skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a perfect case study showing how it literally doesn't matter what your business is or what kind of community you've built, or operating practices you've developed; if the company has sold itself to investors, and investors decide "we want our exit" the company will turn into whatever it has to in order to "give investors their exit" and "return capital."

Lets look at an article that talks about how they got into this situation (https://jlericson.com/2021/04/27/reading_tealeaves.html)

Relevant quotes:

"We can never go back to the golden years of Stack Exchange and we probably don't want that anyway."

"This might seem odd until you understand the intended audience: investors. It's been over a decade since the first round of financing. At this point, private equity has invested more than $150 million. It's about time to find an exit strategy."

"Instead, Stack Overflow will position advertising as a way for companies to promote both their products and their perks for potential employees."

"Stack Overflow's investors want to get back their investments plus a healthy return. Let's say each investor wants at least 20% return on their investment per year."

"The VCs want a bit more than Microsoft is willing pay. So the company needs to start making it's case for a public offering. The only story that will sell is growth—ideally "hyper growth".

"I’m writing today to share that I’ve made the very difficult decision to reduce our workforce by about 10%, or 58 employees."

Lets sum up shall we:

We created this great product that people love. We then decided that we needed to grow really quickly and so we sold the future of the company to people who only care about money. We then sold the whole company outright to new investors (Prosus which is a "tech investment" firm) because the original investors are demanding a payout because "it's been long enough" apparently that they have not gotten their payout.

The new company then demanded growth, which led to over-hiring on the false bet that they would increase revenue via propaganda. That didn't work so we're breaking our agreement with 58 people that we were betting on (most likely without telling them specifically that their employment was conditional based on a hypothesis) in order to make sure investors do not get upset.

Sounds great, lets keep doing this.
Step 1 - realize that the real world is not a happy-ending Orson Scott Card novel, where a smart-enough character (with no fame, power, nor wealth) has a realistic chance of becoming a VIP through online agitation. Let alone swaying substantial corporate and government decisions, based just on online fame.

Step 2 - understand that those in power seldom care much about following any nice-sounding rules which they've published, when it is more comfortable & convenient for them to do otherwise.

Step 3 - look for a political party (or at least a viable politician) who advocates for something at-least-vaguely resembling your views. Inquire about that candidate's need for campaign volunteers. Understand that achieving any substantial political change generally requires years of effort and millions of motivated voters.
This feels weird.

Unless you're running that image in production as well? Thats sort of the point? Production matches the test environment.

It's still early here, it's very possible I'm not really with it at the moment
To be fair, Norway is also an incredibly wealthy country that can afford to do things that many other countries simply can't.
The difference is, I pay money for multiple substack subscriptions to authors I enjoy reading and find value in. Those authors don't show any sign of leaving the platform because they get to run a newsletter without hiring any technical staff and the money keeps coming in.

I don't think the same could be said of anyone on clubhouse.
For the OP:

Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead

Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to nilsbakker.nl. If you visit this site, attackers could try to steal information like your passwords, emails, or credit card details.

And:

$ curl https://nilsbakker.nl/portfolio/3d-tiles/
curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: self-signed certificate
More details here: https://curl.se/docs/sslcerts.html

curl failed to verify the legitimacy of the server and therefore could not
establish a secure connection to it. To learn more about this situation and
how to fix it, please visit the web page mentioned above.
(hf-course-3.9.13)
Ask HN: What are you doing about A2P 10DLC for hobby projects?
I use Twilio for SMS and MMS in a random assortment of personal projects: alerting for a home server, chess over MMS, notifications to/from family members solving puzzle games, etc.

I've been receiving the various Twilio emails about A2P 10DLC [1], but have mostly ignored them until now as it seemed like things were still in flux. Now that the dust has settled, it looks like I'd need to register as a "Sole Proprietor", pay $4 for a "Brand", pay $15 for "Campaign Vetting", and then pay $2/month for that "Campaign" in order to continue sending messages (mostly to myself) the way I do at present.

It's not necessarily that the cost is prohibitive, it's more so than I don't really want to pay $2/month for a service I'm sometimes not using at all.

As far as alternatives, I looked into a few different options:

- Using a toll-free number [2] - This requires verification too, but via a different process. It looks like toll-free numbers in the US cost $2.15/month.

- Using a different notification system - I already have a (Twilio) SendGrid subscription, I could just move SMS + MMS-based services to email, and I really should use a PagerDuty-type service for my homelab alerts anyway.

- "Special Use Cases" for A2P 10DLC [3] - "Low-volume hobby projects" didn't make the cut as a special use case.

- Move to another SMS + MMS API - Since A2P 10DLC is an initiative of US carriers (as far as I can tell), all Twilio competitors (e.g. [4]) have to offer more or less the same flow (campaigns + external vetting) and pricing.

- Build an alternative service - Not a particularly realistic option, but I don't see why one couldn't (attempt to) make a campaign on behalf of all hobby projects and offer to enforce limits on their behalf (low volumes, perhaps a phone-number allowlist per project with low quotas, etc), and have that (and your internal business practices/controls) go through the vetting process and get approved by carriers.

[1] https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/1260800720410-What-is-A2P-10DLC-

[2] https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038172934-Information-and-best-practices-for-using-Toll-Free-SMS-and-MMS-in-the-US-and-Canada

[3] https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/4402972441243-Special-Use-Cases-for-A2P-10DLC#h_01F9J4T5823K3ENEDAN7WM70Z7

[4] https://www.plivo.com/docs/privatebeta/sms/10dlc/quickstart/
It also disables their plugins (browsing, code interpreter, etc.)
> If China provided the same protection instead, would your opinion be the same?

Of course.

> So yeah, I'm not "grateful", nor I see why I should be. I see only a superpower acting in their own geopolitical interests, doing what is better for itself, and no one else.

It is also better for Europe.
SQLite also lives under a literal mountain of automated tests, an engineering effort I'm not sure I've ever seen elsewhere. The library code is absolutely dwarfed by the test code.

...and CVEs still pop up occasionally. The point about memory safety languages still holds, but can be mostly muted given you throw enough tests at the problem.
Are you a paid writer from the government?
Yes, it's an early draft.

The "quoted triples" technique is otherwise known as "RDF-star" Here's an article that explains the motivations and alternatives pretty comprehensively: https://www.ontotext.com/knowledgehub/fundamentals/what-is-r....

That's one of the reason for having an official 1.2 standard... so all the formats (including Turtle) will incorporate it in a compatible, correct way.
A hundred years ago, gardeners cultivated dandelions in their garden bed: https://williamrubel.com/2015/04/23/the-history-of-the-garde...

Basil is a cultivated herb that often breaks out of containment and goes wild. Sometimes, people will redomesticate those because the ones that survive the local conditions are well-adapted to the climate.
I feel like a big part of it boils down to why steal/do illegal shit when you don't have to. In a place like Norway so many of your needs are going to be taken care of by the state.
Not sure if you are aware how small most European countries are:

Norway 5.4
Sweden 10.4
Denmark 5.8
Finland 5.5

Estonia 1.3
Lithuania 2.8
Latvia 1.8

Some numbers in millions vs

Ukraine 43.79
Russia 143.4
Compared to the US?
Why do you need nvm in CI. Just use containers and one node version.
I live on an artery/thoroughfare in SF. My street also has a 10-15' retaining wall along one side that faces a small valley on the other. The noise on my street is extremely loud and echoes throughout the whole neighborhood. My favorite days and nights are Sundays when streets are the quietest. Here's how I've ordered the worst offenders in my head.

1) Harley's with open pipes
2) cars without any exhaust (common)
3) after market exhaust on import cars (thanks Fast & Furious)
4) garbage trucks, gas powered gardening equipment, 4x4's/big trucks, new muscle cars
5) scooters, mopeds, gas powered bicycles, motocross motorcycles (I get sideshows/giant groups driving up/down my street to the next location), enduro & regular motorcycles

The thing is is that there are already laws in place to deal with most of those..
I was affected by the same hotmail wipe. My hotmail account was from 1998, and Microsoft decided to wipe it..
All my memories gone. Fuck them I've never used MS crap for anything of value since then.
Probably because it's ignoring the start of very next sentence in an attempt at sarcastic wit.

> The net volume loss in natural lakes...
Interested to know any technical details you're willing to share about how you have this set up. I'm a nix noob trying to get my head round its various parts, and interested to hear real world examples of how people are using it in CI/CD pipelines. My experience is limited to playing a bit with 'nix shell' locally.
I am familiar with UB as a result of memory unsafety, but the way it is talked about it sounds like the only ways to ever cause UB is with memory unsafety.

Based on that definition it feels like it should be possible to have UB outside of memory violations, is there really no UB in languages like Java/Haskell/Go?
And then portage will tell to Mother what packages you have installed. /s
ah, sure thing!

you want some kind of managed buffer (aqm/sqm/qos) in your bottleneck router.

openwrt or any linux can do it as the needed parts (fq_codel or cake qdisc) are in upstream for some years now and wrappers like firewall distros or libre-qos make it available via gui.

there is also some proprietary soho gear that allegedly works, big-iron is still on red/pie w/o fair queueing afaik
One thing you learn about high end performance cars is just the sheer amount of heat they spew at all times. From everywhere. Part of it is they have far more than a single radiator. Once you start crossing $100K USD a fair number of cars start getting to 3-5 heat exchangers (even NA cars!), and it climbs from there.

Road going performance cars have fans first to help get things up to temperature for emissions, and after that, for when you’re at low speeds or stationary. So you don’t overheat (or catch fire) when you’re stuck in traffic after having the car at high load.

Race cars tend to not have any fans near their primary heat exchangers. You get more airflow without fan blades creating impedance, and you just rely on the airflow at speed to do all the work.
How about respecting people instead of treating them as resources that deserve exploitation?
The Xbox controller is completely stagnant. It's also the standard controller for PC gaming.

It's the IE6 of controllers.
In addition to the good qualities you listed, they are also good indicators of compacted soil (plants with thick taproots tend to spring up in compacted soil).

They are technically invasive where I am (northeast US) but I have never seen them take over an area so much as to choke out native species. I would argue that they have become naturalized.
Chaos-GPT: An AI Tool That Seeks to Destroy Humanity
Norway is being compared to other very wealthy countries here.
It's not great that so many streamers are ditching their content like this. What isn't clear to me (even after reading a linked article), is what exactly is the cost of keeping a title 'available' on the platform?

For a few years now I have been put off when I open Netflix because there's just SO much content on there that I don't even know how to find something I'd enjoy even though I know there is stuff I'd enjoy in their catalogue.

Is it just me or does it seem like in an age of AI-recommender systems, streaming TV recommendations algorithms haven't kept up.
I made a dandelion petal gin and a whole dandelion tincture last week, and both were a big hit at a cocktail party. I also sprinkle the petals and greens on my salads for a boost of nutrition, flavor and color.

My favorite cocktail with the gin/tincture is a Bees' Knees but substituting lime and agave for the lemon and honey. I call it a Dandy Lion!
“I spent three months writing a new distributed storage engine based on SQLite”
Well, I hated the office too when it was the loud cacophonous open office. I have a cube now and I'm a lot happier.
I think many of us working in software can be overconfident about how easy it is to scale things, probably because of the peculiar progress in the improvement of integrated circuits and the commensurate increased availability of raw compute for not that much more energy. But many processes (including desalinization, as far as I understand it) are energy bound. It is really hard to make exponential progress when a process is bound by how much energy you can muster up to put into it. That is why rockets haven't had an exponential increase in the amount of weight they can get into orbit in the last 100 years. With gravity you must pay the piper.

I doubt scaling desalinization is as hard as hurling stuff into space, but it may not be easy to scale either. There are plenty of places on earth which are very dry, adjacent to salt water, and extremely rich and yet no great desalinization technologies have come from them.
Probably not used as much by programmers, but it's a great swiss army knife type tool for copying stuff around with more finegrained control. Sysadmins use it a ton. Probably more often through scripts than directly.

The nice thing with ^T versus status=progress is that ^T will work even when dd was invoked from some script that you don't necessarily want to edit, etc.
I wonder if RDF could actually be used to implement "trigger warnings". List triggering tags in your browser, and then the triggering content can be tagged and blocked by your browser. No censorship involved, just responsible disclosure.
The difficulty helped hide the fact that you were paying $50 in 1980s money for a game that took approximately an hour to beat. If you could beat it. But I suspect the more common gameplay loop was the one I and my friends encountered: you put the game in, played for 20-35 minutes, got a Game Over. If you were really motivated maybe you tried again and got to Stage 4 instead of Stage 3, but at some point said, screw it, turned the game off, and played something else.

These days every game is made with the intention that it can and should be beaten, which is part of why there's so much needless padding in games to stretch them out beyond the 40-hour mark and make the player feel like they're getting "value" for their money.
What I suspect is coding copilot tools and checkers will be the second pair of eyes on all this code. It just needs to be deployed and used more.
Any kind of accountability? Den Haag when?
I think that’s intentional. They’re trying to discourage you from opting out.
IMO, the grave-dancing on artists most likely arises from a (probably small) subset of artists having a vocally "fuck you, pay me for my skill" attitude.
Why not run it over something like Telegram? The Bot API works well for such use cases.
It's OK for some things genuinely to have been better for some people in some of the planned economies.

City planning looks to be better for children and perhaps average families for the reasons given. Similar projects were also built in the west, e.g. in the UK, but since they were only for poor people they suffered from inadequate maintenance, security and so on. Those either get demolished, or the green space filled in with more buildings.

> Something else must have changed.

Cars, that was the point. A one-lane access road was originally enough for deliveries, maintenance and waste removal; it would later be widened, then cars parked (legally or not) along the sides of the road or sidewalks. No one wants to sit on a bench and stare at a parked car, and the cars (parked and moving) make it more dangerous for children to play unsupervised.
No problems here, it displays as a "Let's encrypt" certificate.
>I will never understand why SO canceled 'Talent', their job board.

From a related article: https://jlericson.com/2021/04/27/reading_tealeaves.html

"But since it was finally canceled well after the acquisition, I suspect it was no longer growing and, perhaps, unprofitable. I don't get the feeling that the new CEO was interested in this line of business and it could be that Talent was starved of resources until it was easy to eliminate."

Simple: It wasn't making money fast enough for the parent company's investors
I think this might be just because their comment is borderline useless - it is so condensed that one can hardly make any sense of it.

So what did they want to say? Is it "Science, it works?" like in XKCD comic #54? Or are the quotes around science the actually important thing, casting doubt on it? It's hard to tell because they did not bother to spend a few seconds to actually write it out.

Beside that there is more to papers than just their abstract. If you are curious, you can check section "Global LWS trends and drivers" for the answers to your questions.
Not really. Norway has oil money. It's basically Scandinavian Saudi Arabia (but less off the rails).
For what it's worth, as a born and raised Floridian, hurricanes are always fun before (laughing as people panic buy, watching the track, wondering if it will turn at the last moment or unexpectedly linger on top of you), during (admiring the wind/rain, wondering if we'll have to run the generator this year), and after (marvelling at the damage, having a good excuse to run the chainsaw, wondering when we can stop running the generator); and that's not even considering how much fun road trips can be when you have to evacuate.

OTOH, maybe I'm just weird.
And if the first "slug of data" contains something you need to remove? If you need to remove something you would need to roll-back to the last checkpoint that didnt include it.
Do you find the piece of software useful?
The US (SW and SE coasts mostly, though some of those jobs were for companies headquartered elsewhere), so yeah, can't speak outside of that.
I use it daily to write code for me, mostly of the "here is some input data, please use this API and this other API to transform it into this example output data". It works flawlessly 95% of the time.
Archive of Our Own is having a similar mini crisis... And a related issue, where authors are unhappy about their work being scraped.
Sure, if you're in a crowd. I never specified the conditions in which one may responsibly exert "free" speech, and while I do understand the context to be in the UK, my perspective is primarily US-based. Depending on the level of your concern, it may be worth relocating in order to have a different set of concerns less stressful for your life.
Yeah same, for some specialized roles we looked for months and managed to snag an excellent person in just 2 weeks from SO's Talent ads. Literally the best eyeballs to put job ads in front of are the ones looking at the relevant problems. It's even nicely tagged by category, tech stack etc.
The infrequency just does the issue worse, because every time I want to see a progress, I'd remember that I needed to add a special option to dd.
In my experience credit score isn't based on how much money you transact/owe, but how well you manage whatever debt you have.

I.e. I have two 2% cashback credit cards even though I make <$30k/yr.
I use LLM for generating data, for example to fill SQL tables for tests or some python datastructures. Transforming data works really well, so tasks like "take bibtex entry and convert it into citation"

I've tried to code entire IOS app with it but failed. You still need to have knowledge about what you are actually doing. I feel like it can accelerate learning, but in a very narrow way. When I was trying to do my own android app 3 years back I've learned bunch of different things about what I was trying to actually do and also around the whole ecosystem. When I was trying to code the IOS app I made progress fast, but I felt like I was just learning the thing that I wanted to learn not the actual surrounding knowledge. Now this sounds good, but I feel like I'm leaving something on the table when doing this kind of "accelerated learning".

I've also tried autogpt/langchain approaches to automate some writing commands for me like "remove all files that are beginning with abc". It did generate appropriate command but sometimes if they failed (the files weren't there in the first place) it just fell into the loop of constantly trying to get a successful deletion by refining the command. It even tried to go to the / to find all such files, talk about paperclips huh. Truth to be told I haven't played with the idea much so there is a room for improvement

LLMs kinda help, they are especially good when provided with source, but I don't really feel like a 1000x super-hacker with VR-glasses that spawns hundreds of agents each minute to do different task. (I would like to though)

I would like to do something with the LLMs but every idea I have already has an established startup or the argument "you could just write this in chatgpt" is made. Literally take whatever comes to your mind and add "LLM" or "GPT", there is a startup for that.
To put it another way "If Ferrari can't spend $400m on F1 anymore, it might as well spend money on another racing series it can use as a pretext for research that will improve it's F1 car".
User content on StackOverflow is licensed openly (CC-BY-SA), as it should be. So it's absolutely fair game for reuse.

I have a lot of sympathy with people whose all-rights-reserved content has been repackaged by LLMs and similar, but that's not StackOverflow. SO got free contributions from its users; the company didn't write them itself.
'Do' More with 'Run'
To say the nation (the many varied people of the US) is at ease with torture is propaganda. In my opinion, certain elements of the state (the government of the US) are at ease with torture and it should be focused on those responsible. Words matter especially right now when Ruzzia is propagandizing everything to find allies for their illegal war.
Disregarding that small bit in one of the constitutional amendments, isn't this straight up slavery?

I don't see how having poor and resentful prisoners helps getting them back into society.
My daughter was quite put out when her teacher awarded extra credit for the students who brought in long dandelions --- they were the first weed which I'd managed to eradicate from our yard (by digging them up by the roots).

Next was the plantains, buckhorn, and uncommon.

The big thing is, eliminating such weeds means that the grass needs to be cut less often, since it's the growth rate of the grass which determines this, which is an important consideration since I use a reel lawnmower.