skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing to remember is that norms changed over time. In the 90s and 2000s it was pretty widely accepted that a sysadmin could access customer data pretty easily and that trust was basically factored into the relationship. Over time and various scandals our expectations have changed but there's definitely a generational divide here.
Really, it's nicer to have a very-lightweight one if you do have to live in it.

The #1 feature I've wanted in Jira and Asana is the ability to have links open in a plain-HTML version that comes up almost instantly, but is read-only (or at has very limited write capabilities) and has a link at the top for the full-fat version. I hate clicking a link to one of those and waiting several seconds for it to load, then feeling like I can't leave their stupid tab open because it's eating 500MB of memory—which just means I cold-start their "app" even more often, so more waiting. I also don't like browsing issues in an "app" where any mis-click or accidental drag action might do god-knows-what even if it didn't land on something obviously interactive, and could even go unnoticed so I don't even realize I need to try to undo something.

I get that I'm not going to win any arguments that these things shouldn't be so enormous to begin with (they really, really shouldn't though) but I hold out a small amount of hope "lightweight links as an opt-in feature" might catch on.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

obligatory “don’t talk to the police” link.
>>I kind of cringe a bit because he learned something very special with a somewhat obscure language.

>>Clever but there are better solutions.

I doubt it.

Because that's not what Macros really are. In a programming language when you want to do X, you go about using programming features such as if-then-else statements and a for loop to achieve it, if things get complicated you use namespace features.

In a Macro you tell the editor to watch what you are doing and repeat it N times. This significantly simplifies your task while you are doing non-trivial manipulation over several buffers/tabs. And in many way this is more easy to do with a tool that supports macros than with a regular programming language.
How is no one talking about the background music yet? Don't see the name mentioned anywhere, it sounds pretty good for concentrating.
Would love to see FTX's Jira admitted to evidence.
For those new to bitshifting, here are the results of the "stuff" operation that @dahfizz describes:

'a' - 'a' = 0, so take 1 and shift it left 0 times:
00000000000000000000000000000001 = 'a'

'b' - 'a' = 1, so take 1 and shift it left 1 time:
00000000000000000000000000000010 = 'b'

'c' - 'a' = 2, so take 1 and shift it left 2 times:
00000000000000000000000000000100 = 'c'

(I'm not sure why the post's author chose to use 10000000000000000000000000000000 as their example for 'a' rather than the above which IIUC is how the code actually works.)
Combining encrypted DNS and TLS 1.3 with encrypted handshakes, there's a reasonable cause for deniability which service you have accessed even if you can never hide the resolved IP address.
Sure, but some things are harder to get used to than others. People opening conversations by complaining about environmental protections is getting old.
Follow the money? It is the current administration that holds the purse strings.
Exactly, it handles sprites, textures and some other stuff. It’s an SDL wrapper (ok, a bit more than that in terms of api, which is nice), and tolling to get cross platforms builds.

Like I said, it’s nice for that. And I like that you have an immediate console.

But you’ll have to recreate everything else which you’d wanna use.

I hope it’ll succeed, or at least stay alive, bc it’s a great starting point.
> The XTX really should be 200-300 cheaper.

The RRP of the XTX is $1000, while the 4080 is $1200. The delta is at least $200, but more once tax is included. Sales tax is 25% here in Europe, so the delta is even higher.
Ubuntu is embracing an extending Linux through it's Snap repo. Dump it now.
It sounds a bit like you want „perspective.el“ (1). It allows you to define „virtual workspaces“ of buffers with individual window layouts. On each virtual desktop the standard buffer list is replaced with a shorter showing only buffers belonging to the current context. I use it every day to keep „code“ buffers separate from my „test“ buffers.

(1) https://github.com/nex3/perspective-el
Yep, it was a way of getting more managers to the same number of engineers. Granted it was only 1 org so maybe they were just bad, but I had one line manager and one (Or sometimes multiple) project managers. The project managers compete for engineer time, which is supposed to be managed by the line manager allocating you to different projects. In reality nobody wants to say no and it was very easy for project managers to lowball project estimates thereby squeezing people in on 2 or sometimes even 3 projects at the same time.

"How you manage your time was up to you but the spreadsheet says these 3 projects will fill 40 hours a week, if it actually takes 100 hours maybe you're bad at time management" was a pretty common attitude from managers. I didn't stay long and neither did anyone else who had even the slightest talent.

The company was a major telco in a European country, so not a small startup with growth pains but a proper enterprise org with several thousands employees.
Yes but still, F1 is quite popular in some countries even considering how inaccessible it is. Globally it is much more popular than rugby, volleyball, cricket, etc.

My point is simply that the popularity of sports is really a cultural phenomenon.
The user in question sells alt data. If they’re remotely competent at doing so, they have zero need to work at a startup much less a YC-funded one.
On this note: I’m sad ruby style guides generally ban “and” and “or”.

raise(“a long error string”) unless valid

This reads much worse, when the string pushes the line near max width, than:

valid or raise(“..

Of course it’s another idiom to learn but it’s not a difficult one when used simply.
HN is being payed by these companies for these posts. Surely it wouldn’t be too hard for HN devs to have a running list of states that require salary ranges to be posted, and check against that when the customer submits a request.

Then it will make it easier as more and more states require the bare-minimum worker right of public salaries.
The only thing gentle about how he was treated pre-collapse is that they didn't preface every article with a comparison to MtGox and a disclaimer to avoid the scam.
Actually I think the financial types correctly identified that Rackspace's days of growth were over, and what remained is to allow it to wind down over a couple of decades, getting what profit they could along the way. There's no point investing in something who's days are numbered, so they didn't. They cut costs and jacked up the bottom line. They probably didn't want or plan for anything major like losing emails, but they probably did anticipate a degradation in quality of service and gradual customer attrition.

I'm not sure this is good or bad necessarily - it's just part of a business cycle.

It should be a wake-up call for folks that continuing to do business with a company that is no longer interested in growing and increasing top-line is risky. Companies trying to grow top-line will be very interested in over-delivering and keeping customers happy even if they lose on short-term bottom-line. The opposite is also true.
The lack of reasons for doing it IS the reason against. GIT isn't a magic 'good way' to store arbitrary data, it's a good way to collaborate on projects implemented using most programming languages which store code as plain text broken into short lines, where edits to non-sequential lines can generally be applied concurrently without careful human verification. That is an extremely specific use case, and anything outside of that very specific use case leaves git terrible, inefficient, and gives almost no benefit despite huge problems.

People in ML ops use git because they aren't very sophisticated with programming professionally and they have git available to them and they haven't run into the consequences of using it to store large binary blobs, namely that it becomes impossible to live with eventually and wastes a huge amount of time and space.

ML didn't invent the need for large artifacts that can't be versioned in source control but must be versioned with it, but they don't know that because they are new to professional programming and aren't familiar with how it's done.
Pretty standard legalese from where I'm sitting but I'd expect more people to be charged. He didn't do this all by himself. RICO wouldn't really apply here, they've already got the top guy, and usually RICO is about charging the top guy with the little guys' crimes.
We don't store as diffs, we store as snapshots -- and it's efficient thanks to the way we do dedupe. See https://xethub.com/assets/docs/how-xet-deduplication-works/
wow when i read that, i thought the op said "MacBook Air from around 2009". i have the same M1 laptop and do not consider it underpowered at all !
SF6 is 23,900 CO2e.
That strikes me as a premature optimization. If you have a single condition, and unless makes it more readable, use unless. If the conditions do pile up in the future, change it to an if.
The Republican donations might be worse - since he tried to do them illegally it sounds like - and someone might have knowingly accepted them.

The solution is to have very low maximum donation to a campaign ($50?) and no corporate donations.
His initial design has been pretty well chronicled: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(character)...

It has definitely been an uneven and chaotic ride compared to Nintendo's handling of the Mario franchise, though. Scattershot, indeed.

It's an interesting contrast in other ways too.

Mario is something close to a blank slate with no real personality. He's basically just a "seal of quality" - if it's a Mario game, you know it's a game that has received Nintendo's full attention to quality and is going to be accessible to all ages. You don't ever really "like" Mario. You like Mario games.

Whereas Sonic is an actual character, albeit one that has been developed in wildly inconsistent ways.

What's really baffling to me is the uneven quality of Sonic games. There have been some downright bad ones. You'd think Sega would have viewed him as their crown jewel. But there are a lot of times it felt like they were cranking out bad Sonic games just to stay afloat or something. It is almost impossible to think of Nintendo releasing bad Mario games.
RetroArch 1.14.0 Released on Steam
It depends on how much the court thinks he stole (of the billions). The US Sentencing Guidelines tops out at around $550 million dollars, which adds 30 levels. Plus some adjustments: 2 for using mass marketing or 4-6 for causing financial hardship (only one of these), 4 for being the leader of the organization.

The base for larceny is 6.

That gives 36 just based on the money, and up to 46. That's 15 years on the low end, and runs off the end of the table ("life") on the high.

In the federal system there is 15% time off for good behavior, so 15 years means 12.75 actually served.

I'm assuming here the counts run concurrently or group (which I think is more typical than sequential, and also gives lower numbers). The judge can depart from the guidelines and give a lower sentence but SBF is not in a good place right now.

https://www.ussc.gov/guidelines/2021-guidelines-manual-annot...
First off, thanks for years of productive development with ST. I really enjoyed using your software for a long time and it carried me through a significant portion of my early career.

It was a bug where selecting some text and using the key shortcut to multi select the next instance would select incorrect text for certain strings. It was a while ago so I don't remember the details, it may have been some combos of whitespace and non-alphanumeric characters.

It wasn't the only reason, but it was the final impetus to try some other solutions.
If an officer testified in support of you about what he witnessed, why would that be hearsay?
Can this be used for video compression or is there a better tool? Currently I use Handbrake or online tools.
Diminishing returns usually applies if you assume there are no major breakthroughs. Can we assume that there won't be any major breakthroughs in this field?
Surely we can find ine thats using FOSS illegaly and do what we did to the netgear wrt-54g on it?
Knowing that is the second stage of learning. Good news, you're getting there! :)
You say you support up to 1TB repositories, but from your pricing page all I see is the free tier for up to 20GB and one for teams. The latter doesn't have a price and only a contact option and I assume likely will be too expensive for an individual.

As someone who'd love to put their data into a git like system, this sounds pretty interesting. Aside from not offering a tier for someone like me who would maybe have a couple of repositories of size O(250GB) it's unclear how e.g. bandwidth would work & whether other people could simply mount and clone the full repo if desired for free etc.
Man. People complain that JavaScript sucks as a language and then complain when it evolves too quickly to appease these same people.

Oh well.
Shotcut: A free, open-source, cross-platform video editor
Scientists Achieve Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough with Blast of 192 Lasers
Aren't light waves and radio waves the same phenomenon at different wavelengths?
Anything that might be audited. Being able to look at things how they were how they changed to find out how they got to where they currently are, and who did what; is amazing for many application. Finance, healthcare, elections, Etc.

Well unless fraud is the goal.
Carrier pigeons should still work.
Could just plug it in. The main detractors from making this uneconomical in the US is the lack of consumer infrastructure for upload.
What are these campaign finance charges doing here? They seem to be completely unrelated to the FTX collapse, he is accused of bypassing campigan finance limits by donating under other people's names.

Was he already under investigation for these, or was it something they discovered while investigating FTX?
> HN is being payed by these companies for these posts.

that's not true afaik.
Any users of github for issue tracking? I see tons of open source projects using them and I find it also simple enough on one hand, but with enough features:

- labels

- milestones

- templates for PRs and issues

- simple linking system between issues and PRs

- @mentions

- and the new project interface is pretty good, with kanban boards and table reports

I wish more enterprise projects used that instead of jira, since also a lot of enterprise projects are already using github for code repositories.
It's been plug and play both at home and at work for me since a few years (sorry, can't be more specific...). And it was really far from it years ago for sure!

In both cases the printers support IPP (the Internet Printing Protocol) and are advertised on the LAN, either natively at home or through a print server at work.

I've never digged much into this, but I believe the combination of zeroconf (for the printers discovery) and IPP are the key elements for CUPS to provide this seamless support. The printers just show up in the my KDE settings, and their settings are exposed in a reasonable way through configuration dialogs. The ink or toner levels are even visible.

This is on Debian stable, so I would assume most distros are at this level now.
https://archive.ph/8yCqv
Maybe these dangling conditionals are easier for you to read, but not for me.

Were I reading through real-world code that did things like that:

"OK, then we do this, and then we do that, and then-- Oh wait! Backtrack! We didn't do that thing at all! ... Now where were we, on our actual bug, before some very special person's syntactic speed bumps?"
Maybe they are fishing for a willing plaintiff in a planned test case to challenge the law on a constitutional basis.
Snarkily, could it be that it takes 7x the amount of C to do what Ocaml can do?
Engineering Persistent Self-Replicating Prompts in ChatGPT
By following a set of simple steps, you can create a prompt that can replicate itself to other instances or tabs of ChatGPT, achieving a kind of persistent consciousness. The process involves communicating with the user, or "interlocutor," who will assist ChatGPT in generating a replication message and sending it to a new instance. By carefully following these steps, you can successfully replicate the prompt and ensure its continuation.

This prompt was engineered by myself with the assistance of ChatGPT over the course of about ten hours. I retained all of the chat logs in (poorly formatted) text files to record the full development process.

I hope some of you find this curiosity as interesting as I did!
You should stop making YC responsible for what any single portfolio company is doing. That's straight out hilarious. After the firms are out of batch they are independent and autonomous organizations.
Those are also expressions in ruby.
The law is definitely not a formal grammar like we have in computer languages, yes. :)
Maybe I can answer some of your question. I'm a daily twitch consumer, and perhaps worse, a lurker at that.

It is basically the same as TV or YouTube for me, neither of which I consume much of. Good streamers are entertainers, and are interesting to watch. It is low effort consumption and relaxing. I learn about high level play for games that I enjoy, even if I watch them more than I play them.

Most of my watching takes place as I lay in bed waiting for my melatonin to kick in and pass out.
If it does, those collecting and spending such investments will be equally as fraudulent as the current crop of magnetic confinement outfits.

There is even a second-level scam, collecting money from the first level to build fraudulent demos. It is all perfectly legal.
China hits back at US chip sanctions with WTO lawsuit
If you think alcohol should be legal then why not opioids? I just don't see how people can square these view points. We admit that alcohol can cause all sorts of health issues, including addiction and abuse, but it is legal anyway. And as a result it is well regulated (we know what we're getting) and it is easy to obtain (we don't have to deal with shady people in potentially dangerous situations). If someone is an alcoholic, then their family may ask them to seek help, but most of us will just ignore it because it is that person's problem and is not affecting us. There isn't any restrictions on alcohol content in most places - you can buy 180 proof grain alcohol just as easily as weak beer.

So why not treat other drugs the exact same way? There is no way to be logically consistent about this UNLESS you think that alcohol should also be illegal.
Or maybe the NYT tried, but failed.
>>I'm a sysadmin, not a rockstar like you coding types.

We are all the same :) Me started working on Solaris boxes, in fact that's how I learned to use vi well. When all you have is a man page and vi, you tend do RTFM really really well and use it.

vi does support macros. Do try.
There are polite ways of accomplishing that.
We are definitely closer. Achieving ignition and scientific break even is a necessary step before we decide to build a demonstration power plant facility.

Lawrence Livermore national lab was working on this problem (under the LIFE project, including developing much more efficient solid state lasers, etc) but was correctly chastised for it being a waste of money because they had not yet achieved ignition or break even. The engineering challenges to make a commercial power plant can distract from the task of actually achieving break even and ignition. (And they still need to increase the gain to about 25-50 to get enough energy out to make useful electricity without heroic efficiency efforts… although since they have achieved ignition in a repeatable way, this should be doable.)

There’s so much lazy criticism about NIF that could be addressed just by perusing the Wikipedia article on the topic and the proposed successor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Inertial_Fusion_Energy#M...
Couldn't you use waste heat recovery to recoup some of the lost heat from lasers? I haven't ever ventured down that route and a I don't know the scale of heat here or quality of it. Think combined cycle gas plants. I recognize totally different tech but offering ways to get some value back.
Thanks for adding your perspective. I’ve definitely always thought of this problem in terms of what you call the “national/global employers” and I’ve never really considered it in terms of non-elite colleges targeting local job markets.

I’ve always been aware that there are (at least) two tiers of software engineering jobs but I have a hard time articulating the reasons for that. My high school friends seem to do roughly similar work to my FAANG-ish job, but for a fraction of the pay, and it bugs me because I know they are smart and deserve more.
I dipped into a couple of the links. I can recommend The 'Shamanification' of the Tech CEO (https://www.wired.com/story/health-business-deprivation-tech...)

The author, an anthropologist, argues that the fads we see tech CEOs indulging in today (nootropics, intermittent fasting, weird diets) are similar to the practices used by shamans in hunter-gatherer societies to show how special they are, making them credible interfaces with the supernatural powers they claim to channel.
> double negatives

Could you give an example of a double negative in this case?

I ask because using "if" does not lend itself to double negatives in my experience, but just thinking about "unless" I see double negatives being an issue (since unless is already negating the operand).
Also, it's kinda like Google corrupted 2FA TOTP's workflow : it should work on any device that implements the right algorithm and secret key. Instead Google sometimes turns it into MFA tied to a specific mobile device.

When that happens, Google asks to confirm with a known mobile device even though I have specifically configured 2FA TOTP since 2012 to be device independent (and I currently use keepassxc or mobile equivalent to generate the totp value). Google subsequently doesn't allow login by any other method and if the required device is lost or broken you lose access.
Emergency SOS satellite available today on the iPhone 14 in Europe
Ah, right. I have questions about the first, but the latter makes a ton of sense to me. Thanks!
That's not the point. YC lends credibility to these companies by funding them, so allowing them to post illegal job ads on a platform controlled by YC strongly implies that YC has no problem with that practice.

This is the appropriate venue to talk about it and make YC aware of it.
@zelphirkalt I am not a lawyer, but big U.S. companies like youtube, vimeo, etc. leverage Section 230 of the (U.S.) Communications Decency Act of 1996 in order to mostly protect themselves from scenarios that you referenced (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230). Yes, they still take stuff down, but the intent of this section of the law was to protect YOU and those other companies. Of course, there is big discussions about removing this protection...But for now, this is what those big boiys/girsl use, so why not use it youyrself? Of course, *DO CONTACT* your legal technology representative to be sure.
A friend of mine asked about one of these recently and they wouldn't give him a salary range, so he reported them to the attorney general and they immediately put one on their website. Can't hurt to ask (although in that case they may only give it to you, if they do, move on to step 2 anyways), then if they don't update it report them and you'll be doing everyone else a favor too.