skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Besides the laughably condescending matter of calling Java (which first appeared in 1995), C# (first appeared in 2000), and Ruby (first appeared in 1995) “novel,”

I think "novel" means that they were Greenfield languages. They certainly took concepts from preexisting languages (like Java's "interfaces" being inspired by Objective-C's "protocols"), but they didn't start their lives as "existing-language-with-X," the way C++ was "C, with classes."
Honestly the amount of money hedge funds and high frequency traders make from twitter is insane.
API could be profitable for huge amounts!
Funnily enough, I'm from the Eastern bloc (Poland) and apparently my grandma used to run a grocery store for some time in the 1980's. It could have been technically government owned, I never inquired. Whatever was the legal status, it was called "Grandma's store" in my family.
It doesn't have to always work that way. There's examples of groups of people that optimize for things besides profit. Like the Amish, for example.

Not saying that this needs to apply in any specific example. I'm just trying to advocate for the idea that we can imagine different social constructs as being possible. I like to think that a society can potentially decide to do anything that society agrees they want to do, and that could include valuing people over profits.
> “Early in the Reticulum-thousands of years ago-it became almost useless because it was cluttered with faulty, obsolete, or downright misleading information,” Sammann said.

> “Crap, you once called it,” I reminded him.

> “Yes-a technical term. So crap filtering became important. Businesses were built around it. Some of those businesses came up with a clever plan to make more money: they poisoned the well. They began to put crap on the Reticulum deliberately, forcing people to use their products to filter that crap back out. They created syndevs whose sole purpose was to spew crap into the Reticulum. But it had to be good crap.”

> “What is good crap?” Arsibalt asked in a politely incredulous tone.

> “Well, bad crap would be an unformatted document consisting of random letters. Good crap would be a beautifully typeset, well-written document that contained a hundred correct, verifiable sentences and one that was subtly false. It’s a lot harder to generate good crap. At first they had to hire humans to churn it out. They mostly did it by taking legitimate documents and inserting errors-swapping one name for another, say. But it didn’t really take off until the military got interested.”

> “As a tactic for planting misinformation in the enemy’s reticules, you mean,” Osa said. “This I know about. You are referring to the Artificial Inanity programs of the mid-First Millennium A.R.”

> “Exactly!” Sammann said. “Artificial Inanity systems of enormous sophistication and power were built for exactly the purpose Fraa Osa has mentioned. In no time at all, the praxis leaked to the commercial sector and spread to the Rampant Orphan Botnet Ecologies. Never mind. The point is that there was a sort of Dark Age on the Reticulum that lasted until my Ita forerunners were able to bring matters in hand.”

-- Anathem, by Neal Stephenson
Running properly is just as tiring as a good weight session.
"Software Use" rather than "Software Development"
Why? What itch does this scratch?
Wagtail is the leading open-source Python CMS
On the other hand more people are retired and in schooling than ever. Someone also has to produce the surplus for those people.
Flutter is becoming very popular for building apps. It is likely to have surpassed React Native, and according to Google more than 20% of new apps are created with Flutter today.
This article is less concrete than the Bloomberg TV coverage I saw sometime this last week that discussed the same theme/possibility of Bitcoin manipulation in recent weeks.

That coverage discussed that much of the pricing up-moves this past month are happening on weekends when there is less liquidity/action, and then saying some analysts see this as suggestive that some whale(s) are deliberately trying to push the price up (using weekends to get the most oomph for their trading dollar.) There was also an assertion that the market volumes involved in bitcoin are substantially less than in other more traditional markets so the market is more susceptible to this sort of thing.

I have no knowledge of the truth of any of this, but there was a thread of a "fact" to that argument which I didn't notice in this Fortune article (so I pass it on.)
Yes, that's my understanding of what this research says too.

Reading through all the comments I can see a lot of people struggling to reconcile this result with their existing mental models of intelligence and learning.
Imdb can be quite innaccurate; an ex colleague of mine is listed as some minor production staff in one of the Star Wars movies, but he never was involved whatsoever. He told me but I can't remember how he got listed.
And what would you do with that gun? Commit crimes? Even simple possession of it would be a crime. You would not be able to use it to defend yourself without getting prosecuted yourself.

It's not that it's impossible for me to manufacture an illegal gun for myself. What's the point of doing that? I'm not a criminal. I don't plan to overthrow the government or anything like that. Why risk getting a criminal record for no gain?
There is a strong push in the US for doctors to spend as little time as possible on each patient. I've had doctor visits that billed my insurance $350 where my doctor talked to me for literally 120 seconds. Everything else was done by an intake assistant. I would be surprised if it was this bad in other places, but explains why US doctors can handle more patients.
Ask HN: How to encrypt data in a SQL database?
Hey HN,

I will need to store some sensitive data (API keys, Client Secrets) of my customers in my DB. I was wondering if anyone could help me with these questions.

1. What are the best practices for storing client secrets and API keys in a DB?

2. Should the encryption be handled in the application level (using a library built on top of Node Crypto) or the database level (with pgcrypto)? What are the pros/cons of each option?

3. What are some good encryption libraries in Node.js (I want to avoid rolling my own crypto)?

4. At what frequency should I rotate keys? What are some methods to handle key rotation?

Thanks a lot!
Personally thumb + C and thumb + V on apple keyboards always felt a lot easier than pinky finger + C and pinky finger + V which just felt and still feels weird.
I've also heard it called Roboteching, from the samish reference:

Warning info hazard tvtropes :p

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Roboteching
Minifun saving on personnel expenses, as usual.
On #1, there are so many potential import sources that you probably cant do them all solo...but attacking the top few and documenting what your import format is would be a win. In short, let motivated members of the community with an itch to scratch help. Good ones could be folded into the mainline if you agree with the submitter, maybe.

On 3, notes can either be for personal use (eg in Cozi's recipe handler) or a shared conversation in a recipe (like what the NYT does). I feel the former is more important, but your users might have different opinions.
telling that no one has dropped any hard data in rebuttal to show that "most" officers are losers lusting after power.
" Therefore, we encourage journalists and citizens in all EU countries to question their governments and urge them to vote no."

How about you go and vote for the -right- government? You can't fix a country with technology.

Also, if you are a telecom operator in my country that means that you automatically allow the equivalent of FBI/CIA to connect directly in the switch with a cable. There is no other way to be a telecom operator.

What you really want is to have a judge agree to listen to somebody or not.
>some people would rather be heroic resistance fighters than engage dry policy work and advocacy

This is a nice take, that would be the right one if you operated in a fair system.

But if you have ever engaged in the very dirty game of trying to change or remove a bad law (bad for whatever reason), you soon learn how very dirty the game is.

Extremely few people who play that game are in it for the betterment of society as a whole rather than the betterment of their own destiny and that of their friends.

And even if they started out that way, it never lasts. Human nature.

Want to change policy? Quid pro quo. Read all about it, and be ready to do nothing but.
Wait, what secret panel?
sets of problems:

idea - same

cofounders - same

fundrising - same

launch fast - same

make something people want - same

do things that don't Scale - same

talk to users - same

moving to valley - same
I mean yes it's relatively more risky but no it's not risky enough for me to not do occasional sudo tcpdump -X on an unconfigured machine in a problematic spot. The risk of me getting targeted by tcpdump zero-day while diagnosing some UDP broadcast problem on a LAN is diminutively low. Your situation is likely very different.
For sure, hate from a group in control is much different than hate from a group that isn't in control.
My mind hasn't moved on to it being 2023 now, hah

They still made 8 billion in profit in 2022. There's ~130k employees, let's be generous and say average income for all of those is $120k a year. This is generous because there's a massive amount of factory workers that get paid nowhere near this. That's $15 billion a year in salaries. Cutting that by 10% is $1.5 billion. Intel still would have had several billions in profit.

As I said - no reason except greed. The business is not in jeopardy.

> leadership is taking responsibility by cutting their own pay

This is a really empty gesture. Leadership has leverage to get that pay bumped up again very quickly, and I guarantee they will. They may even get bonuses to offset it in the future.

Non-leadership employees have extremely little to no leverage to get their pay back up. And in terms of financial stress, a leader making $300k a year taking a 15% cut isn't going to feel much different. Someone making $60k a year on the fab floor is going to have to make lifestyle changes with a pay cut.
It's "hard" compared to, say, Pascal, which has a grammar that's intentionally LL(1). The fact that parsing declarators is context-dependent in particular, requiring you to maintain and consult a symbol table at that point (before you even have an AST) already to determine whether a given identifier is a type or not, is a minor annoyance, but an annoyance nevertheless.
319M year-old fish preserves the earliest fossilized brain of a backboned animal
One week to the introduction of a paid tier, and I haven't even received an email to notify me of the change. Surely your joking Mr Musk!
Agree that it's effectively infinite. Strong disagree that is it almost entirely garbage. That opinion is your filter system working and not an objective evaluation.

For starters, you can't evaluate most of it at all because you don't have time to do any significant sampling of any significant portion of it. How many TV episodes, movies, books, YouTube videos, video games, were made in the last twenty years? Do you really think that "garbage" is an accurate description of 99% of them?

I don't thinks that objective. It _might_ be fair to say that 95% are relatively poor quality or not to your taste. But "garbage"?

The thing that's challenging is that to be fair to this content we have to separate our superficial judgement of its quality from our evaluation of it's relevance to us. For practical purposes, we have to find ways to dismiss almost all of it because we do not have a million years to consume content. But that doesn't mean that it's almost all bad content.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34081302

Here's a music video they made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAPUkgeiFVY&t=1m40s
It definitely looks neat.

I don’t really see the point of doing this for one target per missile (other than aesthetics which is a perfectly valid reason!)

But, if multiple were heading at a single target, I guess they’d be harder to dodge? Multiple trajectories and all that.
> When Rivers revealed that she had received therapy for depression some years before, the caseworker weaponized this information—and insisted she return to therapy.

Why are we "normalizing therapy" if nothing has changed about it being used against you?
Because they're not even vaguely equivalent?

I do not think it is right to perform unnecessary body modification on someone who is too young to consent to it.

But child sexual abuse can absolutely destroy the life of a child.

They're not the same thing.
We need privacy because of X, underlies the assumption that X is something different and unwanted, perpetuating that idea it's trying to protect

this is poorly expressed, but i think you're trying to say that privacy can only be justified to hide 'unwanted' things, and so, for example, arguing that people need privacy to hide being gay implicitly accepts that it is bad to be gay; is that what you meant?

this is the premise i explicitly rejected in my comment; to use that example, this is an instance of what i said

gay people need privacy not because being gay is bad

gay people need privacy because others' intentions and judgment toward gay people are bad

you seem to be arguing that it would be good to improve others' intentions and judgment toward gay people, and this is correct, but there are limits to how much mere exposure can effect such a change

i am not willing to sacrifice gay people's lives for that

it should be extremely obvious that your reasoning is invalid in some of my examples

your teenaged neighbor doesn't want everyone to see her in the shower and to know when she's alone and unprotected because she's vulnerable to being raped

there is no assumption that the shape of her breasts or her walking home alone last thursday are 'something different and unwanted' or in any way bad; quite the contrary, her ability to walk home alone is precisely the good that it is important to protect in this situation

the problem is, as ought to be obvious, certain other people's intentions toward her; she needs privacy to protect herself
Click the red button.
Or you have everything in order but the encryption keys are gone.
What study supports your claim that a nationalised pharma industry could lower prices at most 25%?

Do you know the cost of insulin in the USA and its cost in the EU, although being both private companies?
You are overthinking it. Unless someone has a problem with you, they most likely don't notice how long your take if you are quick. They also notice if others speak too long, whether they say something or not. If you are getting your work done, they most likely happy you a brief with your update.

The biggest things people should be looking for are where you are struggling as evidenced by you working on the same things too many days in a row (too many days in a row is a variable) or you are asking for help, i.e. what your blockers or issues are.
And so many servers had the Quake sounds https://youtube.com/watch?v=6duy25F8lpo

Really cool in gun game. Also, the vehicle maps were a blast :)
Why all of this hippie garbage that doesn’t work? Take Propanalol or if that doesn’t work step up to Xanax.
It's not a success for Meta, but it is for Superhot and Beat Games and some other studios. It's a success for consumers who have been using VR headsets for the past 30 years and benefit from Meta's investment.

VR will continue to get incrementally better and cheaper year-after-year. I think VR has established itself as the fourth big wave in gaming (after mobile games, console games, and PC games). I'm not sure why that isn't enough to be considered a great success.
Find and depress the red "button" at the bottom of any smbc comic for a lovely Easter egg.
Because you already only view like 0.0001% of the web's content. Garbage is already filtered by algos. Those algos just have to keep up with chatGPT the same way they've already been keeping up with spam, the 95% of the web that is a dumpster fire, etc.

Potentially it doesn't really become more difficult.
I had several discussions like that and always said something along the lines of: "Well, I am not so sure about it being a bad decision in the long term. I think time will tell." and every time people have valid arguments of why Brexit is bad for the UK, but still I will say something like "Lets see how it all turns out.", because we do not know the future.

When the EU cooks up the next surveillance law attempt, I am always reminded of those conversations. But where else to go, if even EU gets too crazy? There are probably only worse places with regards to privacy.
This has to be a joke. 10k requests / month @ $2.5k...

Surely a single small region would eat this up alone?

This is showing how much the advertising loss is squeezing all angles.
Who'd have thought those in charge were a bunch of hypocrites?
Yes, but will ChatGPT give you another scene and will it be very different?
Why not? It's an easy way to create an online blog, with a nice distraction-free editor.
I think many people find it hard to make the transition.

Logically if you can double the productivity of 10 freshers you can contribute more value than you can as a highly productive IC who is 10 times more productive than a fresher. Your instincts as an IC can have you feeling you are not productive at all though.
*THIS* is the proper use of AI: shitposting better than the smelly organics.
Sassy Justice was fun despite being a slightly low quality deep fake compared to recent standards. I liked it because it was the joke, rather than trying not to draw attention to the fact that it’s all fake.
Once again: If they weren't offering this, it wouldn't be patched at all.

If they didn't have this, the security would be lower for everyone.

They have not taken anything away from anyone here, they have only provided extra services to people who pay.

They communicate this poorly, obviously. And it needs to be made clear that they are not withholding community patches, only contributing for a price priority patches to previously community-only packages.
The Google memo was hateful, anti-diversity, and he got exactly what he deserved (he was fired). According to his LinkedIn[0], he's been working at an unnamed startup for the past 4 years, so it's not like he was "cancelled" in any real sense.

And Lee Fang and David Shor are fine? I literally cannot find either controversy you're referencing on the front page of Google or Google News.

[0] Not sure I'm allowed to post this, but it's easily discoverable.
If you're presented with a view from a bias source it doesn't mean it's invalid. That's a big problem today on forums where someone thinks "Pfizer benefits from vaccine therefore they ..."
I would bias towards can't for these reasons:

- Organizations are very bad at promoting

- Retroactive pay scale adjustments are rare

- Promotion requires tenure and often companies don't align incentives towards tenure
> While politically and emotionally fraught, there is a lot of research out there that answers these questions.

You mind linking to some of them?
86% of Stablecoin Issuer Tether Was Controlled by 4 People as of 2018: WSJ
Does it read blog posts/arbitrary URLs or rather is it being regularly updated with new text? Can you ask it to summarize a doc just put online and watched to ensure it's not acquired in any other fashion?
I only care a little bit. The fact that it keeps increasing despite the fact that I'm in the minority here on more issues than not tells me that the community must still appreciate my contributions at least a tiny bit more than they object to my way of expressing myself. But, as I said, it's a small concern. And potential loss of karma certainly never affects my decision making. What the hell is karma for if not to burn a little once in a while to say things that need to be said?
> This comes across as bad but it is actually not that bad.

It's actually pretty bad. If you're running Ubuntu anywhere there's a bit of bureaucracy, like a government or large business, you get backed into a corner.

You can never use any of the packages from 'universe' unless you're buying Ubuntu Pro because if you ever get hit with an exploit where there was a patch available, regardless of the circumstances, you'll get crucified.

The insurance company, admin staff, ambitious peers, security analysts, etc. will bury you for not patching a known vulnerability. This is the end of Ubuntu's 'universe' repo for businesses that can't afford $500/year/server. It's just that no one has realized it yet.
No it doesn't happen in every country and region. In many places there's no such thing as a "ruling class". Politicians are just another type of public sector worker and certainly not the best paid or wealthiest.
I have been reading the comments, I cannot help.

But it is a powerful argument for simple tax codes.

I like the idea of tax. I'm happy to pay my share. I am in unhappy about all the leeching lawyers

I expect in your country as in mine, rules are made by lawyers and mainly benefit them
I'm not pulling out a gun anywhere populated unless the choice is that or I end up dead. In which case prison is an upgrade. I would consider european jail a great chance to read up on the classics while I enjoy not being dead.

Even where I live now (constitutional carry state, extremely lax on guns) pulling from the holster without a threat is gonna get you tossed in prison. Nobody knows you have it until you do that.
> I like that this technology has the potential to lower the value of being a Hollywood mega superstar.

Why would it lower the value of being a Hollywood mega superstar?

If anything wouldn't it increase the value of being one? Because now Megastar Jim Bob Jones or whoever can "appear" in hundreds of movies a year and collect checks from all of them for using their likeness. Instead of those roles going to smaller actors who would presumably get the part today.

Also it makes the value of that mega superstar more valuable because their deepfake won't age nor will it be encumbered by their death. We could start seeing Marilyn Monroe in movies again. And if you're someone like Brad Pitt, it means suddenly you have an entirely new revenue stream from licensing your likeness for years, decade, etc.
I found out later from my husband that after I went inside, the arresting officer said to him, 'If she talks to me again, I'm going to arrest you both and take away your kids.'"

Any cop who threatens retaliatory arrest because his feelings are hurt should be severely reprimanded, then fired and barred from police work if the behavior continues.

Same goes for airport security who casually threaten to add passengers to the no-fly list if they push back. Retaliatory abuse of power isn't acceptable.
Redlining and credit scoring has and in some cases still does systematically implement discriminatory practices via algorithmic means. And arguing with a loan officer isn't going to get you anywhere. The put your details in the black box, and whatever the black box says is implicitly trusted.
you might be privileged
I'm not able to do that at the moment, but that article from the Fed was posted yesterday.
OK, so the "we" that is observing the outputs and the "we" that thinks it is in control are both the tapioca. But the tapioca is wrong about being in control, because actually it's just physics and chemistry. Where is all that physics and chemistry happening? In the tapioca. So the tapioca controls the whole show, right? Which is it?