skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that works. LLM-generated contents are not copyrightable.
By not taking it personally.
Ask HN: How much free beer would scare you?
As I am writing this NVIDIA Corp’s market cap on the futures market is up 215 billion dollars. This is enough to buy a case of beer for each person in the world. 715/7.88 = $27.28. If the cans were stacked end to end… Enough!

I see this as a little bubbly, but par for the course. How about yourself? How much free beer would scare you? And you know where I am going here. What needs to happen in your mind to convince you to say: “Oh Shit! Something is happening here.”?
Podman Desktop 1.0 released: a challenge to Docker Desktop
> As IBM seems to be the last man standing in the tape storage market

I wonder if IBM is going to introduce a new generation of 3592, or is LTO the “last man standing” too?

The latest IBM 3592 drive generation (20TB uncompressed), came out in 2018. At the time, their roadmap had future generations promising 30, 40, 80 TB capacity-but I’m thinking, five years on, if they were going to deliver any of that, surely they would have by now?
In my home town many churches from the 11th century to the 16th century got razed to the ground to build theaters or converted into shopping malls by liberals in the 18th century.

It was done in the name of rationality since religion does not exist for them, meant to free the people from gods. As end result, those theaters were private and got abandoned.

Those shopping malls are now the new churches of a society that now instead of worshiping a god in heavens is worshiping the god of money. It would have been saner to respect old churches and preserve our patrimony/cultural heritage.
literal LOL

the US dollar is beyond the power of a rating agency

the fact that all of the industrial economies have generated so much debt in the last generation and still get AAA ratings tells you how pointless these ratings are for currencies-that-matter

Canada has the highest debt-to-GDP ratio in the G7 now and it also has AAA rating

until someone sells Martian government bonds backed by hard assets and yearly balanced budgets...buyers have no choice but to buy toxic assets

when governments inflate, they pay back debt with less worthy currency...so the US and everyone else is basically slow-motion defaulting over time anyway
Study Art!
One of my friends did an arts degree prior to entering the software industry. She said that studying and making art prepared her for all the criticism her code would get. You build thick skin.

But on a more realistic note - separating yourself from your work is hard. I accept that at times my code will be bad, sometimes the reasons are external and sometimes I just did not know better. But I try not to repeat mistakes, that is the key. Also I consciously frame it as “the code had a bug” vs “my code was bad”. How you phrase it goes a long way, imo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLwTlC1R2sY -- How slow is Javascript really? Javascript vs C++ (Data Structures & Optimization)
His Things I Won't Work With are always hilarious as well as educational. And they really make you wonder about the chemists who actually work with these substances, especially when their notes include things like "violent explosion" but they kept trying.
Is the Next Alibaba AliCloud?
Unless they're obviously fake artist names, I wouldn't do that. Every real name carries the risk that a new hire might share that name, leading to all the confusion mentioned in the article.
Simulating DSP algorithms using Verilog
The only thing this will result in is even more funding for Hamas, and possibly even money laundering for Iran.
Europe’s biggest city council faces £100M bill in Oracle ERP project disaster
Or just don't use PayPal. There is nothing necessary about PayPal.
Facial recog system used by Met Police shows racial bias at low thresholds
I'm not the GP, but here are some ways:

Something like 95% of criminal cases are resolved with plea deals and not trials, and legal representation from public defenders has very limited resources.

Cash bail results in many people imprisoned without trial: After arrest, the court requires bail. Poor people can't afford it, so they are jailed until trial, which can be over a year. The impacts go beyond the (very serious) loss of freedom: They lose jobs, their family loses income, dependents (children, elderly) lose caregivers.
Doesn‘t that number alone arouse suspicion in you? I suggest you read the paper in question and ask yourself if their methods really measure what they claim.
I recently heard a criticism that this forum was looking too far backward in tech history and lore. Can I suggest everyone young and old look back even further in moral history. Start with the secret diary of Marcus Aurelius. It is about 2000 years old, and written by an emperor, and not meant to ever be published. But it is easy to read quickly and will teach you every thing you need to know about how to handle a tiny PR criticism. Don't trust me. Read it. No-one will criticize you for like-harvesting or virtue-signalling the same way again. Or at least a bit less :) All the best.
Measuring Engineering Performance
Measuring the performance of an Engineering department is a complex task. This article gives you guidance on where to get started!
Looks good. But personally it reminds me of an angry little baby-bird, because of the stance and the white pupilless eyes. Maybe I've seen just read too many fantasy-comics, where white eyes are a typical sign for an angry animal. And I guess at icon-size it doesn't matter anyway.
How the CIA Used 'Vampires' to Fight Communism in the Philippines
But then it's trivial to sneak a backdoor past code review.
Ministry of Justice rapped by ICO for old fashioned data leak
I don't see what I do as "my work" and I assume my team is just earnestly trying to get our projects done. I'm not naive - I know some personalities like jockeying for career capital and all that but it's not constructive to dwell on.
But this isn't the point. The previous commenter was replying to someone who said that what we do has zero to do with our self worth. They were saying, no, it does have quite a lot to do with it.

Saying "well it's not all about what we do!" is not in keeping with the conversation.
Unified data view across Microservices: Temporal and Dozer?
Hey HN,

As one of the co-founders of Dozer (https://github.com/getdozer/dozer), I stumbled upon this awesome article from the Temporal folks (https://temporal.io/blog/saga-pattern-made-easy) and got super excited about the potential synergy between Dozer and Temporal.

While Temporal nails the orchestration of microservices, I couldn't help but notice the challenge of consolidating data across services. In the article, they talk about three services: flight booking, hotel booking, and experience booking. But imagine trying to create a complete trip view by stitching together data from all three services - it can be quite a headache!

And that's where Dozer swoops in to save the day. With Dozer, I can tap into all the change data capture (CDC) events from each microservice, merge the data in real-time, stash it in a cache, and make it available through APIs. The best part? Since Dozer operates in real-time, my cached data is always fresh. Boom! Now I can simply leverage Dozer's APIs to access a comprehensive trip view.

Raise your hand if you've faced this challenge before! Let's hear your thoughts.
Germany Falls into Recession
PostgreSQL 16 Beta 1 Released
That wasn't part of the conversation.

But I'll bite.

Somehow I always end up defending China on HN but really I'm just sharing what I have seen/heard during my time there.

The majority of the Chinese do not worry about those things.

The great firewall is probably the greatest inconvenience you listed. However, the Chinese that come here and see FB and Google say, hey, maybe the firewall is not a bad idea. It's easy to circumvent anyway. It just blocks the majority of the population from western media.

The social credit system I don't know anything about, sorry.

The camps, AFAIK, are for Uyghurs classified as dangerous or high risk. At least, that's what the Han believe. The general understanding is if you do something like text "terrorism" as a Uyghur - you disappear for a while. I think part of this is because they are terrified the US will radicalize the muslim extremists. The truth is we barely have to - they hate the Chinese enough there are recorded events of the Uyghers just running around killing Han Chinese with knives. This was before cameras were super popular, but there is potato footage. This is partly why large cities in Xinjiang have such high security (think officers with MP5s outside every K-6 school) So, the Han do not protest at such camps.
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Try withdrawing again. They unblock it without any notification while keeping the account limited.
Weren't people slapping malicious stickers over qr codes to infected versions of pdf menus fishing around for old android phones?
While religion is on the decline in the US, Christianity is still the dominants religion, and it's a famous parable. And this is an American, English-language website; it's not crazy to think that much of the population has heard the saying.

HN is also a cyber-entrepreneur website, and if there is anyone willing to disregard that saying extra hard they're here too...
Given the recent seizure of crypto accounts funnelling money to Hamas and Iran[0], this seems pretty sensible, to funnel more financial activity in the region onto platforms that have good AML/ATF processes.

[0]: https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-seizes-30-crypto-wallet...
man some-tool

info some-tool

some-tool --help

just help me dammit some-tool
> Any information that can be subpoenae-ed

What if you operate from e.g. Iceland, Switzerland or even many EU states? Can a US Gov. agency still subpoena you?
> it can be helpful, for some, to give up on the notion of retirement altogether.

Yeah, perfect and ready to be exploited with no end in sight.

What are $B and $M crowds? Billionares and millionares? Do you have any personal insight into those or just read about it?
This is the last story I read to my dad that really made him smile, laugh and cry almost all at once... He had dementia and passed away a few months later after a life in civil aviation.
>lawmakers urge

Shouldn't lawmakers, um, make laws? Instead of asking nicely?
If you make drugs illegal you have a health problem and a criminal problem.

If you regulate it and make it legal, you only have a health problem.
Sue on what grounds? It will be quickly dismissed.
I love the style, I'll download it when I get home. Is there anything similar but for statistics?
Yes my DIY 24-drive NAS does 2.6 GB/s and even multiple LTO drives can’t keep up with that :-)

Even my now decommissioned 8-drive NAS could do 800MB/s.

And my first 20-drive NAS (long since gone) from 15+ years ago could keep up. (Peak at 1GB/s)
The main problem with a falling birthrate is not a shrinking population but instead an aging one. No matter the details of the implementation (pensions vs savings) the working support the non-working, retired people. A falling birthrate means the proportion of non-working people increases forever, until it's completely unsustainable.

People always seem to bring up the same interventions to stabilize this, like free childcare and tax incentives. These might be good ideas but they have been tried and haven't made a difference.

Personally I think more radical reforms to modern life will be required, like no one is allowed to work full-time until >40 and mothers of >2 get a special hat that lets them skip lines at theme parks or something.
The conclusion is

“you have to think hard to avoid UB via rust’s FFI mechanics.”

this is contrary to rust’s aims to make such bugs impossible, rather than just hard.

Hence their proposal for a DSL _in rust_, which makes those bugs impossible.

The authors are providing a solution to a clearly identified problem, with the goal of making rust better.

Despite the poor intro, the ideas in the paper are “let’s shrink the unsafe boundary”, not “let’s stick to writing what we know(C).”
On the other hand, in this industry often what one engineer identifies as a mistake another might be neutral toward or identify as a best practice/correct.

Our industry doesn't have many standards, and it's not nearly as objective as some think. And often criticism isn't intended to improve an outcome: it's intended to bring others' in line with the critic's view of how it should be done.

All this to say, I'd just add to your comment that one must also develop the ability to discern when a critic is identifying a true mistake and when they are simply parroting a fad or injecting their subjective beliefs into the review.
My local library, seems to be planning to do this:
<https://www.hepl.lib.in.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/HEPL-B...>

From the linked document:
I requested information regarding Flock security cameras from the company and spoke with their local sales rep, who provided the proposal in the packet for Board discussion. My understanding is that the library would essentially be subscribing to the data, and Flock would own and install the equipment, which would capture make, model, color and license plate data on all vehicles entering or exiting the library parking lots. This data would then be shared in
real time with any law enforcement connected to the Flock network.
i've been trying to be more active on the site, and i have just installed the app. initial impressions: great interface. excellent usability. i especially like the reading list feature. i tend to dump threads anywhere and everywhere on the browser and tend to forget about them. thanks for your hard work!
Sure. Albeit this might be my age showing up when using old terms.

Quoting wikipedia: "The microSD removable miniaturized Secure Digital flash memory cards were originally named T-Flash or TF, abbreviations of TransFlash. TransFlash and microSD cards are functionally identical allowing either to operate in devices made for the other."

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

MicroSD is quite a long word so plenty of time is simple mentioned as TF.
My wifi password is the date I first met my wife. It's very helpful having to remember that date.
This looks great! Does anyone know of any solution sets for the exercises or other resources with similar problem sets with solutions?
Nice I will never fly through here ever in my life and will pay like 300$ extra just to avoid it in the future if I have to. Thanks for the tip, that is actually super useful.
In-flight they will be brotli compressed for efficiency.

The whole system will use between 5x and 50x the energy of just decompressing locally.
Didn’t know this show, it kinda reminds me of Louie. Thanks!

Actually children menus are sometimes marked as < 12 years old now that I think of it. Not sure if it’s legal, but I don’t think it would be enforced.
Yes, the thing people gloss over is that laws are only as good as the people ruling on them, and not only is the process of selecting supreme court judges in the US a farce, one of them is openly defending his own corruption now.

In such cases, a well written, clear law on freedom of speech only increases the distance between what people think they have, and what they actually have.
A big issue that I have with the current discourse on environmentalism is the idea that individuals should do small things before the institutions do big things. For example using any gas appliances less without first converting all power plants to renewable. The first aim should be to convert all power plants to renewable and build automated recycling plants and incinerators, then move on to ensuring all transportation is clean by building more public transport and banning non-electric cars.
Most people only get lunch from cafeterias, not to mention all the unhealthy shit we snack on all the time.
The most important part of being tech savvy is being savvy about choosing your vendor.
Nvidia’s Blowout Forecast Sparks $260B AI Rally
This is way overblown. How do you see this heist going down exactly?

Someone targets a restaurant, gets QR stickers made, replicates the restaurant ordering system, replaces them on tables, hopes the servers and customers don't notice, people order, somehow the food comes? Or they order from the waiter and then pay, and somehow the bill on the faked site is correct? Then the customer leaves, and the restaurant doesn't even notice and let's this keep happening.

Oceans 14 we have your plot right here!
The examples are not contrived, they are commonplace legal issues (though any such issue is rare in any one person's life).

We are talking about speech, not thought - expression, not belief. You said "you can express and advocate for any view point", not that 'you can believe any viewpoint'.

Yes, all speech depends on context. The significance of speech is its impact on other people; it is communication. You can say whatever you want in the shower.
You could set shell= to 7zip.
Why are you delegating your ability to think to someone else?

I'm pretty confident the author of the comment is colleagues with the RFC author.
If Not a Node Then What?
> And that’s why they get ripped off by ubereats and other delivery services. They will outsource their whole ordering process and lose almost 30% of their margin because they can’t be bothered to have their own app or a proper website.

I don't think this makes sense. For anything but the largest chains (McD's etc), few are going to install an app just to order from you. And food aggregators have the same advantage that restaurant streets or mall food courts do: people who would like to eat but are not sure what have a place to start looking at options. Pair that with a nice unified payment and uniform no-call ordering interface, and you have a virtually unbeatable advantage compared to any restaurant handling their own orders, tech-savvy or not.
According to this, the U.S. beer market is $115 billion a year

https://www.brewersassociation.org/statistics-and-data/natio...

and this claims that global sales of beer are $610 billion

https://www.statista.com/outlook/cmo/alcoholic-drinks/beer/w...
433 kcal per mole, not per molecule
I was going to say it seemed a bit breaking of reality
I wish there were such books for more advanced math topics.
It's private in that it's your own VM you're running the VPN on. No one else has access to it. Whether you trust Google or not, it's all open source[1].

[1] https://github.com/Jigsaw-Code/outline-server
I have no doubt who prigozhin thinks will emerge as the leader following the "revolution" (read coup) if his prediction indeed materialises. On the other hand it looks like he's already laying the groundwork for starting discussions on a russian withdrawl.
So all I have to do to go on an unlimited spending spree is kidnap and lock up one of those hyper realistic mask makers? Nice
They trained on publicly-available (no signup with TOS agreement) data, on the theory that training is fair use.

You signed up and agreed to their TOS to use GPT-4.

The legal situations are not similar.

OTOH, lots of people are openly using GPT-4 in one way or another to develop models, though they might generally be at arm’s length from people intending to sell services.
#1 I saw a lot. Word documents hosted in private Google Drive accounts, mobile-unfriendly websites, etc.
hi Paul, based on your latest stories, I'd recommend Fosstodon (1) or Hachyderm. (2)

1 - https://fosstodon.org/ - open to anyone who is interested in technology; particularly free & open source software.

2 - https://hachyderm.io/ - safe space primarily comprised of tech industry professionals worldwide.
Since I live in France, I also can claim that shotless schooling experience, but I also happen to be allowed to write on this very comment:

"Macron is an asshole"

Without thinking it will affect my life in any way.

So at this point, I'll just assume you are a troll and ignore you.
The Zotero 7 Beta – Zotero Forums
And even having the budget for yet another vendor
Microsoft's president Brad Smith gambles his career on AI regulation plan
I guess so.

I think the basic Michael Pollen formulation, which is "Eat Food, Not Too Much, Mostly Plants" has held up pretty well.
A big thing that changed is that host names aren't part of email addresses anymore.