skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And retail traders should not trade options. It is a terribly stupid thing to do and is almost guaranteed to lose them money. If a sophisticated financial actor wants to trade in options or crypto, then I don't think it is terribly productive but that is their business.

There are also people who fly airplanes and cliff dive, but if my acquaintance Joe the whitecollar sales associate who lives two houses down from me starts telling me he is going to go solo flying or cliff diving for the first time with no experience, I will warn him off it in no uncertain terms.

As well, if he is talking about how much he is making on the side doing options trading, do you think I wouldn't tell him that it is a bad idea and he is going to end up most likely losing a great deal of money?

People who make these comparisons like you have are acting as if crypto is being marketed to wall street and not people like Joe.
The general attitude I've encountered is that you do this as a whale hunting strategy, developing a reputation for passionate overinvestment in your customers because the kind of people who sign eight or nine digit contracts demand it. I don't have the right data to know whether it always works, but multiple times I've seen it produce big deals that would never have come together otherwise.
Spotify doesn't pay silicon valley wages in Sweden.
The standard way would be to respect prefers-color-scheme (rather than make the user do something specific for your site).

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...
It’s like the iOS popup “do you want to let the app track you?”

It’s a BS feature and they might as well default to not let apps track. Is anyone going to click yes?
Ask HN: How to secure a database if employees are potential adversaries?
Many (most?) companies secure databases using some combination of password keys or limiting the db from being publicly accessible on the internet.

But if an engineer with credentials were to get phished, or were actively malicious, these methods aren't sufficient.

What's the best practice of hardening a database from internal attacks? Let's assume there are <5 people in the company who can be fully trusted.
> it might have happened anyway

This isn’t how civil damages work in any jurisdiction.

> like in an assault/homicide case

Apples and oranges. If the only way we can finger Equifax is by equating their actions to violent crimes, there is no case. That is increasingly my conclusion. These leaks have little to no actual cost.
> I'll have to buy your book

Why, yes, I guess you will. You're an excellent scholar.

Actually in my book I mention the Smalltalk prototype of Star, which was done in 1978 or so. This was not kept up to date and I'm sure he did not see that.
I still like OPs idea of it being more 1-to-1, where the engineer votes their $1000 on a specific project and that's the project that gets it. It's not just a ranked voting mechanism where a top few get it.

The system would only be there to bunch up "votes" so if multiple people choose one project it gets paid out in one bulk payment w/ a fallback to other projects if that payment fails.
The satire is so spot on it burns. So glad I managed to escape the bay.
This would not be valid under GDPR, they would still need to have a tracking opt in for the "free" version. There are no loopholes to this.
The amount of calories to add an extra 50 lbs isn't that crazy. It's around 300 calories a day. So more like 1 *slice* of pizza extra.

That is why weight loss is hard to achieve. If you are hungry, it's hard to--over an entire day--avoid eating 300 extra calories.
Check out the Open Source Peer Bonus Program: https://opensource.googleblog.com/search/label/peer%20bonus
TIL some trash trucks are also snowplows in NYC https://www.trailer-bodybuilders.com/archive/article/2172888...
Huh. Romans invented stacked ranking.
My jaw literally dropped when he said TV takes away your body. That's mastery of the medium, he owned the fourth wall harder than I've ever seen. Beautiful little lie, it's not true for him in the moment, but it is true for the viewer, and he's concerned with the viewing so it is kinda true...

That's angling towards qualia. What does it feel like to be an AI? I can imagine a world where programs are paid in experience. Querying a model is cheap, and leaves it unchanged. Integrating new info is expensive.
I think you missed that a large part of that list are anti-semitic books.
Their answer to securing things being a pain is to put them on the internet and trust someone else? That can't go poorly
Good point. I should have scoped my comment to only target projects which primarily require software engineering.
True. Calling Adolf Hitler a racist is only something woke millennials would do. /sarcasm
> I think there's a bright side if people can't compete with machines on stuff like that. People shouldn't be doing that shit. It's bad for them.

I don’t know. People already pump out a ton of bullshit from content farms then litter their web pages with ads and last-click attribution.

End user value isn’t what drives a lot of “information” businesses. See any recipes site or “news” that’s regurgitating what someone “newsworthy” tweeted.

It will be interesting to see how search engines adjust. Maybe someone will make the GetHuman (https://gethuman.com/) equivalent of search.
The lock-in is insane with salesforce. I think it is similar to excel at this point, sure there are competitors (google sheets, etc.) but none of them are serious threats to excel yet. Maybe in the next decade excel will start to lose significant marketshare, but not anytime soon. Salesforce seems to be similar in that it is so ingrained and people don't want to learn a new system.
It usually works, because it usually takes years for the loss of people to have an impact on revenue. By that time, investors already realized their gain and moved their money into another company, leaving someone else holding the bag.
If there is information overload, there is also many times more garbage overload.
> how would you even go about creating a spyware scanner given the OS is itself spyware?

You use an open and auditable OS on open and auditable hardware, then run suspicious software on a VM in there. I reckon hard or impossible to do using off the shelf products, but still doable. For now.
If I was handling marketing for Proton or someone I'd be busting down the door to whoever's office I need to approve a bigger spend and then triple my ad spend in Louisiana lol

"Need protection, Louisiana? You need Proton. 50% off for your first year."
> There's no Alt+Tab

There is https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos
Should they be paid less is not the right question. The question is would they be willing to do it for less, and the answer is probably yes.
And that’s fine: that consumer can choose to opt in.
Poll: Do you host and operate your own authoritative DNS server?
I am curious of two things.

- How many self host their own authoritative DNS servers these days, meaning the NS records for domains you rent point to your own self hosted DNS daemons.

- Of those that host their own, do you occasionally watch the traffic hitting your servers and observe how bot traffic has evolved and what information open resolvers are sharing with you? edns0 client subnet, etc...

I am just curious what others see. I've had some of the same bots hitting me for decades and every year the information I see evolves a little bit due to how open resolvers have also evolved.
I pay one or more DNS vendor(s)
Hybrid, I pay a DNS vendor and host a couple servers myself
Not Applicable To Me but I like to vote
While we're at it, I'd like to give a shout-out to the UEFI devs who decided that in their shell, certain elements should be dark blue on a black background. That's lead to so much fun over the years when recovering machines.
Yes, it is the post-hoc analysis that is the issue, not the "spying" which is just the modern-day spin on standard logging and business processes.
How I’d like to weather this storm:

1) Everyone cryptographically signs their work for identity confirmation.

2) there exists a blockchain whose sole purpose is to allow content creators to establish copyright date on a digital piece of work.

3) a public that uses the two items above what evaluating the reputation of an artist.
Yep. The minute one of the prisoners reoffended, the conservatives would use it to force the politician who supported it out of office and the jail shut down even if the rate of reoffense was infinitely better than for a traditional prison.
Same outfit in the US: https://www.eco2waterheater.com/
WAL Mode in LiteFS
Fantastic, nikita! Hope all goes well.
Thanks! I read something here on HN recently about how representation matters: essentially that it's important that people are aware of what others in similar circumstances are up to. I hope this post finds some other long-term side-project solo-founder parent SaaS bootstrappers and encourages them to keep going.
One counterpoint is React is doing gangbusters right now and uses the JSX syntax extension to embed HTML directly into JavaScript or TypeScript.

To my money, the main issues with PHP had little to do with template embedding and everything to do with Perl being a messy language for writing correct code (coupled with too many people in the era underestimating the importance of "correctness" for HTML rendering when the ability for a malicious operator to mutate HTML on a page can result in all manner of security exploits). Perl just has too many ways to write accepted almost-correct code that breaks abstraction / fails to string-escape in subtle and whole-farm-losing ways.
The GOP has had a super-majority off and on in Louisiana for decades, unfortunately. If you want to see what unfettered republican social legislative agendas look like, just look under our hood.

Yes I know our governor is a Democrat but he's an old school blue dog who usually either agrees with the social legislation (see: our abortion laws) OR knows he can't overcome the legislature with a veto.
Not strictly a Wordpress issue, this happens with any CMS that allows third party modules (Drupal, for one, as I know from direct experience).
Their plan is to use Neuralink to pull all the information from people's brains.
NFS is my favorite example of how to do distributed computing incorrectly. Take a filesystem API that assumes fast, local access, and that individual I/O operations are cheap and immediate (like stat()’ing a file or resolving a symlink), and suddenly make it so all these operations may have to block for hundreds/thousands of milliseconds while accessing something over a remote server potentially on the other side of the world. It causes so many issues: syscalls that can’t be interrupted (and thus you can’t ctrl+c a process), stuck mounts that can’t be unmounted, hanging for ages on `ls`’ing a folder with a lot of symlinks…

NFS locking up is the most common answer to the typical interview question “what could cause a load average in the hundreds on a machine with zero CPU usage?”: because there’s a stuck NFS server and the pending IO operations put the processes in the run queue.

I’m glad there’s a paper that articulates my thoughts about this subject better than I can.
You're right, thanks for responding! I've updated my comment.
I was trying to formulate a reply and then saw yours. Well said
I wonder if the economic gains of having 10x fewer citizens doing menial prison labour makes up for that cost.
The fact is that the vast majority people have no idea they’re giving companies vast amount of data that’s used to manipulate them. Thousands of A/B tests meant to trigger just the right psychological response to optimize impulse buying drop-shipped Aliexpress junk at 800% markup.
Another nice property of the FFT is that convolution in image space is multiplication in frequency space, so multiplying the FFT with an image of a Gaussian (or any other linear kernel such as an edge detector) is exactly equivalent to applying the filter on the original image.
Bing has made a lot of bets over the years that haven't really panned out, maybe it will be different this time.

Granted, Microsoft is much less reliant on Bing's ad revenue than Alphabet is on Google's, which might allow Bing to really change the search experience without having to worry too much about selling ads. It's going to be interesting to see how these products evolve in ways that serve both the user and the business interests behind the search results, especially if we start seeing VC backed AI search engines pop up which don't need to focus on existing advertiser revenue.
Subtly different subjects to those two sentences: the former is talking about the new generation of medications (i.e. the general concept of medications targeting this new receptor); while the latter is talking about one specific treatment (i.e. one specific medication, at one specific dosage, via one specific route of administration, at one specific interval.)

The side-effects of this particular treatment "can be severe", but that doesn't imply anything about the side-effects of any other treatment (combination of medication, dose, RoA, and interval) for drugs in this class. Heck, they could probably fix the nausea/vomiting just by making a pill that contains an adjunct anti-emetic like ondansetron, like they do for cancer drugs.
Hey Matt,
Your product fits perfectly a feature we're building and we'd love to use it.

But it needs to be programmatically accessible in react (js lib)
and of course it needs to function very smoothly with large number of events.

Good luck going full time I see a need in this exact space !
"the market" isn't some omnipotent magical force that inherently provides all options.

Given the current status quo, it's pretty clear that "the market" isn't solving this problem. Legislation is needed because "the market" has failed to regulate itself.

"the market" does not work for consumers, it's shaped for and by sellers.

Left to its own devices, capitalism creates conditions that are explicitly harmful to the population. Look at the sheer amount of labor protections we have. "the market" didn't stop employers from enforcing 80 hour work weeks and child labor, and it absolutely would not have without legislation.

Capitalism isn't magic. "the market" doesn't solve problems on its own.
Wait, that's over-priced even for the general public. That's around $25 to read an average Harry Potter book -- even nice sets of books 1-7 go for less than $175 new, where you get to keep the bloody book. You can buy the whole ebook series for Kindle outright in the $60-$80 range.
Or, use tiling window manager, but also have symbolic mnemonics for the apps (not have to remember on which desktop it's on, nor change your muscle memory if you change what desktop it's on).

For example mnemonic "M" for mail/email, so my xmonad.hs has something like:

, ((mod3Mask, xK_m), raiseNextMaybe (spawn "/usr/bin/someemailprog") (className =? "Someemailprog"))

Anytime I hid modifier+M, it will either go to the desktop and window with the mail program, or start the mail program if it's not yet running.

Personally, my mail program is usually on desktop 1, but some of the other program, like Web browser, I move between desktops as needed for tasks. Hitting modifier+W always gets to it.
Ask HN: What is the Monster.com for posting consulting work?
There are so many sites out there (Monster, Indeed, etc) that are focused on matching employers with employees, contract work up through FTE. Are there any sites out there dedicated to trying to match up firms that have projects they want to have consulting firms bid on, with the consulting firms that can do that work? If not, seems like a market worth inventing.
> So basically PHP, but in Go?

You say that like it's a bad thing ;^)
That is a sad but possibly true take.

Thanks for disregarding my typo.
As a Spaniard I had of course heard of Tamariz, but I had no idea there was an Spanish "scene", so to speak.

Are you also spaniard or just into the topic?
Just to add my thanks too! Especially the point about control tasks - brought a new perspective for me.
Being an NFL football player means you are in like the top 0.0001% of players in a very popular sport, so it's natural that you'd have some leverage.
Why would you want power centralized? Big corporations are never your friend.
"We're already hearing rumblings of how “verification” by centralised institutions or companies might help us distinguish between meat brains and metal brains."

The only way this would work is if there was a state issued identity tied to your existence(birth records) and probably tied to biometrics which followed you everywhere you went on the internet . And that's never going to happen. At least not without a fight.
> with those core cloud services being more low level, you are free to move between them much easier than the hyperpreconfigured 2nd tier serverless services

I actually think it's the exact opposite

With the big providers you can create elaborate architectures that pull together a bunch of hyper-specific services, or if you do everything bare-metal, you have to write (again, elaborate) configurations in terraform or whatever else

With a PaaS, your contract with the platform is usually very simple by design: "download the code and run this command", or "expose a postgres DB", or "serve these files". Because the contract is so simple, it's very easy to run the same stuff locally on your dev machine, or move it to another provider. Because it doesn't care about what architecture it's running on, it doesn't care about what platform it's running on

It's the same as with programming languages: if you write something in assembly, its contract with the host system is very broad, which means it's tightly coupled to the OS and the chip architecture. If you write something in Java - a higher abstraction level - it can be run on anything under the sun, because it cares very little about the details of the environment it's running in
In my experience, TinyGo is far from ready for prime time, mainly because of its lack of support for JSON marshaling/unmarshaling.

I run Go code in Cloudflare Workers, and just use the regular-ol' WASM targets (GOOS=js/GOARCH=wasm)
How widespread are ARM servers outside of hyperscalers who naturally wouldn't touch anything Supermicro makes with a 10-foot pole?
Using a TUI for display is one of those ideas I wish I had a long time ago. Perfect for the Pi Zero, well done!
lmao thank god he did not win.
That's being optimistic, you'd probably be the target of an underhanded mudslinging campaign that's secretly funded and directed by shareholders of the for-profit system. You know, things like "grass-roots" advocacy groups popping up out of nowhere in opposition, FOX news take downs of your employees and managers, endless trouble with permits and funding while certain politicians get sweet campaign donations on the side.
>But in Spain, Tamariz is an icon, less like Blaine or David Copperfield and more like Kermit the Frog.

As a spaniard, I think this is a great way to put it.

It's not that we consider him a clown, or aren't aware how extraordinarily skilled he is. It's just that he's got such a one-off charismatic personality that your mind ends up classifying him as something separate from reality.

There's no need to set a stage or act like he's an otherworldly being. Tamariz just strolls by looking like he's just out of bed, casually defies physics laws, says goodbye and walks away, because he's Tamariz; in the same way that the Roadrunner can keep running through the drawing of a road because he's the roadrunner.

It's just the nature of things.
This is exactly the calculus that I was taught in school - right down to the pizza slices analogy.
There is communication and there is anti-communication.

The study of language is frequently a dead end, witness how structuralism and post-structuralism became irrelevant. Linguistics is a “science” in the Kuhnian sense that the community can pose and solve problems but it has nothing to say about how machines can understand language or how people can communicate better.

If you get PhD in physics you learn how to do quantum mechanics which lets you explain why matter is solid or why sodium has a yellow spectral doublet. If you get a PhD in English you learn to read Finnegan’s Wake and pretend that you understood it. Both are hurdles that divide one group from another but one of those is a useful skill and the other one isn’t.

In Japan there are popular books about postwar French philosophy that make a lot of sense when translated to English. A major enterprise of the humanities in the anglophone world is the obscurification of French philosophy which starts with the (usually) bad translations but continues in the way people talk about the subject. (E.g. outsiders to the humanities often think there is something morally wrong about Derrida but don’t understand at all what his game is or that there are other authors like Badiou who play the same game at a much more evolved level.)
The ridiculous thing is they're hiding behind "curbing sexual addiction" as a reason for this law. I mean it's absolutely absurd.
My motivation is to interact with the content of the website. Form is good only while it improves function. For example, simple css improves my ability to read a website over the default rendering of .txt (often seen in websites about K). However, the new reddit design isn't worth it for me because the improved form decreases the function. With lazy loading, controls that are more difficult to interact with, higher footprint, higher idle cost, etc., it's a less pleasant reading experience.

Beyond the experience of a loaded site, its ability to emphasize the text and to not interfere with the current visual field / search (badly implemented lazy loading for example), size alone impacts experience on bad internet connections. I use HN as a test website to see if the internet works over something like msn because it is so lightweight. I measured around 8KB transferred after caching on the home page. (>3000KB from MSN with an idle transfer of 7KB every couple of seconds.)
Except they can't. If a service is only profitable with personalized advertising they aren't allowed to say "if you want to use this service you need to allow us to do personalized advertising".

Which means that in the future if there's a service I might want to use which is in this category and if I don't mind having my data used to personalize my advertising, I don't have a choice: the service won't exist.
They also used the term "subfield".
Well, Microsoft quite literally owns OpenAI (the ChatGPT devs) and they're well-known for adding pointless features to Bing (Bing Rewards, daily wallpaper, overly-formatted results pages, etc).

Even if/when Bing adds AI features, SEO will not be "dead". Not only does nobody use Bing, but the results will be mixed in with traditionally-indexed results. SEO is by-far the easier route to getting your product in search results, considering how hard AI models get pruned.
Why all these duplicate submissions at HN?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34243896
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=shifthappens.site

Seems to be happening way often. Is it hard to point out duplicate submission during submission so these just would not happen?
The point of the quoted sentence from the psychologist was that people who aren't obese, but who are "large" ("Big and Tall", in the clothing phrasing) and who have body-dysmorphic disorder, might pursue this drug, and, due to being "large", get it prescribed — and that that's a bad thing, because they'd end up with an unhealthily-low BMI.
How do you run financials in SF?
The design wizards are the ones who came up with gray text on light gray background, so there's plenty of dipshittery to go around.
WARN Act already exists and has state level analogs that strengthen it to some extent.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retrai...