skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good security practices are in this unfortunate category where:

1) The actual risk calculation is somewhat nuanced, but advocates are very clearly on the right side when you do it.

2) The advocates drastically oversell it as a coping mechanism for it being hard to convey nuanced issues, and even come to believe their overselling.

3) Some who go along at first gradually gain some intuition that they've been lied to, and wrongly conclude or begin to behave as if the advocates are on the wrong side.

In the case of storing passwords in plaintext, it causes a low probability increase in chance of a some very bad outcomes.

It can be correct that it's well worth mitigating, while also being a hard calculation to reason about and find salient. If we compensate by treating it as if it's a high probability event in order to get everyone t comply, and begin to believe it ourselves, people may eventually notice that not everyone is compliant, but they never see anything bad happen in their immediate surroundings, become increasingly lax themselves, notice nothing bad is happening still, etc.

Seatbelts are maybe a counterexample to my point here, where people have come around despite their personal experience never including an accident. Maybe with the help of laws, or maybe more because it's personal risk to self. Or maybe it's just that enough people know someone who has had a bad car accident even if they haven't themselves.
Related:

Transformer Models: An Introduction and Catalog - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32188126 - July 2022 (4 comments)
Sorry this isn't the purpose of the original article, but does anyone want to give a way secrete should be stored? Even if I use secrets manager for example, I need to store the token for fetching it so there is always a secret or token that needs to be stored.

I might not store an access token, I might use user auth and get a temporary token for a script that then calls to a secret manager. The access token is cached locally in plain text. Is tbis more secure since it's a token with expiry?
You don’t have to make things up. You can just look at agency budgets to see if any GOP president was able to make meaningful cuts in the federal bureaucracy. Remember that democrats controlled the House through Reagan’s entire presidency.

The GOP did succeed in overturning Roe. Overturning a precedent that was baseless to begin with and which by the end Democrats wouldn’t even defend on the merits isn’t exactly what I’d call a major victory.
I get this feeling. When I get through a day where I’m not blocked on anything I feel satisfied and happy. If I have to wait half the day for someone to reply and I just watch YouTube in that time, it feels bad. Not even that I’m “cheating” but that it was just a waste of time.
i would recommend seeking psychiatric help
Really cool, only suggestion would be to put the comment id the summary instead of the number, as the comments aren’t in a predictable order
This was my favourite bookmark site when I started playing KSP
It is not about when you started learning something, but how you learned it.

It can be easy to learn the "wrong way" to do things when not classically trained, especially in engineering roles, that is hard to unlearn later.

That is, you could have an understanding of something that works for what you have seen so far, but is fundamentally flawed and it is not until much later when you have seem more complicated scenarios that you understand how it was flawed.

Someone learning later, though, from a professional, can be showed the bigger picture earlier and have a better understanding.
This looks like either r0uterg0d or a copy of it.

r0uterg0d had other content like "Mulder and Scully Explain OSPF" and "Christina Aguilera explains IOS" (Cisco IOS not the Apple thing) circa 2001.

In 10 years someone will recognise Hacker News / Startup News this way.
If you like the genre you should check out Colony Survival! It’s a fun voxel game with a tight gameplay loop based around how high can you make number go up though observation.
>I simply don't see it, so to me it reads as propaganda from those powerful entities.

Yes. It's called regulatory capture. Big business, and business with big business investment, want to be regulated, because they have the resources to navigate the regulations, at an attempt to solidify their lead or "catch-up", and prevent new entrants due to the burden of regulation.
They do not own your content.

> from the tos: “non-exclusive”

A non-exclusive right and license means you can still grant similar rights to other parties, and you are not restricted from using the content yourself or licensing it to others.
The smaller companies are probably not IPOed so the stock has no actual value
I've changed the URL above from https://overkill.wtf/emudeck-2-1-update/ to the project home page, since the project doesn't appear to have been discussed on HN before.
GPT for UFO Sightings
Thanks for following up on this.

We designed EVA from scratch for managing unstructured data (e.g., video, audio, images, etc.). EVA leverages relational database systems to manage structured data and widely-used libraries to manage feature embeddings (FAISS library [1]). We aim to leverage decades of experience in relational database systems and reduce risk in production deployment.

[1] https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss
Something that I feel like I disagree with here is that it doesn't take into account all the intangibles that you get from working hard. Personally I work hard and I feel like I get:

* Appreciation from my manager and team, who I respect and love working with.
* New knowledge that I can use later, and possibly build trust with others.
* Influence that I can use later
* The good feeling knowing I solved a problem for my business and hopefully letting them spend that money or effort elsewhere.
* Some sense of job security

This is probably a very Pollyanna view of the world, and maybe it's all because I have a good team and manager. But nevertheless, I feel like I hit the lottery as a programmer. It's enjoyable, the work changes day-to-day and it pays well.
In the same way that Apple gives the illusion of caring about privacy. It is all a strategy against the likes of Google whose business rely on data collection.

And so what? Even if they are doing that just to get at each other, if in the end, we get better privacy and devices that are easier to fix, I take it.
The tenant is absolutely powerless and defenseless in any dispute.

This is meaningless hyperbole. There always at least some opportunity for legal defense, in all but banana-republic jurisdictions.

Evictions are quick, easy, and decisive.

This statement is definitely at odds with reality in every major city in the U.S. In certain cities the process is in fact famously difficult, and (in the very best cases for the landlord) can take several months at least.

There is no lawyer who will defend tenants against landlords because there's no money in that.

As is this statement. Seriously, what kind of nonsense are you trying to push here?

Every major city has some form of a tenant legal aid society. They may not be able to take on every case, but they do exist.
There is an indication, you can find it by clicking on this post.

The self-reflection part is probably true, but that’s not strictly necessary to understand concepts
> at this time when Meta managed to almost triple its stock price in less than a year

What are you talking about? Meta stock is up 14% from a year ago, down 26% from two years ago. It was last at a third of its current price eight years ago.

Edit: Oh, I get it. You're selectively measuring from its low point six months ago - when it had fallen 75% from its 2021 peak.
(Submitted title was "Steam Deck emulation installer EmuDeck 2.1 launched")
I don't have a lot of concern for what I walk on. It can be raked or swept, watered if needed on concrete if it's a concern. On grass or soil it just creates more favorable soil. I take my shoes off at the door, so I don't see any issues.
It's a crypto hustler thing, they create twitter accounts "BowTiedX" and try to grow their following (they follow each other too) and make money online as fast as possible.
Indeed, if you're not hung up on another music streaming service like Spotify and watch a lot of YouTubve (especially on mobile) then YouTube Premium is a pretty good offering.
As I mentioned I’ve settled on Nix with nixpkgs however it’s got a steep learning curve and really isn’t appropriate for anyone but fairly experienced unix hackers.

It’s a problem.
Ok, we've changed the URL from https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/engineers-develop-water-fi... to the latter article. Thanks!
Do you actually want this? I imagine there are probably beneficial minerals and things in water that you want.

I stopped only drinking filtered/bottled water exclusively for this reason.
If wealth were useable as a metric for poverty it would be used. It’s not. We define poverty based on income. Not because nobody has ever thought about it in the same lucid terms as yourself, nor is it because the prevailing ethnic group or class has selected their preferred definition and nobody can change it. Wealth that is not realized is sort of meaningless. Are the people of Venezuela wealthy? But they possesses all that oil. See the problem?
No, don't tell your employer unless it directly affects you current workload. Even then be careful what you divulge. It's best to minimise what you share. Once you let people know, you will never know how the information will be used. Keep your situation ambiguous until you really can't keep it from them. You have the right to your medical privacy.
Thanks for the helpful suggestion! Just reordered the examples in the README.

Here are the illustrative queries:

-- Object detection in a surveillance video
SELECT id, YoloV5(data)
FROM ObjectDetectionVideos
WHERE id < 20

-- Emotion analysis in movies
SELECT id, bbox, EmotionDetector(Crop(data, bbox))
FROM HAPPY JOIN LATERAL UNNEST(FaceDetector(data)) AS Face(bbox, conf)
WHERE id < 15;
> iterative process: You can simply send a follow up message saying "You did X wrong". It is usually happy to correct itself.

cool. i am interested to try it out.
> I would much rather a developer work 10 hours and accomplish what needs to get done than work 40 and negatively impact the business.

It feels like there is a third option here that I can’t quite put my finger on.
The easiest way to perfectly mimic thinking is to… just think.

If this so-called “fake” thinking is indistinguishable from “real” thinking, is there really a difference?
> And they should dial the ostentation back to 4-5, in line with the other countries in Europe. Let Disney handle the Magic Princesses.

Absolutely not. The pompous spectacle is the only thing about the monarchy worth paying attention to. I mean, just look at this jackass[0]. This is a grown man in an ostensibly modern country, whose privilege and position are taken so seriously people are expected to take public vows of loyalty to him and get arrested for disrespecting him, and he's dressed like an anime villain. The tassels on his cape are bigger than his head.

[0]https://www.instagram.com/p/CnXkIHPP0er/
The name of his blog is "Seth's Blog"...
You need an invite
Discussed here a couple days ago:

Beautiful branchless binary search - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35737862 - April 2023 (143 comments)
There is something inherently wrong with the excessive risk taking: financial markets go through fashions, moods, and phases. If a manager's particular risk taking style fits the current moods of the markets, this manager will seem like a genius. Once the moods changes and the manager start taking massive losses, oh, seems like this guy should be fired.

But his replacement will be just someone kinda aligned to the current moods. Once they change, this one will also be fired.

The financial system is unpredictable. Even the best and most refined models fall apart. Excessive risk taking must be curbed because regularly taking losses due to flawed predictions is not a professional way of managing money.
If anyone has the time & energy to put into figuring out a production quality open source version of this, one place that could benefit is numpy's searchsorted function

https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blame/main/numpy/core/src/npy...
Parts for stolen Hyundais and Kias are so scarce the cars are being totaled
Much of what is shown in the trilogy is thought provoking. The scenes in the Brazilean open cut gold mine in Powaqqatsi are heartbreaking.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serra_Pelada
It really depends where you work, you role and what the incentives are.

You are young and working in a small startup with revenue share? Yeah, go wild and try to leave your mark! Just avoid getting burned out!

Boring corporate job and have family to feed? Don't rock the boat.

Though generally, don't. Best case you will make other people richer. Worst case is it backfires and you get more work assigned.

If you want to advance your career, work on your social skills. If people like you they will automatically rate your job performance highly. Conversely your programming skills are pretty worthless if nobody wants to work with you.

Might be cynical but that is how it works.
My favorite luddite on the only tech site worth reading. HN, how do you keep doing it? :D

His part Two is available (to subscribers at least)
The Share of Linux Distros Used for Gaming from 2018 to 2023
I can’t even imagine how crushingly depressing it must be to spend 50% of your waking hours working with this kind of attitude
I can recommend watching the entire film run backwards. The music sounds approximately the same, and it turns it into a feel-good story showing assembly lines pulling cars apart, pollution being sucked into factories and mining vehicles burying ores.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6-K-arVl-U
I saw too many people come to Silicon Valley like would-be miners in the Gold Rush, didn't want to understand how to find gold, and all they had to do was get a designer, a software developer, put out a press release, or have beautiful ideas.

The people who made it listened, observed real problems, and crafted something obviously useful and better to fill a specific category of need, most often while working another job to pay the bills.

Survive, thrive, and then work on side-projects. Side projects are too risky to become an immediate living when you need water, food, and shelter.

Honestly, I avoided shelters because of the lack of safety and risk of diseases like TB, c. auris, meningitis, bed bugs, and such. Yuck. I'd rather find somewhere quiet hidden away.
s/Mojang/Microsoft/
They’ve changed meaning, but companies do that all the time - especially under new leadership. Twitter has a huge user base and huge financial problems. If the plan is to FINALLY leverage the former to solve the latter then good on them.

Turning blue check into a paid service with features seems reasonable to me. I have no incentive to be prioritised in threads or be seen by more people: I’m not trying to sell services, or bring people to my platform to make some ad revenue, etc. For those that do, it makes sense, and I feel sorry for the people that are torn between a cheap way of getting exposure and a crowd of bullies who mock them for it.

It also makes sense that people with large followings get it for free, because they’re contributing to the platform. I saw people comparing their free subscription without consent to “r*pe” and, well, there’s no reasoning with that kind of lunatic.

OTOH it’s extremely funny to see blue check accounts with 12 followers, especially ones that have been active for years and just post photos of their dog every few days. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? WHY ARE THEY PAYING IT MAKES NO SENSE
These new models give me hope that computers will be able to understand me soon.

As a Flemish/Dutch speaker, not a single assistant is able to understand me in my native tongue.
I can use Siri in English, but then she doesn't understand things like contacts or addresses. Also I cannot dictate text messages or people think I'm a spammer.
it is important in order for us to accept it as an agent that understands things, because self-reflection is so important and obvious to us.
The funny thing is, that extra working does actually negatively impact the business at least in the software world.

People seemingly end up having a lot more time for _defining processes_.

There are people at nearly every large company I’ve worked on that so more meta work, and sometimes demand more meta work than actual work.

Like there are folks that are actively costing productivity in exchange for the meta work.

I’ve challenged them to actually back the work they’re doing with data and how it’s actually helpful and generally there’s no follow up. It’s amazing.
The professor of non-profit organizations class in law school cautioned us to avoid Robert's Rules warning us that it would lead to discord and overbearing majority rule, preferring Thomas Jefferson's Manual [0] for peaceable and practical reasons. Having used Robert's before attending law school and seeing how its use tore up a club I tend to agree.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson%27s_Manual
> You should not have to wonder whether you need to go to your html or css file to change the appearance of a site.

Not to beat a dead horse, but:

Separation of concerns != separation of languages

If you want to change a button, ideally you go to your one BUTTON FILE.

Same applies doubly so when using Tailwind. You should not be looking around CSS files
> If you're on Twitter, you've probably seen people flocking to Bluesky, a social platform hailed as a promising alternative to the now-ailing bird app.
KSP drove me to learn those things. While attempting to reach further planets, I ended up researching specific impulse, calculating Δv, relating altitude to speed to orbital period, and so on. I even downloaded a program that calculated optimal launch windows.

So yes, none of this was in the game per se, but I wouldn't have done any of it if it wasn't for the game. The median person has exactly zero use for orbital mechanics, and KSP is about as close as it gets to a practical application unless you work at a space agency.
Sounds like they could have switched to Clickhouse if they already had the hardware.
From the article:

> [they] say their new goal is to be “perfectly mediocre.”

Note that mediocre is not the same as slacker. It is impossible to distinguish a genuinely mediocre developer from an intentionally mediocre one, so no, it won't impact their network unless they are really careless and tell everyone that they can in fact perform better.

Do you stop talking to a colleague because they have never found a security vulnerability and fixed it?
> You don’t get rewarded for being extra.

100% true. Our salary, barring real (not manufactured) fires, should be for 40h/week. Any more is free work not compensated for.

> You don’t get any money when you save costs.

There is no equity for doing significant tasks. The common area here is automation. I automate, but don't share. I would never get compensated appropriately, so I save my time in lieu of money.

> You’re going to get a raise below inflation.

Yep, 3%. Job hoppers get 30% or more. My last hop was 115%. Loyalty is NOT rewarded.

> You’re stupid for caring the way that you do.

That's a subjective assessment. But yeah, caring too much leads to extreme burnout. And our only real change is to find yet another slaver, oh I mean capitalist to work for.

> The business’ downside risk is not yours, and it’s profits are not yours either.

Exactly. Start providing real equity, and a seat at the board of directors as an 'emoloyee's director'.

Aside that, we're just resources to be strip-mined at 'human resources'. At least we can choose our slaver as a guise of an "interview".

And RSU's are a game, that we lose. The companies made this, and they do NOT want to pay. So they gamify it to make the appearance of mounds of money. Here's your pennies.
A GPU-less machine?

I've rented a server but it has no GPU. Does MLC work well through only CPU inference?

I'd like to get it set-up with langchain if it does work well
The quote at the end of the article really sums up my feelings:

> “I think the real answer, the real answer […] this is going to sound weird or bad – is to cajole or trick your employees into thinking that what they’re doing is important.”

Basically I like to fix things at work because I get some sense of satisfaction by doing things the "right way".

Of course this feeling can be worn down, other coworkers not caring, management not caring, etc.

And then you end up in a "work to the contract" mentality, which is what the "store your passwords in plaintext" people seem to be doing
They had already washed the story by the time trump was in play, so there was no need and McCain was heralded as a hero, and while he did some brave shit in vietnam, he was still a criminal puppet...

And dont get me started on the group that GHWB ran in vietnam... whats that guys name from the massacre? oh yeah, the head of DHS after it was created.
Not necessarily. There is a slew of complication that exists atop simple mendelian genetics that occur quite frequently, not to mention gametes themselves can undergo mutations. And that all assumes fertility of the select couple in the first place. And the real key here is generation times. A human takes 9 months to gestate, our natural replacement rate is 5, even now about 50% of all conceptions result in spontaneous abortion. Then 20-25 years to fully mature, and some genetic conditions only show later in life. Other animals mature far faster, mice are considered aged at 18 months, dogs are mature at a year. Teosinte apparently matures in only 180 days. Each of these has in common that within those generations there are many progeny on top of the short generation time so you can very rapidly select, even inadvertently, by picking the best and coincidentally growing them in middens.

From there I think its safe to say that our ancestors weren't the dullards they are often made out to be.
If you completely disagree, keep in mind “completely” is also an adverb.

Some frameworks sell simplicity (setup, maintenance) as a feature, so that adverb would be fitting.

But this is just infantilizing and a lot of people (maybe a universal trait) are annoyed by that.
No benefit in telling your employer unless it directly affects your performance now.
> In plain English that means: we own everything you post.

No it doesn’t. It means you’re giving them license to use it in whatever way they see fit. You need to give them some kind of license over the content since they are hosting it for you.

They need to store it. They need to copy it. They may need to modify it, either for moderation purposes or because it becomes a piece of another post via quoting / replying. They arguably even need to sublicense others to use and copy it for the same.

Every service that stores user content has an identical clause. They are always overly broad and catch-all inclusive of all intellectual rights to avoid missing something.

There’s nothing new here. Just a clickbait site that doesn’t understand copyright and can’t do basic fact checking.
Do you shoplift? Serious question. Shoplifting is rarely caught, and even more rarely prosecuted in many major cities (e.g. SF). While you probably won't be able to steal anything high value, there's a lot of things you'd be able to steal without being caught, and why pay for something if you can have it for free? Most grocery stores are owned by billion-dollar corporations, which don't hesitate to raise prices, engage in tricks like shrinkflation and otherwise make sure they get the best end of the deal. So, if you do not shoplift, why don't you?
I'd add Firefox to that list; specifically, you shouldn't be using :has until Firefox implements it, and afaik it's not implemented in Firefox because it's still a Working Draft and not finalized. Chrome and Safari implemented it early, and without any vendor prefix, but the implementation details are still subject to change. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong.)