skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not meant as a solution. It's a demo of a self-contained, self-extracting, portable encrypted file.

That said, the password strength and the strength of the side-channel to transmit it depend on your use case.

If we were friends for example, I may not need to send you a password at all.
I could just add some secret questions we both know in the hint.

Or, at the opposite side of the spectrum, I could send you a secret as email attachment and *include the password in the email itself*.
This adds zero security in certain scenarios, but for example it keeps Google bots out of your private correspondence. Which is all I want sometimes.
I would hope and assume that the community rules of HN don’t look kindly upon advocating the murder of any specific individuals.

That aside, I think it’s naive to assume that your proposed action would have a relevant outcome. Any successor is going to need to travel between facilities just as much — if not moreso — as they are brought up to speed and need to have ongoing meetings with executives and managers across a dozen locations.

Not to mention the travel involved in post-death matters of funerals, media coverage, high profile criminal investigations, and so on. And of course the wealth of one person then gets inherited by perhaps a dozen people, any of whom might live a more lavish (i.e. carbon intensive) lifestyle when they inherit even a small fraction of such enormous wealth.

Quite frankly I don’t see how your proposal has any chance of being remotely carbon positive.
Nice idea but it seems not resilient against a rainbow attack.
Ironically, people do this all the time - it's called a fire pit[1]. But people rarely complain because it's not "icky".

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/wondering-what...
This is only for most surface level features. The Idea PyCharm plugins lack scientific mode for example.
Show HN: How to use ChatGPT+ARKit to script experiences with natural language
Video demonstration: https://youtu.be/bJFa5HOmhl4

I created a demo involving ChatGPT, OpenAI's Whisper running on-device for speech-to-text (because why not?), and ARKit. By defining a custom JavaScript environment with JavaScriptCore and describing it to ChatGPT, I was able to get it to produce functioning scripts that instantiate and manipulate 3D objects.

Sketchfab is used to import 3D assets on the fly. Google Poly had a much better catalog of assets for this sort of thing but sadly, it's no longer available.

The README.md describes how it all works but the gist of it is that user prompts are wrapped in a larger prompt that describes the environment (i.e., which functions are available to use and how they work) and constraints. The code is then executed directly. Assets for objects are fetched as needed by searching Sketchfab.
I've been in crypto a long time. I chose specifically Venezuela as I know that is a good case of Bitcoin not achieving its objectives and was called out specifically as an example of it supposedly being successful. And I very much stand by this and my related points.
The ‘Superman’ Drama at DC Studios
Even if not, it's affordable to hire a programmer for a few hours to migrate the code to the newer API.
Yup. The ham ruins it tho, put the pineapple with some good sausage/kielbasa and onion and it's perfect
Mini Moon rover from the toy company that created Transformers
Code golfing is the act of finding ever and ever smaller, but functionally equivalent, expressions of a specific piece of code. Usually involves a lot of tricks specific to the language the golfing is done in.

So yes, it would contain the PortableSecret minimized to such an extent that the whole thing fits in a QR-code (which has a practical upperlimit of a few KB?)
Have you ever tried .NET?
Yeah, they really don't get what I meant which is probably my failure to communicate.

It's like me saying "It's a shame I can't save myself a few minutes every day by having a robot make my sandwiches for me, since there is no such thing as a cheap household robot that can easily make a sandwich from its ingredients put before it" and them saying, "nono there totally are they just cost too much so it doesn't make sense and you don't understand anything about the intrinsic difficulty of sandwich assembly in a zero-person environment". Okay fine but end result is I'm still making my own sandwich in 2022 :) End result is this mars rover can't do $2 worth of human work because it can't brush itself off, it is easier to add larger solar panels than brush them off since there's no such thing as a cheap lightweight easy reliable robot arm.
Ask HN: What assurance do early startup employees have against dilution?
Pretty much as the title states -

I'm considering joining an early-stage startup, with substantial equity compensation.

I'm wondering about the industry norms, not looking for any answers specific to my case - I know I should read everything myself and contract a lawyer if in doubt when it comes to that. Still, hoping for some helpful background knowledge from HN about how these things typically work.

What happens, if, say, the startup is successful, and your equity has worth in the millions of dollars at the startups last valuation, but after your four year vest is up and you leave, the founders and board decide to issue new shares to themselves and all investors to dilute the value of your shares down to nothing? Seen in strictly financial terms, it seems to me that it would be in their interest to do so, aside from the hit to their reputation. And being no longer employed by the company, it seems to me that you wouldn't have any leverage to prevent this by threatening to leave.

My best guess is that the situation works something like this: As a Key Shareholder (>1%), you have to approve the issuance of new shares. However they can get around this, maybe by taking you to court for breach of contract, or by invoking some clause that otherwise allows them to bypass your right to be consulted to approve the issuance of new shares.

How does this typically work? Is it something that varies significantly by startup? Is it the industry norm that early startup employees are dependent on the goodwill of the founders and board even after their equity has vested?
Just to add how difficult these off-label uses are beeing managed.
Every content we provide (be it in a discussion, or a comment in one if our forums or as part of a symposia) needs to be checked for offlabel use. This is a nightmare and every single screen of my apps or of the content that is uploaded needs to be reviewed by medical teams/compliance. Its a nightmare.

Now tell me what is “was promoted by pfizer”? A doctor saying it in a comment/presentation that he tried this with on patient and storing this on one of our digital platforms?
It’s really grey water…

And add to this hard times for medical reps after covid.
Eery if you replace "SPACs" here with Startups and VCs... isn't that how YC works as well? They buy revenue for all their startups and then offload it on new investors they bring in....
In fairness there's Noone you can call up in the government to ask for certain if something is legal or not past a certain point. Only a judge can decide that, and they don't do hypothetical cases.
> pipenv's dependency resolution is the slowest among all the tools in this space including poetry, pip-tools, hatch and so on

"Slow" doesn't just mean "slightly annoying", mind you.

I was once tasked to properly package up an Airflow installation. Not being a Python guy, I tried doing it with pipenv because we were using it for other projects.

It was impossible to resolve the dependencies because the resolver would routinely throw a timeout error. In the end I gave up and switched to Poetry. That was still a bit slow (I think Airflow just has a messed up dependency graph...), but it wrote the lockfile in a reasonable amount of time and just worked thereafter...
Work hard, pour your soul into something, be extremely hard-core, work 100 hours a week, get fired. The career and life path of an engineer in one of his orgs.
I think you're missing the GP's point.

What docker provides is a way to shrink-wrap a given build and all of its runtime dependencies.

Despite popular misconception, what docker does not give you is a deterministic way to build that software. A Dockerfile provides the RUN steps necessary to build the software, but dependencies must still be fetched over the network, introducing non-determinism.

You can spend 6 months happily using the latest release of some image, only to find that there's a critical bug or vulnerability that needs addressing ASAP. It kind of sucks for that complacency to turn to terror when you try to patch the software and rebuild, only to find inscrutable errors due to an absolutely bonkers build system.

"ERR: Version A of Foo is incompatible with version B of Bar"

Okay... but what happened here? What versions were we pulling before? Oh, the precise version isn't pinned in the build system, so.. I dunno. Great. It would really help if I knew if it was A that updated breaking B, or the reverse.

Then multiply that by 1000x.

And then add in (for Debian-esque base images) Apt repositories disappearing over time, git feature branches being deleted, tarballs falling off the edge of the internet, etc.

Now, before someone says "well, that's on you if your Dockerfile obscures so much build non-determinism!"

I agree with that statement! But that is a non sequitur with respect to the original premise: the build systems (and the web of dependencies they pull in) in third-party software you don't have ownership of is getting crazier and crazier, and Docker helps perpetuate this state of affairs, and the industry suffers as a whole.
Large buttons and text were trendy already in the 20th century. There's only so small you can go on an 800x600 14' screen.

The crucial difference between then and now is the amount of whitespace.
> Now, the FZJ that hosts this machine has a department that aims to help researchers optimize (and professionalize, i.e. tests and CI and such) their software.

Sounds like a fun job
Your property value is of no concern to anyone else that just wants to live their lives in their homes. Trying to restrict the non-violent behavior of others is a dick move no matter the lot size.

I live in a small lot suburb with roosters and I have been known to angle grind at 3 am. Neighbors say nothing. I say nothing about screaming kids, blaring music, and the dude doing late night Tuba practice. This is just people living life.

If you value total silence and no evidence of lifestyle diversity around you, then perhaps rural Alabama is a better fit for you.
Consider that some of those appearances aren't just for social circles but for job status. As someone in startup software (now remote!) my wardrobe choices are far broader than someone working in service who may be expected to wear and use the products they're selling.
The author recommends the use of XKCD correct-horse-battery-staple style passwords (aka diceware), which have a high ratio of entropy to ease of transmission effort.

In other words they're relatively easy to exchange over a phone call but still secure.
I've been disdaining the idea of hybrid aircraft for years, thinking there was no way to capture the energy of deceleration (as you can in a hybrid car). Here, though, the rationale is different; you're storing turbine power during descent for use at the next ascent.

I wonder if you could indeed capture the deceleration energy by having the air stream drive the prop and thus the motor/generator. Planes have multiple systems for wasting energy and slowing down (flaps, air brakes, even dropping the landing gear); perhaps this wasted energy could be put into the batteries?
Flash really was great. Its unfortunate that they killed it. The Mini Clip and animated shorts days were awesome. Used to love finding cool animations in Deviant Art.
A good alu frame is more comfortable than a cheap steel or carbon frame IME. I think a lot of the perceived differences comes down to tyres rather than frame material - steel bikes are much more likely to have >35mm tyres than alu with 25 - 28mm.
In your case I'll probably drop the 5 mins tram ride and use the opportunity to jog to work. Exercise time can be saved from spending during night.

I'll also use the train+subway right for some serious study or relaxing depending on the day.

However have you considered borrowing a few hundred bucks from parents and find a rent closer? I'd be happy to do that for my kid.
Works on mobile.

It is amazing what all the browser APIs enable as a target platform of its own.
And the portability that the (probably-disgusting amount of lines of) code provides.
Hand stitching long runs with pre-pricked holes takes little attention. And you don't need to look at the screen to listen or talk. I often look away when talking and thinking hard. You do it by feel.
Yeah, its those stories hitting the top of Hacker News that got me looking at modern uCs again, and thinking of a hobby-project to do with 2022-era tools.

That page is still a bit out-of-date now. 2022-era uCs have taken a sizable step forward compared to 2018-era... though inflation / chipaeddon has made everything more expensive.

But peripherals, power-usage, Flash/SRAM, etc. etc. are all getting better across the board. Its just one of those 'tredmills', you can never really be an expert on the market, cause the market of chips keeps changing so quickly.
LibreOffice will happily re-save CSV in place. That's the only reason I have it installed! But Excel does require the same workflow as Numbers.
Species where the male is only of value for impregnation tend to have the males die off after impregnation. The fact that human males live long afterwards means that evolution selected for that to happen because males have a critical role in the education, support and defense of the children.
The Right and Wrong Way to Interview Engineers
There's a ~$400 bounty for anyone who'd like to try.
Cum ex was a loophole. Which is exactly my point. Large corps don't just openly break the law, they exploit loopholes and gray areas.
> premature optimization is the root of all evil right?

Making sure they're aren't a bunch of alloc's or GC spent in the hot path of a high performance library is hardly a premature optimization.

If you're tackling problems in DB land changes are you already have a fairly clear picture of what needs to happen and have a list of shortcomings you're trying to avoid. Memory layout, buffers, wals, etc are all things that should be accounted for upfront.
Delta of moving to smaller or cheaper is entirely reasonable case. But the appreciation is bullshit and massive extraction of wealth from those that can least afford it.
Acceptance of evolution by high school students: Is religion the key factor?
The decline is in served purposes not a specific design: cities in the very past was needed for various reasons, in the modern age most reasons was economy of scale, witch means: lower prices because your neighbor competitor try to lower it's prices a little bit to compete against you and so you do until the lowest possible denominator in the current state of thing, than companies specialize and split, one window maker decide it's good at cutting glass plates, the neighbor that's good at cut frames and so on.

Nowadays urban density surpass the advantage point of economy of scale while the push toward a service economy and bigger and bigger enterprises kill it completely.

The final results is simple: cities have no purposes anymore. We still need to be social, to meet other people so we still need to be together but modern cities are not good even in that terms.

That's the decline.
How can a programming language stressful or liberating at all? There is no real difference between imperative languages regarding what you can do, and minuscule one regarding how you can do them. I’ve seen hardly maintainable and understandable code in all mentioned programming languages, regardless of used framework.
Is the emotional well-being of people more important than admitting to uncomfortable truths?

Should i be able to force you to pretend im not balding?
As this is one of the "Christmas specials", I believe that it won't hit the paywall.

The archive.ph link also misses out on several of the javascript animation tools that integrate with OSM and the city grid explorer at the bottom of the article.
Not to mention that acquiring a company that’s been massively fined for these reasons is a statement in itself. (Statement being somewhere between “we don’t give a shit” and “good job, even we didn’t think of that”)
I appreciate it! Mscgen also supports EPS, but I realize D2 is way, way more general, so having one tool and one syntax for everything would be great.
Mars had long-lived magnetic field, extending chances for life – Science – AAAS
>Roblox does allow you to make a game from scratch

...with the caveat that once Roblox (the company) folds, all the games will be gone.

...and that since Roblox changes the code all the time, you have no idea whether your game will look the same in a year. Or even run.

So yes, while I understand what you mean by the spiritual successor.. Roblox takes everything that made Flash bad (i.e. dependence on a clunky binary that one day may not be supported), and makes it worse.

Source: worked in Roblox when a new shiny material pack was rolled out, which replaced existing materials in existing games, messing up the look of games where materials were used creatively.
"there's no particular reason to act differently from your birth sex other than for sexual practice"

When a four year old wears a dress and plays with dolls, are they doing it for a sexual practice? I don't think so.

Your response seems to imply that if a cis woman puts on a dress and walks down the street to buy a cup of coffee, then it is not sexual, but if a transwoman does exactly the same thing in exactly the same way, then it becomes sexual. Why?

Let me pose a possible explanation: Perhaps the difference between these two scenarios is in your mind, not the cis or trans woman's. In which case, the trans woman cannot really do anything about the sexual thoughts in your head, can she?

"What else does gender actually mean, if it means anything at all?"

This is just restating the question I asked. But: I have a gender, and it's my gender when I'm eating lunch, and when I'm brushing my teeth, and at all times in between, and those are not sexual practices. I put on clothes in the morning, and they are gendered clothes, but they are not revealing or sexual, nor is wearing clothes a sexual practice. So how is it different for a trans person? The greatest aspiration of most, if not all, trans people is to "pass", meaning that they become invisible and nobody know they are trans. In what way is that sexual?
> It doesn't.

That's not what I've found in my research, which makes very explicit references to a master/slave dichotomy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26497027

If what you say is true, that master recording has no relationship to a master/slave dichotomy, then why is there such a thing as a slave reel? Why do industry insiders refer to the dichotomy with a wink and nudge, as if it's a pun ("get it")? They explicitly talk about the master as representing "control" and not "quality".

> There's nothing to expose.

I said expose to popular culture. Many people did not know about this practice, and find it objectionable.
incoherent comparison, as expected
Yes.

If that wasn't the case, then "HTML virus" would be a thing:
I send you an HTML file and, if you open it, it read files from your hard drive and uploads them to my server.
> if those are their concerns?

Likely because those are not their "real" concerns, but they can't legislate their "real" concerns (because those would be illegal due to other statutes). So they try an 'end-run' around the "real" concerns by dreaming up something vague like this that can be "extended" to cover most anything at the discretion of the local enforcement officer.
The biggest missing thing (for production) is observability.

Look at old-good JVM. It has tons of tools to analyze and understand behavior of your production system. You could have thread dumps (stack traces of all existing threads) at any moment with negligible performance impact, you could dump heap and analyze it off-site, you could have tons of metrics, about each dark corner of mutexes, GC process, about JIT, including, if you need it, generated native code!

Many of these thing you could get on production, not in sand-box.

If you system behaves strangely, live-locks, consume more memory than you think it should, tharsh GC, you name it, you have all tools to understand what is wrong, find bugs or mis-configurations, etc.

With all these new-and-shiny WASM and not-so-shiny JS VMs you mostly in the dark now. Service become unresponsive? latency goes to the roof? Only thing you could do - restart.

It is not property of WASM per se, but this infrastructure is too immature now, comparing to 25+ year old technology.
When you control for population, high income individuals are more likely to be audited than the middle class:

https://www.irs.gov/about-irs/irs-audit-rates-significantly-...

There is no article about it, but the same also holds for businesses. There are just soooo many more small to middle sized businesses compared to large corporations.
I like a city I can get lost in. Grids seem like an anti-pattern to me.
Oh, wouldn't it be nice if that were true...
Disagree. Every civil prosecutor I've ever worked with wants a big "story." They are driven by headlines. Taking down local mom's pharmaco is the opposite of the narrative people want to read in the paper.

We like the headline of this article: megacorp pfizer is evil. That's why we're in this thread, right?
I had originally heard it during the congressional testimony, but given that it's over three hours long, I don't know exactly where.

The gist of what was said, is that a lawmaker cited something about FTX.US being "98% solvent" and asked John for confirmation of this. John stated that he couldn't give any figures at the moment, but there was generally truth to the statement that U.S. customers would be hurt less than others.

Here's an article that touches on it.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-13/ftx-s-us-...
Throwing the baby out with the bathwater there. Just because some assholes took advantage of a corrupt system to make money at the expense of public trust, does not mean you need to regress into anti-intellectualism.
Short term is what counts when you are trying to avoid snacking. Low carb for some people is what allows them to restrict their calories because they don't feel ravenously hungry.
I had to google it: C3I = Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence
> despite the simplicity

FWIW, it's a simple composition of complex things. Still really cool, thanks for the idea!
> Homes should be homes, not garbage dumps.

Sure, absolutely. But different people have different definitions of "garbage dumps". To me, the only real garbage dump is that wherein pests can thrive or toxic materials can leak.

I've seen the other side of things where something that's simply "not new" but completely functional is considered garbage.

> Let's say I'm moving to a big city. My current house's value is the difference between a 2 bedroom and a 3 bedroom apartment there.

If that's a problem then that's your problem. I assume you'd be moving for work, in which case bring it up with your employer. You should not treat your home as a monetary investment vehicle. If I were moving for family or to get away from neighbors, then that's simply the cost for peace of mind. That's a cost that I have decided to take upon myself. That's a cost that I will have decided to spend to improve myself. That's absolutely not a cost that the neighbor has imposed upon me.