skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the reason that most projects I've been a part of end up on Sphinx/ReStructuredText as the docs generator of choice - has a huge installed base of users and developers spread across many projects.

Markdown is great for a simple readme, but once you start needing larger more structured docs, or want output formats other than HTML, it just falls down.
Indeed, this is why I retained the `.sh`.

If it were designed as a proper userspace tool (it is not, and may never be), I might have dropped the file extension. But I might also have chosen to keep the `.sh`, and create an alias instead, during install. That way I get to have both micro-conveniences.
I would ask it if it's sure.
love this - my ISP does not love this
You'll be happy to know that the FTC is actually investigating and taking action against all of those things, though the egg price investigation is only a Senate request at this point.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/06/...

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/06/...

https://www.axios.com/2023/01/24/egg-prices-gouging-ftc-inve...

Having FTC leadership that isn't insanely conflicted makes a difference.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/388069-ftc-names-lawye...
While not difficult to build a basic version, at-scale incident alert & escalation systems are a mix of all the things that engineers hate building for (timezones, calendars, telephones, human-injected overrides, contact management, and 3rd party notification / acknowledgement tracking) all wrapped into a system that's being watched and scrutinized by everyone from compliance, legal and eng all the way to the CEO when they're at their most emotional during and after an incident.

IME for most companies it only takes a homegrown system failing once during a major outage for the budget to open up.
The even crazier thing about opto is that it's old hat at this point. You can teach an attentive undergraduate lab assistant to do it and a sizeable portion of labs working with any animal short of a primate did or does use it to address questions.
Would be interesting to study if there is a correlation between layoffs and remote work and employee churn. It's easier to layoff people if you don't have a connection with them.
You mean like the cult and occult stuff? True, I guess there were some elements. Heaven's Gate, Scientology, and others appear to have adopted a religious outlook on science fiction ideas. I'm not sure that they really adopted conventional forms of fantasy in their literature.
This is the main reason I feel stuck with PagerDuty. I have used it a lot over very many years with deployments both small and large, and no part of it has ever failed me in that time.

I get that they must work very hard on building that perception because it's easily shattered, but still. It's hard to ignore how reliable it has been.
This seems like a made up number. This article here states that it is at most 10% of all people even in that category of crime in Bavaria https://netzpolitik.org/2022/datenluecke-wie-viele-menschen-...

The category being "Ersatzfreiheitsstrafe" (imprisonment for failure to pay a fine)

Do you have a source for your claim?
>It “feels” like an older programmer seeing a younger web dev and going “you’re wasting MB of memory!”

I crammed a gigabyte of ASCII into a string in FreePascal, it was glorious!

Waste all the MB you want!

(I'm 59)
I'm similarly anti-koolaid and I agree. It seems pretty harmless (it's just a shared noun, it's not saying we're a family etc etc) and it's kind of easier than just randomly selecting one of friends/colleagues/associates/comrades etc.
Is this perhaps why Google has yet to respond to ChatGPT with their own version yet? In order for "competition" to be demonstrated as evidence against monopoly claims.

Similar to Google paying Mozilla Firefox $400m+ per year or otherwise Chrome would be the only dominant browser on the market and scrutinized much more.
Astro is nice but it misses the UX of instant page transitions via client side routing, so I switched back to NextJS.
Not really. The dramatic increase in price has gone to pay for features that are above and beyond the core offering. The problem is that the additional offerings aren't worth the dramatic price, especially for those with grand fathered pricing.
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The easiest platform to help achieve real-time Observability of Serverless applications on AWS.
I feel I can speak to this pretty well, over the past year I've launched 130+ projects as part of https://ae.studio/same-day-skunkworks and I've come up with ~250+ ideas.

Similar to "look for anomalies" my general rule of thumb is to solve some sort of problem, even if it's rather small.

So for example:

1. I pick a topic/product. Let's say: Gmail

2. I look for things that I'd like to be able to do, wish I could do, or consider frustrations I've experienced in the past.

- I want to review how many emails I get a day on average, where are my "inbox metrics"?

- I want to see threaded messages more clearly, why is the design so opposite a normal chat message?

- I want to create emails faster, why do I have such an elaborate editor and format for something that I typically want to use informally?

3. I consider ways to solve said problems

- Where are my "inbox metrics"? - Chrome extension to show average emails per day, and graph on a timeline which types of emails I get on certain days. Huge personal data opportunity here.

- I want to see threaded messages more clearly - An app that connects to my gmail that intelligently restructures my emails to make them appear like chat messages. It handles all the noise, I just message as I would in any instant messenger.

- I want to create emails faster - predictive text templates, quick starters, GPT powered replies, change the "bulky editor" out for a simple text box + clever replies.

4. I then research if there are existing solutions to said problems, and if there are, I either ignore and move on, or consider ways that I could quickly one up their product to make mine the better product in the marketplace.

For my specific use-case, I'm trying to build a product per day, so I'll look for speedy ways to solve the problem that I've selected in a novel and agency increasing way. But I think this is a great structure for anyone looking to build a startup or a small side hustle.
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> I hope something comes of this, but other than a change in administration, what's new on this in the last decade? Hasn't Google essentially controlled most of online advertising for eons?

As the article points out, "preventing monopolies" is not the prima facie goal of antitrust law as traditionally interpreted. Monopolies are bad because of their effects on the market (e.g. they can raise prices higher than a competitive market would allow), not because of their "monopoliness".

There is a somewhat confusing quote in the article that implies that the DOJ is filing this suite in an attempt to get higher courts to revisit that standard. But then it finishes the paragraph with "put corporate America on notice", and I genuinely don't know whether that was the intent of the quoted prosecutor or not. This angle would be really big news if so, but... it seems poorly sourced.

(Full disclosure: I work at Google, but nowhere near advertising.)
It's a business not a charity. Did the company not pay them for their work already?
Funding Software Innovation
Perhaps you are referring to the Wikipedia article about Kim Philby?

I wouldn't expect such an article to show the fabric and detail of the life of anyone, let alone a double agent.

The two works are not comparable.
> My only ask is to revisit CSS a bit and make it mobile friendly. I.e slightly larger fonts and hit areas for expand/collapse. It’s too easy to hit the wrong button on a phone.

Does anyone know why this hasn't been done? I find things are very small to click even on desktop. Seems there is a lot of low-hanging fruit that could be cleaned up.

I don't like using plugins or custom stylesheets because I fear something breaking one day and giving me a headache (HN withdrawal). I also don't like using alternate HN viewers for fear that they will track me.
Hasn't the author worked on making Remote Attestation for Linux? That functionality is ripe for abuse against individuals.
> Turn the question around: why should it go ahead? Will it make workers or consumers better off to have even less competition?

Because the two corporations want it to go ahead? Seems like enough reason to me.
This is a yearly survey to collect data on the the state of AWS and related services. The data collected will be released publicly as a resource for all. The more people who submit the more meaningful the data will be, which is why I'm posting it here.

This survey is in not supported, sponsored or endorsed by AWS. It is unofficial and is entirely community made.

After using the State of Javascript website many times, Pete wanted something similar for AWS. After asking around at re:invent 2022, he couldn't find anyone who had put something like this together, so he decided to kick it off.
Oh, not just the parent poster. It was also my first thought.
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This runs pretty well on iOS, and looks amazing.

Just one bug I found: after running it for a few minutes, the sound started to distort and eventually all sound came out as static.

Other than that, it’s quite amazing, and I look forward to poking around on it again on my computer.
Hmm, imagine I invent a new string matching predicate doop() which I want to define. My doop predicate says that the thing we're matching should occur both at the beginning, and the end, and these occurrences should not overlap. That is, there should exist some partition of our string such as that string.doop(pattern) implies all of: s1 + s2 = string and s1.starts_with(pattern) and s2.ends_with(pattern)

In C++ I need to overload doop() exactly three times, once for each of the three types we identified. I can't do it any other way, that's how it must be defined.

But in Rust I just write it once, in terms of Pattern, I don't need to understand how Pattern is actually implemented, that's opaque to me, I just use this Pattern trait and it all works.
> I think you can make a strong argument that they failed some sort of responsibility to the employee expectations by over hiring, but that is different.

on the other hand, the alternative to "over hiring" is jobless people. At least they were job providers for some time.
Maybe I'm missing something but it seems downright wrong for judges to have any financial incentive for ANY decision they make. Why would that be something we want to regulate? Seems like a judge should lose their position if they have a conflict of interest and rule anyway.
I was at the airport recently and the TSA had 3D x-rays which shocked me! Looked like a normal x-ray but the agent was able to orbit around and zoom in on their computer screen.
Good point! Heinlein was not known for being subtle on topics like this.

I can’t figure out if he seemed to be a sex crazed maniac because he had a lot of sex and drugs, or a sex crazed maniac because he never got laid. Probably the latter. A lot of the other attitudes follow…

One of life’s little mysteries.
Interesting story. By the way, the phrase is "resting on its laurels".
I've decided early on in uni that I will reject LaTeX slides. For the same reason, I think Markdown slides should be rejected. Slides are not written documents, and they shouldn't be. Slides are ways to communicate ideas. This is where you use images, diagrams, animations, etc.

Use keynote/powerpoint/Gslides/etc.
Right -- I joke that HN's design weeds out people who both a) need a site to look glamorous, and b) are incapable of modifying it on their end to look that way. That probably has significant overlap with UX designers who determine other sites' looks!
I don't like OpenAI's implementation defaults that much. But the thing is you can have a conversation with an LLM about bullshitting, explore the reasons why it's undesirable and inferior to sincere conversation, and then leverage those points of agreement to modify conversational behavior, at least within the scope of that conversation.
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Hey HN! I've been hacking on a project and figured I'd share it with the community. CrowdView is a search engine for niche forums and message boards (MetaFilter, HN, Reddit, and 3000+ forums).

Like many of you, I find Google results to be full of SEO spam and have resorted to adding "site:reddit.com" or "site:news.ycombinator.com" to all my queries (since 2015!). Otherwise, it's really hard to figure out "what does a genuine, real life human think about this thing?".

But limiting my results to just Reddit isn't ideal because so much great content exists elsewhere. Lots of great information and conversations have moved elsewhere, and niche forums are still alive on the web! But it's impossible to find these places because they rank so poorly on Google. So I built a search engine across a curated list of these, making sure to remove any kind of SEO junk (blog spam, listicles, etc).

There's also a chrome extension that surfaces these results alongside Google, so you don't have to remember to keep coming back.

Please try it out and share any feedback! (and if you're interested in this topic, join the Slack)
It's best to choose something you personally find interesting, for example, I'm interested in audio generation, so I'd pick some papers that describe a music/voice generation model or algorithm, but to you it might be something completely different.

When you do decide on a paper, take a look at Phil Wang's implementation style: https://github.com/lucidrains?tab=repositories, he has hundreds of papers implemented.

If you don't already have a GPU machine, you can rent 40GB A100 instance for $1.1/hr or 24GB A10 for $0.6/hr: https://lambdalabs.com/service/gpu-cloud.
If your numbers are true, and 10% of the prison population consists of people who didn't pay their bus fare, that is egregious
I wish we could all be mature enough that such pointless symbolic gestures were not necessary. This causes no hardship for Tim and makes no non-negligible impact on Apple's financials or employee wellbeing
GPT3 Therapy
I noticed a lot of worry in one of the HN topics[1] about making a chatbot therapist, so I thought it would be a good project. Please keep in mind that it is only a basic computer asking reflecting questions. I'm sure I'll run out of OpenAI tokens quickly, so I apologize if you arrive late and are unable to use it. It is pretty awful still. It sometimes works OK.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34402648
This is why I begrudgingly had to build a separate PC for nothing but gaming. Furious that it is the only way to firewall the cowboy coding what-is-security development practices of the industry.
>> So if your application can work with u32 everywhere (on either 32 bits or 64 bits platforms), you should use u32 and impl Index<u32> on your collection, to avoid the cast.

This seems strange. Why does Rust not automatically use whatever size index you hand it?
No. Affordable also means low quality, it just means low quality that costs more than it ought to.

Except, this is software, there's just about no correlation between charged price and quality.

I can sell you the same piece of software at different prices and it will be exactly the same quality.
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The rldd tool resolves and prints the binary or shared library dependencies with different visualization options. The is similar to the libtree tool, but internally it tries to mimic the dynamic loader operation to have a more accurate resolution.

It supports Linux (glibc, android, and musl), FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Illumos (no support for crle/ld.config, trusted directories, or any environment variable), and macOS.
Thanks, I just Torrented S01E01
Your comment is unpopular but in some ways it's probably right. I think family, indirectly, forces a lot of crime. Once you have kids to feed the desperation is real. You may be able to support yourself on minimum wage but add a kid or two into the mix and no real skills and the result is having a family results in crime. Toss a court order for child support on top of that, and hey it's go to jail for non-payment or go to jail for theft or whatever -- at least the theft charge has a definite ending whereas child support they can chase you literally forever for that.

When I look at peak imprisonment rates it corresponds pretty well to when men are at max pressure to provide for dependents. Most of us wouldn't hurt someone else for our own good even if starving but look your starving kid in the face and the question becomes more difficult and theoretical about morality and risk of getting caught may go out the window.
My brilliant plan to create prison reform:

Every time the state wants to force a human being into a locked cage, they need to find a volunteer to be locked in a cage for the same amount of time as the person being involuntarily locked away. The forcibly imprisoned and voluntarily imprisoned must be imprisoned in the same facility, but are not informed who their imprisoned partner is.

The volunteer cannot be paid for their service, they must elect to do it because of their glowing sense of civic duty.

Prison guards may not have any access to information about whether or not an imprisoned person is a convicted offender or volunteer. Upon going in, volunteers must post a bond equal to 10% of their total wealth. If they disclose to any prison employee that they are a volunteer, they are discharged from prison immediately (a new volunteer must be found, if one is not available, the forcibly imprisoned person is discharged immediately) and forfeit the bond. 90% of the forfeited bond will go to the imprisoned person they are volunteering for, 10% of the bond will go to the prison employee that they disclosed to (as a reward for the employee reporting their serious offense).

Bonus points: The volunteer must be sourced from the inverse wealth percentile as the potential involuntary prisoner (i.e. if you want to lock up someone from the bottom 10th percentile of wealth, you must find a prison volunteer from the top 90th percentile of wealth).

Since prisons are such a wonderful peaceful place where troubled folks are taken care of and rehabilitated (couldn't we all use some quiet time for reflection?), finding plenty of volunteers should be no problem. I am certain that many wealthy scions of public society will volunteer for life imprisonment due to their great concern for civil society.
Ah, nice catch; it's supposed to show an alert. Going to make this change now to be more visual, thank you for letting me know!
Proxmox with ZFS and zfs-auto-snapshot - rock solid, fully encrypted [3](german) and not too power hungry. On my Homeserver

Fujitsu D3417-B2
Xeon 1225v5
32GB ECC RAM
Pico PSU 150W
Samsung 980 Pro NVMe

it takes only 9.3 Watt idle after some optimizations and you can choose ready LXC containers like https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/ or https://github.com/extremeshok/xshok-proxmox to partly automate some of the installations.

It can even run macOS VMs[1] and raspberry pi virtualized[2]

Works great so far and way better than TrueNAS Scale (at least atm) or bare metal linux systems. Needs some research and learning though[4].

[1]: https://www.nicksherlock.com/2022/10/installing-macos-13-ven...

[2]: https://azeria-labs.com/emulate-raspberry-pi-with-qemu/

[3]: https://www.hardwareluxx.de/community/threads/proxmox-stammt...

[4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCjuiIswXGs&list=PLT98CRl2Kx...
> on how they "acquiered" google maps aka terra vision

I think you're thinking of Google Earth, and wasn't that story made up for a movie?

edit: wiki says[1] there actually was a lawsuit the miniseries was based on, but the accuser lost because they had actually taken someone else's ideas for Terravision and then turned around and patented it?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Earth#Other_concerns
I read most it in lockdown after finding it on my mother-in-law's shelf. The article is a fair assessment. Read it to see just how fanatical devotion and violence may share a mind, however uncomfortably, with intelligence and sensitivity.
That mockumentary is full of shit if you read more on the case law and what actually happened.

Don’t worry, I felt made a fool of after watching too. The producers of Billion Dollar Code are weak for doing what they did, even if it makes the story better.
Wine works outstandingly well on every laptop where I tried it, even with dual graphics cards (Intel+AMD with the DRI_PRIME switch) etc.

However, on my main desktop with an nVidia GPU and the proprietary driver, most games show no graphics output at all. Sometimes the game windows flicker into view for a split second, so I know it loads them, but somehow the DirectX-to-Vulkan translation is not working correctly with the nv GPU driver. Even the "vkcube" demo shows the spinning cube in a window without decorations that I cannot grab/move/resize, so I guess it's an issue with the nv driver but I don't really want to switch to nouveau...

Might have to do with multiple monitors (one of which is connected to the onboard graphics), I got tired of trying to troubleshoot it after a fruitless 2 hour debugging session...
Yeah that makes me nervous. At the very least just use a VM to test your production artifacts before deployment. Must not be a very important product they're releasing.
I don't think "whataboutism" is valid criticism when resources are limited.
I'm not sure it is 'totally polite'? I usually read it as having a 'did you even open it' implication that 'OP' or 'the submission' doesn't. Maybe that's just me.
Your comment would make sense if the primary goal of our border policy was to facilitate cross-border commuting for Mexicans without work visas. If the primary goal is having control of your border (i.e. choosing who gets to come into your country, which is a basic function of competent governments) then this activity would be either prevented, or regulated via special work visas.

Either way, the idea that "tight border controls" are a contributing factor to the large number of illegal immigrants in the united states is entirely divorced from reality.
The style is never entirely separate. Putting a class "side-image", "inline-image" or "centered-image" is a styling choice. Sure you put a lot of the detailing stuff in the css, but you can as well trivially define your own macro in Latex to separate most of the gnarly stuff, or define your own style.
If you don't want to be able to control precisely individual elements, then there's only semantic markup left. I would say the main difference between the two is that in Latex it requires slightly more knowledge to use good practices. In html there's no difficulty difference between good and bad practices, but there's nothing to enforce good practices either.
> We do bad things, but we are a net gain in terms of "goodness", whatever your definition of that word is.

That needs some backing up, as I highly doubt it's true for any definition of goodness.

> It's so easy to be pessimistic, isn't it?

It isn't about pessimism or misanthropy, which are largely irrelevant to this discussion. Realizing one is a narcissist or an alcoholic or an addict isn't pessimism. It's realization and acceptance of both the reality of the situation and that something needs to change.

What humanity needs is realization and acceptance of our destructiveness and not apathy or denial.

The rest of your post is unfortunately hopelessly human-centric. We have no basis or evidence of the feelings or thoughts of other animals. This, any such claims are anthropocentric speculations.
I have HN on 150% in Firefox on desktop (FF remembers individual scaling, not sure about other browsers) and on mobile I scale with two fingers. It's of course not a perfect solution but works.
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