skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always assumed this was the reason.

On the other hand, if you're going to have a communal coffee machine, might as well have a bunch of other stuff and then pay dedicated staff to run it, for the convenience of everyone else.

Maybe it's copycatting of the college dorm startup vibe, too.
It will be an alias such as an email or phone number:

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/08/31/fednow-the-federa...

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/08/11/2020-17...

(Control-F alias on both pages)
Sounds to me like a very effective way to go viral. IMHO.
Maybe there’s no point and it’s an artifact that reminds us that even HN designers weren’t “nothing left to take away”-level social engineers from the beginning.

Few things about public comment karma:

Expanded karma may glimpse into divisiveness (e.g. +50/-50) but also encourages it, by definition. Downvotes on HN, as I understand it, are only for bad manners or the obvious wrongness, even if throwed subjectively. In these terms, +50/-50 basically means the forum is dead as we know it. There’s no reason to show downvotes because if there’s so many then a comment should have been flagged long before. If there’s divisiveness, we should just discuss (or poll) it, that’s what the forum is for.

Otherwise, visible comment score doesn’t feel too bad. But hiding it is a good thing, imo. This makes the content less stackoverflow-y, and this place is not a Q&A forum either.
> It seems the company is slowly trying to make users pay for it

I appreciate that pun ;)

> Many will come to comment "that's absurd, and you could just use an old executable you already downloaded prior to them halting it's circulation", etc.

I don't see this as absurd at all. The problem Docker has is that it failed to use it's market share. Making these moves now that easy alternatives exists (Podman, open registries, k8s etc) just doesn't have the pull and alienates their remaining customers.
Furthermore, point 4 in the article (fixing unimportant warnings can cause bugs elsewhere) is real. I mean, it indicates issues with test coverage, but who doesn’t have issues with test coverage? Oh, 100% unit test coverage? Is that branch coverage or MC/DC coverage?

But anyway, on one team, when making warning fixes we would compare the final binary to show that with our compiler (the one that matters) our change produced identical output to the previous commit. If there actually was a bug that the warning found, well that was a whole different procedure.
I wish they revive their refactoring tool - it was abandoned during the toolchain upgrade. Without the tool, converting the code becomes much more tedious.
The former ish -- they relied on consul marketing that the hammer fit the square hole. Hashicorp has been pretty bad about marketing themselves as the right tool for any job, but they really only fit the narrowest of tasks before you find yourself needing an alternative or being compelled to buy a support contact.

It's atlassian from Arkansas, just faster
Thanks for the feedback, I understand your hesitation. We don't just want to advertise guarantees - we want you to never trust third-party servers again. Fully homomorphic encryption makes this possible by never letting sensitive data even leave your device. Our job is to make this new cryptography a web standard as ubiquitous as TLS.
This is very cool. I imagine the detailed all-text walkthroughs on GameFAQs would be an amazing training resource.

Keen to see it play age of empires next.
Women being more effected than women is crazy!
These are all legitimate reasons, but my personal experience (and perhaps preference?) is to use Docker for anything that is more complex than pip can handle.

> conda-forge managing builds of some really flaky binary python packages that are sometimes a nightmare to build locally

Yeah this is fair. Fortunately it's becoming rarer.
Tons of writing and debate on this subject but the canonical starting point is "What Color Is Your Function?" https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...
> The onus is on proving that all these disparate symptoms were caused by covid.

Says who? My prior is that all, or at least most, of the symptoms of long covid are caused by covid. Why is your prior better than mine?
Been a fan of fly and have had most, if not all, of my side and semi-side projects on there for some time now. But...the ratio of good/fun/snarky blog posts to reliable service has gotten a bit too large for me, starting to look for other providers at this point just in case they can't turn this trend around. Honestly been a good object lesson for me in the importance of backing up marketing/hype/"mind-share" stuff w/ absolute rock-solid performance/reliability or just forgoing the former for the latter.

As an aside, it's also taking down some decently-load-bearing web infra like unpkg => https://www.unpkg.com/

see also https://community.fly.io/t/app-went-dead/11397/60
OpenAI checked to see whether GPT-4 could take over the world
I don't think it's the Fed's responsibility to make sure a private business isn't doing dumb things outside of the regulatory purview
Well, neutrality goes both ways, does it not?

If the world supports Ukraine, but Switzerland refuses to support them, no matter who the opponent is, then that is neutrality.

Knowing the Swiss system very well, it would surprise me if there have been nefarious intents and ideas behind this.

Do not underestimate their cleverness.

Small country, suddenly rich with no worthwhile exports, all the big corps incorporated there because they feel the rule of law is given and functional and the money safe and the institutions work.

Small country, if you go from the centre of zurich, you will see one corporation after the other for a 30 mile radius, shoulder to shoulder.
Its a remarkable amount of the liveable territory.

Really, do not underestimate their greed and cleverness.
Not evidence that proves 3000 people are scamming. If anything, that evidence might show that we're not totally sure long covid is a thing, or it's underlying issues being surfaced.

I specifically am arguing against jumping to the "scammer" conclusion immediately and without any question. I totally forgot HN is full of medical doctors who know everything about covid and it's effects.
I think I saw one of these during a meteor shower, ten years ago, in Georgia. It was so fast, and so unexpected, that I question my own recollection of it. When I tell people I saw a fireball, they shrug. They don't know how it's different from a shooting star. But in my memory it looks like a smoky fireball, and I had the impression that it was particularly close to the earth.
I understand that you want to expose people to more information and view points they haven't considered, but speaking in absolute terms and posting the same links over and over again in multiple comments is not a means that will get people to warm up to your message.

If you want to help people learn more, then speak in terms of growing understanding, yours and their, share links, and focus on looking for a collaborative effort to find good answers, whatever those answers might be. Show the same open mindedness you want others to show.
Ok great plan …
US regulators are setting a dangerous precedent on Silicon Valley Bank
The bank profits from it... no incentive on the banks part to stop it.
Yup. I think this is one of the places where the sheen will come off after a while.

While temperature can mix things up a little, we’ll quickly start to see how the depth of LLM output is tied to the depth of LLM input — and people’s prompts are not all that varied and deep at the end of the day.

We’ll start to notice signatures to each generation of model in its responses to tiringly common prompts — especially in stuff like blog spam, homework essays, email punchups, casual fiction, etc

There are certain poles that it gravitates to that end up reading like verbal tics or lazy ideas, and those will be more obvious as we begin to get inundated with generated content.

Careful prompt work can evade those poles and tics, but most people won’t have the skill or drive to bother with that.
No, but you're probably a customer. Not sure why you just cherry picked that, but it most certainly will benefit individuals.
For who? Maybe SVB has little ordinary banking customers, but what about other banks? Putting ordinary people out on the streets is better for the economy in the long-run? Oh, and now everybody knows when a bank fails they lose their deposits? Better run and get my money out now.

Only the little people, with no connections to the decisions, get hurt when a bank fails. All the leadership gets out, no punishment, and maybe even makes a profit.
I missed that, thanks. I wish other phones followed suit with their image processing.
Ask HN: Should kids play PC games instead of Console to develop programing?
https://www.complex.com/style/hip-hop-celebrity-liquor-brand...
It is a capital raise. It's right there in the announcement. They are raising new capital, issuing shares, then buying back different shares. The net result will be about the same share count.

But the series I investors are getting a little over 10% of the company for their 6.5B, instead of about 5% for their 6.5B (if the valuation was 120B as suggested). For the company as a whole, it's just not a big deal. And if you happen to be a RSU holder/employee, don't sell at this price if you don't want to (and you were going to lose about a 1/3 of it no matter what, so no the tax withholding doesn't change it materially).

Correct, it isn't the same thing - it's an analogy - the point was that in both cases it's a rounding error. The existing equity holders as a group are in a position which is about 5% different economically than it could have been if they'd snatched the very top and raised at that level. When you buy or sell shares, you are almost always off 5% v if you'd sold at some other slightly better time.

Following?
> As part of the build process it should examine your usage and put indexes in the column that you're using in find/findMany

This is not as easy as it sounds, though. Reliably inspecting source code is hard, and definitely not in the scope of an ORM. It also can't catch dynamically generated queries (think user configurable filters). It might be a good idea for a third party product that analyses your code and suggest adding indexes to models.

You know who knows best about your queries? It's the RDBMS. There are tools that can add/suggest indexes by searching your database logs for slow running queries.
> are only for bad manners or the obvious wrongness

Downvotes are used to suppress opinions. I see it all the time, especially on Reddit. A lot of people talk on anecdotal evidence. This is the nature of conversation. If you don’t like it move on. But some people relish downvoting because they cannot fathom a world in which others have arrived at different conclusions.

Downvotes I think are a bad solution to the problem.
> Your acceptance of a 10-second start time, while sneering at the possibility of maybe waiting 50-100ms for an interaction, is precisely the cognitive dissonance I mentioned originally

Your inability to read the conversation is hilarious

I just showed you that native mobile apps have the exact same startup time. You have exactly 0 evidence to the contrary, actually you ignored the question, and now you're saying I have cognitive dissonance.

Philosophically speaking: application toolkits take a moment to load, and then they behave like applications. Static views requiring server confirmation before UI updates DO NOT and NEVER WILL behave like applications, and so I hate using them, regardless of if the first view is a few seconds quicker. Any "time savings" are erased instantly by morale, and any real clock gains are wiped out by the time just a few interactions have gone by. If I'm using a tool to do significant work, and I have to wait for a server roundtrip before I can move between stages of that work, I'm going to be less efficient. This is why I've been saying HTMX has its use case - for shit UIs.

You are advocating for building shit UIs because the first load is faster. Go away, that's not a compromise.
> Surely the stocks are held by all kinds of people and institutions and only a very small fraction of the shares are up for sale at any given time. Am i missing something?

Well, when the price goes up from your buying, more of those shares become available.

> Also the stockprice listed is the price of the cheapest share currently offered, isn't it?

Well, probably last successful transaction, but these are more or less the same number. What you're getting at is that buying the stock piecemeal will drive up the price, which is true.

Usually when you want to buy the entire company, you don't buy it piecemeal on the open market. You offer a premium to the market price to the board and the board decides whether or not to propose the deal to shareholders for approval (tender offer). Or you could do a hostile bid which is where you go directly to shareholders.
Somehow this reminds me of the people trying to get money for 100+ year old Tsarist Russian bonds https://www.rbth.com/lifestyle/327261-french-still-waiting-f...
These hooks must be really high quality — fast and reliable. Otherwise they will get in the way, slowing down development or even breaking git.

List of problems include:

• the hook runs tools directly on the working directory, and not on the stage/index, so it lints against a mixed version of the code, and not what is actually being committed.

• the hook tries to fix the problem above, but doesn't understand submodules and screws them up

• a new version of a linter adds a new warning that fires on existing code, and now nobody can commit anything without disabling the hook.

• hook expects the tools to be in PATH that isn't set as expected when git is used via IDE or some other GUI tool

and so on.
"However, the presence of chlorine in an organic compound does not ensure toxicity. Some organochlorides are considered safe enough for consumption in foods and medicines. For example, peas and broad beans contain the natural chlorinated plant hormone 4-chloroindole-3-acetic acid (4-Cl-IAA);[13][14] and the sweetener sucralose (Splenda) is widely used in diet products. As of 2004, at least 165 organochlorides had been approved worldwide for use as pharmaceutical drugs, including the natural antibiotic vancomycin, the antihistamine loratadine (Claritin), the antidepressant sertraline (Zoloft), the anti-epileptic lamotrigine (Lamictal), and the inhalation anesthetic isoflurane.[15]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organochlorine_chemistry#Toxic...

incineration might be a bad idea but composting might be fine

if we are talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phthalocyanine_Green_G it's apparently nontoxic enough to use as a tattoo ink so I wouldn't worry about it

this is just another witch-burner who wants to destroy anything they don't understand out of fear
Appstore reviewers don't read the submission notes
Dear HN,

I submit apps quite frequently. Since last year Apple requires accounts to be deleted. We've noticed that reviewers complain a lot on where to find this. We've put this in the user profile under the logout button.

To make it more clear we added where to do this in the notes of the submission, now even in capitals "HOW TO REMOVE YOUR ACCOUNT".

But many times we still get the question how to do this. Is there a better way to make this clear?

It's quite frustrating notes don't get read, even though the Apple submission explicitly asking for extensive submission notes.

Any advice to make submissions more easy?
> small glimpse of the chaos it might cause if the government had not stepped in to backstop deposits above and beyond the $250k FDIC limit

Yes, that's my point: the government now has a policy of backstopping all deposits, thus the primary function (for almost the entirety of the population) of retail banks is guaranteed to be safe no matter what banklike entity anyone chooses. And because of unbundling, that primary function is essentially the only function of retail banks any more, besides marketing other, unbundled, services.

Thus if all the retail banks went bust tomorrow (except the money center ones, that are subject to much tighter regulation, many of whom have retail arms too) there might be a transient fear just because people don't like change, but actually life would go on essentially unchanged. Retail banking has essentially done a Wile E Coyote of the top of cliff, but hardly anyone is looking down yet.

Most of the "experts" from Jim Cramer to David Sachs (and let's not forget all the people screaming about how SVB was "bailed out") don't appear to have even understood how banking works in the first place.

Enough of people do understand it (and "look down off the cliff"), of course, which is why I don't expect retail bank stocks to recover, except as I said above, those too-big-to-fail entities which were already fully backstopped by the feds.

Meanwhile I am happy to have my cash in First Republic -- even if they do collapse, which I doubt will happen any time soon, this episode has shown I won't lose access to my funds. I almost never go into the bank of course but if I want to it's nice and close, which is as good a reason to use them as any other.
Not super defending this, but it is a maximum hours allowed. Up from 52, which to be fair I think many folks do work, all too regularly (probably many putting in unpaid labor beyond that!).

I can imagine being stuck out in nowhere on a job site with some mission to do and being told, no, I have to stop working, and not being pleased about it. Some things make sense to just hurry up and get done with. But that's not about anything we'd expect folks to sustain.
Startups succeed in spite of themselves.
Please forgive what I suspect is something of a rant.

I'm not comfortable with the wording "strengthened GR" because there's an implicit assumption that one can straightforwardly map the authors' time-dependent parameter on the perihelion procession (their eqs (1), (2), and (3) in <https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05567>) into a relativistic theory at all. The experience of various alternatives to GR (and in particular MONDian alternatives) suggests that assumption may be a bad one.

What they are doing is essentially exploring a family of theories of gravitation (which may or may not solve the Einstein Field Equations, or even a comparable set of equations) where each theory in the family produces a different evolution of the orbit of a planet. General Relativity is one of the theories in that family. But how would you even get from eqns 1 & 2 with the parameter fixed at unity (and not varying in time) to the EFEs? What do the Einstein and stress-energy tensors look like?

I do sympathize with the implied (and even partially-stated in §3.1) idea that each theory in the family of theories maps to a different set of initial (stress-energy) values for the planet (ignoring backreaction onto the metric) in standard GR, but I wouldn't bet much on that being right.

The authors write about the (and in particular "some critical") general relativistic precession rate (or frequency), and I don't mind that wording.
I'm sure everyone's tired of talking about the Covid lab leak theory but it's hard not to compare it to this story based on how politics influenced both of these medical investigations.
Even in the best case of startup outcomes it still seems like they find a way to screw you over unless you have preferred shares. Sure there are the few lotteries that hit, but overall it isn’t a great deal. I wonder if we will see more startups just start to offer all cash.
“Write my civil war essay”

“Write a poem about farts”

“Write a JavaScript wrapper for this API”

99% of the usage is a “waste”. Who cares. Some of us are poking around to find that other 1% and some of us are just entertaining ourselves.
I thought that was HSBC. Turns out it's both. Probably all of them.
By programming do you mean typing?
HPC schedulers, most likely.
Yeah, I definitely can't see it with my 'normal' colour vision. I did notice down in the comments there's a processed version that lets you see where the letters are, but even with that knowledge it's still impossible.
Hosting images can be doe via
hypertext transfer protocol alone. Keep a local copy of your dependencies and back that up. Done.
We do this too, but also, if someone asks for a refund, pretty much regardless of circumstances, we issue a refund. So the only excuse turns into "I felt like being a dick" or it was actual fraud anyways.
Code Simplicity: Make It Never Come Back (2013)
Ash HN: What's the new “your data fits in RAM” for a new 8-socket Xeon Scalable?
Intels new Xeon Scalable 4th gen server processors (code name Saphire Rapid) support up to 8 CPUs in one system. These processors can have upto 8 channels per CPU and 2 DiMMs per channel.

Am i understanding it correctly that a single server can have upto 48 Terrabyte of main memory doubling the current maximum on https://yourdatafitsinram.net/ ?
> does it break anything?

probably the abi if nothing else?
Those are liabilities of the business; not you personally, the controlling shareholder. If the business's liabilities exceed its assets, you take the business through bankruptcy; you are not personally liable (generally, with limited exceptions).
Maybe the severity of the symptoms is worse; or maybe people are getting medical care more than is common for 'common' colds.

The smart parts of the response to the pandemic included: limiting risk / exposure, additional precautions while exposed, and a higher standard of care.

Now that the Endemic phase is here we must continue to limit risk where realistic, take precautions (and vaccinations) seriously, and it really would be nice if the _right_ to healthcare were made law and reality.
Your own link shows it’s not correct. The researchers identify it as a real problem, and while they linked existing distress with an increased chance of developing long COVID that doesn’t mean nobody else can develop it – that’s up to 40% over the baseline of people who lack those factors, not 0.
> nobody in their right mind in India would ever try and attempt to aid a country whose sole motive is to see it's downfall

The alternative is higher likelihood of nuclear civil war and a refugee crisis on one’s doorstep. The rational move is staving collapse while eking out influence. That said, I agree it’s politically impossible for New Delhi.