skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> multi-theater, technically-advanced military force with global and extraplanetary reach

Neither here nor there but god I need a drink. And it’s only 8am. Reading that sentence reminds me of the nationalistic radio broadcasts mentioned in A Canticle For Lebowitz before everyone is annihilated in nuclear fire…
I think you're being unfair. There's nothing bug ridden or inconsistent here, just a simple categorization system that looks like it would be pretty decent for small to medium sized projects.

It's also not informally specified. The shared link is literally the specification document. It's written in a kinds of informal style, sure, but that's a different kind of informal - Greenspun's informal means "not written down at all".
Can Terraform be used in place of ansible? I've seen way to much "logic" in ansible playbooks.
There's a difference between giving feedback and giving feedback with tact, no need to be so harsh even if you are right.
No. I find PaperWM's scrolling window management much faster than i3's (or any other desktop's) limited width and height approach.

PaperWM is truly revolutionary, I'm never going back to traditional WMs.
For launches https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html is probably more relevant.
Which men are taking credit for the work?
Lecture 1 – How to Start a Startup (Sam Altman, Dustin Moskovitz)
Regardless of chair, I would also recommend a small folding desk like this one: https://table-mate-llc.myshopify.com/products/table-mate-ult...

It's much more ergonomic than working off your lap, since your arms can be in a more neutral position and your neck isn't tilted down all day.

In a pinch, picnic tables are also ergonomically better, if you can find one nearby.
Pyrex in particular switched to a new type of glass that is miles worse than their old glass, to the point where the brand name now is a negative.
Off the top of my head:

-Assume the creator's impetus to create is legitimate.

-Give feedback like you would to an excited friend.

-Do not ascribe a product decision to malicious intent.

-Do not predict the ultimate success or failure of a product.

-Do not plug your own competing product.
Formal English and legalize are not the same language.

https://www.1215.org/lawnotes/lawnotes/language.htm
I'm sure there are fewer "map literate" people out there, but there have always been a lot of them.

There are still good uses for map reading, from hiking to video games, so it's not going to die out just because GPS exists.
Interestingly, the actual syntax tree and related structures/functions are generated from the config.yml file and the templates inside the bin directory. They are using a custom template language written in Ruby, here's an example of how they do enum stringification: https://github.com/ruby/yarp/blob/main/bin/templates/src/tok.... Obviously this isn't a novel idea, but IMO this kind of design goes a long way to support their maintainability argument, especially in C.

Also,

> CRuby actually ships with 90 encodings (as of 3.3)

This is asinine.
That seems counter to the current AI mentality though. Clearly if it's online and available it's part of your AI playground so go nuts.

Edit: In case my sarcasm isn't clear, I hate this mentality and I am just bitterly griping about AI into the void. You should definitely ask permission to use data before training AI on it, but that will put you behind other AI people who aren't asking permission
I think it's extremely insulting to call vassals "friends and allies."
Agreed. I think the stochastic parrot concept is useful to ground our expectations on LLMs for now, but it could outlive it's usefulness if there ends up being multiple jumps in sophistication similar to that of GPT-2 to 4 in the next 10 years.

If that happens, then stochastic parrot as an argument as to why a machine isn't thinking can be made pretty useless if One chooses to drag the argument further into philosophy.
I feel this way too. Maybe there's some very similar term that we're both thinking of though that is just at the tip of the tongue because I can't find what it'd be
Serving low-latency config data in 32 regions
In some ways I wonder if this might turn out to be good for SF in the long term. I remember visiting SF in the 1980s and there were a lot of cool, indie stores in places like Union Square. Places that made the place worth visiting. In the 1990s and even more in the 2000s, the place turned into one national chain store next to another.
That’s fine but understand the choice.

A lot of the housing complaints read like people saying, “my grandmother bought shares in MSFT for $0.12 and now I have to pay $330!”

Of course desirable, developed areas with high paying jobs are expensive. It’s not a fairness thing it’s a false comparison.
I think the low price of the Raspberry Pi helped build a community, and now that community is sustaining it's popularity even though the availability dropped and the price skyrocketed.
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The radio channels are carried as audio only channels on basic digital satellite and terrestrial, you don't need a "smart" TV. They're all at the back end of the EPG. I think Sky Digital had them from the start, but On/ITV Digital DTT might not have, I think they were added when Freeview launched. Sky used to have the Music Choice service this article mentions as well IIRC.

I think back in the day various BBC Radio channels were alternate sound channels on UK Gold (which BBC Worldwide had a stake in) on analogue Sky, but I might be wrong about that.

Annoyingly, BBC Sounds app isn't available on Apple TV boxes, although I can just use AirPlay I guess...
> Adtech on the other hand has the explicit goal of making me addicted, dumb, and poor

Wow, I hadn't heard Google changed their mission statement. /s
Numpy, scikit (learn/image), panda, and probably tensorflow (never used that one).

Tbf numpy+pandas is like using a mathlab that also have easy way to do http requests/web scraping, so there's that.

I didn't really do datascience in 6 years now (except that one time I demo'ed our jupyterlab+dask setup vs a classic Hadoop), but to me those are the clear reasons.

Also the first time I used python I was doing a CTF and had to add between 70 and 130 NOP (randomly) before the payload. I think I now could do that in perl and awk, but at the time it was a python one-liner and I do think python was the easiest to debug between the three, hence was the best solution.
Granted, in a way, I always have a hard time seeing "Westfield Mall" and dense/urban city centers as being compatible...

All of Rick Caruso's malls in LA are, to be sure, probably profitable but terrible in terms of urban planning
El Niño is back – that’s good news or bad news, depending on where you live
Discussion on original source yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36292413

Every Signature Is Broken: Insecurity of Microsoft Office’s Ooxml Signatures (usenix.org, 312 points, 138 comments)
Is the scripting language based on bash (etc.)?

One thing I enjoy about fish is that it's not just a shell, but also a modern scripting language alternative to sh/bash. Seems like I would lose this with Murex?

(There's no right or wrong choice for Murex here, just that has to choose one way or another.)
Why would you want this? One of the thing I love about EVs are the single speed transmissions. The drive is smooth and lack of noise peaceful. Why would you want shift-jerk and emulated RPM variations in a technology that doesn't need it?
SendGrid exposes it for like 14 days I believe. I tried like hell to get data from before that and support told me you're required to store that yourself. So not super helpful until you realize you needed it in the first place.
I think you can plausibly give explanations here: Does the billionaire care more than you do about looking extremely wealthy, and do Americans care more than Swedes about not fighting with doctors and pharmaceutical companies than Swedes? I think reasonably yes.

But, to your point about useful models, even if you do grant that on some level society does "care" more about something when it expends more money on it, can you tell from the outside view what it actually cares about? Most things that we spend money on are hopelessly complicated, and, like, some of the value we get out of, say, our expenditures on schools are "political favor for Democrats through the Teacher's Union" (and some of what we get from our expenditures on police are "political favor for Republicans through the Policeman's Union.") So do you get much useful information by saying, "Ah, we spend $X on thing A and $Y on thing B"? I mean, not much.
> How many cryptocurrency companies do you know of that could pass an audit?

This is, quite simply, zeitgeisty prejudice. Most well-funded cryptocurrency companies have passed audits. I've worked for or with four crypto companies and three of them were audited (also all of them still exist).

You aren't allowed to count "fraud cryptobros from miami creating an ICO" if you don't count "fraud fratbros from harvard/yale creating a hedge fund". And if you do count both, then you'll notice that the proportion of fraud is roughly the same everywhere, we just allow ourselves to notice it in some places more than others.

> Why should the SEC bend over backwards to create new rules

Because you don't apply old rules to new contexts if you're a responsible government, especially if you're claiming jurisdiction over those new contexts. Registration and filing processes created for the paper era simply don't cut it for regulating self-executing financial instruments. Why doesn't the SEC have a registration smart contract? It is the SEC's responsibility to adapt to the times.

> Would you kindly point out a company that tried and failed to register an ICO

What do you not understand about "there is not process"? I've been a part of two companies who have tried. We have had "conversations", aka we try to reach out and a different attorney occasionally gets back in touch with us and rehashes the same conversation every six months. The longest effort went nowhere in four years. There is no registration, there is no process, there are no boxes we can check on the existing forms which govern what we do.
We need proper Economists at the top to fix this recession. Unfortunately, the way our politics is styled and flows today, it's not the John Maynard Keynes kind who make it to the top, it's the Mccarthy and Trump kind.
I’d rather we had guidelines for the people who launch stuff. Usually they talk like an LLM crossed with a customer service call center.
Have you checked for a confirmation bias? HN predicts a lot of things -- as any self-selecting outspoken public group of nerds would -- but at what success rate?
Sorry, I'm responding to someone specifically talking about the Antarctic. The argument that you're looking for doesn't exist here.
They changed the formula for Pyrex glass many years ago and the new formula is inferior to the old one.

Somehow I doubt the current incarnation of these companies has much at all to do with their origin.
In the words of Rand:

"So you think that money is the root of all evil? . . . Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can’t exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?"

I recognize all people as my equals, money enables trade between equals, value for value. To kill equals for money feels like staining the very idea of money.
Yeah... I'm not shocked that a CSS sub with 100k subbed isn't exactly raucous. I suspect that the same can't be said for r/worldnews or the other giants.
they should just rename the site to iamverysmart.com
Ocean Vent Explorer Guides NASA’s Look at Icy Alien Worlds
It'll be transformational, but not so much due to benefits of the models themselves. More due to the wave of litigation and legislation and regulation they'll prompt.
> It's important to note that event for the projects creating new tokens, there is NO WAY to register.

Yes there is. You register them as securities. STX[1] did this. Other projects need to suck it up and do it legally.

[1] disclaimer: I work on the Stacks blockchain (STX)
Science and the Dumpster Fire
Attributed to a whole bunch of people so I'm gonna say quote by unknown:
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Sounds like they took on lots of loans to grow the business, relying on interest rates staying at ~0%.

When those loans come up for renewal and they have to pay 7% corporate bond rates, of course they're going to collapse.
Right, you don't need to memorize much of anything to walk the streets of NYC successfully. Take a look at this random pin drop on google maps: <https://www.google.com/maps/@40.74162,-73.9937274,3a,53.3y,1...>

Avenue of the Americas is also marked as 6 Ave, so you don't need to know the name. You can see the sign for 20th street in one direction and 22nd in the other, so now you have a better sense of direction. Since you know which way the street numbers increase, you also know which directions to go to head toward 5th or 7th avenue.

I'll be honest, I've spent a lot more time in NYC than I have in Philly.. but it did not take long for me to get my bearings without knowing much about the city other than the directions in which the street and avenue numbers increase / decrease.
I don't know, it probably depends on culture. In some countries, there's a big emphasis on voluntary work - Nordic countries is a good example of that. There's a strong culture of volunteering, to the point where it's frowned upon if you say no.

I'm talking about stuff like spring cleaning around parks, living areas, recreational areas, sports fields, shoreline, and the list goes on. You don't get paid anything, but people still do it.

There's no "deeper" value or experience learned with those tasks, other than contributing to a nicer neighborhood and surroundings. In a world where money reigns supreme, no-one would care to do those tasks.
I really wish they or someone would turn Yojimbo into a scientific papers PDF organizer/reader, or at least have some support for this. Papers was good but got bloated and the standalone is not supported anymore
Look at the zoning map[1]. All the red is only commercial buildings. (If you don't want to open the PDF, effectively the entire zone all around Market Street and Union Square, from Folsom to China Town.) Businesses in cities thrive on foot traffic. Those offices are now pretty empty because a ton of employees are still working remotely, so the area is no longer a destination, and no one lives there. It's not shocking to me that people don't go to that mall anymore. In the rest of the city, where people live, businesses are thriving (at least restaurants, those are the easiest to gauge whether they have clients or not, it can be that other kinds of businesses are doing poorly).

1: https://sfplanning.org/resource/zoning-use-districts
Given how the crypto market avoids regulations to scam mum and pop... it's not so hard to believe.

Keep in mind certain crowd-funding is legal in US.
It’s not fitting at all.

> We recently got approval to merge this work into CRuby, and are very excited to share our work with the community.
"Database Management" was an elective in my Bachelors in Computer Science program (Class of 2018). That's the only time we discussed normalization, iirc.
My worry for instance is that what he's doing in not scalable on the level of a society, yet it's polluting our public thoughts so much that better solutions are stifled.
I tried Resend and Custom Email feature reveals SES. I think it good when Resend build on top of SES
No they don't. That is the sale price and none are available.

https://www.uniqlo.com/jp/ja/men/tops/sweatshirts-and-hoodie...
2990 yen and up for regular price.
I used to love going to conferences at the Union Square Hilton which is in trouble. Particularly I liked how it was possible to check in to the hotel and not have to go outside and confront the homeless masses although I’d usually go across the street to get a bottle of unfiltered sake and hike it to Japan Town for Okonomiyaki and anime plushies.
They use (and are makers of) https://react.email which works on client side or server side, through NodeJS. So you could spin up a NodeJS server, send your React components through and compile to HTML, then use whatever email service you want, but I believe Resend does all of this natively via their servers. I personally use react.email with Sendgrid.
Have you ever lived with a roommate who doesn't flush the toilet after they use it, so you always have to flush the toilet twice, once before you use it and once after? What's up with this system that requires everyone to individually flush rather than every person on average to flush once?
Yeah, even though I grew up looking at maps and even drawing them for fun on graph paper when I was a kid, it has taken me a very long time to get to the point where I can navigate by map instead of step by step directions.

Living in the Boston area for a few years in my 20s before GPS nav was readily available definitely helped, as one wrong turn might easily wind up with you being somewhere you've never been before, and the only way back is to look at a map. I had a few very dog eared pages of the same atlas that a lot of people used back then.

I've spent a lot of time on the bike and skis looking at maps in Trailforks over the last few years. That has helped as well. It's fun to spend a lot of time in the woods and start to build a sense of location based on your surroundings.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/living-wit...
Well, I wouldn't put it like that. Async can trivially cash out into parallel work like if you're just sending queries to a database or ffmpeg or ImageMagick or, frankly, most common use cases which are going to do work in parallel out of process.

All of your I/O work could even be happening in parallel in a run of the mill JS app. Workers just give you parallelism with your sync JS code which is a more narrow claim.
I don't think any email provider sends the body via webhook. AWS SES certainly doesn't, which I think Resend is built on
That seems like it crosses the line from "Be civil, be curious" to "Be a mindless yes-man or be silent."
Back when I used google maps, I especially hated its insistence on making unprotected left turns. If I knew the area it was taking me to, I would scan ahead for those and try to avoid them, but there were some terrifying times where I pulled up to a busy 5 or 6 lane stroad expected to turn left. I invariably turned right and took an alternate path, for the safety and comfort of everyone (except my map, which would scramble to figure out why I had done something so stupid).
"Following the science" just means paying attention to what science is telling us at the moment. You can also follow baseball or music or any other ongoing activity. It's a really common phrase, and is not a scientific principle.
"Thou hast committed..."
"Fornication? But that was in another country, and besides, the wench is dead."
The terrifying part to me is that they're playing with potential autonomous life. Shades of Mengele.
> Give feedback like you would to an excited friend.

Why do we need to treat creators like an excited friend? A lot of the ‘excitement’ from founders seems like a self-conscious performance, and they aren’t our friends. They are people starting businesses, not children.
That’s a hot take from someone who has apparently no experience with either. MDMA and experiencing music with others can also be a net positive.
If it’s really that important, you should have a hardware firewall on the edge with deny-by-default on outgoing. You cannot trust the security framework on the endpoint alone.
Hah, I see what you did there.
I dropped my 16 year old son off at the commuter rail station last summer, as he was going to go into Boston and go bowling with his friends. When I got home, I noticed his phone had fallen out of his pocket and was sitting in the passenger seat. I drove back to the train station but he had already gotten on his train. When he got home that evening, it was quite interesting hearing how he had to come up with new solutions to navigate the city and find his friends at the bowling alley, as this was a skill he had never learned or needed with his phone handy. He was quite surprised at the inability and/or unwillingness of people he asked to give him any direction. He did manage to get hold of a tourist map from a Mormon street preacher, which helped after he figured out how to read it, but only listed major streets and so only got him sort of close. He finally managed to get somebody to look the address up on Google maps and he drew in the smaller streets on his paper map.
So we need to purchase this sensitive data for congress members and publish it. Seems straightforward.
https://archive.ph/dAHCE
I recently told my co-workers on a Zoom call that I ALWAYS carry a paper map in the car and anytime I am backpacking or traveling in Europe. They couldn't fathom why I would bother when I have a phone that can give me directions immediately.

I guess I am old enough to know how easy it is to read a map and not need turn by turn directions to get somewhere. Also, I find that I ONLY seem to need directions when my cell service bombs out...

EDIT: Also, I just REALLY like a good map :)
Use pipx. It works well.
The reality is this. Perizon sells you a phone with the ability to track your location. They do it. Websites do it. Apps do it. Let’s focus on the websites for a second. When you visit a website, you give up information about your device. User-Agent, device, maybe your location as well but definitely your IP address. This goes into a giant data lake where they can cross this with multiple other websites to determine if it’s “you”. Once determined, they put together a profile of you - your sites, apps, locations, buying habits, search history, demographics, income history, you name it - from multiple data brokers and sources. Then this profile is bundled and sold.

How do I know? I briefly worked for a company that enabled this. I didn’t stay.
This makes as much sense as saying the government's purchase of Microsoft Encarta (a digital encyclopedia product) will cause the downfall of civilization, because Encarta doesn't tell the "full story" about your pet topic.