skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always thought of TOML as not far off a superset of the configparser format, although with a different API in code. I realise most tools don't use the extent of configparser, but coming from JSON and YAML, I always found the more advanced configparser features counter-intuitive and awkward to use. I'm not a huge fan of TOML, but it has the necessary primitive values (strings, numbers, booleans), and some reasonable structures for managing collections and nesting.
Java was perceived (quite rightfully) as a C++ with the rough edges filed off. It gained a ton of mindshare by making it trivial for C++ developers to jump on the bandwagon. This was critical because in terms of desktop development (that's how all apps were built in the 90s) and even on the server side C++ was the undisputed king of app development.
I've had similar experiences. In some cases it was a talk that was way over my head and seeing people who I viewed as way above me also struggling. In some other cases it was like you describe, seeing talks that I viewed as elementary boggling the minds of many attendees. Granted other times I was befuddled and no one else was. So the real lesson is everyone has different strengths & weaknesses.
That looks great—thanks for the link!
I like the rOtring 800 because it's heavy in my hand but the actual lead-on-paper "feel" is extremely smooth. Contrast depends entirely on the lead you put into the pencil. For max contrast there are versions of the 800 with thicker tips, (iirc) even going up to the regular pencil nibs that you can sharpen (if you know what I'm talking about, I don't really know how to properly explain it).

Basically, I like it because it's a high quality writing utensil that I won't get worried about.

A lot of people don't like the 800 because of the retractable tip, but as someone who has this pencil in their backpack all the time (and who has had the non-retractable version unfortunately ruined in a backpack) it is an absolute necessity.
So in a sense we have "hardware acceleration" for solving certain types of problems?
Out of interest, I googled the last chap in the list [1]. Class/socio-economic privilege is very much a thing, but he's not quite the Jacob Rees-Mogg type you might expect. Also "The current heir to his title is his younger brother, Oliver, a games designer and programmer who lives in the US." - he probably has a login on here :-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randal_Plunkett,_21st_Baron_of...
> - Cut expensive (old) employees.

Anyone have tips to avoid this? I keep getting promotions and raises and it's all very nice but makes me worried about being closer to the top of the list when the next round of cuts needs to happen... Just this year I got an unsolicited bump because I was "below market avg TCO." You can't just say "no thanks" to that.
All the books have approximately the same number of reviews. Is Amazon completely uninterested in dealing with fake reviews?
> The people who told them that deleting system binaries would fix their problems?

If you are responsible for the security posture and compliance in your organization, reading and acting on security assessments, and yet you do random changes based on random comments on forums, you deserve the blame.

I don't think we're not talking about individual end-users here. Those do not scan their systems for CVEs and do not have a requirement to get to 0 alerts.
I'm on EE PAYG. I have to go in to a store and show them my ID if I wish to remove content protection. I can't even visit webarchive pages with it enabled.

Painless based on provider, otherwise what described above is a pain.
Curiously most of the books have 31 reviews. And for those that have written reviews all of the Reviewers have names with the capitalization: "John smith", "First last".
I'm wondering how that happens.

All CPAP masks have vents in them to prevent CO2 buildup, and those vents work regardless of the pressure settings.
But the task is exactly the same in both situations – only the symbols on the cards have less/more familiar meaning. I see this as being not able to generalize from known examples.
I am a little confused. Is this a compiler for an old C++ version, like 1.0 or is it a complete reworking to better match C syntax? I have only used C++ 17 and up, and am unfamiliar with older versions.
Plenty of companies happily avoid layoffs...just not newsworthy.
Brown was elected. He was elected as MP by his constituents, and selected as PM by the Queen, just like every other PM. Or, essentially, he was elected by the House, which is the electorate for the PM, but instead of actually holding a vote, the Queen just assumed what the result would be, which is how the UK always does it.

(Ireland actually holds the vote for Taoiseach, and every party solemnly puts forward their own candidate, and makes speeches on their behalf, despite the fact that everyone knows what the result would be. It's a piece of political theatre.)
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I think Tesla ultimately got cleared because the driver activated Autosteer (without FSD Beta) within city limits, and the car manual, delivery sheet, & several warnings on the UI they entered into evidence explicitly said not to do this.

So the question is whether those warnings were adequate. Other vendors such as Toyota tell you the same thing in the manual, but have a “dumb lock” on Auto Lane Keep so that it refuses to activate until you’re going over the city speed limit of 35mph. Expectation for a tech car should maybe be different- I would be appalled if GM, for example, just let customers activate SuperCruise on unmapped highways.

From an engineering POV your customers should have minimal (ideally zero) ability to unknowingly put themselves in danger, barring inherently bad driving that has nothing to do with the car itself.
Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow
> Why would someone find this interesting?

Because they never put it together? Because it contains new to them information? Because they like the style it was written in?

I get it, you don't think it's interesting - but that fact itself is boring, most people find most things uninteresting, why do you feel the need to share?

It might help you to pause and reflect on the fact that some people are not you, nor are they here to cater to you. As people they have their own interests and tastes, and maybe, just maybe, they differ from yours.

> It's very well known, especially given that almost the entirety of our internet infrastructure runs on it.

The knowledge in your head is not the knowledge in my head. Some of it may intersect and be shared knowledge, but you know things I don't and I know things you don't. This place has all sorts of readers from all sorts of backgrounds, some of them are young or new to the field - they need to get this info somehow, otherwise it stops being "very well known". One way of disseminating information is via blogs, another is sharing links to that blog on sites like HN.

This may help you understand: https://xkcd.com/1053/
TIL that curl is installed in Windows 10 and 11 - useful article for that alone!
Absolutely hilarious how people claim that Gecko isn't half broken anymore.
There's also hummingbird moths. I've seen more of those than regular hummingbirds.
Live frugally and fully fund your 401k.
It makes not sense to use popups. I think an inline form with a call to action is a better method.

Does anyone test their websites anymore? Especially on mobile.
> NFTs are great if you need cryptographic proof of ownership.

You can get that with a cheap smart-token that we all call a "chip-enabled credit card", which provides cryptographic proof of ownership each time you use the chip or NFT reader.

There are also cryptographic proofs of ownership with every cell-phone enabled application, as well as HTTPS client certificates (rarely used on the public internet, I find them in use in private intranets, SSH keys, and the like).

You know, "cryptography", the kinds of which we've been using since 1980. Not the "new fangled crypto" that forgets about older solutions that still work today.
Hope it doesn't hurt the GNOME project. The IBM-Redhat buyout should have been something similar to Apple-NeXT.
In a lot of cases, it's less that developers are afraid of light sysadmin tasks and more that companies don't employ anyone capable of development, outsource it to agencies, and then end the relationship once the project is complete. If the devs deploy it to Vercel or Netlify or similar, they can be reasonably certain it will run as-is for months and probably years with no intervention because they client won't be willing to spend money on maintenance. That makes their client happy and leads to repeat business later down the line when budgets allow. Tech debt and lack of proper maintenance is a significant concern with agency projects and is why companies like Vercel and Wordpress hosts like WP Engine are able to spin up and grow so quickly.
Regardless of your opinion on Elon, I don't see the issue. I'd even argue that re-adding the checkmark to dead celebrates is actually respectful, since they are unable to subscribe but they are official accounts who historically were "verified."
> However, due largely to climate change and intensive agriculture, there is a widespread decline in wild pollinators.

Source?
> Is it still fashionable to bash Java?

People do it more now rather than less.

Nowadays people run on hype and need a scapegoat.
Very nice list. I didn´t knew about Heinsen Routing, looks very interesting.

From my tests, SSMs are a very promising line of research and on my (small) tests on S4, it really has better characteristics than transformers, as it learned faster, a larger context and with smaller dataset.
> a problem is talk to him/her longer than a single carefully prepared question and answer, because there are like 20 other people around all trying to talk to him/her

If enough people want to talk to a presenter, the conversation usually moves outside the presentation room to allow more time. It is worth listening carefully to the questions of others in the queue, since you may meet someone with a question close to your interests.

Limited time is a challenge, but it's also good practice for developing a short pitch about a question or topic. If successful, the goal should be to exchange contact info with the presenter, for a longer discussion at the same conference.
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jump ship
I'm a Vilomah. I lost my lovely daughter years back. Her name was Tay.
Or…

Just have optional office hours, Slack huddles and mob sessions every few days.

Some of my engineers…

- have a open huddle for a few hours a day where anyone can drop into their project while they work

- others make use of our scheduled themed mob sessions (ie. Maintenance Mondays, deployment Thursdays). have a problem, idea or just want to hangout then come by?

- ICs & seniors are required to host at least a weekly office hour to assist juniors or teach something of their choice.

The default doesn’t always have to be return to office for a physical meet.

There’s lots of other options.
Make as much as you can and bank the extra.

The only real security you have is your own assets and financial discipline.
That's not what cryptographers or even most people dealing with messengers would consider end-to-end encryption.
Still is there value? whether you submit a unique email address, this model would still work for the millions of users who do not correct? Also, I assume icloud or similar services are not immune to leaks?
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CCTV on every block, ofc they will try and threaten end-to-end encryption. CBDCs on the way as well…
Or what kind of error they were looking at. Bit insertions or removals perhaps.

I can't find the thing I looked at. Another paper I found now writes that 64kB is far beyond the limit, though: ¨With Ethernet, the FCS computation uses a 32-bit cyclic redundancy check (CRC-32). CRC-32 error checking detects bit errors with a very high probability. But as frame size increases, the probability of undetected errors per frame may increase. Due to the nature of the CRC-32 algorithm, the probability of undetected errors is the same for frame sizes between 3007 and 91639 data bits (approximately 376 to 11455 bytes). Thus to maintain the same bit error rate accuracy as standard Ethernet, extended frame sizes should not exceed 11455
bytes." https://web.archive.org/web/20110807131142/staff.psc.edu/mat...

The thing I read at the time didn't agree that 11k and 9k have the same accuracy, though.
Frankly, companies who cut you for being older are not companies that are worth putting your faith into because they don’t respect your historical, institutional knowledge. Also if you’re getting unsolicited bumps from your employer you should be more concerned you’re underselling vs overselling yourself
Just move platforms.

I do not understand all of the debates, don't like it? Don’t use it. Simple.
Ask HN: Who is on Bluesky? Share your handle, invite codes
I got an invite yesterday, my handle is @sam.elborai.me[0]. I’m likely to microblog about programming and random projects. There is already a lot of engineers on the platform, let’s connect!

If you already have an account, and maybe extra invite codes, share it in the comment :)

[0] https://staging.bsky.app/profile/sam.elborai.me
What will happen to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux product if they cut all the knowledgeable grey beards?
It’s concerning to think of some sort of major constitutional crisis taking place during wartime due to disagreement between PM and King. I’m a little baffled that this has never been framed as a national security issue, at least it hasn’t been a popular narrative in my lifetime.

At the same time, whatever government opens that particular Pandora’s box is in for a hell of a ride, so I understand why.

I'm obviously an abolitionist but I would be much less worried about this if the powers matched the role. I'm sure HN could empathise better than most websites that giving a supposed read-only user unused, powerful permissions is probably not the best idea.
I only had time to skim, but the primitives described here (acquire, release, happens before) sound almost exactly like the model that was standardized in C++11 and C11.
Thanks. Are your charges much more than the chargeback processing fee?

One of the issues for us was that while the chargeback processing fee was ~£20, the order values were only ~£100-300, so even in the worst case of ~£320 lost, multiplied by roughly 1 in 10 non-fraud mistaken chargebacks, and 50% win rate, the value is only £16. At that amount it would take a lot to recoup the development costs. These are all very rough numbers, but illustrative I think.
But does your ten-year-old car have an internet-connected computer that is potentially vulnerable to malicious attackers? Note that I don't drive and know very little about cars, but my understanding was that Tesla's system was the kind of computer where software updates would be essential, and other cars less so.

(I generally think the "all out-of-date devices must be burned" mantra is a tad overblown, but they are at least somewhat dangerous in a way that non-networked computers are not.)
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It's a sign of slowly moving Overton Window.

They'll eventually get it.
I think ownership-like-property will end up being a rather small part of the NFT's future role because you need everybody's cooperation re: agreeing that such-and-such blockchain pointer corresponds with something actually valuable. The incentives are backwards: if you're the one claiming to have power because you command this fleet of abstractions, then the people you claim to have power over have an incentive to disengage with those abstractions.

Ownership-like-responsibility, on the other hand, is a place I can see NFT's sticking. Like: the calls get routed to whoever has the on-call token. If the token is for something that most people don't want, then everybody except the holder has an incentive to buy in.

Also, shaming (e.g. for the purpose of directing sabotage). If you want to oppose something, it's no good to just pick a fight with whatever you see that happens to resemble that thing, you ought to go find the strongest example of whatever you want to oppose, and go interfere with that. NFT's could help us have consensus about such things so that we can collectively create incentives to not be the most prominent example of a problematic practice.
The UK has not been any kind of superpower for almost a century now. The last decade is just the last gasp, like a disabled 90-year-old refusing to accept that he can't live alone.
It was just a quick quip how we regard as "democratic" a country (?) called "United Kingdom", language is funny like that.

Sure, UK is a great place to live for many of their citizens, and a great country overall, culture and so forth. It's not for nothing we are speaking their language and not Esperanto or something. But it's not a democracy, and that is fine.

If you ask me (I know you didn't, but just in case), not even the Nordic countries or Switzerland pass the main test of democracy: not being able to vote for everything, but being able to vote "No" to anything and everything. That should probably be the hallmark of a democracy. Even the toga-wearing Greeks did not have democracy to such an extent.

In an ideal world, every ballot would have as a first option the option "No". I said in some other HN comment [1], a second point would be to tie the duration of the mandate to the voter turnout, if 30% vote, then the mandate is not 100%, but 30% also of the 4/5 years mandate.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35300083
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Pretty much all my homepage is, is video essays and Invader Zim clips
Having to pay for hosting an open source product?
Isn’t Amazon doing what they should in this case where a company tries to block any competition.
Instantly verify your customers online with Open Banking APIs
More positive reviews = more sales. They are not just uninterested in dealing with fake reviews, their algorithms reward products with positive reviews regardless of their authenticity. Of course if you report it, they eventually deal with it, as long as it is required by some law.
How so? This just means some RHLF from a willing army of party loyalists.

Seems like their AI will massively amplify the production of pro CCP propaganda. How does this mean the lose anything?
> He said the layoffs would be “just under 4% in total.”

> “We will not reduce roles directly selling to customers or building our products,” Hicks wrote.

They are not touching development or sales. Sounds like they are trimming some fat.
And the last modification was only wording, with the same 13 years old content. [0]
Always check what changed in SO posts, because this practice is very common.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/posts/2682962/revisions
> I have a slightly different take than Chelsea. Contrary to the "ugh... networking." take, ~30% of what I took away from PyCon was exactly the networking. Or at least that's much of what I consider the "hallway track". Hallway track also consists of reconnecting with old friends and tech/social things after the conference.

Isn't this exactly Chelsea's take, too?
> All the prescription does is set some baseline parameters. Most CPAPs you can buy are APAPs anyway and modify the parameters on the fly.

And training on how to use it property is also provided. I would not be shocked if the number of people using tap water would sky rocket if there was zero barrier to having one.
superstars survive on and value their reputation above all else, you can use that to motivate. Review with the team how productivity is measured and the goals the team is striving for. Then, call out someone on the team by name who is doing the most to get the team where it needs to be and give them a reward. It doesn't matter what the reward is, a random sticker will work just fine. Your superstar will see the writing on the wall and step it up so they get the callout and reward next time.

I've seen this at work with a Managing Director and her direct reports. Direct reports to a Managing Director are hyper competitive and cutthroat. Think of them like the velociraptors in Jurassic World, if you can keep them focused and not killing each other or everyone around them they're a very powerful force. This MD would just hand out verbal "gold stars" on an all hands call. The DRs would get noticeably upset when they did not get the "gold star".
Predicting memory usage patterns can help allocation strategy - eg if you get a flood of traffic every day at 9AM you can time GC to run before the rush, and efficiently preallocate space for the objects you predict needing.
Work multiple jobs that you do the bare minimum at.

Always be interviewing, Q1->Q3 is the best time.
There is absolutely something that gets lost in virtual meets. It’s not just for within team discussions. It’s also about discovering colleagues in other teams across the org. Tools like Donut help a bit but the magic is still lost.
They do. Which means if you don't want your comment to go in the queue on YT, don't post links in comments.
At least WASM is first-party code written by the browser developers. I'll take that any day over a pile of third-party plugins.
That's an interesting use of "publicly owned". Here (US) I equate "publicly traded" with "publicly owned".
Yes, that's true, but you no longer get session cookies for authenticating your username -- you always play "offline". Though I'm glad it's still possible to play the game with the official launcher with mojang login (I mainly use polymc to start the game).
What a terrible idea for monetization.

The entire point of the blue checkmark was "this account with a high-profile person's/company's name is actually who they say they are".

Turning it into "everyone gets a checkmark that wants one" has destroyed the value of the checkmark. It is, at best, a suckers badge at this point.
From both articles, I did get "I'll just use my tech money" and "go to easter island" or "replace literally all of my gear just for this trip" vibes, which is a certain kind of turnoff, but he is at least spending it and doing the trips which is admittedly something I haven't done yet.
the WASM people knew that going in and it's part of the design.

it's also why WASM is so slow compared to native executables; security guarantees have a performance cost.
I don't know how someone uses 1TB of bandwidth so easily.

My service is somewhat popular and I see ~200k requests per-day at least and I hardly hit 50GB/month? I am on Linode and serve assets/html/css/js and api responses with zero caching.

Perhaps Vercel is doing some creative accounting of bandwidth?
as my vector algebra teacher always said... up, down, same thing.
> I don't think we're not talking about individual end-users here.

Are you sure about that? From TFA:

> Lots of Windows users everywhere runs security scanners on their systems with regular intervals in order to verify that their systems are fine. At some point after December 21, 2022, some of these scanners started to detect installations of curl that included the above mentioned CVE. Nessus apparently started this on February 23.

> This is not helpful.

> Lots of Windows users everywhere then started to panic when these security applications warned them about their vulnerable curl.exe.

That sounded like it included individual end-users to me.

Anectodally, I know a few Windows users who don't trust Microsoft to do security well, but can't bring themselves to move off Windows for whatever reason, so run 3rd party AV and security tools to help protect themselves.
I think a more useful task would be to turn a novel into a movie script.
It's not paid vs free, it's $120/year versus $300/year.