skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This attitude strikes me as deeply anti-intellectual, that you aren't allowed to compare things because comparision automatically means you're equating A with B. I doubt you (or most people) even live by this. In our minds most people compare The Ukraine with Russia, and come out with an opinion (sometimes Ukraine is righteous and good and Russia is evil, or vice versa, or somewhere in between). Pondering that comparison doesn't mean you are thinking/declaring Ukraine == Russia.

Edit: For curiosity I looked up "compare" in Merriam-Webster's: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/compare

1: to represent as similar : LIKEN
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
—William Shakespeare

2a: to examine the character or qualities of especially in order to discover resemblances or differences
compare your responses with the answers

b: to view in relation to
He is tall compared to me.
The test was easy compared with the last one.

3: to inflect or modify (an adjective or adverb) according to the degrees of comparison : state the positive, comparative, and superlative forms of

I'll assume you were using definition 1 above, and apologize somewhwat for my harsh take. I don't think that's what GP intended with their comparison, I think GP was using approach 2a.
There is absolutely a substitute for being organized :) ask me how! Dropbox plays a big role in it ever since it started indexing pdf contents.
Yes, but if the man has it, his partner will likely also get it.
I believe section 7 of RFC 9000 would allow for the creation of a handshake protocol which could conform to SSH without the need for including x509.
If it looks mostly correct, yes.
We have real, effective tools for dealing with substance abuse that don't involve a giant prison-industrial complex.

One of the major problems with prohibition is that it closes off a lot of the avenues we could otherwise use to reduce harm, while creating a black market and, in the case of the utterly senseless "War on Drugs," pushing tons of people into the criminal justice system and creating a massive industry for incarceration of low-level users.

After all this voluntarily created human misery, we've still got a crisis of opioid and other drug abuse in our society, and it's not clear that prohibition does much at all to reduce real rates of usage on the ground. A quick Google suggests that over 100,000 people died of overdoses in 2021.

What a goddamn victory for prohibition.

The decline of tobacco use is proof that there is a better way. It's just harder, takes longer, and, yes, despite the sneers of those who think they know better, has to respect individual liberty, personal responsibility, and freedom of choice.
That's kinda what happened to Radioshack. The orders from the top took the company in directions that main customer base wasn't interested in. It lost a lot of it's uniqueness and quickly deflated. I worked at one for a few years right before they closed most of their stores. It was pretty sad seeing the store empty more and more often.
Mark Cuban did even better with broadcast.com. sold it for billions right at the beginning of the dotcom boom, bought a basketball team.

there was also a guy who sold a browser to Apple for over $100 million.
Wait till you hear about Jan Koum, who took over $10 billion from selling WhatsApp to Facebook and has become a prominent collector of mansions, superyachts, and rare Porsches [3].

1- https://www.dirt.com/gallery/moguls/tech/jan-koum-house-beve...

2- https://www.superyachtfan.com/yacht/moonrise/owner/

3- https://www.thedrive.com/news/26322/these-are-the-10-drool-w...
Yeah, but when the hotel over-books, guess which customers are the first to get their reservation cancelled/sent to the room with a leaky ceiling.

(It's going to be the Booking.com ones.)
> Ultimately, SO is suffering from issues of scale without the corresponding tooling to enable people who are trying to answer to find interesting questions more easily.

Yes, that seems like a reasonable take.

I suppose in my imagined ideal reality, people simply don't answer questions that are not asked well, or that don't interest them for any other reason, rather than actively body-slamming those questions.

If this results in a glut of low-effort questions, then the site suffers. As a result, the site has an incentive to provide better tools.

Right now, volunteers heroically stem the flood of poor questions by burning themselves out and sometimes getting bitter. The site still suffers, but in a different, more pernicious way.

I looked at a triage queue question just now, and it was indeed poorly-written. I selected "Needs author edit", and clicked "Submit". Then, I got a pop-up asking "Why should this question be closed?" and I was confused. I don't want to close the question. I don't want to send that signal to the question writer. I want them to improve their question, that's all. I canceled the interaction. So again: agreed about bad tools. Personally, I choose not to use them.
HSV (Herpes simplex virus) vaccine? Do you mean HPV (Human papillomavirus)? I've only ever heard of the HPV vaccine, as well as its relationship to cervical cancer.
I don't understand why pointing a camera at something and pushing a button is more "human authorship" than fiddling with a prompt and temperature values.
First of all BOTH buses and cars last an average of 12 years. As a society, replacing one fleet takes similar time to replacing the other.

Second, electric vehicles are currently 7.2% of all new cars sold in the USA, and only 2% of new buses sold in the USA. See https://www.coxautoinc.com/market-insights/q1-2023-ev-sales/ and https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2023/trends-in... for verification. So while there is great fanfare and publicity around cities switching, by and large they haven't chosen to yet.

Why the discrepancy? There are a lot of reasons, but I wouldn't discount the fact that buses spend a larger fraction of their lives actually being driven, and so the fact that fueling is faster than recharging matters more for buses than cars.

Therefore even though it costs more to replace all of the cars in America, economics suggest that this will happen before the buses all convert over.
> the pure Twitter experience that was there before Elon

Pure turd vs tainted turd.

It's all turds my dude.
Victor Wembanyama is Something That We Cannot Comprehend
When one is not willing to invest just enough brain power to form a sentence, there is not much to expect from the conversation. Would rather talk to ChatGPT
Summarizing the article. Also gives me a way to evaluate performance/optimization. Ideas to hang hooks on.
Everyone already knows what tribe you belong to; there's no reason to signal here.

Which is why there is no substantive conversation around this subject. As soon as we don't agree, it's suddenly hate speech.
zones and regions have different definition in google cloud than AWS.
Multiple zones are physically co-located and are not truly availability zones because the physical proximity causes shared fates even when they have independent systems (network, power) that should allow one to fail while another doesn't. Even two datacenters in the same city are prey to the same meteor.
Google's DC is underwater

OVH's caught fire

What's next, us-east-1 gets hit by Godzilla?
Coinbase offers a fiery response to the SEC’s threat of enforcement action
>"Oh yeah, which one?"

I mean, when has there ever not been several regional wars going?
My commute route has semi-dedicated bus lanes. They're not exclusive for bus use, but because there are many buses, most car drivers avoid that lane unless they are masochistic enough to plod along behind a slow bus.

Which raises my other point - even with a semi-dedicated bus lane like this, the buses are still at least half as slow as driving a personal car on the same route. I blame this on 1.) the bus itself being slow that it barely accelerates up to 20mph before it has to stop again, and 2.) there are too many stops.

Having done the route, I would say even bicycling it would be faster than the bus.

I'm sure even just reducing the number of stops would improve speeds significantly, but then I'm sure there will be tons of people complaining that the bus doesn't stop within X feet of their building.

Now that electric scooters have become so common, I've met more than a few people who now choose to do this commute route via electric scooter rather than take public transportation, claiming it's much faster and less stressful. I believe them. Bicycling is probably not as feasible of an option due to 1.) fitness levels, and 2.) theft risk.
>In particular, they all use EUV lithography machines from ASML. So how can any one company maintain any sort of sustained lead? As a first order approximately

Literally all modern Fabs uses DUV from ASML before EUV becomes a buzzword. So why did TSMC, or before that Intel has the lead? Why not Samsung Foundry, or Global Foundry? It is not first order approximation, it is a wrong assumption to begin with.

We actually had a thread about it not long ago [1]. The common analogy would be you buy the same 3D printer and expect all the outcome from everyone to be the the same ( not roughly the same, but "the same"). But that is not how it works. And any TWINSCAN is millions times more complex.

( Some of these discussions and tones are really getting quite tiring )

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35665076
The reasons sound very Apple-like. The current template-based Siri is not cutting it, but I do get the fact Apple does not want Siri to give wrong or incorrect info. People already go bonkers if an Apple Maps route is incorrect. Given that the current LLM's are routinely giving false information, I'm betting Apple is simply waiting on another leap or two in models, and slowly rewriting Siri in the meantime.

I'm having a good time playing with LLM's, but I certainly don't trust any output at face value. I know I would value a correct answer from Siri, or any other service.
I think EU is getting there.

One recent win: Nintendo has agreed to lifetime replacement of Switch controllers, and while they or their reseller tried to weasel their way out of it by demanding sales receipts, consumer authorities has already pointed out the ridiculousness of it as every single one of them are eligible for replacement anyway.
Chime/FRB Discovery of 25 Repeating Fast Radio Burst Sources
dang thats nice. good job
I had bit similar need when implementing our own OAuth2 authorization server to be used by our own (three) web applications and several APIs related to them, all of which use the same backend to store users and API keys with differing permissions to logical entities our datamodel consists of. These permissions are somewhat naturally mapped to scopes, but the main issue is that single user or API key could have differing permission across multiple logical entities, so it's M-to-N representation (M logical entities, with N different scopes). So simple returned scopes would not suffice, as resource server needs to know which entity or entities the caller also has access to, according to scopes.

As I could not find any pre-existing good guidance on solving this, I ended up implementing it by having the resource servers (i.e. APIs) check the token using token introspection endpoint at the auth server (not the RFC version of introspection, just private one for now but I may add the RFC compliant version as well so it could be called by 3rd parties as we have not yet rolled out this OAuth2 based setup for our customers). Part of that return information from the introspection endpoint is this permission mapping between logical entities and scopes, so the resource server can know to which entities caller has which scopes. Of course, as our access tokens are not JWT and just opaque (encrypted) data, the introspection endpoint then need to decrypt it - just so it can quickly validate expiration etc. - and if valid, fetch a matching copy from the database that has more contextual information than what's encoded inside the client-supplied access token. Otherwise, the length would be prohibitive if token would be fully self-contained with these extra information.

Maybe this same kind of method could be used for your use case as well, encoding authorization policy adjacent to the access token in your backend, and looked up by app using it after it has received the token?
> So much for the 2025 end date I kept hearing. Only applies to the versions few people have.

All the Microsoft articles linked show the October 2025 date. I have no idea where the article is getting those dates from.
Hardly. This never should have been necessary to begin with. It's pathetic that it took so long to reverse.
Yeah I was wondering the same too, I was given the HPV vaccine when I was born
Micromanagement and programming by remote control. No trust and respect that developers know what they're doing.

I see why managers act like this, though. If you're joining a dysfunctional project and try to fix it, they have no way of knowing that you aren't just blowing hot air and won't repeat the same mistakes as the previous devs.
Sure is leaky. And a cloud is a bunch of water vapour that eventually comes crashing down to earth. I'll never understand how we decided it was a good metaphor for a place we run our services.

Startlingly accurate in this case.
Ask HN: Remove Bootcamp from Resume/LinkedIn?
I'm a senior engineer with several years of experience at well-known startups.

Although I've been coding since I learned how to use a computer, I graduated high school during the dotcom bust, so tech didn't seem like an especially promising career option. As a result I didn't enter the industry right after college, but as the demand for programmers increased, I became more confident that I could find a good niche for myself.

To fill some technical skill gaps, I attended a well-regarded bootcamp back in the mid-2010s, and got my first professional SWE job a couple of months later. Since then my career progression has been consistent, and my experience now stands for itself.

Despite this I've kept the bootcamp on my resume and LinkedIn because many other alumni have done well for themselves, and I wanted to benefit from that network.

But there seems to be a lot of sentiment against bootcamp grads lately, so I've been wondering whether listing the bootcamp experience might now be a liability on the job market. What do you all think?

(Throwaway account, I'm a regular contributor on here.)
https://youtu.be/aSEQfqNYNAc

The full video:
[Time 0:49:06] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSdnJDO-xdg

Transcript here: https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hi...
Show HN: A Bel compiler to Emacs Lisp bytecode
In his classic Lisp in Small Pieces, Christian Queinnec actually suggested this project: compiling Scheme to Emacs Lisp byte code. I took up the challenge with Bel instead of Scheme. Much of the code actually comes from the book but adapted to the problem at hand.
> Remember: In the first 20 years of Google existence (or in any 20 years of the semiconductor age until recently) Moores law had over 13 cycles. A lot of what used to be hard problems before isn't anynore.

The web also grow tremendously, and probably user expectations too (in the beginning of the century we were told in school not to speak to search engine like we would to a human, but with keywords and operators). We also do and search for many more kinds of things
One of the companies that decide to build the most complex engineering systems, very expensive social programs, while keep losing more money every year. Hopefully company will be able to focus on what’s important for their business moving forward.
The other thing that's changed from the 'every optimization is premature' era is that shrinking CPUs don't result in big gains in frequency anymore -- Moore's law isn't going to make your python run at C speed no matter how long you wait for better hardware.
Not sure if the "also" is necessary there, considering the above example was already religion based.

Also, the West interferes with the rest of the world quite enough - I'd suggest we try to stop exploiting the rest of the world before we 'save them from their backwards religions' or whatever.
> Return to who?

To the original location of the site.

If someone stole the torch of Statue of Liberty, you’ll return it to the Liberty Island, right?
Layoffs always suck, but one thing that's encouraging to see is that every single tech company is offering a lot of support and very generous severance packages to affected employees, wayyy beyond what is required by law. In other industries in most states the norm is to be escorted out of the building with your last paycheck, that's it.
I'm still surprised by their generous free tier, I have a database of 300k embeddings on Pinecone and it's only 10% full by their metrics. Now, I'm only averaging a request every other minute with 90ms per query, but it would take crazy amounts of traffic or a ton more data for me to convert from their free tier.

Who is even paying?
During the GFC, most US CRE defaults were from maturity default. I'd like to see a heat map of where and how much CRE loans are maturing in the next 6, 12, 18, 24, etc. months out. Or I'd just like to know where to even find the CRE loan data in the first place (county clerk's records?). Would make some nice data is beautiful charts.

A big chunk of CRE paper is on amazingly short terms. I grew up in an era where 7-10 year paper was common on CRE, but these days 2-3 year is apparently the norm. If so, the liquidity and in some cases solvency drying out in CRE lending deals will get spicy.
>lying in bed with a nice bowl of soup

Tell me you're in NY without telling me you're in NY
You don't have to submit the abstract as a comment. Also, you're kind of sabotaging yourself when the first thing in your blog post is a callback to your earlier foundational blog posts. Famous bloggers can get away with this, but you're not that.

It's hard to read something like this without investing a lot of time trying to see if there's a solid theory or it's crankdom/handwaving. I suggest you consolidate your posts on the topic into a single one, and make your scientific claims as basically as possible, without using superlatives.

It's not that I don't find your ideas interesting, but that I can't commit the time to evaluate them as presented.
We also have "to be determined" as an expression in Dutch, but in this particular context that would imply "to be determined later than now but before we meet" to Dutch (and presumably German) ears.

Other comments insist that something is only spontaneous if it was done without forethought. If we decide to not think about where to go until we meet, then have we given "where to go" any forethought? My gut feeling says we haven't in a meaningful sense. In a meta-sense perhaps, because the decision is to think about it when we meet.
Interesting timing.

Just today, it told me to use Bing or Google for image search.

I understand the reasoning, but it felt a bit like "whelp, we give up"
What makes this case difficult is that the photographer doesn't have any rights to Prince's likeness, since she didn't create it. She only has rights to the framing and details of her photograph. In other words, her copyright is unusually "weak" in some abstract sense.

Here's an analogy: imagine that I record a rendition of Amazing Grace. And then somebody else records another rendition of Amazing Grace that copies some of the particulars of my recording. Could that count as copyright infringement? Of course. But it's not obvious that it should, because the underlying work is mostly in the public domain.
> Laptops. We will allow everyone who is impacted to keep their company-issued laptops, to help them research and apply for new roles.

Is this common?
I liked the way this was written. No BS, just straight up, "We need to reset". It's refreshing to hear.

I stopped using Clubhouse after being an early user for a couple of months. Some conversations were good, but most weren't quality conversations and over time I stopped paying attention to the app. I think the final blow was Twitter spaces which I don't pay attention to either.
> Really appreciated Villeneuve adding small scenes to the movie like the gardener watering the date palms and the ecology outpost. It rewards people who read the book and also helps people who are just watching the movie with understanding the world.

The biggest miss was Villeneuve not including Dr. Yueh's conversation with Lady Jessica that provides more context to why he did what he did.
I interpret this to be users of the service, not users of the device the service supports. Most users probably don't open the Watch app store and use the iPhone app store instead.
Ah, but the question of P=NP has been already settled several times even, and as P!=NP too, see https://www.win.tue.nl/~wscor/woeginger/P-versus-NP.htm

(To the ones who did not waste their best years doing theoretical computer science, this was in jest - the paper most definitely contains mistakes)
I like your comment and not because I polemically see this as correct compared to the other people who disagree with you. I think it is a good comment although I don't agree with you, so thanks, and (on second thought I suppose you comment frequently so I am not referencing any other comments in general but) happy to hear more of your sensibility in various threads.
As we have seen it didn't work, at least not right now.

Even if this is just a band aid while we wait for competition to pop up (I'm not that optimistic about the market) it would still be valuable and I see no problems with it.
"If I can make "Fair Use" of your book, why not your bed or your house?"

I don't buy this. These kind of ridiculous parallels come from the assumption that it is ok to equate a book, a bed and a house for the purpose of the argument.
> Risk aversion from immature tech

Boy, that Simpsons episode where they make fun of the Newton really burned them bad.
The freedom-loving part of me also cheers on the Right to Repair, even though it isn't a truly libertarian ideal. Is there a problem with that?

Preserving individual freedom is what keeps the free market in check. It is precisely the thing stopping 1984 from being like 1984.
Having worked on an app that, at least in my opinion, was pretty well done for each platform (phone and iPad), this is the case.

Our UI for the iPad was a completely separate one. The core code was shared via various internal libraries, but the UI was entirely different. Adding a feature to iPhone required one entirely separate set of code compared to the iPad app. The app was a universal binary though and one app ran on both device types.

This was, at the time, an absolute requirement. There was no way to scale the app from iPad to iPhone in such a way that it would give a great experience on both iPhone and iPad. It just wasn't possible to give an excellent app.

I've long since left and the app does seem to be written in SwiftUI now and seems to be one shared codebase. But I wouldn't say it's as good as it was previously.
> It's not relevant for 2023.

How economics works hasn't changed. And Britain turned to the welfare state before WW1.
I think there is a need for objects. An active connection, talking to the GPU, etc are not data -- identity is essential for their operation.

OOP is probably the best way to model such,.. well objects, allowing them a private, encapsulated state, and making it only modifiable, or even viewable through a well-defined public interface that enforces all its invariants.
They have inflation, too.
Ancient Greece does resemble modern Greece in many ways actually. From the food to the language to the geography...
The way I've done it with close family is that I kept a copy of their master password in my own vault (or the shared family one) to remind them when they inevitably forgot.

It's not ideal, but it's better than the alternative of them reusing extremely easy to guess passwords.