skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see any demo, just asking for my email for a waitlist? No screenshots, no videos, stock photos for your presumably fake "testimonials", no info on the team behind this, etc..
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What? The most meaningful privacy controls are enforced at the OS layer as technical controls. The thing that prevents Facebook from accessing all your contacts is the design of iOS, not the App Store.

Allowing sideloading of apps does nothing to weaken the technical features meant to enable privacy and security that are already in place.

In fact, you shouldn't have been relying on the App Store in the first place, as malware/spyware can and does slip through their very human and very fallible approval process.

This talking point is so common in every thread about sideloading Apple devices that I can't determine whether it's propaganda or ignorance.
An alternative to emotional arguments is to look at the statistics.
From what I understand the tenure system was already in decline and it was already understood that getting tenure was effectively out of reach for the younger generations of professors.
If you want to become a good researcher, go to university to learn from good researchers. If you want to become good in some other task, go to a school.
> Wind alone produces ~20% of the recent years electricity in Germany.

Yearly production means nothing on the night when it produces single-digit percentages of its installed capacity, does it?
For sure, they act totally different in a public toilet. Very carefully locked door in that case. Hell, the first time my son used a public toilet on his own, I had to talk him through how to actually unlock the door when he finished. I tried to tell him not to latch it since I was standing right on the other side of the door, but no, -CLICK- went the lock anyway.
Mongo's sharding also uses routers like Vitess but can be strongly consistent depending on connection and write settings.

Data is divided into chunks and the routers route queries based on where your query lands on chunk ranges.
it would nullify any copyright in EULAs

I don't see why you couldn't do the same thing to e.g. the binary of the Windows kernel

you're unaffected if you only offer an saas though, as the end user never has any code/binary to launder
I really like:

Non Designer's Design Book - for higher level guidelines on design

Refactoring UI - for tactical suggestions on UIs

Some other books: Bootstrapping Design and Design for Hackers
That's an interesting trick for dealing with uniqueness across case-sensitive and case-insensitive cases. I wonder if they were having issues disambiguating IDs at some point and instituted this, of if they do it to interoperate with legacy systems lacking support for case-sensitivity.
It's not controversial. It's just factually wrong.

Public company has different rules than private company. He now has fiduciary duty to other owners. It's true that he has locked in majority of votes, but that's only because Meta has dual class structure.

It's unfortunate that it's possible to build this kind of monstrosities with dual class stocks.
It’s kind of amazing how much it hallucinates. Using GPT4, I asked it to generate a letter contesting a parking fine using examples from case law (and links to URLs). Not a single case actually existed. (Tested across multiple regens) It had hallucinated the docket numbers, parties to the case, everything.

There’s no way I could trust a LLM with study materials unless I was confident it wasn’t going to fuck me over
I sorta knew this from experience, that high temperature would make the tea bitter. But why is this on HN?
> Yes Ballmer threw everything away and IE, Hotmail, MSN Messenger, Skype and MSNBC are jokes now, but that doesn’t mean they weren’t dominant force in Bill Gates era.

At least we got Xbox and Xbox live… which seems to have barely lived by a life line. Confusing mess with Xbox vs windows vs media center PC.

I still think they could have been much more successful with the kinetic. Wii was loved for its ability to bowl and play tennis and etc. Nobody I know really wants to strap a sensory deprivation device onto their face. I don’t see VR working out but a highly evolved sensor bar that allows you to interact with humans physically present and online seems an easier pill to swallow. Never owned one but seems like Kinect is still fondly remembered in some applications.

All that said I wouldn't buy one today because I don’t need x amount of cameras and lidars and y microphones recording inside my house 24/7 and going to MSFT and whoever else.
The movie re-encoded into a different format is perfectly fine if the work is sufficiently different.

Taking a file of wolf of Wall Street and encoding it so all the oranges are blue but there’s no other changes is bad as that’s clearly a derived work.

Taking the same file and scrambling it so it doesn’t resemble is perfectly fine.

Watching the movie and then making your own version of the same exact plot points is infringement. But using plot points that are changed is perfectly fine.

There’s existing copyright law that prevents the makers of the movie Deep Impact from suing the makers of Armageddon.
dang is welcome to enforce rules as he pleases, it's his platform (or rather publishing space).

But restricting speech concerning those in power imply things that I would presume he would not want to imply.
The problem is timescale, the drought in California was pointed to as an example of a climate change disaster but now it's just about over. Over time the droughts and heatwaves will get worse and worse but human brains aren't geared to think on those timescales.

Look at the changes in one year from the link below.
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonito...
`$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"` is very similar and does that for all of PS1 cmdlets. You still have to check $LastExitCode manually for BAT/EXEs, though.

`$PSNativeCommandUseErrorActionPreference = $true` is an experimental flag [1] as of PowerShell 7.3 that applies the same $ErrorActionPreference to BAT/EXEs (native commands), stopping (if $ErrorActionPreference is "Stop") on any write to stderr or any non-zero return value.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsof...
While the above is overly simplistic, the basic concept has historical precedent under the general umbrella Social Cycle Theory which is likely why it persists. The same basic idea is described in Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah as "Asabiyyah", for example. There is also the Greek kyklos, or the more recent Cyclical Theory[1], Strauss-Howe generational theory or Secular cycles theory,[2] which roughly maps on to the meme's cycles.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclical_theory_(United_States...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_cycle_theory#Secular_cy...
I think nearly everyone who says "I want more freedom of expression" leaves out the quiet part, which is "...for people who think like I do."

There are many, many examples of supposed "free speech advocates" trying to silence dissenting voices or criticism.

Under that assumption, it makes perfect sense that Texas conservatives, believing colleges are liberal bastions that spread ideas they disagree with, would see anything that reduces the power of college faculty as a win.
well the conclusion is always the same and the authors work backwards from it so that they can receive funding, and it benefits them and the politicians who give them funding if you remain terrified, so that seems like it's working as intended

the GP makes a bunch of assumptions about systems that science barely has any understanding of

maybe in order to survive life will have to return to a pre-industrial state, but if that's the case and you think "humanity needs to act now" the only thing you could be possibly advocating for is genocide.
Been a while since I looked at the details, but Explorer's file management is generally slow compared to what you can do with the actual Win32 APIs.
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Then why not just offer 15-25 days of explicit vacation? That you can, you know, actually use?

Like a decent, healthy, civilized company. That doesn't try to mess with its employees heads (quite so blatantly and needlessly).
IANAL, but I expect people to use MIT/BSD to be less angry about partial reuse of the code than people that uses GPL.
I was a coder who learned to design a decade ago.

Start by opening up your design eye and paying attention to the how and why of everything you see. The design of everyday things is a good book to start opening your design eye.

The material design spec is a good resource for learning some basic design rubric.

Learn the tools that are used to design. Adobe XD is my personal choice. Build tooling inside of XD to work faster, like your own custom sticker sheet. Maybe even get practice at it by designing a design spec by hand. Material design, tailwinds, and bootstrap are all options to start from.
GPL specifically relies on copyright law as a mechanism to prevent the sharing of work, by enforcing it's virality clause.

Without copyright law there would be no way to require GPLed code to continue to be shared with it's users.
> faculty can advocate for themselves and receive less work (vs. getting disciplined or fired) when they are too old to effectively teach and research

Why is this desirable (to anyone other than elderly faculty)?
It is just the beginning.
Besides what others have mentioned:

Just use a simple rolling code, like a garage door opener, HOTP, or the key fob itself, and enforce a rate limit for bad codes. 3 bytes can hold 6 packed digits, which is plenty.

The threat model here is that the thief walks up to your car and tries to broadcast messages to the door controller. If they can't observe prior messages to the controller, the chance that they will correctly guess the next code is, literally, 1 in a million.

Let the door controller start rate limiting (ignoring messages) after 10 bad attempts, and then only listen to one code per second. The thief will have to stand here for a week for a 50% chance of correctly guessing a 6 digit code.
I've never seen a car from 2008 with a push-button start.
This would be a game changer for global energy and transport if it got in front of the right people https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO20...
My brother asked once if Angels with Filthy Souls was a real movie.
Somebody I know who works for an emergy company talked to me about Thorium reactors that sounded very promising. I'm too dumb to explain it but it seemed cleaner and more efficient.
> It seems to me that something so simple couldn't possibly work...

Well, what kind of knowledge do you have of university internals?

Most people here on HN who want to get rid of university admin are on the outside looking in, and find it very hard to understand what all the admin do.

In my experience, when I start to explain that a university is more like a town than a school, and "admin" are in fact the people who run the town and implement the services, it becomes very hard to identify where the cuts should be. The library? IT? Health center? police? The arts complex and associated services? The sports complex and associated services? The transportation system?

And before you say these aren't the prerogative of a university, because a university is just a school, and it shouldn't offer these things, I have two responses. One, you're thinking of a "college". Two, if universities get rid of these services, often times the local town cannot replace them. So how are they to manage?

So if you're having trouble understanding why a university can't simply cut or automate all the administrators, it could be because you don't have a clear understanding of their role and why they are crucial. Universities require bureaucracies and they don't scale linearly with the size of the student population.
Apple managed it by using hacks such as forced integer upscaling. It works reasonably well for them because they mostly control the hardware. Windows needs to be able to deal with scaling factors like say 150% to accommodate all that it runs on, which is quite a bit harder.
2019 was not a great year
> And having almost 50% market share of cross platform frameworks in that market

Is this really true? I've encountered very few Flutter apps as an iOS user — actually I can't think of any that I haven't intentionally downloaded to see what Flutter is like.
> Seems pretty much in line with what executives at other technology companies make.

"Seems" is subjective. In reality, it's below average for a CEO.
my contract has a month notice, but if I don't work then they don't have to pay me. One month notice is pretty standard in my country, but the wording also gives me an effective way of "no notice" quitting, obviously that's far from the norm here so it burns quite a lot of bridges.
Not college, but my wife is wrapping up her teaching certification soon. We have both considered moving to Florida (we both have family that live there), but there is no chance in hell that we are moving to Florida and teaching; the infamous "Don't Say Gay" bill is so broad and idiotic (and she would be teaching biology), that Florida is a complete non-starter for us since neither of us really have any desire to be sued because some parent feels she might be teaching some "woke" agenda. I have no idea if my wife would be a good teacher, but I do know that if I were a teacher and I had options to teach elsewhere, I would not teach in Florida.

Similarly, professors are kind of absurdly underpaid, at least in STEM. Generally if you're qualified to be a professor in STEM, you're qualified for a nice yuppie job paying twice as much; one of the very few appealing things that professorships have is tenure.
> If you push for renewables instead of wasting money on over due and over budget nuclear reactors

--- start quote ---

Ernst & Young (EY) has found that an average power and utility megaproject is delivered 35% over budget and two years behind schedule

Of the megaprojects surveyed, 64% were delayed and 57% were over budge. Almost three-quarters of hydropower, water, coal and nuclear infrastructure projects were over budget by 49% on average,

--- end quote ---

https://www.offshorewind.biz/2016/12/02/offshore-wind-projec...

"Data shows the avg. 50MW PV construction project delays cost $2M. The average solar construction project is delayed by about 20% with the consequences hovering around $2M in costs."

https://percepto.co/solar-construction-delays-budget-overrun...
I mean, certainly. Well, maybe not the answer, but whatever.

However, are we actually capable of building new reactors and managing their operation in the private sector? I’m not talking about possibly maybe here. Are we actually ready, today, to build a new reactor within reasonable time at reasonable cost? I don’t know, but my gut feeling says no. We cannot even build roads like that.

Furthermore, is operating these reactors economical? Current reactors are not. They externalize lots of cost factors.
To every windpower fanatic in the comments. What is the plan for days when there is little wind? I guess coal?
Ask HN: How did you increase your UX skills?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32147968
Exactly.

The author should do some reading on Facebook's share ownership structure and come back to tell their readers on who owns the majority of the voting power and then just delete this entire article; since honestly, I stopped reading when I read the title.

Good luck on "Fire Mark Zuckerberg" without his 'say so', unless he does it himself.
How did you structure your project based interview? Was it live pair coding, or a take home project?

Did you have any trouble with candidates declining the project? My first instinct as a candidate is to turn down take home project based interviews. I almost always say no to them (especially if it’s for the 1st round) for a few reasons:

One: In general they seem like a poor use of my time. I would rather do 5 one hour coding or design interviews at 5 different companies than a single 5 hour project at one company.

Two: I’m skeptical that anyone is actually reviewing the submitted project. And the evaluation criteria are usually unclear. For instance is it worth it to add linters during the build process? Or to introduce caching for api responses? Will the person evaluating the project notice details like that?

Lastly: Every coding or design interview carries over to the next one. Preparing for one is preparing for all of them. In contrast I’ve seen projects (for a backend role) range from “build a simple weather api, any language” to “build a sudoku solver specifically in JavaScript”.
But you need billions of lines to train an AI and most existing code can't just be re-licensed over night. So that would still kill all code related AI projects for the next decade if not longer.
We are talking software though, where a factory reset can restore originalness.
So you chose to ignore his points re: the required fossil fuel inputs to create these clean renewable sources?
> Soon you're going to run out of land for your renewables.

No, you won't.

> 'would require two billions tons of coal to produce the concrete and steel, along with two billion barrels of oil to make the composite blades. [And] more than 90% of the world’s solar panels are built in Asia on coal-heavy electrical grids.'

Fantastic! The world burns that much coal every three months, so after 6 months we could close all the mines and coal power plants, and thereafter all the future PV will be made by renewable powered grids.
Creating becomes an issue they can always pay more to compensate for the lack of possible tenure.
We don't need the copyright traps here though as Github openly admits to using the public code for training. They just don't care that they're essentially license laundering code since they can make money doing it.

That said we used copyright traps at Malwarebytes, which is how we found out that iobit was stealing our database.
Also it is MIT-licensed open source today: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell
During a time when we’re watching our use of resources and starting to worry about how much longer we can push our life on the planet, wasting product like this over a stupid word is the dumbest news I’ve read in a while and it’s bad PR for France, at least from my perspective.
When you actually look at the statistics around large infrastructure projects the results are not comforting. Corners are always cut. Maintenance delayed. Just the "cost of doing business". Trust in both governments and large corporations is not exactly at an all time high. People know that companies will throw radioactive waste and scrap materials into the rivers if they can get away with it.

Conversely, the emotional argument is the only one that brings nuclear power back. You must convince people that these projects can be done safely. You must convince people that, "This time will be different."

Look at what just happened in Germany. Or don't.
Getting rid of tenure is fine but they'll need to pay much more to stay competitive.

The calculous is fairly simple. Tenure track and then have an easy work life but less money, or go to industry and make lots of money but work more. Nothing wrong with either but if you get rid of the upsides to academia expect to replace them with something. That's just how market economies work.

The issue isn't stem so much as the stuff where there isn't a highly paying industry sector. Those PhDs will have to go out of state for the same QOL as there will be no other competition to increase pay.
We got surprisingly close, so close that Exxon had a division on renewable energy in the 80s (but then decided to spend that money on lobbying and disinformation instead).

Climate Town has a great video essay on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MondapIjAAM
I live in the pacific northwest... If they light the fires in Spring when it's still wet, you don't get the same magnitude of fire in the summer. It would also help if they didn't spray the areas afterwards with round-up so that Aspen (a fire break species) doesn't grow, so that they can plant round-up ready Pine (a species that promotes fires).
I see 500k qps with 30TB data doubling every 2 years on slide 19.

In my experience me this isn't close to being possible with a single Postgres box. There is no way around sharding this workload.

Vitess has different consistency models, it's not as eventually consistent as you describe.
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> pure skill/ability/talent

First, find a way to accurately, fairly, and unambiguously define and measure those qualities.
Trees are roughly 50% carbon by weight. Each pound of carbon represents 3.67 pounds of cleaned carbon dioxide.

Each pound of lumber represents 1.8 pounds of carbon dioxide our of the air. It looks like both logging trucks and flatbed timber trucks can carry around 24 tons of lumber, which would be 43 tones of carbon dioxide.

Sawmills are efficient, and would make a negligible contribution to total carbon. Transportation would be the biggest carbon cost. At least on the East Cost US there's a lot of timber growing so distances aren't too far. Let's say 200 miles total from logging to sawmill to use. 400 miles round trip. Using average US freight truck emissions that's about 0.07 tons of carbon dioxide released.

So let's round that up a bit and say 43 tons sequestered for for 0.1 tons expended. Seems like a win.
That's not how a public company is supposed to work. Once Mark sold a single share of the company to someone else, he is obligated to make the business successful.
I definitely agree. The state __shouldn't__ under any circumstances have the power to police the content taught at universities. What sort of bastion of knowledge and free speech can universities be if they live in fear of getting angering a governor?
Specifically people who can say what they want because they have no fear of losing their jobs.

Pretty rich coming from the party of "free speech".
Generating LLM embeddings with open source models in PostgresML
Human brains emit GPL code too (probably) if you've looked at enough of it. Heck, some humans intentionally study GPL code and then rewrite it with a slightly different implementation to get around the license.
We can import electricity from the European grids we are connected to.

For example my region has recently brought up a 1.4 GW HVDC underwater cable, which can be used in both directions. It connects North Germany to Hydro power in Norway.
Oh and while we're about it interconnects just increase the systemic risk of multiple regions experiencing Dunkelflaute at the same time. And it's not enough to say that this almost never happens because in a system that expects many 9s of availability almost never is just not acceptable.
The unicorn was the fastest. The Basilisk was fast but not quite as, and could withstand more hits. (Or maybe I'm mixing it up with the bigger Serpent thing which was slow but very powerful?)

The best is finding a unicorn on a dark square and attacking it with a 'pawn' and charging it all zigzag-like. A lucky club swing could kill the unicorn, result in a real-world punch, and temporarily end a friendship. Stakes were high in that game.
My favorite of these was a town founded to match the map. Pretty sure I heard an npr story on it.
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I look forward to the future where we'll hear things like: "The earth is flat", "The moon landing was faked", "Those ice sheets never existed", "The ocean level hasn't changed".
> nuclear infrastructure projects were over budget by 49% on average,

Ahem.
Always have to note that ethanol production from corn has dubious energy payoff. Switchgrass is definitely energy positive, but lacks a strong lobbying group to provoke similar investment and development.
People did not want an iphone until the iphone came out..

They did not want social media until someone created a platform

judging everything by what people claim to want is foolish