skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've wanted to visit Argentina since reading https://idlewords.com/2006/04/argentina_on_two_steaks_a_day.... (2006) which mentions mate as a national obsession and love affair

The whole post is great so I don't want to copy too much here - click the link! read it all - but on mate's possible effects:

Mate aficionados will tell you that mate contains a special compound, mateine, that serves as a tonic and mild stimulant, promoting alertness without making it hard to sleep, reducing fatigue and appetite, helping the digestion and serving as a mild diuretic. Scientists will tell you that mateine bears a suspicious resemblance to a chemical called caffeine. Mate aficionados will then grow indignant, explaining that mateine is really a stereoisomer (mirror image) of caffeine, with different effects, which will in turn irritate the scientists, who will snap that caffeine doesn't have a chiral center, so it can't have a distinguishable mirror image, and why don't the mate aficionados just put a sock in it.

Since I am writing this from Argentina, I will just diplomatically state that mate includes a constellation of chemicals, whose presence may affect the way the body absorbs caff... er, mateine, giving it a unique physiological effect.
I used to be a full-time Linux user, then switched to macOS. I bought into the Apple ecosystem for over a decade. My last Apple device: I paid for a high end macbook pro ($4k) and got burned by that. As soon as my apple care coverage was over, the battery swelled. I couldn't afford to replace or fix it. I ended up building a high end PC with 4x the cores, 2x the ram, and 6x the storage for half that. I initially installed Windows10 then upgraded to 11. It's been 3 years and I'm still running it, now under Linux.

It's a relief.

I control my own OS, my own data, and don't have to worry about making compromises that I'm forced to make because there are no alternatives.

I still use an iPhone but I rarely use it. I'm probably switching to a libre phone as soon as it's feasible.
That was my thought as well. With sufficiently advanced computing and world modeling, we wouldn't use DNA to bring back real creatures, just high-fidelity digital ones, complete with a simulated environment that suits them.
No. I ride a bike.
New Golang anti-SSRF library released
You can easily find the answers to these questions by spending an hour or so reading about them. Instead, you choose to make this public display of emotions on being confronted with something slightly unfamiliar, helpful to nobody at all. It’s unbecoming that someone who calls themselves a programmer would be shocked that specialty tools exist.
Announcing the release of `safeurl` - a library to help #golang devs "Build with Security"! This module provides tested & versatile protection against Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF)! Hurry and check it out or try to break it and win a prize!
I'm impressed it took a whole 33 minutes for this to be linked!
They’re advertising here on their platform, so the tie-in is strong.
I don't see Twitter as "dying" in the near future per se, but I think people are generally winding down their activities on the platform. There's obviously a parallel trend of people trying to rid themselves of social media in general to live less online lives. (After which they dial up usage of other social platforms like TikTok, YouTube, and Twitch.)
I still encountered many frustrations when using macOS since late August, which would be trivial on Linux. Like yesterday I had to return to edit my keymap with third-party software so that I could do programming and write text in the local language without changing layouts. In GNOME, I would do that within very polished system settings, which also offered sane options in the first place.

Switching focus between multiple windows with keyboard shortcuts is painful, but GNOME is also bad on this front. Now I use Amethyst without tiling, which makes things better but is sometimes buggy :( Nevertheless, I like that it is possible to split the screen in fullscreen so I can have a fullscreen emacs frame on one monitor and another shared with a terminal on the other.

I miss the simplicity I had on the Linux installing applications with simple `apt-get` commands. On macOS, it feels like Ubuntu, where snaps have taken over all applications, and you can't figure out how things are organised and struggle to add a text editor to the path.

The default terminal experience was also painful. moving from zsh to bash was more difficult than anticipated as the bash is outdated on macOS (is it really so difficult to update it, apple?). Not being able to use tab completion in my git commands is also something I miss, and adding it again puts me into hours of searching in google for how it can be done for this macOS version.

Nevertheless, there are big benefits which come with using macOS. The ability to authenticate through webpages by scanning your fingerprint is a godsend. Grouping tabs by categories in safari also makes my browsing more organised. The ability to use Grammarly system-wide is a game-changing experience (although it does not work within emacs :( ), and the app ecosystem overall is much better and more polished. Email client, which does not need to be reauthenticated now and then with google, is one of the things I really appreciate (which was the only gripe about Geary).

In the end, the benefits outweight the shortcomings of macOS. It is at least a Unix in the end.
How data is split in chunks ? Just curious.
Because the people who worked on it decades ago aren't making daily decisions about their careers any more. Young people are, and it would be really dumb to recruit people to solve the real and hard problems of improving this technology from only like 25% of the population.

> I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. --Stephen Jay Gould
I think people should just read the Wikipedia article about the proposed successor to NIF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Inertial_Fusion_Energy#M...
> explicitly targeting being the glue between a bunch of lower level infrastructure

It might be more precise to say that we provide the primitives that a developer needs to host Supabase on any cloud provider. Becoming the "glue" appears to be a byproduct of this approach

For example: we use s3 right now, but we've built the storage server so that it can be extended with other storage providers (in fact, it has a "local disk" provider for developing locally).

We use Cloudflare right now for the CDN, but as mentioned in the blog post the Webhooks we built into this release are so that we could migrate to any CDN service without locking ourselves into any CDN-specific cache invalidation.

Portability is something we think about a lot (although harder to solve this problem at a CDN-level).

> Other platforms-as-a-service don't seem to like to acknowledge the services they use under the hood Is this an intentional strategy? Can you talk any more about how you're thinking about it?

There's no strategy behind it. We are trying to build a great developer platform, and at our current stage these platforms provide a better service for some features than we could ourselves. There's no shame in that from our POV, and these services deserve the credit for delivering something useful. I doubt we'll ever get to a "build our own datacenter" stage - we'll probably just continue to focus on the application level (with a Database-centric view of the world)
Then you have to worry about falcons, or Blackadder. Smoke signs, maybe... but then you have to worry about the weather and wild fires... Seems they thought that one through!
> The RTX4090 (1600) is 2 times more expensive than the 3080 (750) and is 200% faster than that card.

Just for the sake of clarity I understand you to mean "200% as fast as," (as in twice as fast) and not "200% faster than."

I agree with your premise that cheaper cards are even worse value, but taking this example of the best value of this generation, it's not cheaper per unit of performance. It's exactly the same as the last generation. GPUs (and indeed most technology) has been getting cheaper per unit of performance over the years. To me, this marks a radical departure from my expectations.
If you tell a police officer that you did a crime, then your words are admissible as evidence against you. If you tell a police officer that you did not commit a crime, you can't have the police officer testify in your defense that you told him that you did not commit the crime.

Witnessing things is a completely different matter.
> What are these campaign finance charges doing here?

If police get a warrant to search your basement for heroin and find a pile of dead bodies, what do you think happens next?
This is a tool for explicitly avoiding video compression.
I was a victim, FTX the company definitely stole assets from my brokerage (not bank) account which their terms and conditions said they would not. The trickier bit is showing personal responsibility of SBF rather than someone else in the company. That's why no one got locked up for the 2008 crash - the companies obviously did bad stuff but it was hard to pin on an individual. I imagine in this case they have some personal evidence SBF was in on it.
> If the password is compromised due to a problem on the application side, they still can't get in to your account without the TOTP code.

But as you say, since I'm using a password manager, this doesn't feel like a legitimate concern. If the application's database leaks, my password is still safe, because no one will crack a randomly generated 20+ character password.

> Maybe a more relevant threat is password gets compromised from a MITM attack, in which case they still don't have access to your TOTP

But they'll have the code, so as long as they use it right away, they can still get into my account and download my data / spam my contacts / whatever.
Being extraordinarily connected did not help Madoff much: he was sentenced to 150 years in prison and died there last year.
I'm baffled by the comments on this topic in particular. Do people just spout off in the comments now despite no background in the field? I don't really recall a time in the past where this was so prevalent on HN. I used to be able to trust that some industry expert would be in the comments section fact checking headlines and adding nuance, but now I see far too many contradictions, strange takes, and obvious red flags (see: "BIG CAVIET").
> I went in three months later, and the same salmon still rang up at 4p more than it was listed at.

Incredible.
> "Amazing breakthroughs" have notable consequences. This thing has no prospect of any consequences.

The consequences of a breakthrough are often not noted at the time. It is only when the consequences have happened that we recognize them and grasp the change which has been catalyzed by the discovery. Who, other than Mathematicians, cared about Number Theory when it was discovered?

I don't know enough about plasma physics to characterize this one way or the other, but I think looking for notable consequences is very slippy ground to stand on when dismissing a result.
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Because Internet? Because disrupt? Don't you know that human laws do not apply to the cloud? /s
> PHP is on the decline.

Is it? That has been discussed here at every PHP release, recently with 8.1. PHP is getting the job done, runs everywhere, is fast and it becomes more safe with every release. There are modern frameworks like Symfony and Laravel (also take a look at PHP application servers Swoole or Roadrunner). You can even run a version of serverless Laravel, if you like (https://vapor.laravel.com/).

For realtime there is Laravel Broadcasting that can use services like Pusher or self-hosted alternatives like Soketi. Symfony supports Mercure.

Honestly, what are you missing?
One of only about three things I miss from switching away from Windows, is that I now have to use Sublime instead of Notepad++. It was just so much better at dealing with large files and batch operations, which are a priority for my work. But Sublime has beat everything else I have tried out on Linux, and obviously has features Notepad++ does not.
Because hearsay is an out-of-court statement, but there are exceptions, including a statement against the person's interest. FRE 804(b)(3).*

In other words, if you try to introduce an out-of-court statement that supports your case, it's hearsay; if the statement is against your interest, it's allowable.

Of course there are other exceptions and nuances, but this is the jist of it.

* https://www.rulesofevidence.org/article-viii/rule-804/
Right, I thought this site's whole purpose was to be a relatively high-value and free (to the company posting the ad) place to display certain ads for the companies YC invests in.
> I don't think anyone is forcing anyone to do anything.

Au contraire, the problem is literally that we are forcing people. People are claiming medical issues (on both sides), too, so this is probably going to end up in some future debates about accessibility rules/laws.

You have the right to put a flashlight up to your eyes for 8 hours/day, you do not have the same right to do this to me.
Marketers care very much about the context their ads appear in, which is why they're leaving Twitter in droves. https://www.npr.org/2022/11/25/1139180002/twitter-loses-50-t...

Musk has already had one public tantrum about it. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1597285572699074560
This is one of many ways of doing this in Vim: you pick the way depending upon the task and what you prefer. Personally I would have used macros in this situation. Recorded my commands and replayed them across the resultant lines. It's actually interesting to see another Vimn user's approach.

Whilst what you're saying is correct about being able to do these things on your IDE/editor, one of the strengths of Vim comes from being able to program edits and then reuse them. I'm always stunned programmers don't naturally get drawn to Vim for this reason alone. And I actually use Vim bindings in my IDEs, giving me the tools from both worlds.

For example, if I made a macro that does all of the edits on a single line, I can replay that macro n times or – better still – play it only on lines that match a regular expression. You can basically describe the edits you want to make either by recording you making them (macro), or – like on this video – by hand constructing them. Either way you can then apply them like a distinct action (procedure) however you want.

Example: `:g/blah/s/a/b/g` will search (g) for all lines matching "blah" then substitute (s) "a" with "b" for all occurrences (g). Similarly `:g/bl.*ah/norm @a` will play my macro in register `a` across all the lines that match the regular expression `bl.*ah`.
I automated math education for my 9 year-old. It's a Unity application where a student required to solve basic (currently) math examples.

For 10 examples you're getting a 25-cent coin from a coin dispenser. You can keep it or you can use this money to buy Internet access. My OpenWrt router is connected straight to coin acceptor. For one coin you're getting 30 minutes of Internet on all devices (iPad and PC).

Since it's all automated I don't need to involve too much into education process. Math score in school has greatly improved, the kiddo solved thousands of examples.

Coin dispenser is proprietary (found on ebay, one of popular model), so I literally had to hack the USB protocol. The coin acceptor had no USB interface, so I had to introduce one. I've connected this USB to my OpenWrt 32-bit router, which is also ARM - so I had to hack some USB libraries along the way so my binaries can work with USB right from OpenWrt.
Hey sorry about that this is our job posting - we duplicated a another one and missed adding that information, thanks for catching that! We added in the salary range. Feel free to email us if you have any other questions!
Well yes, because it’s not designed as a power plant but a demonstration device to demonstrate ignition, which can be developed to allow the 25-50 energy gain needed for useful fusion electricity. This is how you WOULD design a demonstration power plant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Inertial_Fusion_Energy#M...
> Sunday, the Wall Street Journal reported(Opens in a new window) that ad traffic on Twitter, as measured by the firm Similarweb(Opens in a new window), had plunged to record lows in early December—”traffic volume now so low it doesn’t even meet the firm’s threshold necessary to track and measure it.”

That sounds ridiculous to me, does this company only track google?
HN is not payed for these posts. Who’s Hiring posts are like all others: anyone can comment, and no one on HN ever pays the site operator for the right to post.
How to use AI to teach some of the hardest skills
Indeed, there is a lot of pain if you actually try to store large binary data in git. But we managed to make that work! So a question worth asking is how might things change IF you can store large binary data in git??
As long as these companies keep bragging about being related to YC, anything they do will also reflect on YC. You can't ask people not to associate these things.

And in this case, these ads are given special treatment here on HN. So of course YC owns some part of the responsibility.
Be careful that the provider doesn't disable that number after 1-2 years without any activity.
Maybe HN could require salary range in order to be promoted here (regardless of location or laws)?
Here's an annoying one: https://github.com/sublimehq/sublime_text/issues/1054
Like with the package system in Ubuntu or Red Hat?
There may already be sealed charges against others but yes, there will likely be charges against others. Some conspirators may receive or may have already received immunity in exchange for testimony, though. It will take time to determine who else was involved and to what extent, though my guess is the focus will be on SBF.

This is also great language for encouraging other conspirators to make a deal to testify even if the JD has little evidence against them. It's almost like the police lying and saying, "We have a video of you doing xyz."
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We're talking about two different things

SBF was going to testify. He was going to do it remotely.

My issue is remotely was not an option before the pandemic. It was allowed during the pandemic for good reason, but now that reason doesn't exist anymore. Therefore, remote testifying should not be allowed anymore either...
It's not YC's job to monitor global regulatory compliance for every company they fund.
The point you seem to be missing is that Oroville Dam would still have been created even if it didn’t have hydroelectric generation. The risk from adding hydroelectric generation to a dam you where going to create anyway is effectively zero.

People have been making dams for quite literally thousands of years before we discovered AC electricity. They are useful structures to ensure water security and reduce damage and deaths from regular flooding. So yes the Marib Dam for example produces electricity and it’s failure would pose a risk, but it’s on the same location people a dam failed all the way back in 575 and there is evidence of earlier dams in that location going back to 1750 BC.
I also have a lot of issues with versioning data. But look at git annex - it's free, self hosted and has a very easy underlying data structure [1]. So I don't even use the magic commands it has for remote data mounting/multi-device coordination, just backup using basic S3 commands and can use rclone mounting. Very robust, open source, and useful

[1] When you run `git annex add` it hashes the file and moves the original file to a `.git/annex/data` folder under the hash/content addressable file system, like git. Then it replaces the original file with a symlink to this hashed file path. The file is marked as read only, so any command in any language which tries to write to it will error (you can always `git annex unlock` so you can write to it). If you have duplicated files, they easily point to the same hashed location. As long as you git push normally and back up the `.git/annex/data` you're totally version controlled, and you can share the subset of files as needed
I'm surprised this classic video is 10+ years old but has only 18M views.

edit: Saw that the professor, James Duane [0], has his own Wikipedia page, almost entirely on the popularity of the Youtube lecture. Even more surprising, his Talk page seems to be free of debate over Duane's notability. Pretty impressive for a single videoed lecture!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Duane_(professor)
I was on a macbook pro from ~2017 to ~2020, Mostly 10.14. It worked well, but nothing specifically great that I can't do on Linux or Windows. I don't like the walled garden that macOS seems to become too much, I love free (as in freedom) software.

I've been running on Void Linux for about 2 years now, on desktop and laptop. These days I really can do everything I used to need Windows and sometimes macOS for. Some great stuff I use regularly on Linux:

Firefox, Thunderbird, Proton Bridge (a protonmail.com bridge), Signal Desktop, IRCCloud Desktop, ARES Commander (a cad program), Blender, Calibre, Discord, Dolphin (the emulator), DOSBox-X, dotnet, elixir, erlang, Ghidra, Godot Engine, ImHex, JetBrains Toolbox (I use a lot of JetBrains IDEs), MatterMost Desktop, Moonlight Streaming Client (and Sunshine Streaming Host, think hardware accelerated remote desktop ala Parsec, but for almost any kind of host instead of Windows/macOS host-only), Postman, PowerShell Core, Retroarch, ScummVM, SoapUI, Softimage XSI, Microsoft Teams, TVPaint, VSCode, Mathematica and Zoom!

My next big project is obsoleting my Windows box (used mostly for gaming). About 75% of my rather huge gaming collection will already work on linux thanks to Steam's Photon efforts (wine-like compat on steroids for windows games on linux).

I think that most negative linux responses here are from people that haven't used linux on desktop seriously for a significant amount of time.

Btw, my fave distros are: Void Linux, Gentoo and recently Chimera Linux (FreeBSD userland on Linux kernel, amazing project). Huge respect for Pop!_OS too, my goto recommendation for Linux-newbies.
It's possible to discuss things according to their dictionary definition.
Today there was an article about his parents in nytimes. I think at at least one of them is professor of law. And both parents seems to be involved with his company. I wonder if he didnt get any advice from them about not talking?! Maybe he knew that he is done legally and there is no downside to talking to public.
There are many content blocking solutions that work at the DNS level. Encrypted DNS will bypass those.
IANAL.

But it's unlikely the Police officer actually "witnessed" anything that'll help you.

If you tell police officer you did something bad, it's essentially a confession and reported as such.

If you tell police officer you did something good, it's hearsay - you told it to officer who told it to judge & jury.

Then there's jurisdictional details as to their role and rules of evidence etc that will vary from country to country.

But it's a shocking revelation to most people that Police cannot effectively help you in court. That's not their role.

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Edit: Found it - federal rule of evidence 801(d)(2)(a) - Opposing Party Statement

https://www.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/federal_rules_o...
A stable release of the Harmony branch can't come soon enough—using bugs.mozilla.org shows they've gone far beyond upstream Bugzilla, and merging a lot of those changes back into upstream Bugzilla has been a long a time coming.
To me this is just one more nail in the coffin of institutional media. There is clearly bias baked into reporting at the institutional level now, and no desire to uproot it. This is what makes independent media so important today.