skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We wish them well! Are those greener pastures the vast majority of startups that fail? Or enormous agile, nimble enterprises I’ve heard so much about (he said with a hint of sarcasm)? Lying to others is one thing, but don’t lie to yourself. A vocal minority is best served by the status quo, and they’ll do fine as consultants. Unions to protect the majority (and the evidence very clearly demonstrates these workers need protection from management and capital), with opportunity for those who would rather not be protected.

The situation is not binary; it is a spectrum.
Because programmers usually don't know good UI/UX design, it's an entirely separate skillset. If they did, well, they'd be designers instead.
Same. Supposedly this was the first reporting:

https://news.drweb.com/show/?i=14646&lng=en&c=23
> We don't choose our talents nor our passions

You choose your job, though. I'm not overly passionate about what I do, but do it for the stress:compensation ratio.
All About USB-C: Resistors and Emarkers
If you're wondering why Stewart doesn't appear to have done a video in 2 years, be sure to click the Live tab on his YouTube page, for the more recent stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/@puredevsoftware/streams

Apparently at some point, YouTube started putting them under separate tabs.
The argument is that advantaged groups (privileged communities) get to build their life on credit and quickly become doctors and lawyers and such, and that denying loans to people who haven't proven the ability to repay (or who do not have people to co-sign) prevents them from getting a leg up on the pile. There's something to it.

But what we have seen is that the banks and companies prey on the disadvantaged people pretty effectively; note the absolute magnitude of student loans given to poor students for degrees that don't show a practical repayment opportunity.

And there's also the argument that easy access to very-low interest rate credit precisely is what is causing house prices to be so astronomically high - if credit isn't as available.

The overall practical result would be an increase in the cost of credit and a slowing of the economy. Disadvantaged groups could be assisted in other ways, however; the way we try to do it is not necessarily the only possible way.
I mean... Including Kaspersky in any shape or form is a bit of a moot point but...
This morphing of LOL is used as an example in the very interesting and enjoyable book "Words on the Move: Why English Won't – and Can't – Sit Still (Like, Literally)" by John McWhorter.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/words-on-the-move-why-english-w...
Oh look the product from the guy who astroturfed with a blog post yesterday. I bet that's a total coincidence.
QA in gaming industry sounds ripe for AI/ML solutions ... Automated testing already exists, but couple AI/ML for QA with free beta testers or super fans, and you can prob eliminate QA departments, or at least cut them down sizably. From what I know, the QA folks in gaming get paid crappy anyway, so its prob not a huge priority for MSFT. This is just some feel good press.
What if this was about black people right to sit at the front of the bus?
Would you still say: "Why do you want to share your opinions on controversial topics? What do you get out of it? No one cares about your opinions on apartheid except to dunk on you. You're not going to revolutionize society's opinions on black people. So stop doing that."

Not saying incest and apartheid are the same thing, but we need to be able to discuss all ideas in an open way, even the ones that most of us find uncomfortable. Otherwise democracy dies.
>Aaaacshually...

100% efficiency on a heatpump is really, really, really bad. It's effectively like warming your house with electric baseboard heating which is very expensive, 4-5x the cost of natural gas in my area. Thus why I said they don't work great when its 10 below. Because they don't work great.
That could possibly have worked, if sent as 'letters'. His best chances are to find a lawyer acquaintance who will send the copied note cards on his official stationary so it's correspondence with a lawyer.

The thing I've found most maddening when sending material to inmates is that you cannot, for obvious reasons, send used books. It's totally understandable, but things can become expensive.
I don't think linux has anything to do with it. It injects JS code into an existing wordpress site to redirect visitors to spam/scam etc. Any plugin that is allowed to write to disk and has a vulnerability is a problem.

"Linux.Backdoor.WordPressExploit.1 is a trojan application for 32-bit and 64-bit Linux operating systems that targets x86-compatible devices. The backdoor is written in the Go (Golang) programming language and executes attackers’ commands. Its main functionality is to attack websites based on the WordPress CMS by exploiting vulnerabilities in outdated versions of plugins and themes for this platform. If an attack is successful, the webpages of such sites are injected with a malicious JavaScript that redirects website visitors to other sites."

https://vms.drweb.com/virus/?i=25604695

"Linux.Backdoor.WordPressExploit.2 is a trojan application for 32-bit and 64-bit Linux operating systems that targets x86-compatible devices. The backdoor is written in the Go (Golang) programming language and executes attackers’ commands. Its main functionality is to attack websites based on the WordPress CMS by exploiting vulnerabilities in outdated versions of plugins and themes for this platform. If an attack is successful, the webpages of such sites are injected with a malicious JavaScript that redirects website visitors to other sites. This backdoor is a modification of the Linux.Backdoor.WordPressExploit.1 malicious application. It differs from it in the address of the C&C server, the address of the domain from which the malicious script is downloaded, and its additional list of vulnerabilities to exploit."

https://vms.drweb.com/virus/?i=25604745
The entire concept of an Influencer is just a front for product placement. The difference nowadays is that people are actively looking for the commercials and ignoring the movie.
Group 2 is the one that gets $395 or $125?
This dark forest theory if true might just be the thing we need to push real people back in real world where real problems need to be solved. People will only login to Internet when they need info to solve problem.

Less consumption online more creation in real world!
More pop science trash journalism. Pass.
There is an archive.org link higher up in the thread
Less abstract means less is obscured, more truthy.

Higher level languages will have numerous control structures to iterate, consider everything from do-until, do-while, for loops, all the way up to functional languages. That's great. It all gets translated down to machine language code eventually at some low level, either at compile or run time.

Most people iterate in assembly the "simplest" way which will vary by architecture but is generally not overly abstract.

Similar to how its possible to write in an OO style (inheritance, polymorphism, etc) in non-OO languages but most people writing in non-OO languages do not. I think it would be possible to write a bash shell script that implements the concept of polymorphism, but most people would never do that. Its possible and funny to write thousands of lines of code to do "enterprise grade patterns hello world" but most shell scripters will "echo hello world" and call it good which makes it more truthy, less abstract, less obscured.

True, it'll be impossible to infinitely extend and scale the bash "hello world" script, but most software problems are never infinitely extended and scaled anyway. The most powerful tool for a job is rarely the correct tool for the job.
I suspect most white collar union work is more like mine. Seniority factors in in the sense that we get annual raises, and the more years you're around, the more annual raises you have received. But e.g. applying for internal jobs, getting OT or time off (as other comments have mentioned) seniority plays no role. Further, there are pay ranges for each job title, so it's quite common that a new hire into a more senior title is getting paid more than an old timer that for whatever reason is still in a more junior title.
The Key to Success in College Is So Simple, It’s Almost Never Mentioned
If the study doesn't take chronotype into consideration, what does "early" even mean? Humans have a natural variation in our circadian rhythms, and 90% or so lie within a 4h window. So you might eat before I wake up, or my breakfast might be your lunch.
In Italy, for fire extinguishers, there is a "new" norm (2013) UNI 9994-1:2013 that essentially prescribes for them an overall lifetime (besides the need for periodical inspection/maintenance/recharging/re-certification) of 18 years, i.e. anything manufactured in a given year, 18 years later must be replaced with a new unit.

For other pressurized tanks, I believe a line is drawn at 12 kg/cm2 (it depends also on size, those smaller than 25 lt are excluded), those up to that pressure have periodical visual and pressure tests (every 2, 3 or 4 years depending on a number of factors), those above that have additionally those (ultrasound) checks for the integrity every 10 years, but the norms are complex, no idea which specific ones may apply to this thing here.
Not that important, but even in their demo of "Generate an image of Messi playing in the World Cup" it generates an image with Messi in Barcelona's jersey, so playing for the club team, not the national team.
I woudn't exactly call it consistent and design decisions are questionable. Even the article-mentioned

def foo(*)
bar(*)
end

is some needless nonsensical bloat, who on earth complained "oh, saying def foo(a) is so 90s, we need to have option to replace it with symbol used for multiplication or pointers in some cases!"

It's mediocre language that happened to have some then-popular web framework written in
I don't think it's that bizarre when you think about it, shallow and silly reasoning for sure but it's not that weird nor does it seem to be some racist conspiracy or whatever.

Talking about texas
Is it really surprising US prisons are going to ban books written by prison abolitionists? Not sure i'd even chalk it up to that to be honest.

Unless we know how books are added to the banned list not sure there's much to discuss, for example you'd think the malcolm X books would be banned, but they aren't(although there is one nation of islam book banned). If you need to bring the book in it wouldn't be very surprising to me that maybe nobody donated a mein kampf to the prison.

From a quick look[0] it seems like there are 38 books banned for racial things in Texas, and those are the titles:

BEST OF JOE R. LANSDALE, THE
BLACK KLANSMAN (BLACKKKLASMAN)
BLACK MANS BIBLE
BLACK MESSIAH MURDERS, THE
BLACK SUN
BRING THE WAR HOME
EVERYTHING YOU LOVE WILL BURN
FROM NIGGAS TO GODS PART ONE
FROM NIGGAS TO GODS V2 ESCAPING NIGGATIVITY &
GREEN RIVER RISING
HEBREWS TO NEGROES 2 V1 WAKE UP BLACK AMERICA
HUNTER
I HAD A HAMMER
INTO THEIR OWN HANDS
JEWS SELLLING BLACKS
KU KLUX TERROR
LEGACY OF VIOLENCE LYNCH MOB AND EXECUTIONS IN
MAKING OF A SLAVE, THE
MURDER IN PLAIN ENGLISH
MY MOTHER THE CHEERLEADER
NATURE'S ETERNAL RELIGION
ON LYNCHINGS
OUTDATED ADVERTISING
PRISON GUARD'S DAUGHTER, THE
REGGIN: AMERICA IN A MIRROR
ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY
SAPPHIRA AND THE SLAVE GIRL
SON OF MR. SULEMAN, THE
TAKE ME TO THE BRIDGE
UN-CIVIL WAR BLACKS VS NIGGAS
WATERMELONS, NOOSES & STRAIGHT RAZORS
WERENIGRO, THE
WHITE HOODS: CANADA'S KU KLUX KLAN
WHITE MAN'S BIBLE, THE
WHITER RACISM
WILLIE LYNCH LETTER & THE MAKING OF A SLAVE
WILLIE LYNCH LETTER AND THE MAKING OF A SLAVE
WOLF WHISTLE

What does become apparent is that most of these that are deemed racial deal with black people as protagonists, and while that is a problem knowing the process how they came to be there is pretty important to if anything be able to fix it. If you're gonna ban for this kind of content all should be banned equally, black sun seems to be a neo-nazi book of some sort so at least there's that.

[0]:https://observablehq.com/@themarshallproject/prison-banned-b...
Definitely not. Wordpress plugins are the source of exploits in the Wordpress ecosystem -- it's very very rarely the Wordpress core itself.
My M1 MacBook is significantly "faster" than my previous Intel 16", even though the per-core performance are roughly similar in CPU benchmarks (small advantage to M1).

I saw a previous HN comment about this being due to memory bandwidth and cache latency, but I can't seem to substantiate that comment.

That being said, I'd love to have this sort of performance out of servers. Arm released https://www.anandtech.com/show/17575/arm-announces-neoverse-... in 2022, but it's not really available yet anywhere.
FedEx is awesome. I once noticed something sticking out of a pile of leaves in front of my house. Dug it out and it was a job offer that had been sitting there for a week or two.
Their position is this is fair use--that means your license isn't the thing that's allowing them to use it, and thus changing your license won't cause them to stop being allowed to use it. Fair use is the limited ability to use copyrighted works regardless of the creator's license or wishes. It's a powerful right; it's the right to use copyrighted works even when the creator wants to ban you from using it.

Whether they are right that this is fair use is above my pay grade, but if they're right, then GPL won't help at all. You can't stop fair use of your copyrighted works; that's not a technicality, it's the whole point of fair use doctrine. The best you can do is try to show that a particular usage isn't covered by fair use.
> he same way I don't need the history of the hammer to use a nail

This has to be the world's worst analogy ever used.
Forced vacations are usually to uncover fraud and maybe key man risk. Lots of places without unions do this.
As an exercise, change your statement from ”If you want rock solid documentation, switch to waterfall” to,” ”If you want rock solid tests, switch to waterfall.”

They have all the same organizational forces acting upon them. You don’t need all the tests to “ship a feature.” So some people can certainly skip some or all of them.

Switching to a highly iterative process neither worsens nor improves the quality/completeness of your test suite. Rapid evolution of features places pressure on keeping test suites current.

Iterative processes with good tests in place exist only because entire engineering departments have “gotten religion” about their value, and product managers have come to accept that it’s important to invest in tests. If they didn’t, they’d give engineers too much work in too little time to write tests.

And so on and so forth. Great tests and entire infrastructures around tests only happen when an entire organization buys into their value even if everyone knows you can get away with writing a negligible amount of test coverage and still ship a feature.

I submit it’s the same thing with documentation. It’s not a process problem, it’s an “embracing their value” problem. If you’re in a culture where tech writers are not considered as valuable as engineers, you will have crappy documentation no matter what you do to the process.
That's exactly my point. There are people who do the same job as you and love it. They may not even feel stress. Should they be paid less than you?
The author has a nice blog post series about companies using Haskell in production: https://serokell.io/blog/haskell-in-production
It's very useful for writing and explaining regular expressions.

But the holy grail would be if it could write all my unit tests...
Crowdsourced Men's Apparel Search
Hey HN, we've been working on some applications for Large Language Models (LLMs) and my partner and I thought it'll be interesting apply it to apparel search for men as a side project. We both really hate browsing for clothes, and there's just too much noise on the internet these days.

Sourced from the top 2,500+ Reddit threads on men's apparel recommendations
- Input from over 20K+ users
- Weighted based on upvotes
- Citations to original Reddit threads

Includes clothing, shoes, accessories, fragrances, skincare, active wear. There are no affiliate links, this is purely just fun hack. Enjoy!
Love it.

Instead of upper/lower (romans didnt have lowercase?) I would define a latin word, say "dividum" and write it as

CCCXIV DIVIDUM C

Which for short would be:

CCCXIVDVDC

Where DVD is a nonsensical or at least redundant roman numeral (500 + 495 = 995 VM). For readability we now add a new symbol to unicode of a V and a D superimposed.

N.B. Latin nerds... I dont care what the proper term for "divided by" is.
We do this. New stuff I buy has no sentimental value attached and if it can't be easily maintained, I have no interest in it. When in doubt (which is rare because we typically do our research before purchasing) we chuck it in the dishwasher...
Even that sounds much better than the service I received in the UK.

Each time I had to take it to the physical Apple store (they didn't even offer me the option of a mail-in repair, and when I asked said it wasn't an option) and each time I'd spend a good hour or two talking to the "genius" before they would have it repaired, usually about a week later.
> It exploits 30 vulnerabilities in a number of plugins and themes for this platform. If sites use outdated versions of such add-ons, lacking crucial fixes, the targeted webpages are injected with malicious JavaScripts. As a result, when users click on any area of an attacked page, they are redirected to other sites.

> (Long-ish list of relatively big-name plugins)

/me reconsiders trying to relaunch a blog at all
>> Things were usually discovered in a confusing way that kind of made sense at the time, but had false starts and conceptual limitations driven by people still being in an older mindset when they were trying to discover it

To know this gives us some perspective on our own biases/limitations and not take things as gospel.
> Of course this fails ... However, your point is still a good one

Exactly. ChatGPT is shamelessly awful on certain types of specifics. You might say it is only "statistically" accurate and my question was designed to exhibit this.

I noticed this possibility when it delivered a surprising, yet afaik correct, piece of information, and I asked it for cites in the form of webpages. Alongside a couple of actually existing sites, it manufactured a plausible sounding blog post from a domain expert which as far as I and the wayback machine could determine had never existed at the given URL.

It made me wonder if with sufficient ingenuity the engine could be induced to effectively libel authors by attributing statements to them which they never in fact made.

For fun, I asked my consciousness question again, but with a rider:

[Prompt:] Please give some recent citations for scientific work examining the nature of consciousness, but only include real papers that actually exist

And the bot was suitably contrite:

> I apologize for the error in my previous response. Here are some recent papers that explore the nature of consciousness:

> 1. "The neural basis of human consciousness: a focus on the thalamic reticular nucleus" by Christopher D. Schmitt, Leonid L. Moroz, and Laurence J. C. Mailly (2019)

> 2. "Consciousness and the brain: an overview of the experimental data" by Anil K. Seth (2018)

> 3. "A framework for consciousness" by Christof Koch and Naotsugu Tsuchiya (2016)

> 4. "Neural correlates of consciousness in humans: progress and problems" by Giulio Tononi and Christof Koch (2015)

Which is a better effort, though still at least partly fictional.
This, and most discussions about this seem to focus on situations where a human (browser) is on one side of the connection and the request flow is strait through.

In complex backed systems you have trees of requests to satisfy one browser request. Often the requests are small RPC type requests and even a few ms is important.
Decreasing weight gain heavily correlates to staying healthy. It's a reasonable enough proxy that people start to use it interchangably.
no. probably not.

There aren't really laws/cases that apply to LMs creating derivatives yet. Maybe there will be in the future. Currently, in practice, GPT will digest your blog and incorporate it into itself.
Those studies give a good idea of the effects on body builders. You can't just automagically extend that to the general population.
I had multiple keyboard replacements but when I followed the link that was emailed to me it had me down for just one. I emailed the people and sent them my repair info, and they’re apparently looking into re-categorizing my claim to multi-repair.
The authors take aim at your daily - or circadian - rhythm. This is difficult because the circadian cycle is superimposed on natures annual cycle.

If your goal is weight loss, you should concentrate on the time of year - not the time of day.

The 3 months between the fall equinox and the winter solstice (Oct - Dec) are the most difficult for dieters. Not because of the holidays, but because nature is preparing you to hibernate.

The best period to start dieting is between the winter solstice and the spring equinox (Jan - Mar). Each day tends to become easier to control your eating.

The period between the spring and fall equinoxes (Apr - Sep) are usually the easiest to maintain healthy eating habits.

Yes, there can be exceptions, but if you chart your daily weight, you will see the pattern.

The good news is that NOW (Jan) is the best time of the year to start a diet. Don't put it off because at this time of the year nature will conspire to assist you.
I’d respect that argument if states were forced not to allocate their electors in a winner-takes-all manner.
Quote what value?
The most common these days is a "tactile" approach where one person uses sign language and the deaf-blind person holds their hands to "listen". There's research going on to make American Sign Language more streamlined to support this sort of interaction, but while that's doing on, in the US at least, it's common to have people just sign ASL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GrK3P15TYU

Blindness is a spectrum though so it's possible that some deaf-blind people will have some sort of ability to see (usually takes the form of tunnel vision). In that case, they can still communicate similar to deaf individuals but it's usually modified so that the hands remain much much closer to the face (stay within view of what they can see).
I understand. It's not bad to keep in mind (I made a spreadsheet with anticipated expenses before I got my panels), but I think it can be more misleading to dwell on small risks than not to if it keeps someone from buying an asset with a good lifetime ROI for most people.
It is a technicality and it is still a pager.
Podcasts and Reddit is the same as no source at all.

If it's not a peer-reviewed published research (actually, multiple) it's not credible.

It doesn't mean it's wrong, but presenting it as a fact like the OP did is wrong and potentially extremely harmful.
I feel like most of OSINT is more manual than these lists lead to believe. Or if not, most of it relies on already-built massive archives or tools that scrape those archives.
That's still $20k above what they have to pay for the right of usage of the library. What donation amount above would you consider reasonable? Or how would you budget Spotify's donation accross all open source projects that they use?

You can dual-license to avoid comercial exploitation. Why then set an expectation on how much should be donated for complete open source projects?
Soccer does have a pretty big difference though: it isn't particularly dangerous and there are players that participate for a decade and more. That's also why it's not as centralized... Players aren't quiet as endangered when entering, so they're likely more willing to participate in games with smaller payouts.
Ireland fines Meta 390M euros in latest privacy crackdown