skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks pretty great and I'd definitely consider adding it to new projects, but it's not a magic bullet. You still need to think about what queries this will trigger and it's a lot less obvious than includes().

If you have a large application with an ORM like Active Record, you'll often end up in situations where queries inside methods trigger the N+1 problem. Sometimes this loading is highly conditional. You end up trading the N+1 problem for a "loading an entire unnecessary table" problem.

I suspect this is the reason this feature hasn't been added to Active Record. It would be used a lot when it's only narrowly useful and has worse side effects. (It's also yet one more layer of complexity on top of an already complex ORM.)
It probably doesn't bode well that Cramer says Meta is ‘rapidly becoming my favorite stock’ :

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/14/club-meeting-recap-cramer-sa...
Social media brought down SBV
Good people remember though and hold a grudge if you insult them on the way out the door. People you want to hire in the future are watching as well. There's incentive to be classy (ex: Microsoft's https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/01/18/subject-focusing...) unless the whole ship is going down.

Edit:

That being said, after actually reading it, the Meta letter is relatively classy. The HN comments made it seem worse than it was.
Sorry but I have to ask why the XMLHttpRequest instead of fetch?
Cherrypicked statistics, as usual. This article at least mentions that it only works for efficient cars; if you have an inefficient one, then walk.

But they compare walking by a very unfit person - 200 food calories, i.e. 2 nice cookies, burned in a 2 mile walk is wishful thinking if you do this kind of walking regularly - the body gets more efficient with practice - with optimal automobile usage, i.e. fully warmed up car, straight highway to the office, stop. No traffic lights, no congestion.
Don't forget the energy needs of the people that make the cars.

My favorite point, however, is that for my car, 100% of the energy used is for purposes of propelling the car from point at to point B. For a human, the energy from walking is a fraction of the total energy use for the day, so if I want to take into account the cost of the food supply chain devoted ONLY to my walking to work.
It is inescapable that tax payers will bear the cost of the insurance, if not directly through taxes than indirectly through increased banking fees and reduced rates.
Disney asks judge to unmask online leakers
We're starting off with an open source base model that was trained on The Stack, a dataset containing only permissively-licensed code, and we're further augmenting it with additional repositories with MIT, BSD, or Apache Licenses.
I use NordVPN.

I don't opt in to anything like this (as far as I know). Looking at the preferences, I don't see something that sounds like it maps to the consent above. So ... I'm not really sure.
Umm, you do realize that the purveyors of decentralized Ponzi schemes co-opted the word "crypto" from us serious minded folks concerned with cryptography?
AI Could Write Our Laws
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The cheapest option:
> Team: Billed annually starting at $300.
Yeah, it's a high bar to clear, but they didn't have to include that in the proposition. If they hadn't, then legislature would be entirely unable to modify it.

Think about that before getting all fired up about 7/8 - most ballot initiatives completely exempt themselves from legislative amendment. That's the default.
For a niche book, self publishing and distributing it yourself seems to yield the better return. Combined with a higher price point, you can "earn back" any money you invested much faster.

- I have sold about 50 books at a $100 price point.
- My cost to drop-ship print and ship, transacation fees, sales tax, etc. cost about $25
- This leaves $75 gross profit / book, or a 75% gross margin
- Gross profit over 1.5 years has been about $3750
- I have spent about $2000 for someone to help with generating the PDF, Shopify Fees, ConvertKit e-mail sub-scription, etc.
- This leaves me about $1750 so far in profit.

The amount is trivial, but here are the other potential benefits, both from a monetary and non-monetary perspective

- It was a lot of fun to write the book. Writing a daily newsletter for marketing purposes is also fun
- There is still a decent amount of financial potential. I can see a path to selling 10 books a month in the near future, and maybe 50 books a month in the medium term. A few thousand per month in side income would be cool!
- It's fun talking to readers
- I could see this turning the book into an online course or something
- I'm learning some new skills (next task is to tinker with LinkedIn advertising)
- Very rewarding to get positive feedback

Overall selling a book online feels much more rewarding than billing another hour to my clients, even though I'd have to sell like 2 books an hour to match the money.

But, I'd also caution I probably wouldn't have written the book if I didn't get a sense that I could make a significant amount of money. Writing into the void is the most frustrating thing for a writer. So I also mitigated the risk by writing a guest post on a few relevant websites and asked people to e-mail me if they were interested in an "upcoming book" on the topic. I got about 20 or so e-mails before I decided to write it. Small number, but enough to make the time investment.

In case you're interested, book link below:

https://1099fedhub.com/

Going 1099: How to become a solo federal sub-contractor and gain control of your working life, earn more money, and unlock more free time
What happens when your distribution only have old versions, or worse, no versions of the libraries you need? You hoop distribution? You layer another distribution like Nix or Anaconda over your base distribution? You give up and bundle another entire distribution in a container image?
If the rate rises are expected, then the cost of hedging them will be approximately the same as the cost of not hedging them. Hedging isn't a magic process to evaporate risk. It's just buying insurance. And no one will insure you when your house is already on fire...
He doesn't make false claims, but he also doesn't tell people they'll be used as a botnet. Feels like something that would be relevant to know.
The data is only viewable by you. As for hiding the counter, there's an option to set the image to display: none. Then just grab the ID of the counter and navigate to the bottom of the page, where you can click on "count" and get your tracking data right there if the counter isn't visible on your website.
Stupid article.

First, most humans already consume enough extra callories for not having to consume more to walk to work. Actually, doing so would only be a net benefit healthwise for most.

Even then, the way they count the emission of food production focuses on cattle which is known to be highly inefficient.

Garbage premise, garbage conclusion.
Yeah, that kind of omission is enough that no one should bother reading this "article". What a bunch of bullshit.
Good example of being too smart for your own good and ignoring the obvious question: do people who walk actually eat more than drivers?
Not to defend Wall Street, but people act like “greed is good” only applies to them.

You would have to be blind to not see every industry and person, from execs to engineers, seeing greed is good. I mean, weren’t 400k+ google engineers unionizing? Are the start-up craze of the past 10 years and crypto craze in 2020 just a bunching of people trying to get rich quick?
The infra costs are probably minimum $1000/month so it doesn't make sense to target small teams with that overhead yet. I'd expect something open source to appear hear in the next few months, though it might be based on legally iffy LLaMa weights.
Ok. How is what you are saying falsifiable? What do you even mean that "contagion is spreading"? What is the specific claim or prediction that is being made?
Well in MacBooks there isn't actually any downward travel, it's just a solid block, there's only haptic feedback to indicate a click has been registered.
if they charge you a random fee and call it an FDIC fee then they are committing fraud
Why is the immediate response to criticize? Every single time I've seen layoffs discussed people always ask why it can't feel like more of a conversation and less like a bandaid getting ripped off (because it sucks to be part of the bandaid). Employees want to be included in the conversation. It seems that's exactly what is being done here. How is that insulting?!

I mean we also hear the traditional rationale for why you can't announce layoffs in advance but it doesn't seem absurd to try it since there seems to be remarkably little data on the subject. Further, if you're considering letting 10k people go, I don't see how it's bad to have the loose ones leave of their own volition. I actually liked the tone and detail of this post. It certainly seems Meta is preparing to fix more than "100% a management failure"...
I was specifically thinking of bitmapped machines like the Amiga. Granted, e.g. a modern 4K display w/32bit colour requires roughly three orders of magnitude more memory moves to re-render the whole screen with text than an Amiga (typical NTSC display would be 640x200 in 2 bit colour for the Workbench), but ability of the CPU to shuffle memory has gone up by substantially more than that (raw memory bandwidth alone has - already most DDR2 would be able to beat the Amiga by a factor of 1000 in memory bandwidth), but the 68k also had no instruction or data cache, and so the amount of memory you could shuffle is substantially curtailed by the instruction fetching; for larger blocks you could make use of the blitter, but for text glyph rendering the setup costs would be higher than letting the CPU do the job)
Always astonishes me how negative hacker news can be whenever people try to launch stuff. This is cool!
You need more "Sponsorblock: skipped Ad" in your life.
>It's like how there are plenty of people paying for DB software which is 'worse' than mainstream free ones, but they really like the fact they can call experts who will tell them what they are doing wrong with query optimization, etc.

And for us, poor peasants, there's always going to be stackoverflow.
> A FIPS 140-3 compliant FIPS Provider

This is actually a pretty big deal. FIPS 140 certifications are required for a lot of US Federal sales. The FIPS 140 standard changed sometime in the past year from major version 2 to major version 3 and lots of changes are required to certify against the v3 standard, even if you had a v2 certification. What's not obvious is that a lot of FIPS 140 certified software libraries are whitelabeled openssl. Because of the openssl teams hard work in getting this released, it really lowers the barrier to entry for companies trying to sell software to the US Federal government.

I wish the certifications were not as onerous as they were, but this is a big step forward for teams that are not staffed to read and implement several hundred pages of ISO standards for how to correctly implement crypto algorithms. Don't even get me started on how the standards you certify against are themselves copyrighted...
> So why have a “door close” button at all in the US?

As explicitly stated in the article:

(1) Its a legal and functional requirement for fire service mode, when automatic door closing is completely disabled.

(2) Some users (the article specifically tested hospitals, based on experience of very long normal door hold times there that would suggest their should be a window between the minimum and normal hold time) do, in fact, configure minimum and normal hold time with a window which allows the button to operate.

It’s not a “non-functional button”. Its a button which is functional, but where the variable it controls is often configured by users to have no range of variability.
America's new slogan should be "Reagan made everything worse"
> What would you do if you were a board member of multiple companies and you found out their bank was financially unsound and couldn't do normal bank stuff?

Founders Fund has investments in some of the largest internet age companies that exist.

Airbnb, DeepMind, Lyft, Facebook, Flexport, Palantir Technologies, SpaceX, Spotify, Stripe, Wish, Neuralink, Nubank, Twilio.

A call for them to move their money out of SVB meant putting pressure out on a massive percentage of SVB's customers by value.

It's not clear at all from news reports why Founders Fund put the call out. Fast Comapny's article notes that SVB had north of 32B in net assets before the run that Thiel's fund started.

IF FF had the facts wrong, this collapse would demonstrate the effect of a few poeple's outside influence in SV, and should be a warning to the broader industry of the power that these investment vehicles are wielding.
Congrats Lydia & Max! Great demo videos
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Also, consider what would happen if door close buttons really did what people think they want: to close the door immediately, unilaterally, and without limitation.

If elevators allowed that, then as soon as the doors started to open, a selfish elevator rider would think "sorry, you losers out there in the elevator lobby, I gotta get to floor 7 ASAP, so you can take the next one" and push the button.

So common sense says the button is only going to let you fine tune how long the door stays open, not have complete control. So you shouldn't conclude from the fact that it doesn't give you complete control that it must not do anything.
I found myself stuck in analysis paralysis and fear of not creating a perfect app. I became my worst enemy. My app was praised by VP, managers and staff using it, yet I saw it as a pile of garbage.

Then I realized it doesn't have to be perfectly DRY, it could technically just be spaghetti. It isn't spaghetti but some things could be improved. While, better designed apps are easier to work with sometimes there are situation where it is impossible to create a formal design document, so you just need to 'send it'.

The next iteration will improve many things, but if were to do those things initially the app would be in development for years, and now it is running a business.
Credit default swaps pay the full value of a bond when a bond defaults, and pay nothing when it doesn’t. If a 1-year CDS is 10% of face value there’s a 10% chance of default in a year
Did you… actually read the article?

If you got “the button actually doesn’t work” out of the same article that I did, then one of us needs to take reading comprehension lessons.
They still offer OpenVPN connections ...
>I don't see the problem, the pattern will remove the static white noise at the top and generate a new fine patterning on the red side (in case it did not go through the forward process to the end), of course it will not recover the lost information.

You said it yourself, it erases information. Pivotally it isn't just a blunt eraser. It erases a very particular grain of detail. The problem is it looks like your on hallucinogenics. https://i.imgur.com/YlPHzgY.png

My hypothesis here is that the distortion manifests when you have fine grain patterns like you would find on a playing card because that is the length scale that is most affected by the noise process. The presence of noise doesn't effect long range objects. The same process would never cause the red card to conmpletely go away. It destroys information about that fine, thin, white line and patterns of a similar characteristic. That's really the key to what I'm saying.
"I don't know what I'm doing, but I will figure it out in a transitory future period" Does Jerome Powell run FB?
Oooh, maybe those of us involved with cryptography will get the term back? I'd love that.
Manually verifying an SSL (TLS) certificate
Panama may be where they're incorporated, but they have operations all around the globe.
Trading anecdotes isn't going to produce a statistical analysis of approaches to innovation in an HN thread. Meanwhile, this is mainstream macro/IPE shit: government-driven technological innovation has a pretty damn solid track record, and I pointed to several specific and oft-cited cases to demonstrate this, out of a large field.

This does not mean it always works out well, but the benchmark for "damn solid" in this space is very very far from "perfect", in much the same way that an excellent batter in professional baseball still fails to get on base more than half the time—your line of attack here is just as baffling as someone countering "Joe's a solid clean-up hitter" with "yeah but look at this list of times he struck out!" It's omitting the context of what constitutes good in the space—meanwhile, he's near the top of the league in RBI. Continuing to trade anecdotes about times Joe hit a home run or times he hit an easy pop-fly to center field is just pointless noise, entirely beside the point.

That's why I keep pushing back that what you're trying to do here isn't even relevant to the point I was making, which point is quite far from being controversial, incidentally. I don't think both of us posting Amazon links to books covering the successes and failures of government-lead tech initiatives when I am not denying that plenty of failures exist in that space in the first place, is productive. If that's the way you want this to go, just pretend I've posted a series of links to mainstream macro, IPE, and tech and econ history textbooks in response to each of your (probably mostly valid!) "counter-points", because that's what I'd do, but it doesn't seem like a valuable exercise when I'm not even denying that examples of failures of these kinds of initiatives exist.
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Amazon reveals its squared-off Project Kuiper satellite internet dishes
> So it means that my open-source project docker images now can either be removed from github

Not from GitHub :)
Their website looks like a poorly designed lifestyle blog
Some kind of feedback could probably help a lot. On a device with a screen you'd disable the button and maybe add some kind of countdown to show when you can press it. There's a bunch of ways to show this with physical buttons but I guess they'd all be varying amounts of non-cheap.
>"objectivists"/whatever other funny name just keeps stacking up a bunch of "what if"s and freaking out about it.

The Objectivists I know hate hypotheticals and refuge to engage with them with the same dismissive tone used in your comment.
It's quite something. I wish they'd just be more up front about it because then I'd probably be more excited. These changes are incredible, and it's a shame my general feeling is disappointment from trying and failing to use something.

They do this all the time launching something in the US but not mentioning the limits leaving me struggling to get something to work.

It doesn't help that their approach to ai is often "don't worry a magic thing will tell when you want it and will make it appear" and I don't know if I'm not making the right incantations or it's broken or it's not available.

I wish these would all come with a "notify me when available" button at the very top.
Adding to what others have said, the headsets are actually MR devices. You can collaborate in person with shared virtual objects. I will admit that the software isn't there yet, but the vision is you could comfortably replace models and mock ups with richer virtual media.
Lol if Swatcoder is available they could be great at devrel
This whole schpeel has actually put me in a horrible mood.

I don't even have a FB account but every second line here is full of the type of gaslighting and bizspeak BS that absolutely nobody appreciates.

> We do this with AI to help you creatively express yourself and discover new content.

You mean destroy adolescent growing minds with more and more addictive short burst content from advertisers.

> but with many new teams it takes intentional focus to make sure our company remains primarily technologists.

So goodbye ethics councils, any semblance of internal discussion over our impact on the world.

> Profitability enables innovation.

Because investors LOVE taking risks on `innovation` during a downturn. /s

More like they will push harder the methods which make their bonus'.

Facebook/Meta has provided nothing beneficial long term, to the world. Let it burn.
It's only fair, because I didn't say anything about executives in my original comment.

Please don't make strawman arguments.
SwiftCrossUI - cross-platform SwiftUI-like UI framework built on SwiftGtk
Show HN: I built a missing feature for Microsoft Sway sites, custom domains
Microsoft Sway not very well know. Yet it's quite a powerful no-code tool that comes at no extra cost with Office 365, giving millions of people instant access. Yet it doesn't offer custom domains. So I built it.
A SwiftUI-like framework for creating cross-platform apps in Swift. It uses SwiftGtk as its backend.

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This seems like an interesting project.
Right. But the point is, if you're already at a FAANG earning a huge salary, and you don't know if you're going to get laid off, you can either a) wait and hope for the best, or b) leave and get a job at a lower salary.

I think most would choose a).