skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use a Mac as my main system and what frustrates me is there is no way to truly disable all animations in the system. Sure you can reduce them which gets you about 80% of the way there but there is no supported way to totally disable them all.

It actually surprises me given Apple is very pro accessibility. The reduce motion option is after all an accessibility feature. It is always why I never understood why Apple don't embrace more keyboard shortcuts for simpler app window management (snapping) rather than the decade old, half assed implementation we have currently.

For me macOS would be perfect with just a few very small features for better window management built in along with the ability to customise it a bit.

I'm not talking full on tiling window manager level features with gaps, master-stack, fib spiral, etc. Basically just something like Magnet/Rectangle built into the OS out of the box, plus two-window resizing (like we already have with the current full screen snapping feature).
Elon Musk Calls Remote Work ‘Bullshit’ and ‘Morally Wrong’
Great point on cost.

We're kind of assuming cost will come down 10-100x before too long.
Rocket reliability.

Unfortunately the website www.spacelaunchreport.com has shut down, you can find some of the data here, Falcon 9 already on top of the list.

https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=56087.0

Since then Falcon 9 has launched many times with 100% success rate. Its really not a competition anymore.
No, but I should. It looks solid:

https://medium.com/deno-the-complete-reference/deno-vs-bun-p...
I notice you coming into every single thread about Julia to criticize the language and the community. Do you have a vendetta or something?
Yup, I'm one of them :)
Why not? Most of the complaints people have with Cloudflare regarding CAPTCHAs and user-hostile behavior are opt-in features that are not enabled by default. A website behind Cloudflare needs to enable extra protection to opt into the CAPTCHAs.

If your issue is more generally with a single provider becoming a global MITM for 10% of the internet, then that's a more understandable argument, albeit a meaninglessly existential one.
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HAHA I want this AI Comedy
Same, but I do take a half second to ensure their not ambiguous first.
A site where a prompt is the only differenator??
With agents becoming much more cheaper to use(AI).

Sales agents, Brokers, Buyers agents.

Seems like it would be best for a consumer to use the third option.

"Where do agents' loyalties lie?"
Computer verification of Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem (2005)
Is Musk right ? [flagged] [dead] Elon Musk on Sam Altman and ChatGPT: I am the reason OpenAI exists https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35973399 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWr-DA5Wjfw

full interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYGdm845lc8
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KIP-932: Queues for Kafka
XMonad still works well for me with ArchLinux. I don't know what extra I would want from a desktop environment?

However, XMonad can't do wonders: it doesn't make your browser use less memory or speed up your compile times.
Actually, that works too :) I think `DataFrame(CSV.File("name.csv"))` is what you're looking for
And yet, when I'm in the grocery store all those produce bags are still plastic while they brag about paper or reusable checkout bags!

There is no solution in sight for us - it's way too late.
Improving the terminal
The terminal is the tool I use the most in my day-to-day work. Over the years, I’ve created a series of shortcuts, scripts, and habits that make me more productive in performing many of my tasks. In this post, I will tell you some of the things I’ve set up and been using to inspire someone else to take the time to do the same.
Are there truly insurmountable reasons why an ancient os can't be used, even a closed source os like Windows, that couldn't be worked around by building some kind of compatibility layer, given infinite effort and resources?
> there is no supported way

This is why KDE is better than GNOME. Guess who GNOME models after? ;)
Splitting and combining back ranges is very common activity since about Core 2 Duo, when multi-core getting to be a normal.

I mean, computing mean - split range, get result per split and combine it back, and so on and so forth
Linux also got faster.
I’ve been a Mac user for most of my life, but professionally also used Windows 2000 a long time, many years ago.

It was a solid, speedy OS. Now at a new job I use Windows 11 and it’s a bit of a pain.

Would use Windows 2000 instead if still useful today, but I doubt I could run all the software I need for my job, sadly.
(Maybe I'm just cranky this morning, so please ignore this comment if it fails to please you, but uh... I think the "real WTF" is getting into a position where you need telemetry at all. It's hard to describe what I mean, it seems like most folks who think about these things at all either get it or don't, and the two positions are so self-evident to those that hold them that it blinds us to the rationale of the "other side". In any event, "compiler does not access network" Works For Me. Sorry for the noise.)
Because you paid 4x what the card is worth! I'm sure if every brand had those insane margins they would be happy to give out replacements like candy and help their public image.
Note that this behavior is not enabled by default. Websites behind Cloudflare need to opt into it, and they can choose which security level they use (with higher levels necessitating more CAPTCHAs).

Also, as someone who browses 100% of the time with a VPN, I hardly ever encounter Cloudflare CAPTCHAs. I've also been encountering less of them when using Tor; it seems Cloudflare has made progress in their efforts to reduce friction for Tor users. On the other hand, Google search frequently doesn't work at all - it refuses to serve me search results and doesn't even offer me the chance to solve a CATPCHA.
We eventually chose PostgreSQL due to cost and SQL compatibility
Momen is a cloud-native no-code IDE that we here at Momen have been developing since early 2020. It aims to significantly lower the hurdle one has to overcome to build an application that is capable of meeting the requirements of serving requests from a non-insignificant crowd. To that end, we first needed to decide how the shared state of that application was to be stored, in other words, what database technology we would use.
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> A modern corporation is a gigantic financial spreadsheet with its real assets a mere footnote.

This is the opposite of the reality. Financial statements following GAAP (USA) or IFRS (EU + many other major countries) explicitly list assets on the balance sheet with associated footnotes that explain more complex areas in greater depth. Often, footnotes will include more detailed information for those assets such as depreciation schedules (particularly for PP&E: Plants, Property, and Equipment).

A company can raise capital either via debt or equity financing[0]. Relevant footnotes usually include the terms of how capital was raised, which is normally to fund the core business operations for most companies I have come across.

> The virtual reality of Wall Street and the obese financial system only serves to inflate the volatility. That is by design because volatility is precisely what it is milking.

I agree there are indeed Wall Street firms that conduct unhealthy business, but I believe this is more common within Wall Street banks and investment firms rather than most American businesses as your comment seems to be implying.

I encourage you to read a set of financial statements to better understand how a business truly operates from an accounting perspective. Apple’s financial statements[1] are a good place to start since they have many PP&E assets, conduct financial services, and regularly deal with more complex accounting topics such as foreign currency conversion and derivatives for hedging. It’s truly valuable insight into how a company that’s incredibly expansive operates in (my opinion) a rather healthy manner all things considered.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/032515/what-are-dif...

[1] https://s2.q4cdn.com/470004039/files/doc_financials/2022/q4/...
Not so side question, but these policemen were seemingly given 3/4/5 doses of Narcan by the paramedics on site or in the hospital, how is it decided to administer this and how are doses calculated?

Narcan sounds not like being innocuous, isn't it a risk giving it to someone that isn't actually in overdose of opioids?
Expect GPT to be trademarked soon and any company trying to use "GPT" in their name to get the same treatment they would get from using "Google" in their name.
I've been finding myself less and less inclined to read semi-long articles so here is Kagi's summary:

The author warns against accepting help from people who are not genuinely interested in helping further the goals of a project. While the offers may seem helpful, these people often waste time driving the project in the wrong direction to suit their own goals. They do not care about the original vision of the project, but instead want the project owner to help them. This was evident when someone offered to help scale up the author's social network, Xnet, without understanding that the author's goals were the opposite - to prove a social network can run on a tiny, low-power server. While scaling up Xnet may have been fun, it was not the purpose of the project. Therefore, the author advises to be wary of offers of "help" and sometimes it is best to do the project yourself.
> Reminds me of how prepper types have recently been into MS-DOS machines

What now?
What kind of privacz issues are you reffering to? Legit qustion btw, I'm not aware of any but would like to read about it.
There is a nice one in Cambridge as well https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/
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From 1300 ~ about 1700 there was a "little" ice age that cuased widespread famine and cultural disruption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age

Yes, the current temperature shift now is greater but it has been ongoing for a much shorter period of time.
Seems super interesting
Introduction to LLMs for Generative AI
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> Apple had been turning magnets in the iPad covers so that reversed polarity prevented them from being compatible with iPad of previous generation

That's not actually what happened. See https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/the-case-of-the-myst...
Opt-in is a huge concession, especially since it means they will lose a lot of the information they would have gotten had they kept it opt-in. It makes built-in telemetry more palatable, because it gives the users a choice.

In contrast with how Homebrew implemented their opt-out telemetry, opinions obviously did matter to Go. Yes, I'm still salty about that project being so tone deaf.
> That “appearance” is pretty good at triggering our anthropomorphizing behaviors.

It's truly unfortunate, because I think that tendency for people to anthropomorphize LLMs leads to people thinking they can trust LLMs and take their words at face value, which is a path to significant problems, I think.

> I like your handle, did you read Richard Bach’s Illusions by any chance?

Absolutely, yes — good catch!
I would say it is accountable buuuttt ssoooooo sssllooowwwwww that in the end it almost feels unaccountable, and that's a pity. I don't know though how to bring together so many directions and so many (levels of) legislators in a quicker manner... and let's face it, the EU voters aren't smarter or better informed than in other places.
I can think of a critical experiment there. Prepare a dataset with blue and green people acting the same way. If AI shows statistically significant misrecognition, then it's a failure.
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To the extent I feel the need to do this (in very large projects with many teams) I think it's best accomplished with separate modules. My favorite way is a single repo muktimodule project with the core code in one module, all the database implementations in another, and very small third "main" module that brings them together and has the startup code.

But there are other solutions. You could probably cook up some linters or some other compile time enforcer.
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Large Scale Systems Museum in New Kensington, PA USA https://www.mact.io

System Source Computer Museum in Hunt Valley, MD USA https://museum.syssrc.com/

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Sounds like a questionable methodology to me.

In my experience traders generally aren't allowed to work from home in investment banks (even all throughout the pandemic) with which I am familiar, except for a handful. That handful being the head of a desk etc who in fact does little day to day trading and has a more managerial job.

Many people also WFH who are technically traders are in sales and doing very little day to day trading.

People, as usual, reading tea leaves.
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Cops say they're being poisoned by fentanyl. Experts disagree
If someone trying to make a joke can accidentally get this much access and engagement, imagine how well the scammers must be doing.

Cryptocurrency scams must be an incredibly lucrative space, and now we know why there's so much spam about it that plenty leaks out into visibility.
You have a far more nuanced view of deadlines than most people I've spoken to. It sounds like you think of deadlines as a cost function where the cost of something not being done is zero until a particular date, then rises more and more as more time passes beyond that date.

That's a much more useful perspective than "it doesn't matter if it's done and suddenly on this day it becomes super important" which is what a deadline implies to me. (For concrete examples of this binary type of deadline, think of releasing something at a conference, or handing in an essay in school.)
Do you think Microsoft would actually take a risk like that? They've invested heavily in Open AI, so I'd be pretty surprised if they don't have access to the IP.

Like you said the legal details aren't public, but I can't imagine they don't have access to some of the IP.
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Not sure if we are agreeing with each other or disagreeing, but what you are describing had absolutely nothing to do with what Theranos was actually researching and working on. So sure, I think it's possible to say "Man, if only Theranos was working on something totally different from what they were selling to investors and the public, there could have been something!"
I think Elon is on the wrong side of history on this one. According to data from Kastle Systems [1], back to work has stalled at between 50-60% of pre-pandemic levels. Even outside of tech, at best, companies are forcing workers back 2-3 days per week. The WSJ reported yesterday on the fire sale conditions in the commercial property market, with buildings selling for 30-80% lower prices than in 2019, leading to intensely lower leasing rates on new space.

If you have to work in a lab with special equipment, I can see needing to go in to work. But if your job is at a keyboard, what’s the point, precisely? People are more productive at home once they get things set up properly, which I think has largely happened by now.

[1] https://www.kastle.com/safety-wellness/getting-america-back-...
Yes there’s products on CF that cost a lot of money. Like Argo. So… just don’t use that kind of product? All prices are clear. We are discussing the “free” CDN services. You will never get a random bill for that.
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Your description of pachinko parlors is quite similar to a lot of casinos, from Macau to Vegas.

I'm just pointing out that there is nothing Japanese about enjoying a high charged environment.
I love Varda so I’ll bite.

Off the top of my head, her most HN-relevant movie is The Gleaners and I. In France, there’s a right to glean — to harvest food that will not otherwise be harvested. (Actual French people should help explain that better.) Varda made a movie about gleaners, which covers everything from people living without a home to people making art from found objects to herself.

It’s HN-relevant because finding usefulness in seemingly useless material has the hacker nature. It’s also HN-relevant because she used a new fangled digital camera and it’s absolutely wonderful watching a master director explore what she can do with new technology.

She was always enthused about working with technical constraints. One of her lesser movies, Daguerréotypes, was a documentary about the street she lived on. She was pregnant when she made it, so her limitation was the 300 foot long power cables for her equipment.

Varda is also one of the few directors I know who loves postmortems. Both the movies I mentioned above have sequels revisiting their topics and discussing how the act of making those movies affected the people who were observed. She also revisited her own life with two late career retrospectives, and her husband Jacques Demy’s career with a biopic, a retrospective on his overall life, and a specific retrospective about one of his movies.

She was above all else an observer of life. I recommend her work highly. It’s easily available on the Criterion Channel and much of it is on Kanopy, free with a US library card.
Except that, when applied to Windows 7, they would actually make sense. There have been no objective improvements since Windows 7 that I can think of. The UI is changed all around for no reason, the system is less responsive, the hardware requirements are higher, and there's a whole lot more built-in malware, but that's it. There's a reason Microsoft had to deploy every dirty trick in the book to make people upgrade.

Windows 95, on the other hand, was barely usable. My installation would go down literally every day. Running DOS programs in emulation on a more recent version of Windows is a vastly better experience than running them on DOS ever was.
slack is bitchware. a new term i use these days for software which is forced on employees because they have no other option (hence bitches). other examples of bitchware are microsoft teams, jira etc.
You don't necessarily need to own a home, but I think we'd agree most want to be in a good place financially before raising kids. Having a foot on the property ladder and living somewhere you can raise a family over the long-term is clearly part of this for most people.

You're right that couples could just rent a place and try to get on the proper ladder while trying to raise kids, but realistically I think most would want to do things the other way around. But to your point not owning a home is one of the compromises people who really want kids will be forced to make to have them today.
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This is actually a really big problem big companies have - they outsource enforcement to other companies like BrandShield. 99% of the time they clean up scum that nobody notices, but once in a while they strike incorrectly and cause a lot of bad PR for the first brand.

A good example would be the recent Nintendo takedown of LockpickRCM. That actually wasn't Nintendo - that was one of their partners getting ambitious (though Nintendo didn't necessarily feel the need to intervene and reverse it). If you inform BrandShield that "GPT" is not a trademark of OpenAI, was a term originally created by Google (what about their copyright?), and that you refuse to comply based on that grounds, I would hope they step down; because they would hopefully realize that any attempt at enforcement would be far from a slam-dunk legal case.
Pfft. They didn't even start the registration for their GPT trademarks until the end of 2022, and now they are threatening people to try and defend against dilution.

Sorry OpenAI, that term is now generic. Good luck keeping those registrations that were already granted!
Nice observation, will help to formulate our Voight-Kampff tests. Might well get some false positives on neurodivergent humans though.
It's best to ignore these demand letters, but this isn't legal advice. More here:

https://www.sparkfun.com/news/3917

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27694537
Title is actually "Cops say they're being poisoned by fentanyl. Experts say the risk is 'extremely low'" but I could not fit it in without making it weird or breaking grammar.
It seems like a natural conclusion:

1. Teach: humanity has done X to the environment

2. Teach: if we don’t do something Y will happen

3. Conclude: I was not alive to do X

4. Ergo: the adults in my life did X

5. Ergo: the adults in my life will continue to do X which will cause Y because I can’t affect meaningful change

I don’t automatically assume they start at step 5 at school. I’ve seen his math homework. Is that a normal way of thinking though?

To automatically assume that with my son would teach him (likely, inadvertently) that what he learns at school may not be right (which isn’t true, for the most part). Rather I want to teach him that he takes ownership of the words that come out of his mouth. That his opinions are his own and he has to defend them, and further learn what is an opinion and what is a fact.
Probably this is gross amount and not net? People pay in 14.6 trillion and get back 13 trillion or something.
Calibrating and troubleshooting web-server (Jetty) performance
More impactful, they also signed their wallets over to him.
You misspelled PFAS.
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Choosing a log level is tough. It's always either too much (and a crazy Datadog bill) or too little (and it's not very useful).

Wouldn’t it be great if you could snap your fingers and start looking at DEBUG logs for a single customer? We think so too.

Here's what Prefab provides so far:

1. Something failing? Instantly change log levels for any class or package. Not specific enough? Target specific users, transactions, or devices and only output debug logs for them. Keep your logging code and log aggregator as-is, we just adjust the levels. Very easy to install this locally and give it a try. Hopefully a huge boon to your MTTR. 2. A realtime, reliable Dynamic Configuration system that gives you interactive, real-time, fine-grained control over operations of your deployed systems.

The core technology is this dynamic configuration system, similar in behavior to Netflix's https://github.com/Netflix/archaius, Amplitude's DynConf https://amplitude.com/blog/dynamic-configuration or HubSpot's conspicuously well-named "Config" https://product.hubspot.com/blog/backend-tooling. Client libraries bootstrap off a CDN and then start an SSE connection to get updates.

We'd love for you to take Prefab for a spin and share your thoughts. Full support for these logging features in Java & Ruby today. Python/Node/Elixir are in alpha zone and we would love to work with you on their development. See it in action: https://youtu.be/8AsEJF-NwAQ

We're so excited to share what we've built. We started Prefab because we think there is too much great, general-purpose tech that's locked away in large orgs. Just because I no longer have a team of 50 developer platform engineers on my side, doesn’t mean I don't want the fruits of their labor.

If you've used dynamic configuration or dynamic log levels before I'd love if you would share your experiences and favorite use cases here.

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A language without operator overloading is non-starter.
Logging and reporting is generally for the benefit of the end user.

Telemetry is generally for the benefit of the marketing team, law enforcement and development team.
Too bad LTE only comes as a back-mounted "clip-on".