skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've become convinced that we will look back at this age where it's acceptable to allow the poisonous exhaust gases from chemical reactions to just flow into the air around us in the same way I read in wonder about how people in 17th century London use the Thames both as a source of drinking water and as a sewer.

My feelings in this regard applies to all in-air combustion btw whether for heating, cooking, transport or any sort of machine.
Jeremy Bentham and his Panopticon would like a word...
This doesn't currently exist, so it's entirely hypothetical speculation.
58% of companies suffered from operational disruption following cyber incidents [pdf]
Deloitte's 2023 Global Future of Cyber Survey revealed that 91% of organizations experienced at least one cyber incident/breach last year, with 56% of respondents reporting loss of revenue. Intellectual property theft was mentioned by 54% as one of the negative consequences resulting from cyber incidents, while 52% specified a drop in share price. To address this, 76% of respondents use automated behavior capabilities to detect and mitigate cyber risks.
Yeah I tend to agree it feels like a little bit of everything, but mostly B. To be honest, this community survived longer than many others I've seen.
Abstract vs Concrete is not a new observation, how many times have job interviews been decried because they optimise for abstract ability (discussing the job) and less so for the concrete ability (the ability to do the job).
Exactly. It's ChatGPT, equally lobotomized and devoid of fun. Perfect for Microsoft, less so for an app with a young demographic.
I work on FHE at Google. We don't yet have production clients, but we're basically working to get it production ready and find the right use cases. See my blog post at https://jeremykun.com/2023/02/13/googles-fully-homomorphic-e... for some more details on what our tools looked like about a year ago (though I only wrote about it this year).

Other companies involved in FHE are Zama, Duality, Intel, Inpher, Cryptolab, and a handful of companies working on hardware accelerators. In my view, the one company that has a bona-fide production application is Cryptolab. As I understand it, their work is used to do private contact tracing for COVID in South Korea.

You may also want to check out the two yearly conferences on this topic: https://homomorphicencryption.org/ and https://fhe.org/, the latter posted videos of all their talks from the meeting last month.
I like the chokepoint concept popularized by Cory Doctorow.
Yeah I have a Ryobi 40v and it is super loud too. Doesn’t help that I have to run it in high power mode mostly to get the leaves to blow out of the rocks properly.
Oh, that's a really great point. I should definitely spend some time to figure out what factors will demonstrate continued growth.
Is it actually causational though? Or did the golden age come to an end, and the academics were ousted from power as a result?
Ditto here. Working with mains voltages and cabling every day for over 20 years. I know the IEC specs forwards backwards, but I'm 40, married and can't afford to leave my EE day job for a 4 year apprenticeship that pays nothing.

Apparently you can pay ~$12K to an RTO (the 'pay to get qualified' type) and get it done in a year, but you still require a sparkie to sign off, as well as photo/video evidence along with written and practical tests.

I feel like Electrical/HVAC are among the most gate-kept trades in Australia.
What percentage of your reach do you lose if google blacklists your domain?
Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34783447 for the discussion of the above blog post on HN.
What are you blowing on a two-acre wooded lot that takes so long? I'm asking because a) I'm just curious and b) because I'm on an acre and all I use my electric blower for is to clean the concrete walkways and driveways. One charge is all I need for that. When I hear "two acre wooded lot", my mind doesn't immediately think of a lot of concrete.
You make a great point about the historical role of religion in forming community.

I think we’ve seen this shift already. Community can be found through sports, classes, meetups, and in many more traditional areas of the world still through village/city public events and festivals.

As far as “Prayer community,” I think it will always serve an important role in connecting people who share a common faith and for who that faith is an essential way through which they look at the world. If not through Church or established religions, I think we are increasingly seeing the emergence of people organizing around opportunities for personal development (which is a key function of religions). Topics like interpersonal awareness, deepening of physical and emotional intimacy, etc.

People seemingly enjoy connecting around a shared desire for growth. Now, this comes with its own set of issues and potential for abuse/deception. But that’s my gut feeling for where we’re headed.
Yes, he seems well spoken and very articulate.

While his reasoning about his world view and consequently the name of the book is sound, he is not establishing a causal relationship between religion and anything outside the realm of philosophy. He argues that this is the best common trait for philosophical work of those people in that era in the region. It's also natural that he sees everything through a philosophical lens.

> "Islamic World" replaces several earlier-prevalent terms. Again, Adamson makes the case against several proposed alternatives.

We don't have to cover it under the same _umbrella_ term. In the clip (around 11:07) he shows the slide again and says "As an American, I am a born marketer". Imagine if we were to apply the same argument with a comparable time frame (important distinction) and call him a Christian European. Maybe being good at marketing does was not one of their traits. This is the missing nuance.
The Manager's Handbook – Mental Health (2020)
> This is probably because when phones were first introduced in the previous century, people assumed that nobody would listen in on their conversations.

In the 80s, I could literally pick up my phone and hear neighbor’s conversations sometimes.

Also during the analog cell phone era, anyone could buy a receiver from Radio Shack and bypass the frequency block and listen to cell phone conversations.
Would love to see how this compares to git.
interesting, is there a helloworld example or tutorial somewhere to check out how this works in real?
Some context for those who aren't in the loop: ONNX Runtime (https://onnxruntime.ai/) is a standardization format for AI models. Nowadays, it's extremely easy to export models in the ONNX format, especially language models with tools like Hugging Face transformers which have special workflows for it.

ONNX support in the browser was lacking and limited to CPU, but with a WebGPU backend it may now finally be feasible to run models in the browser on a GPU, which opens up interesting oppertunities. Although from this PR it looks like only a few operations are implemented, no browser-based GPT yet.
In my experience, most of the people happily using cracked software were either kids, or the hopelessly immoral, and it wasn't worth chasing after either of those categories.
I think so, but even things like focusing too much on a perfect design or well-tested system can bog you down on a side project if you actually want to finish it.

I know for me I used to spend way too much time trying to organize my code and folders just right. If I learned a new design technique, I'd incorporate it into the project. I was obsessed with doing things right, which I think is fine if my goal was to learn, which it partly was. However, I also wanted to ship!

Over time I relaxed my requirements on perfect design and testing and was able to ship things.
Considering how high the bar of customer harm has been set, it's doubtful anyone will cross it except maybe Amazon.

Of course it's hard to prove consumer harm when there's so much vertical integration from day one. There's no before to compare it to.

Perhaps if Apple is forced to allow sideloading and other stores in Europe then the harms will be more obvious and comparable.
Well they did go after people also calling their products iSomething.
Personally if files are large I prefer to store all of them and the entire history of their changes somewhere else, so a server makes sense to me...
I need to figure out how to do that.
It was and has some pros compared to AP...
That's a heck of an aquifer. Libya is pumping 2.4 km^3 a year from the estimated 150,000 km^3 reserve.
I hear you on that. Leaf blowers and mowers.
On any given day, there is somebody mowing lawn (or having it mowed) around my house. It’s never ending.
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Hey it’s me, your internet sailing friend.

On the road right now on the way back from Charleston Race Week.
30 hours of driving. 20 hours in the boatyard rigging and derigging. 2 hours each day getting the boat ready and packing/rigging things. We did 10 races total, each about 40 mins.
There’s an immense satisfaction moving a large complex object a long distance. Building it, using it, taking it apart, and moving it back once again.
Possibly the same reason why people who have experienced "past lives" are never night cart men.
The perversity of this can be seen by the thought experiment of Android not existing. What would happen? Apple would ironically have less power to abuse their platform because regulators would gain authority to police many of the abuses.
I don't disagree with you, but pretending it's all positives and no drawbacks isn't it either
Hah yes, I just looked again at this headline, thanks for the clarification. Edited to add: Ramps are highly aromatic wild onions that are foraged in natural areas. They're celebrated at festivals throughout West Virginia as heralding the arrival of spring.
It’s a valid question because colors from an emitting light source use RGB whereas reflective would make sense to use CMYK. As a practical example a 4 color CMYK eink display may look better than or at least equal to the 7 color display above.
Yeah this is true, but some of Cydia was just standalone apps that weren't allowed on the store.
So maybe all those people shouting that “everyone accepted giving their data away” are actually full of sh*
AI Spam Is Already Flooding the Internet and It Has an Obvious Tell
What's need to be protected is the fair access to "AI"s assisting the creative process. Because it seems you need access to huge amount of data and big big hardware, which won't be available to all the composers, or only the richest and most powerful.

I guess what will decide in the end is if people get more music they like than before assistive "AI"s. Actually, we don't know if composers + "AI"s can produce an additional significant amount of music people like.
I have a battery-powered chainsaw and IT. IS. AWESOME. I pull the trigger and it runs, saws through any tree easily, and probably 20-30 dB quieter. When I let go of the trigger... it -stops- and it's -silent-.

It's easy to think "battery => wimpy, gas => hefty", but it's just not necessarily the case these days, depending on the tool. The only way a gas-powered chainsaw is better than a battery-powered one is that it's fast to refill the gas tank when it's empty, while recharging takes a bit. But if you have two batteries, then the recharge time is about the same as the charge-life, so you can just keep swapping.
You have to own the business to make that much money. Many years of working labor during the day, then doing bookwork at night. Eventually you do well, but those early years are not easy, and the ecconomy will turn against you more than once.
Ask HN: Is Buying a Website for Its SEO Worth It?
I want to start a new business related to teaching programming. I have a 10K budget for now. A friend of mine has a tech blog that has 1.4 million views, and its on the first page of Google when searching for tech keywords in our langauge. He offered to sell me the website and a 9K Facebook page for $7000. It is worth mentioning that the website makes almost no money from adsense (ads are minimal, and RPM in this part of the world is extremely low). He makes some money through sponsored articles and backlinks.

While the operational costs of the project are very low, I was planning on spending most of the money on marketing. Would buying this website/brand be a worthy alternative?
By the time apple was founded, many (most) of the people doing research that would be of interest to Jobs had already moved over to PARC. Larry Tesler springs immediately to mind, but Thierry Bardini's book on Engelbart has a more complete list. After the ARC fell apart in 1970, PARC was launching and was a natural place for them to land.
Oh no, it didn't feel that way to me :)

Anyway, glad you liked it, and thank you too, for clarifying your intent.
Certainly! But they need to be solved first, and key distribution / trust is a bit more involved than just message propagation.

Not synching strangers may sort of miss the point of "censorship resistance". A group of people that know each other can use e.g. Signal to share data, with very good guarantees of protection from outside snooping or pressure. I thought that one of the key parts of Nostr's idea is the ability to find forwarding nodes without being personally friends with node operators, much like Bittorrent or IPFS.
Smells like... cancer.
I remember reading about this ten years ago. I also have an acquaintance who suffered an infestation sometime last year.

What happened in the ensuing decade? Where did this promising path go? That's the article I want to read.
Learning bass guitar over the past two years I've seen this. There are definitely GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) people who just buy more guitars and love to show them off and talk about gear in general.

I like how this points out that that's a valid hobby -- they're collectors.

But there's also memes that show up every once in a while that say, "You'd be a better musician if you just got off social media and practiced!". People who discuss like these as much as players!
Have you looked into Staff Engineer positions? That's a title I have seen at the senior+ level.
Nevermind the number of businesses that don't give a shit about your creative, new ideas you had at the water cooler, they know exactly what they want and they're not interested in what the grunts have to say about squat.
Yeah. I do sub for an online class. It is impressive what the gpt4 can do. Too bad it takes forever to get the api for ver.4
Life Inside the Everything Machine
Ask HN: How will publishers shape the election landscape?
My town (Boston suburb) just banned them, but the enforcement as far as I can tell is "you pay a small fine", which means that fine just becomes the cost of doing business for the landscapers.
Uniqlo’s success mirrors the growth of Japan’s industrial giants
When I was younger I hated the time behind the monitor and enjoyed the weekend projects. Now that i'm older my body aches when I anything. (Sitting on a chair is still doing something!)
Xerox was paid for the crown jewels and according to Larry Tesler, it didn't take any arm-twisting to get him to move to Apple as Xerox was dragging their feet commercializing PARC's innovations.
I think you are assuming the hubris arrived only recently...
I'd imagine the vast majority of most people on HN already watch Mark Rober, never the less- in case you missed it, he did a fun video on bed bugs last month:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JAOTJxYqh8
The fact that the authors are still residing within Iran may also play a role in how much they attribute to Islam.
After talking with (random) people, I'm convinced "ChatGPT" is just a synonym for every new AI app.
Yep, we used to love the smell of gas stations growing up. But mostly harmful to breathe I’m sure.
Looks like something a self-taught dev would do (ask how I know), or someone who usually works fully solo. Maybe it's a ML community thing?

I might do something like this if I was in a rush and just needed a save point, especially if I was working on a branch I knew I'd squash and merge with a more meaningful commit message. I certainly wouldn't be proud of it, but I might do it.
Liable Sources
> password is provided to the server to partially unlock so a malware server or MITM could get the password

That is completely false.

"The Master Password is cleared from memory after usage and never transmitted over the Internet to Bitwarden servers, therefore there is no way to recover the password in the event that you forget it."[0]

[0]: https://bitwarden.com/help/bitwarden-security-white-paper/
I had issues with Logitech over the years and found two main causes.

1. Battery degradation meant the mouse would appear charged but have variable lag at unpredictable times.

2. Too many devices using Bluetooth/wifi located in the same desk space.

Switching bluetooth off on some unused devices, headphones, tablet, spare laptop (or switching them off completely) to reduce interference did help
For anyone who needs help with this: last time I had to battle the bugs, my research led me to CimeXa, a brand of "silicon aerogel". I understand it's both much safer and much more effective than diatomaceous earth.

I'm not sure how well it did in our infestation because we caught it very early, possibly with only a single bug. But I was impressed by the research.
I'm guessing he owns a small business. Anyone with a few employees will rotate weekends between them so you always know when you are on call. They also often trade weekends so they can get to that birthday party.
Please don't plant booby traps in discussion.

When I mention in a posting the topic of whether or not I'm an idiot and such, that's a signal to people that it's safe to debate that in whatever way they want. (I've been an idiot here and there, and may not be done. I could dig up objective evidence of that and expect people to agree.)

> I've responded in other comments to everything else you said in this post.

Maybe, but not to the message between the lines. Your position can be summarized as "everything is subjective and relative; my negative experience with a tool or technique speaks to the topic in a equally valuable way as do successful experiences by people making something reliable, tested, documented and maintainable by someone other than its author".

That strikes me as objectively untrue, and conductive toward coming to casually dismissive conclusions.

"Well, I think Rust is unproductive (at least for me) because I couldn't figure out the insane compiler messages. But some people who have never seen a type are struck by the novelty. That's okay, 'I like it' is perfectly valid. Everyone's experience is equal!"
We have a decent yard in Washington, DC. It is not a big deal to rake, but every autumn we talk for a day or two about getting an electric leaf blower. My wife prefers to rake out the garden beds, and rakes can take plants and will take mulch along. So far, inertia has won, and we still rake.
A lot of people who use these machines specifically enjoy the harm they do to others.
> none of that is free.

Then charge people for it. Developers are the people enabling and exposing this functionality, not the ones using it. Apple gives away the Apple services and iCloud functionality to all of their users - if these are expensive then it makes no sense to charge the developers for it. By your logic, this "expensive OS" theory should be amortized by an iOS subscription service - but it's not. Apple chooses to develop iOS, it is not democratically compensated somehow by the success of the App Store.

Orwell himself warned of the "perversions to which a centralised economy is liable", maybe the company that spoofed 1984 should take it to heart. The optics of the world's largest business doubling-down on their right to control what their customers use is a bit dystopian, if I say so myself.
Then why have so many of the bad things (poverty/disease/famine) being going down steadily over the last 100 years?
As a French living abroad, I totally understand what he means.
I'm actually not trolling. I find Apple's UI legitimately unproductive, a mix of 80s, 90s and 2000s thinking that didn't survive the test of time. Window's older taskbar is vastly superior, as the CLI, both examples of UIs that got it right.
If one script has a dependency on another script, just have the dependent script defined as `"npm run otherscript && ..."`

You still don't get to define output files as dependencies, so it's not quite Make, but it's really not that bad if your project is already node/js/ts
That is just precious and lot's of redemption given all the other crap going on in the world. I approve.
That sounds like a great way to lose good employees.
I wrote to Freeman Dyson 15 years ago; he responded
You also need a JIT entitlement for the application. Otherwise your browser engine will only be able to interpret JavaScript instead of JIT compiling it. Good luck getting any modern JavaScript framework running with only interpretation available.
Insightful post. Maybe I’m burnt out, but I was kind of sad to see the pivot to “how to be a better worker” at the end of it.

For me, when it comes to hobbies the it’s pretty sequential. I usually start with discussing, then start doing/gearing while discussing, then abandon the discussing and forget most of what I learned about gear, but usually keep doing.

I spent a few months reading about bicycle sizing and components and geometries and etc., and got a lot of joy from all of that. Then at some point I got a bicycle, and now it’s like 7 years later and I barely remember anything from that first phase, but I still ride the bicycle.

Same with wristwatches, mycology, etc. I always open with the obsession/discussion phase before moving on to a more settled doing phase.
He claims he's getting the same power as other models but I think he is comparing it to the lower power leaf blowers that run on drill style batteries, those aren't powerful enough to blow leaves on a lawn, only hard surfaces.
A week dedicated to composite primary keys
This is news to me, apparently Rails is actually getting support for composite primary keys. For years I remember it was a pattern you just avoided because it wasn't supported by ActiveRecord.
I remember reading an account of how Parfit cared deeply about the suffering of the world that he would cry talking about ethics.
You might find some fun in this headline you kind of predicted:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-04-24/a-high-sc...
It's obviously wrong, it's not using the modulo function anywhere or any such construct. It'll print text only for '3' and '5', and then numbers from then on.

By the way, GPT 4 when asked to critique this listing immediately found the problem, and produced a corrected version as a bonus.

Bard feels like GPT 2 to me. Even GPT 3.5 can solve COBOL FizzBuzz correctly.

PS: Just to check that GPT 4 is understanding the problem and not just regurgitating something it saw, I asked it to solve the problem in different ways, such as unrolling the loop or avoiding the use of the MOD function. It can do that too.