skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I see Twitter in its previous form as actively harmful to society, especially since few years ago when Twitter decided that they no longer just show what's popular but actively manipulate it [1]. Like, the short format was bad enough on its own (encourages shouting in the void instead of actual discussion), and that's just more bad on top of bad

And I also see musk's compulsive lying and arrogance as harmful, althought in more limited scope.

So from my perspective it's one bad thing destroying other bad thing. What's not to be happy about ?

Sure, Twitter transforming into not a vile piece of shit it is today into something decent would also be nice outcome but I don't even know how that would work so it burning is next best thing.

* [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2022/11/14/japanese...
It's probably better that way to be honest. Flamefests were always hot garbage
I agree that for new content, the initial time handwriting makes sense, before adding it to your second brain. For me, Writing is therapy!

I usually write as much as possible on my laptop because I can type as fast as I think. At the same time, my handwriting can’t keep up with my thinking speed. There is no slowing down and forgetting ideas or thoughts. On the other hand, I can reformat, re-arrange, add, and delete, which will help my thinking process which wouldn’t happen in my brain. The advantage of pen and paper is that I use different muscles and brain activities when I write, which helps me think differently. I usually use them when I need to outline my blog post, if I’m stuck or distracted on something, or if I go out in nature and only bring my physical journal.

Also, when writing journals or other ideas within my second brain, I can start connecting them. Improving my thoughts over time and generally refine easily and reading them, whereas, on paper, notebooks get lost over time, and finding the right things when needed is very hard.
Please note that this runs on a processor that can't really have an SSH client because it can't do the handshake quickly enough to respond within OpenSSH server's default timeout of 1 minute.
There's a lot of people in the world, I'm sure some said that. I would recommend drawing your own conclusions based on it's current state, rather than focusing too much on what people say.
This summarises my feelings so far precisely. Alas, I’m not quite sure it’s possible to have this: the easier and more full-featured something is to use out of the box, the more components it needs — or at least, its components become more complicated in and of themselves.

One alternate approach I find interesting is that of NixOS: everything is declaratively specified in a single place, so it’s easy to configure stuff, but also easy to see how everything works. I actually tried out NixOS before installing Arch on the aforementioned desktop box, and if it wasn’t for the sheer opaqueness of Nixpkgs I’d still be using it. On the other hand, I can hardly call Nix ‘simple’… as with everything, it’s all tradeoffs, I suppose.
But it doesn't make sense to call it a "guide wire", it's not "guiding" anything.

It is however guying the tower.
guy; 3rd person present: guys; past tense: guyed; past participle: guyed; gerund or present participle: guying

secure with a line or lines.
"it was set on concrete footings and guyed with steel cable"
And it's much more deeply rooted in human nature than merely the design of peer review or the quantitative metrics used for evaluating scientists.

Indeed, it is not just about money either. Intangible prestige and status among the scientific expert community is just as much, or even more, coveted. Do people read your papers and talk about it at dinner parties? Do you get invited to give talks at prestigious institutions? Do a lot of interesting and similarly active people turn out to your talks? Do people with good connections and resources want to collaborate with you on exciting ideas?

And it turns out that what people including scientists actually care about is novel, bold, visionary ideas, not drone-like repetitive meticulous detail-oriented work following the footsteps of some other group. People want something new, something cool, something flashy, something sexy, something surprising. Not just the media! Scientists themselves, too!
Bugs are inevitable but we should strive to have as few as possible. Your program not working right is obviously bad UX (as we've all experienced using buggy software).

The reason we have type checking is same reason we have other tooling in our editors to do static analysis like highlighting syntax errors and linting: catching bugs during development is better than finding them in production.
You shouldn't ask Matz.
Oh, some highly paid people (that made product that actively made society worse) will need to find a new job, how utterly sadistic /s
Twitter has fired more software engineers
I am not retired, but my wife is. She does watch TV, an hour or two at night. She gardens and volunteers. Various acquaintances who have retired engage in volunteer activities: helping other seniors during health-plan "open season"; organizing free dental clinics in poor counties in Virginia; teaching and tutoring; even making sure that there are bags available for dog-walkers.
Tesla is being controlled by NHTSA. But overall you can blame / be happy about USA/Canada legislation and regulators.

There is no way that they could release it so easily in EU, but this is also why all startups and big tech companies are in USA.
tig-bug would be fun
This is the litany of most kitchen devices.

The only ones for me that have survived the test of time are the pressure cooker and the toaster oven.
Matrix could bridge tem as IRC replies so at least IRCCloud users could see/write them, but are not interested in supporting them for now: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/pull/150...
google.com/maps is simpler to type on a mobile phone and more consumer friendly, I’ve always used google.com/ pattern, way easier to leverage autocomplete, type a g to autocomplete google.com then if you are looking for flights type f and in 2-3 clicks you are on google.com/flights
This already happened, a US citizen was killed by drone strike in Yemen ordered by the US president (Obama at the time). So yes, it is very relevant.

Who guarantees you they wouldn't do it at home if they're now given the same capability on US soil? A terrorist on the run - they could take them out by robot instead of having to go through the arduous process of an arrest and court of law. Maybe he didn't comply with orders given by the robot and ran. You see?
HERE is currently owned by a consortium of Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Audi. So I guess that's where their traffic info is from.
in the UK most villages/small towns without a school have very old residents with no real village population replacement (people die of old age and the big old cold houses are bought by increasingly wealthy retirees leaving urban environments). The current residents need increasing amounts of care and infrastructure but there isn't anybody nearby of working age (compounded by the fact that NIMBY policies have driven village houses to unobtainable prices for average families and rentals are usually very rare).

more of a socio-economic observation but it's a problem that needs solving for each village - the current solution is government subsidy from urban areas to pay for care workers and pharmacy to drive around all day in the countryside to see people for a few mins each

I'm thinking if each rich old person in the village paid a subscription for a dedicated local care team who lived together in a nice house in the village (like 30x people paying £1000 a month to support 5 people) then that would be a balance for a very decent care wage + consistent high quality care
> driver confused pedals

Says Tesla who had every intention to lie. The driver wasn’t drunk and I can’t believe a human can plough accudentally for that long.
Such deals are always made with the seller in mind. You don't only get a plane, but warm, on-going and close relations with the origin country.
I'd argue basics of Elixir are simpler than Ruby. The tricky part is OTP concepts but you can use Elixir without knowledge of that.

This is a wonderful resource:

https://joyofelixir.com/toc.html
Stores the encryption passphrase locally.

This is a hard fail from a security standpoint. Extra bad for an open source app where anyone can easily find out where/how the passphrase is stored by just looking at the code.

It should ask for the passphrase at startup (which it does already) but just don't store it anywhere except volatile memory. The only meaningful test of the provided passphrase should be if the notes can be decrypted properly using it. If not, the notes are gibberish.

This way, it is impossible for anyone to obtain the passphrase to decrypt your notes even if they have your phone.
Payments, store of value, and NFTs I don't think has turned to shit.

Distributed computing I don't know much about, but if you're talking smart contracts that seems to be pretty healthy and well, but if you're talking decentralized AWS then I think there's a ways to go before that's a realistic expectation.

Payments, can work well in certain scenarios and better / worse for different cryptocurrencies. Cross border large value transfers Bitcoin can still be a cheaper and faster option than some (countries) banks.

Store of value is an interesting one, more so because we're (maybe?) near a local bottom down 80-odd percent from all time highs, but on a single line from inception to now, it's outperformed much of the stock market (I have no direct citation for this, but have heard it from a number of not necessarily trustworthy sources).

The whole stock market being down a large percentage takes some of the stink off Bitcoin's store of value argument as well.

Gold seems fairly consistent; boring, but boring can be good as an investment or store of value.

NFTs, that's all just in fashion mode at the moment, the new application of cryptocurrency / blockchain. Better applications of NFTs will surely appear.
/golf clap.
I don’t understand the demand for “legality”. FSD is like a driver with a fresh license - both are a little dangerous in the beginning but both will get better over time. Also the FSD’s promise (be it Tesla or anyone else) is so far reaching that this “a little dangerous in the beginning“ is worth some elaboration.

Just imagine reading a book in a self driving car and thinking about a new generation of self driving:-)
What it is missing in Elixir/Erlang ? I only have ops experience with those
I'm afraid simple and easy don't go well together.

You either have automation to make things easy to the user, but then it's no longer simple.

Or you require the user to do everything manually, but then it's no longer easy.
The marketing around pressure cookers (MAKE TANTALIZING MEALS IN 15 MINUTES!) always overlooks the time it takes for prep (~ 45 minutes), the times it take for the vessel to come up to pressure (~ 30 minutes) and time it takes to depressurize (~15-30 minutes).

Ultimately the results are better, but it’s lead to a couple of one hour delays on meal time in my household because I forgot to take into account the extra time. These often involved a “rapid depressurization procedure” of taking the Instant Pot to the deck, and holding the release valve up with a long wooden spoon.
this is really disappointing
If you were working there for a relatively short period of time, then it's not that surprising that some number of (lucky) people would make a profit over that period. Anyone who can really demonstrate a track record of correctly predicting races can presumably get hired by a betting company for a good salary.
I made a MMO pixel art game (metaverse?)
> Alternately, are you aware of any programming languages that output photos or ascii images?

There used to be a language to process photographs, from Bell Labs. I can't remember the name; it's been 30 years.

Update: it was called "popi" and was documented in a book called The Digital Darkroom by Gerard Holzmann.
It probably depends on how well current hardware performs. If it's good enough they might not (however if you have a newer car with newer HWU FSD will perform better of course).

Camera placement (A-pillar camera), better cameras, and faster processing would be an almost immediate improvement to current FSD without having to improve software.
IT is very broad, but if we are talking about people who have the skills to build something themselves, then they’re probably not front-line IT support workers, they’re probably software engineers or some other high-demand profession.

There are definitely companies with toxic high-stress engineering environments, but workers with valued skills have the employment capital to just… opt out. If all you care about is coasting at an average salary, you can either refuse to engage with the stressful parts of the job, or get another job. You get fired? Oh well, on to the next job.

I’ve worked in jobs where I had stressed co-workers who felt like the future of the company was on their shoulders… and co-workers, on the same team, who didn’t have a care in the world, because they understood that the success of the company was not linked to how stressed they were or how many hours they worked. Their value to the company was equal, their quality of life was vastly different.

If all you want is $100k/year, and you have the skill set to build your own company, you have the skill set to get a job where you don’t have to break a sweat. There are lots of companies out there who know how to realise >$100k value from an employee in 30 hours of low-stress work per week.

The whole notion of needing a career is self imposed, it’s a choice, if you’re happy making an average salary you don’t need to be in a high stress environment.
Finding pleasure in the suffering of other people is quite literally the definition of sadism. Be proud of it if you want, but that’s what it is.

Also, it’s very obviously not true that all the people who lost their jobs are highly paid. It’s curious how this self-deception keeps appearing among people who are cheering it on.
"You can easily clear $100k just keeping your head down in a big company."

But when having to choose between 100k and keeping your head down and 100k and keeping your head high, I know what I would choose. Of course the latter comes with more initial stress and risk so you have to know what you want.
does this mean that stuff like artstation and deviantart doesn't work anymore as prompts? That would be a huge change
Hello! One of the authors of the post here. Just added a sentence in the introduction to make it crystal clear:

> While FastAPI itself is not impacted, this is an interesting occurrence of an attacker attempting to deploy a FastAPI-specific backdoor.

Appreciate your feedback!
It also locks the scope to just git in the mind of the reader. Even if the scope broadens down the road.

A less specific name might benefit the project? The part after the colon will explain the actual purpose.
Diffs.
> The one interesting thing about all the rehashed boring arguments is that, despite being 13 years old, it's still so, so new that even smart, technically minded people like the HN readership will still bag it for not being whatever they heard it was attempting to be when it started.

That's not really what people are "bagging" it for. Or at least, not why I'm "against" crypto.

> But no, it's worthless, it shouldn't exist, it's not worth any further time or effort or research, fuck it off my fucking planet.

I think the technology is super interesting as a technology (I'm talking of blockchains here). I think there is currently one solid, known use case for that technology - cryptocurrencies. I'm not sure how "beneficial" they are overall, but I'm not so sure how beneficial Facebook is either. They are for sure providing some value to some people.

My big problem is that for the last 8 years, I've been hearing about how the Blockchain technology will solve other problems, revolutionize other fields. And as of now, that just isn't the case. There are no other problems that blockchain solves that can't be solved better with other technologies.

I'm not saying that no further time or effort to research this should be done, not at all. I'm just saying that people claiming there currently are use cases for it are wrong, and pushing back against them.
This is a huge can of worms that needs to stay closed based on the current military mindset of most big city police forces since the supreme court declared their mission is only to enforce laws and not to protect the public as well.
That defence may (for once) best be waged abroad, in the Ukraine.

Every Russian military asset defeated there is one threat removed.
This is a good point. The key to being 'successful' (in a fame and financial sense) isn't about being the best in a field. It's about convincing other people you're the best/one in the best in the field.

Which could in theory be an equaliser in itself. Not the best programmer or writer or musician in the world? Well, you can still be 'extraordinary' by convincing other people you're extraordiary and outmarketing those who are better than you. The person who gets the job isn't necessarily the best candidate on a technical level, but the one who can talk a better game in the interview.
I use open shell and 7+ Taskbar Tweaker (https://ramensoftware.com/7-taskbar-tweaker) + also disable all pinned apps and reenable quick launch - this makes it look like win7/XP pretty closely (though I also disable windows updates so it doesn't get reverted randomly)
Advantages:

- Drag and drop

- Discoverability of features

- Higher density of information

- Changes can be seen instantly

- The use of a mouse or stylus when it's natural

How are you going to use Photoshop or Illustrator from the CLI? (Or Gimp and Inkscape.)
Neither the HTML spec or the JavaScript spec require that audio be auto played or that pop-ups be opened without restriction. HSTS is different in this respect.

I'm sure if you want to hack your browser so that it ignores that header you can, but the idea is that any server sending that header is telling you to go away if the certificate is invalid.
It takes the sort of person who doesn't care about collecting a bunch of enemies, possibly well-connected ones.
Sometimes it's best to rest when tired but we cannot stay there for ever. This article has been helpful in seeing how to get out
The SA part (ShareAlike) is even more restrictive, as it imposes a license on the derivative work.

"— If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original"
As an ESL speaker I always incorrectly assumed "dutch oven" referred to clay pots:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_pot_cooking#In_European_c...
I'm involved in maintaining a dictionary website for Cantonese. We're not strapped for cash since expenses are minimal, but if we did put up ads there (according to Google's estimate) the yearly revenue might be in the say 10+k range. So the business itself at "10 P/E" would be a roughly 100k dollar business. (FWIW, I believe the estimate is probably higher than the would-be real numbers, but then we haven't finished the dictionary itself yet.)

I think there's a lot of small-medium sized websites that fall into such a category.
One sufficiently high speed collision with a Tesla seems the efficient way to opt out.
I wish I could clean cache objects related to a specific c++ file. Like a bad object got into the cache and there isnt a way to remove it unless I nuke the whole cache.
"does the pixel at (0, 0) show the data from (−0.5, −0.5) to (0.5, 0.5), or from (0, 0) to (1, 1)?" - that's an interesting question, but it is independent of tile grids.

You're right that the "ideal datasets" of this world aren't discrete and pixelised, however, real-world pixel-based datasets exist, and real-world pixel-based screens exist, and you want to be able to explore large pixel-based datasets on pixel-based screens, which can be done in a really nice and crisp way if you just put one data pixel on each screen pixel. Suppose that these datasets live in some common cartesian coordinate system but have different extents. The issue of storing the tile ranges that cover each dataset is a real proposition - it's not "lossy and incorrect" once you've accepted that pixels are what you have to deal with as input.

If I want a system where zooming out aggregates 2x2 tiles to a single tile, then I have to decide what happens if there's an odd number of tile rows on a zoom level: Should the number of tile rows on the coarser zoom level be half rounded down, or half rounded up? It seems natural to take the half rounded up, and then fill out the missing tile row with blank pixels. What are the tile row numbers on the coarser zoom level? Suppose we start with tiles on rows 2,3,4,5,6 - that's [2,6] as a closed interval or [2,7) as an open interval. On the next zoom level, the tiles are aggregated so that rows 2 and 3 end up on row 1, row 4 and 5 end up on row 2, and row 6 ends up on row 3. This means we have tiles on rows [1,3] or [1,4). In general, if you have tiles on rows [a,b], then the next zoom level will have tiles on rows [floor(a/2), floor(b/2)]. Expressed with half-open intervals instead, if you have tiles on rows [a,b), then the next zoom level will have tiles on rows [floor(a/2), floor((b+1)/2)). I don't like the +1 in the formula for half-open, so I'll take the closed interval formulation any day.
Making a bulletproof filter is incredibly difficult, even more so in a topic where image descriptions are written in a culture that often has to circumvent text filters. Both midjourney's and OpenAI's filter works mostly because of the threat of bans if you try to circumvent them. I'm not sure I would describe that as "the easy solution"
I would say that FSD is like a driver who still learns to drive in order to obtain driving license.

There also needs to be someone who watches over them :) .
The best of these would be something related to a lifestyle business you are interested in as a hobby or would do for fun anyway. So if it doesn't generate a lot of income you are still having fun - importing/selling wine, something to do with antique motorbikes etc.

Your question implies you are looking for tech ideas and your skills are in building software or services. The other side is applying high tech to areas of business that aren't very high tech at the moment - think about all the small or local businesses that still thrive that can barely get a website together and couldn't afford to hire a decent developer or even have the skills to manage a software project - if tech can improve that business you can differentiate yourself.
The idea that radioactive waste is safe is at best misleading, if not outright false. You ignore that fossil fuel is not the only alternative to nuclear and vice versa. Then you hand-wave over the amounts of waste and climate gases.

If nuclear waste disposal is so easy to solve: Why has nobody ever solved it? You talk about some hypothetical SMR designs? Yeah, in theory, future nuclear technology is safe. Unfortunately even current technology, nuclear power projects always run over time and over budget on top of an already unwieldy upfront budget. Using radioactive waste as a powersource sounds nice and smart, but turns out to be unfeasible so far and at least one or two decades in the future.

Next, the danger from nuclear power, both during and after the runtime is impossible to calculate. Which is were those "impossible accidents" come from, which happen a bit too often. Yeah, in the theory from the nuclear power lobby, nuclear power is totally safe. But reality has to deal with things unforeseen, and on top of that, with bad intentions. Just that nobody tried (or succeeded) yet in building dirty bombs or destroying another country's nuclear plants doesn't mean that won't ever happen. Very small risks with catastrophic consequences are impossible to calculate and should be approached about as carefully as radioactive material itself.