skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or at least have the button light up, and stay lit, until the door is closed.
Speculative Fiction with Stanford Alpaca
As usual, rating agencies successfully shut the barn door after the horse has bolted.
The Wallis product for pi, proved geometrically
Anyone can deploy and run a selfhosted registry server, I fail to see a problem here. It's even better to keep your team's private images off Docker servers.
> The future will be made over the next few months as those start-up fevered ideas will actually get a footing.

The trouble here though, is very few VC's have an appetite to fund now, especially seed / series A. They are too busy dealing with the overpriced and soon to fail cohort from 2020/2021

I spoke with a VC just last week from one if the top five, they are yet to fund anyone new this year.
Information complexity is a physical quantity and we have many well-established methods of measuring it.
Zuckerberg Encourages Employees to Get Back to the Office
They're required to act in best interest of the shareholders, this usually means maximizing profits or share value.
Liberty Fund stuff... A pro-corporate think tank trying to peddle bullshit about how walking consumes more resources than running a car. It's just ludicrous.

The laws of thermodynamics are unchangeable, except when bent by free-market absolutists it seems.
Codeberg can host them, I suspect.. I know Docker (Had) a FOSS program at one point, too.

Running your own gitea/forgejo is an option, as they can host packages as well
maybe i underestimated the number of calcanis types.
Meta’s “Year Of Efficiency” means job cuts, less metaverse, more generative AI
Well - that wasn't always the case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...
I'm building this, for (mostly) non-scientific non-fiction works (books, articles, news, etc.). Launching soon, with about 7,500 books indexed.

Generally, what I found useful to build a graph between "topics" or entities was to use a HyDE[1] prompt to generate possible distinct definitions and then build a nearest-neighbor network from that. This successfully identifies related concepts in the truly abstract sense rather than literal entities.

[1] https://summarity.com/hyde
> It is a very tricky philosophical question you’re asking:

There is nothing tricky about it. No one works at Meta thinking they are feeding starving children.

It’s also “difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it”

I’m not making any moral stand either way.
Yeah, most of the continental US is better than 45°.
Are you sure they weren't pranking you?

I definitely would try to convince people of random incorrect technological things when I was younger (like high school). That sounds exactly like something I would have done...
It’s hard to have another business model when you know nothing about the user. Please read up on how Mullvad works and then come back with a coherent argument on how they could be making money off user data.
Let's just be clear, Signature didn't 'collapse', the FED killed Signature to send a message to other banks.

Barney Frank straight up says as much: https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1635328056234766337?s....

Edit: FWIW, I have no insider knowledge of what was happening at Signature, but there's no one I've talked to in Crypto who was aware of risk at that bank. This is quite in contrast to Silvergate where it was well known that the bank was not healthy.

I was not a signature customer, but at Silvergate, even things as simple as changing an authorized user on an account took months or years to complete. I'm still an authorized user on an account at Silvergate that I haven't worked at in ~4 years (despite many, many customer service requests to be removed including repeatedly signed documents).

So much of why Silvergate failed was simply business execution.
One thing I like to do when I see an article like this is look up:

1. Where it's published
2. Who published it
3. Which think thank did it
4. Who's paying for it

Econlib is "The Library of Economics and Liberty". These days "Liberty" has a very clear right-wing association. Cool, let's dig further.

This website is owned by Liberty Fund Inc., self-described as "a private educational foundation established to foster thought and discussion of enduring issues pertaining to liberty". There's out think thank. Let's find out who's involved with it.

From Wikipedia: "Liberty Fund was set forth in an unpublished memo written by Goodrich "to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals"

Found the libertarian in the room! They even mention Alexis de Tocqueville in the article! Let's keep going.

"In his book The Assault on Reason, former U.S. Vice President and presidential candidate Al Gore wrote that between 2002 and 2004, 97% of the attendees at Liberty Fund training seminars for judges were Republican administration appointees. Gore suggests that such conferences and seminars are one of the reasons that judges who regularly attend such conferences "are generally responsible for writing the most radical pro-corporate, antienvironmental, and activist decisions"."

There you go. File under junk.
For productivity - https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes

For physical exercises - https://exrx.net/
That is terrifying! So someone could access illegal content through my home internet connection (while I have a VPN running)?
Except there’s truth to it because no one can prove Signature had the same HTM issues as SVB did. Or that whatever outflows they suffered Friday rendered it insolvent.
How is it nonsense if you admit at the end (albeit after a straw-man of me allegedly screaming “abuse”) that it happens?

Result is being sold on HN as a great solution to error handling while there’s several crates available which are needed to polish its rough edges, rough edges which have led to e.g. unwrap abuse in the past.

It is tedious to shuffle around results, but this is never part of the sales pitch. And for those of us that don’t want to depend on all sorts of crates for the simplest things, that’s the reality.

Re your reply “Maybe improve your reading comprehension. I said "(partial) nonsense." Therefore, some of what you said wasn't nonsense. But some is. What a fucking revelation.”

Partial nonsense isn’t nonsense by definition, I believe, but I won’t dwell that point. I am surprised seeing a Rustacean being (mildly) offensive and even saying the f-word. I must say that I am proud of you, too many nowadays act like polite, pedantic robots. :-)
My point was more that if the bank’s yield on assets is zero-ish, their net interest income will be <= 0 and they will run out of money
Also worth noting that it appears Barney Frank helped the effort to nerf Dodd-Frank in 2018 [0] (although I haven't dug deeply into that and from the fact that 3 of the articles supporting this were added today, the wikipedia editor might be injecting a biased view).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Growth,_Regulatory_Re...
CheerpJ is the one I'm waiting for. That thing is wicked cool for Java.
That was what I meant.
Meta to cut another 10k jobs and cancel ‘low priority projects’
No limitations for now.
I stopped using nordvpn once they started disabling features when I disabled autorenewal: https://old.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/ldf9g9/nordv...

A VPN provider really needs a lot of trust, easy to lose that.
Is this FHE or oblivious transfer?
Unsurprisingly these regulations exist for a reason.
The Greeks are very upset, which is why the country recently renamed itself.
Zuck should lay himself off, he's directly responsible for most of the problems the company is having right now. He endlessly makes the wrong choices for the company on privacy, UX, staffing and decides to do a botched pivot to VR instead of trying to improve any of that.

He has lost the trust of his users and someone new needs to focus on restoring that as a precondition for anything else they do being successful. Facebook isn't Civ 5 (one of his favorite games) but he operates it like it is, and if he keeps treating FB like a video game full of NPCs he'll have plenty of time for the next Civ game.
I thought Podman attempts to mimic Docker behavior as close as possible?

What is different in its architecture exactly?
Nobody wants to admit to being essentially a real-life Captain Planet villain, robbing future generations in service of individual greed.
My own take: I only see people worrying about the "unforseen side effects" when its conservative people worrying about liberal concepts.

Are there any takes on the gross energy inefficiency of mega-churches? The political downsides to allowing single corporations to own mulitple radio and TV stations? The waste of super-profiling internet users in order to (slowly) serve ads?

Nope, never. It's always an "analysis" showing that some generally liberal-oriented thing is bad.
Those rebellions in those provinces start after Romans export half of the population as slaves and send the rest to work in the local mines. There's the catch.

Actually, its worse - even if you were a saintly society neighboring Rome or within the reach of Rome, Rome would invent a 'reason' to invade you if you had something they wanted or they lacked enough slaves. Like how the Syracuse invasion was done on literally manufactured consent by disguised legionnaires committing acts of atrocities against the Romans. All the wars of Rome from Early Republic and on were done on such manufactured consent and false flags.

At the end of the Republic period, everything changes - they stop needing to manufacture 'reasons' for invasions. By this time, the empire is already nascent as a social and political format and the slave-reliant economy is already dominant so there is no need to manufacture consent for the need for acquiring slaves.
Nice.

> Unfortunately it does not come with nice syntax to return on error.

Yeah. We use a C preprocessor macro for this, but it's a little more verbose than question-mark operator.
Huge Update to Verse Programming Language: Verse Calculus doc (By Epic Games)
o/ Now 76 pages long (36 pages of changes) The Verse Calculus: a Core Calculus for Functional Logic Programming document was recently updated and now also covers:

- Confluence proof and confluence rewrite rules
- Developing + debugging rules
- Skew Confluence
- Updateable References
- introduces new author: Guy Steele, Oracle Labs, USA
... and much more

Please share your findings (will dig it later evening), thanks !
Let’s call it what is, any adTech company is diametrically opposed to increasing user privacy.
Discord is the the Facebook killer
It also doesnt include building and maintainig the roads, theyr space requirement and the negative influence on nature.
It makes sense if you think of this as pruning dead weight while also getting in fresh inflow of talented people (some of whom will inevitably not work out later).
That's a pretty big compliment! Thank you!
I am 100% sure that some of these services are state sponsored. NordVPN in particular have been associated with "some" countries. You have to be a complete moron to buy a service like this for privacy. You buy it for getting away with simple crimes like piracy.
Adept Raises $350M to Build AI That Learns How to Use Software for You
Cheering Silicon Valley Bank Bailout, Gavin Newsom Doesn’t Mention He’s a Client
I used to work in a building where the elevators operated this way, and riders sometimes DID push the close door button immediately, assuming there was no one waiting to go up and closing the door on people waiting.
You’d almost certainly see that traffic going across your network, right?
I think it’s impossible because I don’t think you can leapfrog evolution, and there’s almost definitely hidden context essential to our intelligence and perception that you can only get through a very very long history.

However I do think it’s quite possible and likely that we’ll create mimics that convince most people they’re intelligent. But I think that’s a weird type of reflection/anything we can make is limited to mirroring our observable past and existing collective thought and can never be truly introspective, because true introspection requires evolutionary context and hidden motivation you can’t transfer.
It's been a bit since I've been out of touch with the autonomous driving space. Was there significant progress the last 3 years? What are the current challenges?
Seems that lack of proof is a core axiom.

If a God provided proof of it's existence as a God, then worship or regarding the God as a God would not be an act of free will; no leap of faith would be required.
It is bad enough as someone who is conscious of sound quality I would never use the term “audiophile” to describe myself and I’d advise anybody marketing audio stuff (like the serious fallen “Audioholics” which is reduced to handwringing about why people aren’t interested in buying what they sell”) to avoid using it.
The reference to crossing buttons not working I found particularly annoying because my experience here in Seattle is, except at the busiest intersections, you do in fact need to press the buttons, otherwise the crosswalk won't show the walking man for you, even if traffic is in fact stopped in the relevant direction. (Of course, the article points out this was meant to be only about NYC)

Particularly obnoxiously, if you are even a millisecond late in pressing the button (traffic just got the red light), you won't get the walking man until the next cycle.

Infuriating.
This is why I read Hackernews. TIL Radiolab trolled me.
This is a toxic mentality; getting hired at FAANG has very little to do with your "talent"
I don't mean to come off as naive here, but a non-cynical explanation for the layoffs is just that this is a new field and it's going to take a little experimentation to rightsize the staffing levels most effectively. According to the article, "Microsoft still maintains an active Office of Responsible AI, which is tasked with creating rules and principles to govern the company’s AI initiatives. The company says its overall investment in responsibility work is increasing despite the recent layoffs," and it's possible to take that statement more or less at face value and not assume they are just throwing responsible AI out of the window.
Despite the title of the FAQ, this is not just about private repos, it's about public ones too. Having to change the path to public repos (which could reside in different documentation, third-party tutorials, scripts, etc.) within 30 days is a reasonable thing to feel disrupted by.
Can you give an example please? I'd like to do this.
The problem is that "now" is something like 10 or 20 years too late.

It's times like these that I come to understand the revenge violence against the previous establishment that tends to occurs during popular revolutions.
Some people (mostly juniors) will join a company remotely, and proceed to do no work at all.

It is much easier to fall into this when working remotely, since no one is constantly watching what you do, nor can you actively see what other people are doing.

Juniors should absolutely prefer working in-person with others.

I assume the problem will be reduced if Zuck achieves his vision of office-like remote work in VR. Best of both worlds.
The big corp I work for has looked for self-hosting alternatives after their pricing move. There was nothing in Docker actually locking us in them, it was just convenient. I for one haven't touched any official Docker stuff for a while now, free alternatives fill the gap pretty well.

It is brilliant, until it's not, I'm very sure they are trying to squeeze as much as they can from the cash cow before it dies, there's almost no reason to actually pay Docker for what it is, and they lost the support from the techies who championed them 10 years ago after these pricing changes. I was one of them, had been using Docker since pre-1.0 days...
Mulvad is the only VPN I trust (almost) completely.

Private Internet Access and ProtonVPN both have tenuous relations to shady stuff. Private Internet Access got purchased by the same company that made Cyberghost (malware), but so far nothing bad has come of it. AFAIK they're also the only VPN that has been truly court-tested.

ProtonVPN has some really weird circumstantial stuff related to TesoNet.

Any other VPN I wouldn't trust by default. Shady business sector.
How did that work out for MySpace, Google+, Friendster, etc?
> Cheerp directly uses the LLVM bytecode format as the intermediate representation, for both object files and libraries.

The paragraph with this might be a little confusing. It suggests that this is a benefit of Cheerp, but upstream LLVM (and Emscripten, which uses upstream LLVM) can do the exact same thing if you build with -flto to enable LTO.

The benefit of upstream LLVM is that it can do both LTO and non-LTO builds. Non-LTO builds link much, much faster in a large project, since the linker is only concatenating wasm object files, just like a normal linker. That can matter a lot for CI times and local debugging etc.
Sure! End-to-end encryption (E2EE) in a messaging context is about the service provider (Meta for WhatsApp, Apple for iMessage) not learning the contents of messages sent on the platform. E2EE also gets used when referring to backups, where it again refers to the service provider of the backups not learning the contents of backups.

Private retrieval is a more general concept, which refers to retrieving data from a server without letting it learn your access pattern. In a specific application, it's easier to see the contrast: for example, in our password checker (https://playground.blyss.dev/passwords), the data that Blyss helps keep encrypted, and prevents the server from learning, is which password you are checking. With standard E2EE techniques, it would not really possible to keep your query private.

In messaging, Blyss can be used to build messaging services that not only do not learn what you say (the standard E2EE guarantee), but also do not learn who you talk to. We're working on this, but it's a tricky thing to ship.
How do they have sooo many employees. They are running a few websites and a bunch of apps. I can understand how they would need a hundred people for that. They have a massive userbase. So I can understand how they would need a thousand people just to deal with tech at scale and support.

But how do you manage to have so many people that you can fire 10k ?! If I googled well, they appear to have 72k employees. Where did you find the management that thought having 72k employees is reasonable to operate a bunch of websites and apps ?!
As a serious DIYer with engineering knowledge and a bit of HVAC understanding, I find the sleek/modern design in the pictures of this product to be the opposite of reassuring. (Maybe I'm not the target customer.) It's for the same reason that after initially being interested integrated solar generators, in the end I went with a solar system that, while sold as a kit, consisted of independent components. With a solar generator if the electronics go bad the whole thing (including expensive batteries) is potentially a write-off and not easily fixable. I fear the same thing with this.

I'm also looking askance at the picture or rendering (next to "Installation Process") showing the PVC drain pipe going _up_ before it goes horizontally. How does that drain? I realize a graphic designer was probably just trying to make it aesthetic without understanding how it really works, but you yourself do understand as you detail in your post.

I resonate with the idea of your mission and your description of current market deficiencies. I just wish the product were more like the solar kit I bought as separate components or the PC water cooling loop I pieced together from a web store that specializes in that. Maybe that's an unrealistic hope. But I don't have to like the over-integrated alternative.

(I realize heat pumps and air conditioners have a requirement that the components have to be appropriately sized to each other to work as a system. But that could be overcome with software that advises the consumer what parts work together. We currently spend equivalent effort on using software to lock the consumer out instead of helping them make informed choices.)
AMC Shareholders Approve ‘APE’ Stock Conversion to Raise Fresh Cash
I set up a private mirror of everything I use from docker hub because I came home from vacation one day recently to discover that my home IP had been throttled for days.

Now I have a small GitHub Action project that mirrors from hub.docker.com to a private registry running on fly.io. Took all of 10 minutes to set up and now I don't have to worry about getting throttled or docker hub going away.
It would probably be considered uncouth to send Macroeconomic Changes Have Made It Impossible For Me To Want To Pay You, but in a way it's at least an honest, non-corporate ipsum explanation. It's also much more fun to read.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/macroeconomic-changes-ha...
Show HN: Transpose – real time blockchain data APIs
I'm excited to announce Transpose to the HN community. Transpose is a real time, high-level blockchain data platform. We make it easy to explore what's happening in crypto, spin up an MVP, and scale to millions of DAUs.

This week, we've launched custom endpoints on our platform. Write SQL reading arbitrary data, deploy an endpoint, and call it like you would any other REST API.

We also have a regular SQL API (submit SQL in POST request body), and REST API.

Would love to hear what you all think.
I know people like to shit on the blue app, but Instagram has done a very good job at attracting younger users and feels like fb’s main focus anyway.

Ironically apple entering AR/VR may be the best thing to happen to Meta if it helps bolster the ecosystem. Meta may not be #1 in the space for a long time, if ever, but they may be able to ride the wave to a strong #2
Or used by competitors to see if the prices change depending on network location.

I used to work for a company that explicitly changed the prices on the site if the request traffic came from a competitor IP address.

Of course this was a hundred years ago in a land far away. I don’t know how much success you’d have even finding your competitors IP’s these days.
Definitely not :)
The worry is less confident people proactively seek more certain employment choices when faced with uncertainty
>“Don’t Repeat Yourself” often gets interpreted as “Don’t Copy Paste” or to avoid repeating code within the codebase

When I think of the most difficult to understand code I've come across it was probably written by someone who lives and breathes that interpretation of DRY.

But it doesn't end with code comprehension. Extreme abstraction and countless files and components also lead to buggy and difficult to maintain code.

It's easy to lose understanding of branches and business flow when abstraction exists in the extreme.
Well, if develop and ship in a vm/container, you don't have to do it in your system /s
I've recently started to believe that known current legitimate governments are (and have always been) the legacy of people in history doing rackets like these in the now historical past.
Lots of video streaming services seem to be in the $10/mo range, and they have to deal with licensing all the shows and storing them. $3/mo seems pretty reasonable off the cuff for a VPN service.
> Let's just be clear, Signature didn't 'collapse', the FED killed Signature to send a message to other banks. Barney Frank straight up says as much

I think you mean the FDIC killed them - and if you can't trust the word of a Boardmember of a bank whose equity just got zeroed out, who can you trust?
A primary difference is no server component running as root.