built into ElasticSearch.

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr...

I talked to about 20 vendors of full text search products and found that only 2 out of the list regularly evaluated the quality of the results, 1 of them just did it so they could get some advertising by being on the TREC leaderboard. They told over and over again that customers didn't care about search quality, they just wanted to see a list of 350+ data sources that the product could index.
There is no such thing as an "escaped string". Escaping is not a general concept, it is something that differs given the intended destination of that string. For example, "I am a %SYSTEM% person" is a perfectly fine escaped bash string, but an unsafe CMD string; it is also fine as a C# format string, but potentially unsafe as a C format string, depending on your actual implementation of printf; it is an escaped MSSQL filter string, but not an escaped PostgresSQL filter string.

Also, not all strings/texts should be thought of as Unicode code points/graphemes.
> The 1TB SSD is formatted as a btrfs file system and mounted to /storage.

That makes me cringe. If a server's purpose involves serving files, those files should go in /srv.

https://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/srv.htm...
Stifling innovation like no tomorrow to maintain market domino.

Luckily we have something called RISC-V ready to takeover.
If something says it is for developers, does it have to revolve around UNIX clones as if there aren't any other kind of developers?
I think what you're describing is database query, not search. Heuristic search is going to be non-exhaustive by definition.

Desktop-focused databases are of course widely available (Paradox, Access, LibreOffice Base etc.) but the volume of data you could manage with them is of course limited. I.e. non-toy datasets will naturally be hosted on some sort of "cloud".
How to Be Interesting (2017)
Yeah, it seems to me that if you use a standalone Pi for your self hosted password manager, then why not just run everything as systemd services. I did something similar on a Pi 3 for the CCC congress event last year using NixOS and it's been running ever since.
I have a general question regarding the BitWarden server: How would you rate the security between using the official BitWarden server and self-hosting Vaultwarden?

I am sympathetic (and capable) of self-hosting, but if my instance and my passwords are compromised, the fallout could be catastrophic for me. Am I better of in the long term by just using the BitWarden server and assuming that they have better security than I do, even though they are the even jucier target?
Yeah, it's a good system.

Also, on the forums, you can look at anyone's rap sheet and see exactly the post that they got banned (or probated or permabanned) for. Let's you know what sort of person you are dealing with.
I am so sad anyone can look at this amazing resource and with a straight face say that only 10% of it is valid as an inspiration. It's a magnificent source of inspiration! Sure some are not perfect, but that doesn't detract from the overall goal.
There isn't even an open source product with traction.
You can use a handset with its SIM card on WiFi without a tower ever again if you provision the SIM card on its home network once. Nobody is suggesting using anything but a handset.
That's the real money-maker.

EDIT: The way it ends up working on the forums is that if you do something to annoy someone that isn't against the rules, they can spend 10 bux and change your avatar to a photo of something that you don't want showing up on every post you make (and likely giant red text that says something like "Ask me about [something offensive]), and then you have to spend 5 bux to undo it.
I have to agree with @josteink ...while i have used xmpp for a few years quite happily, i am very much a matrix fanboy for the last few years. And, maybe sure, matrix might not represent the only/last/ultimate solution here...maybe its only half-way there...but i do favor its direction. So, for now, matrix (for me anyway) is the best direction forward. The more federated, interoperable, adoptable, and freedom-able that we have as a protocol, i think all the better.

....until we have intermingled both into the next, new best protocol: XMPatrix lol :-)
Yes, you have to audit the VCS for non-source files as well as verifying reproducibility.
Windows search only finds things sporadically though. I turned off search indexing on my Mac because otherwise I'd have to go out for coffee when I open any application.
Being professionally unemployed.
That felt wrong to me, so I looked it up. The L'Anse aux Meadows settlement lasted only 3 to 10 years. They wouldn't have had time to explore much.

And you know, the land wasn't as empty then. Eurasian diseases hadn't yet killed 90% of the North American population. No matter where they went, they would have run into natives who probably wouldn't have been thrilled to have them there.
Problem with their cache (redis / elasticsearch / etc.)

Happens even to the best companies.
Just downloaded after a mention somewhere else. Is this going to be like Factorio?
Being a junior developer. You'll get paid pretty well and only have a few meetings a week. Most of your time will be coding your own work.
It doesn't, but that's what the person I heard mention this effort is trying to change.
Looking to talk to people today about what they are building. Can join this room at 1pm EST
The labor theory of value is "not real" in the sense that it doesn't correctly describe how the market works at scale. At the same time, it is real in the sense that it's a close approximation of what we consider intrinsically fair.

Now, you can claim the judgement of the market should replace people's sense of fairness. In that case, there's no problem. Or, you can see the market being misaligned with our sense of fairness as a bug, and ask how it can be fixed.
Not meaningless if they still do verification (which afaik they would).
They also support netbooting now I believe. Been meaning to try it out so I can fully host my retropi on my NAS.
> why market to some people when you can market to all people for the same cost?

It wouldn't be the same cost. Publishers charge advertisers in proportion to the number of people who see the ad.
Well, they were replying to a post that said this is powershell done right. Seems very relevant to ask what the done right part is.
USSF-44 Mission Livestream (Falcon Heavy is back after 3 years)
That's not distributed consensus it's centralized consensus, it could be automated without the need for a blockchain.
Long ago someone told me that if all else failed, at least Twitter owned a valuable office building in San Francisco. So they have that, right? lol
Most keep collecting data (making you the product) even when you pay for the product. MS Windows, Smart TVs, your graphics card driver, your popular news source even with the ad-free plan...

It looks like you cannot pay them enough to get rid of the tracking.
Same. I worked with a Vue 2 project that had cold start time of almost 2 minutes (and ~25s hot start after enabling hardSource plugin in Webpack), and each hot-module reload would take 10+ seconds. It was a real pain to work with. Having build times that are on the order of magnitude faster can really improve the developer experience and the way you work with code.
A Service Worker can do just that. It is a script which sits between the web page and the server and can intercept requests from the page and responses from the server. It can cache responses and serve from cache if it wishes to. So a refresh can result in merely accessing cache. It also supports messaging to and from the page.

Having been put in place it's script is fetched once a day to look for changes.

It is a very powerful concept and widely supported I believe.
Lobsters is wonderful for hard-banning politic, more programming focused, but is even more groupthink-heavy in the Haskell direction which gets a little boring. Conversations on programming are usually more informed, but also more predictable. They also ban really great contributors like https://github.com/BurntSushi for “self-promotion” which is very frustrating to me. I still visit both sites and probably comment more here still.

https://lobste.rs/u/jitl
Follow the money not the tech for this story.

Facebook sold to individuals as a workforce automation platform for teenage girl relationships-as-a-pattern that anyone can use, AND double dipped selling to biz and gov as a propaganda outlet and that makes huge revenue until people get tired of it, disillusioned, and move on. It seems to mostly be bots and addicts now, I wouldn't go there in 2022, to actually socialize or be propagandized to.

Meta's story is "lets do the same thing over again but technologically more complicated and expensive" No Facebook enduser ever wanted to do the same stuff as FB but requiring a more expensive graphics card or shorter battery life. Meta doesn't seem to have a purpose to endusers. To technical people its an interesting challenge, but to end users its this generation's superconducting supercollider. "Well it burns stacks of cash to entertain techie people and nobody else cares". Best of luck with that biz model...
Durée has something like that http://durden.arcan-fe.com/
On one hand the US government has been complaining about too much misinformation on FB and on the other hand it has a portal to control misinformation on social network? There must be some link broken in these two?
That was for desktop software. The era of buy it, download it and it's yours forever. Not an ongoing service.
Falcon Heavy Launch [video]
Interesting how many people go straight to the cache - seems like we've all been there when we're accidentally overwriting keys with the wrong data!

Experience is the best teacher I guess, although we all seem to be doomed to make the same mistakes.
Nope. It’s just an ARM PC, sold by Microsoft. Not different from a Dell desktop PC, or anything in the same category which comes with Windows pre installed.
Huh? What are you saying: you don’t think there are black holes?

Edit: the page you linked is a random dude who keeps publishing on a single topic that mainstream physics has been mostly ignoring. I wouldn’t go as far as call him a crackpot, but he’s definitely in the fringes. After scanning the site I still have no idea what he’s on about, and a cursory check of published literature seems to support this is at least not an idea most people in mainstream physics would recognize.
I'm certainly not saying that nothing happened before PCs, only that when talking about the past, one cannot say "we had X" based simply on whether X existed somewhere in the world, but one must consider also how widespread the usage of X was at the time.
You're going to be the product regardless.

They'll just charge you on top of collecting and profiting from the data they collect on you.
> and that if someone was shooting up a pizza parlor over correct information the situation would be different and warrant different responses.

Wow this is scary, and kinda borderline needs to be reported to the FBI. Why is shooting up a pizza parlor acceptable when the information is “correct”? This is cult behavior.
Durden is a desktop environment for the Arcan Display Server
It would definitely remove complexity from the browser.
By that logic should browsers just contain all the common Javascript frameworks?
No because that would slow down their rate of change, and sites couldn't control their exact version / configuration. Should be the same for the entire DOM
The Trumpalizer: A Markov-chain bluster generator
I don't have numbers, but I doubt that 12.3% of people living in Paris proper (the 20 arrondissements) live in detached houses. Yes, there are villas in the city, but they're extremely rare. I don't see them housing more than 1 in 10 people.

So their numbers seem indeed dubious.

Edit: I found official stats (French only): https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/2011101?geo=DEP-75#chif... Table "LOG T2". "maisons" = "house", "appartements" = "apartments"

In 2019, less than 1% of housing stock were "houses".
> I suspect if Elon can get away with charging many, and probably most, heavy users of the platform a monthly fee

That's going really well so far... https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587312517679878144
Not allowed to edit my comment anymore.

Why is salary for the CEO rising to 3 mil $ a year for the ceo when the marketshare of the browser has been down by more than 85%. How would paying the CEO more salary and laying of the engineers solve low marketshare is beyond my understanding.[0]

[0]: https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/endangered-...

Lots of UI changes like constantly changing menu items and losing control of the browser in general. Leaves a bad taste when useful customization options are removed and instead we get color themes sugarcoated as the coolest new stuff (every few years, sometimes its limited edition sometimes some fancy BS term).

Firefox unique ids:
why they leave me a bad taste ? I have added a previous discussion from HN. [1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30715163

I used to love the firefox from around 2017, but every new release removes some configuration options and we lose control. Maybe my views are full of too much rants, but i install firefox as the first thing on any OS for me and my immediate circle followed by ublock origin. I want firefox to thrive and be handled more like linux.

Even though i don't like the current direction of the management, firefox is my daily driver for development as well as browsing.
> They told over and over again that customers didn't care about search quality, they just wanted to see a list of 350+ data sources that the product could index.

This seems to describe corporate buyers ticking boxes on a form, more than actual users.
I thought since WSL2 it’s just a Hyper-V VM with some nice upfront configuration (like mounting all windows disks)?
Well, the first line the is "The attention of the audience is a writer's most precious possession" so, they aren't that far off.
I use it with google cloud run and its smooth as hell
Sure, you need a different type for each different form of escaping you want to track, but that doesn't make the idea unworkable.

A type that says (say) "this is a string containing html PCDATA" is a useful thing to have.
Because a password manager is a tiny piece of software. Instead, it is now a multi-component black box installation with a general purpose operating system running on a full-scale Linux machine with a containerization platform designed for datacenters.

I am not a fan of this kind of redundancy and opaqueness.
Bad argument, glibc and musl are not always compatible, and you can use that as argument against either. When it comes to standards, musl is actually the more conformant one.

The glibc 2.26 release with the ucontext breakages made me stick with musl.

Plus, when i did multiarch support in Alpine later, i found that LDSO paths for musl are much more systematically and don't have name collisions like glibc.
The same can be said of any software that you don't review and compile yourself. Whether I run a Docker container or pull in 500 npm/pip/cargo/gems/composer dependencies, the attack service remains. With Docker these individual layers can be separated and inspected at the very least.

Based on the name, I expected someone to take vaultwarden and make it an αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε that runs on its own without an OS; instead, this is just a quick tutorial for "how to set up vaultwarden".
That is your interpretation, not Microsoft's.

"Windows Dev Kit 2023 (code name “Project Volterra”) is the latest Arm device built for Windows developers with a Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that provides best-in-class AI computing capacity, multiple ports, and a stackable design for desktops and rack deployment. Purpose-built with everything you need to develop, debug, and test native Windows apps for Arm."

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/dev-kit
Every time these articles come up I think about what a shafting people in Japan are taking on property and why western media want to write articles lying about it to the public. Japanese property is tiny by any metric compared to western property; maybe there are some rich people who would like to remove housing regulations and make more money selling crap tiny plastic homes to people at absurd valuations…
University of Edinburgh staff is furious after the migration to Oracle HR system
A year and a half ago the university has migrated to Oracle's People and Money system with all the finance department moving to the system a few months ago. Since then due to issues with the system PhD student stipend payments have been delayed, the payments on university contracts have been delayed and some university departments have been blacklisted with suppliers.