skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been working in IT for 30 odd years, 24 entirely office based, 6 some combination of hybrid and home, and in my view the argument that innovation and creativity are uniquely fostered by interactions in the office is seriously over-stated.

This is obviously just annecdata, but in my working life I can think of literally zero ideas which emerged from just happening to run into someone in the canteen or one of the corridors. Most work conversations are vacuous, time-wasting bullshit. Fun if you've nothing better to do, and nice for greasing the social wheels, but rarely a source of brilliant transformation.

In a depressingly large number of work spaces, creativity and innovation are rarely relevant to your job description anyway. You're not there to transform the business. You're there to churn through whatever piece of nonsense has been handed down from on high, and since in quite a significant number of cases the work you've been given will make zero practical difference to the overall well-being of the company it doesn't really matter if you do it well or badly.

Even if that weren't the case, what is it that is supposed to make serendipitous encounters inherently better than structured idea development? Are we really supposed to believe that just happening to encounter the person who holds the missing puzzle piece of what you're working on are exactly the moment you need it is the best way of generating transformative ideas? I'm not saying that such random encounters don't happen and can't be significant. But one reason these things turn into corporate legends is because they are rare and outlandish. "I said something in a taxi or a bar and someone else said something that turned into $$$" is a story, whereas, "I was stuck so I laid out the problem in a Slack channel or took it to on online brainstorming session and a couple of my co-workers helped me fix it" isn't. But that's because the first case is a weird freaky miracle, and the second is just an ordinary, effective way of running a business.
Show HN: You can ask ChatGPT to make ASCII art
I wouldn't throw away the diffusion models just yet though.

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I'm using a Qnap NAS. It has its own operating system but you can really install anything on it if you are dedicated enough.

One thing: Get the 3/4 drives models. I thought two drives will be enough, but I actually had an instance where one drive failed and the second drive quickly failed after that (thankfully I had already swapped the first defective drive with a newer one). But it could have been possible that two drives go bad at the same time.
first they shall have to find the proverbial broken up needle in a haystack deeper and wider than any search that has ever been done on earth. expected value of this thing is ultra negative no matter the marketing value lol
I remember it faintly from Finnishing the Finnish course on duolingo. I made it half-way through legendary, but I think I forgot most of it. Also it's unlikely to get more advanced content since it was a community contribution and Duolingo now switched to paid contributors only.
I have used terminals that only show the „place card here“ screen without the price. So in some circumstances the 20% charge could be hidden from you.
Hey! Maker of https://magicstory.ai here! Super glad to hear your daughter loved it :) we're pushing updates to improve the stories and definitely take privacy seriously - right now all images get deleted once your characters model is trained.

Also planning to have stock characters so you can make stories without uploading images since I get that's definitely a concern for most parents. Would love any other feedback on how to improve the experience!
My naive understanding: In a short you borrow then sell immediately. If the company disappears you keep the money from the sale (which you already made) and never have to return what you borrowed.
I feel sorry for anyone that has to live > 10 minutes away from the office.

Before working from home full time I lived 10 minutes away from the office. If you do the math you have to compute the difference in rent/mortgage between a house 1+ hours away from work vs. 10 minutes then factor in driving that car, potential risk of auto accident, health issues due to added stress of leaving for work on time and driving with others...
Why would you need to? Who wants it back?
> I doubt it was a trivial endeavor.

Per authors comments above, it was indeed a trivial endeavor: a few hours to tweak the prompts and a few hours to make the site.

Compare to the most basic children’s book, which would take at least 10 hours to illustrate for a professional (10 picture times one hour per picture).
Okay then I guess everyone on the planet with a steady job is privileged. What about the business/corporate class? Do you think they have more or less privilege than their workers?
> I imagine it is finding it's niche.

Actually I think the original vision was to get rid of the Linux Kernel in Android and have everything 'googled'.

They wanted to go full vertical but then not sure why it was downsized to more embedded targets.
> What I meant was that there are classes of algorithms that are stateless.

Can you give me an example?
VANDA: CAD for high performance communication circuits and systems (1993)
Valerian tea might be a safer alternative.
It comes and goes. Teams and Azure DevOps some times works perfectly for a few minutes, then responds with all 503's for a few minutes.
Teams and Outlook not working fine here.
"Not all, not even most, Muslims were Arabs. Islam may have been the first world civilization; in period it stretched from Spain to Malaya. Muslims might be Arabs, Berbers, East or West African Blacks, Indians, Kurds, Mongols, Persians, Turks, ... . They were all united by a common religion and a common religious language, but divided by numerous religious factions, languages, and cultures"

Isn’t this all true today?
Where did this 16% number come from?
Ironically, their status page is down.
From the FAQ: "These maps are based on simplified noise modeling and cannot be used to evaluate noise levels in individual locations or at specific times and should not be used for regulatory purposes."
Ask HN: Is there any functionality of OSes like Multics, Burroughs MCP you miss?
This is creepy to say the least, and nonsensical at best. It doesn’t convey any values like children stories usually do.
Thank you for saying that. The tech is really cool but it gives utterly untalented storytellers the tools to inflict really bad content on the world. The insipid and pointless plot of this one is a case in point. (I do admire the OP’s get-something-done adventurous spirit of trying out the tech and making something, kudos, but not their artistic sensibilities on this one unfortunately.) At the same time it will allow others to create fantastic stuff. We are going to need some better filters.
Apologies. Quick recap of the thread so far:

Parent 'jonathan-adly' indicated specific use case for 'Lebanese diaspora', which you then derided. We briefly discussed the 'boundaries' without any real specifics and here we are now.

<< I think you're misunderstanding how borders work.

It is possible.

<< A border simply allows a country to control what goes in and out of its geographic boundaries.

And yet countries manage to "control what goes in and out of another country's geographic boundaries" despite that. Asterisk may be needed with something akin to 'to an extent', but it is hard to argue with that simple reality.
Reply/edit. I realize actually.. cdata might be only for XML. Being able to put raw XML examples without everything being escaped is really quite major.
That’s correct! I do similar things EVERY time I deal with non-trivial operations on a conn, which is very tedious, and why I wish cancelation propagated down to IO. Although goroutines are cheap, something is wrong if you need in sequential code, imo. They’re also notoriously easy to leak.

However, once you need idle timeouts or heartbeats you have to increase the complexity further. Setting deadlines before every op (which is recommended) is (a) super easy to forget and (b) a perf issue if you write a stream of data, due to the several syscalls involved, which can be noticeable if you transfer at bandwidth capacity.

Even std (such as net/http, tls) is full of these workarounds. If Go could get the last remaining pieces right, it would be near perfect for userspace network programming imo, as well as benefits in other domains as well. I want this Pony.
The part of mirrord that's affected by SIP is the client. This is meant to be run by users on their development machines (we could ask them to disable SIP, but would rather not for obvious reasons).
Thank you! I appreciate the education.
Microsoft probes outage issues into Teams, Outlook services
What I meant is that your (our) job as a developer (in a mid-term future, I would say 10-12 years) will be made largely irrelevant, because a PM will be able to program by explaining what they wants to a LLM. That's why you are not seeing any real benefit from it now.
> I'm assuming you've mostly been exposed to advertisements in US/European media?

Spot on! I'll definitely be taking a peek at them. Not like I've seen much actual testing on Anker and the like, so a little anecdotal evidence might be enough for me to try out something cheap. Thanks :)
looks nice. now that "pro" level players have started pushing mastodon, it should hopefully help in the development and adoption.

as someone who has been active on mastodon github for years now, this is good news
Well that's all well and good for those of you who live with your families, or who even have family at all. For a lot of people, WFH means all the more isolation and loneliness, those fleeting moments of human contact becoming fewer and fewer.

Think about it, spending most of your week all on your own in the same room, with no one and nothing to keep you company except your own thoughts and some bits of text on a glaring LCD screen. Humans weren't meant to live like this.
Our gut biomes and the gut-brain axis are pretty mind-blowing in the way they facilitate our behaviors and general mental/physical health. It's amazing how much we haven't figured out yet too...especially with neural pathways.

Today's world of commercialized food (a few major foods/culprits in particular) throws inflammation at us in spades, and eating well has honestly made a huge difference in my life -- the most noticeable parts by far being cognition, energy, and mood. Every time I deviate from clean cooking and eating mainly whole foods, it's painfully obvious since my microbiome loves the new, healthier norm.

I would highly recommend this podcast (neuroscientist Andrew Huberman) if anyone wants to learn more about improving their gut health and the science and research that we know so far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15R2pMqU2ok&t=4500s
So then where are we with parasites cause homosexuality?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mG7DbMQ_gM

Censor, downvote and otherwise dismiss without any intellectual pursuit. If that's what you did then it's an identity for you and evidence to the contrary won't matter.

If we are discussing gut/brain connection in one way why not in others?
From the look of it, it will be in the Google Graveyard soon. Clearly this OS failed expectations.
I don't know how to think about this:

On one side, it might be nice to create stories that fit a specific want/desire for what a child might need. We might even go for the concept of a segment of one kind of story.

On the other hand, I am picky with the stories I read to my child. I see stories I read as education. They transmit some non-conscious cultural things about being human, about handling this reality and the world.

For me the books I read to my kid are the future equivalent of people telling stories around the fire to transmit some necessary and vital knowledge thousands of years ago. I believe (without a scientific ) they are shaping both my child how my child sees the world (through words construct and imagination) and my child value system.

Of course, I am trying to expose him to various stories and books as I am also not sure what I think is important is actually important for his life.

But I am a bit reluctant/skeptical whenever I buy a book launched recently. I am not 100% sure if the author just wrote a story because they want to sell something, and it does not have any other meaning. Don't get me wrong, it is ok to just buy a book because it looks nice, even if it is shallow. But there are so many books that I don't want all the books to be the same.
I don't know if they are technically allowed but https://molly.im exists.
How chess.com Built Mittens, the Evil Cat Bot Destroying Players’ Souls
Not the OP. I understand my situation might be a bit specific, but I'm a single guy living in a small apartment in his very early 30s with not a lot of friends and family (important point that my commute to the office is a 15 minute walk). We basically have an unlimited WFH policy, but I still like to spend at least 2-3 days in the office as I've noticed it has some strong benefits. There might not be exactly 10 of them, but for me it's definitely enough.

- It's something that makes me leave the house
- I've found that being around people has a positive effect on my mental health and general wellbeing
- As I live in a small apartment, I don't have the desk space for a multi monitor setup I would prefer
- The coffee is just way better than the one I am able to make at home
- It's an occasion when I have to look presentable, so I'm taking better care of myself

So going forward, we need to realize people are in different situations, situations can change and if the employers care about their employees the WFH option needs to stay.
Matano is completely serverless and stores all data in ZSTD compressed parquet files in dirt-cheap object storage, allowing you to bring your own analytics stack for queries on large amounts of data for things like investigations and threat hunts. Since we store data in a columnar format and plug in query engines like Snowflake that are optimized for analytical processing the queries on specific columns will run much faster than they would run if executed on a search engine database like Elasticsearch which
would require maintenance to scale.

I think it's important to understand that search engines and OLAP/data warehouse query engines have fundamental architectural differences that offer pros/cons for different use cases.

For enterprise security analytics on things like network or endpoint logs which can hit 10-100TB+/day, using anything other than a data lake is simply not a cost-effective option. Apache Iceberg was created as a big data table format for exactly this type of use case at companies like Netflix and Apple.
okay, i guess we're in copy-paste territory now

prompt:
produce a highly detailed example of ascii rendering

result:

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This is a highly detailed example of ascii art, which is an image of a face with different features that are indicated by different characters and symbols. This is an example of how you can use different characters to create depth, shading, and other details in an ascii art image. However, please keep in mind that, creating a highly detailed ascii art is a time-consuming process and it's hard to be done by a machine.
SoC vendors probably want Google to pay to support Fuchsia. If they want it to replace Linux, it has to be bottom-up, not top down.
As key component of threat modelling is risk management and modelling.

I would counter the “government blackmailing people” by questioning the risk this poses to me as an individual. As much as we’d like to imagine it, and as much as it can often times feel like it, we don’t live in a Kafkaesque society, by and large, as the significant majority of us are of zero interest and have little of anything worth blackmailing.
In german speaking countries gut microbiome analysis is considered alternative medicine by many medical professionals and is actively discouraged by some interest groups. [1]

There always is a gap between medical research and application which people have different opinions on. For example when it was found out that high cholesterol was bad for you, doctors recommend patients with high cholesterol to eat less cholesterol. Later it turned out that there was little correlation between eating cholesterol and having high cholesterol. The correct opinion supported by scientific evidence was considered alternative medicine for decades.

[1] https://www.dccv.de/aktuelles/nachricht/teuer-und-sinnlos-dg...
What's the point of having a status page if it doesn't indicate the issues?
https://status.azure.com/en-us/status

Azure, Teams, Outlook are almost down from Greece and Germany, and their status page shows that everything is fine :-)
In the TV series "Burn Notice" there are APRS packets used as "walkie talkie sound effects" while they're doing some sort of heist.

I've forgotten now which ep it was but I always fancied trying to pick them off the audio and decode them to see if there are any clues in it.

SSTV is another distinctive one, and the Aphex Twin track "Bonus High Frequency Sounds" is a pic of Richard James in his studio. Often wondered about the SSTV-like feedback in that Radiohead track, too...
Sorry, but the story is missing a very important ingredient for a kids book: I can not identify any deeper moral or social or any idea.

While stories "just for fun" have of course a right to exist, it is very questionable to fill your kids brain solely with random, empty, meaningless fun stories.

Stories for kids are an important part of helping to build a moral compass for the world. Besides "getting rich quick with fun products" I see no value transported in that story.

Empty stories will produce empty humans.

There is more to a good story than "something happens" and "nice pictures".
The idea sounds good, but the Github is very buried.
Is it not the same for all new technologies?

Books were expensive and locked away in monasteries for quite a while. Church being scared of "reading" being spread as a technology.

Steam-powered trains were feared because of their speed. Cars... Planes... Etc

Television the drug of a nation... Now its the Internet. I'm sure radio was just as addictive and hated by parents as television.

Agree also that we'll have a lot more chaff but the chaff began the day our ancestors chiseled the first symbols into rock and gave us writing.
Same here in Germany. Even microsoft.com times out at the moment.
yes, along with github and azure
I don't get why I need this rather than just a plain container/dockerfile. That is how I work today and that is my "devcontainer", no separate markup needed.
Hello sso tax on "let's talk" level
How ChatGPT Is Trained
Outlook is also down
The part I thought was the best was this: "This was not an easy decision to make. It’s weighed heavily on me for the past month, keeping me up at night and nearly causing me to cancel the exec team’s offsite, even though Bad Bunny’s appearance fee was only 50 percent refundable. Let’s not mince words, though; the accountability for this decision rests with me. The consequences, on the other hand, rest with you, but so does a pretty generous COBRA package."

Accountability comes with consequences. What are the consequences?
Apple did not have mass layoffs (yet) and Tim Cook asked for a 40% pay cut. Go figure
I totally read that as "Is AI a solution in search of a problem?" at first, but I guess that summarises the article pretty well too.
Sure, here is an example of an ASCII art of a car:

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This is a simple ASCII art of a car, you can find more complex and detailed ASCII art on the internet
The title is not really honest, it’s a 10 min “commitment”. If you frame it correctly, the result isn’t that surprising
Azure and O365/Teams is down
Article says India but it's also a problem in (North) Germany.
It looks good. I checked how long this has been around. Two years seems longer than most react apps. Couple of questions:

1. How complex was the upgrade path between major versions?

2. Are you guys cashflow positive?

3. What are your competitors?

Thanks
> We've identified a potential networking issue and are reviewing telemetry to determine the next troubleshooting steps. You can find additional information on our status page at https://msft.it/6011eAYPc or on SHD under MO502273.
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This is an example of a simple ascii art face created using different characters to represent the different features of a face such as eyes, nose, and mouth. The characters are used to create a simple representation of a face and can be modified to create more detailed or expressive faces. The ASCII art face is not too detailed but you could use different characters to create more detailed features and expressions.
The context is stack ranking of _teams_ rather than _organisations_, isn’t it? The size of a team is not in the hundreds.
So don't leave a tip.
The suicide rate in the US is significantly higher. Japan's isn't that high compared to other peer nations.
The Unsolvable Math Problem (1996)
Perhaps another important factor is adaptability.

For example, pipeline ran pytest which used coverage.py. The latter library decided to change the format of the `. coveragerc` which in turn caused pytest to fail, which blocked MRs because of course pytest failure means it cannot be merged. An adaptive pipeline would allow developers to ignore this error.
Ask HN: When to shoot your customer in the foot
In my roughly 12 years of working in IT, I've come across situations where a client or a boss asks things that - at least to me - sound like shooting yourself in the foot.

Sometimes these requests are technical[1]. In other cases, requests are of a more non-technical nature[2]. What these situations have in common though, is that the person asking is sure that this is the best way to do things. I've often tried informing him of the risks involved in his request, but I have had no success in convincing them to change their mind.

I wonder how HN deals with these situations.
Do you blindly do what your customer asks? If so, with what rationale?
Do you push back? How much, in what way? Do you ask questions?
And how do you deal with it if consequences of these "unwise decisions" eventually find their way to you?

[1] I've had a customer request that a soft real-time message broker use DNS for every outgoing request and use a single queue to send out all the requests. Then, when DNS eventually went down, each request took 30 seconds to fail and messages arrived minutes late.

[2] I've been asked to produce reliable time-estimates on a project with deadline that varies in both scope and available capacity.