skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you’ve clearly never built a website of any scale or complexity on any of these clouds. they’re esoteric and fussy. the documentation is often poor and wrong. they trick organizations by providing tiers of expensive support but it’s not great, especially when you’re running into a novel problem. there are “easy” plug and play solutions offered but they cost a lot and come with tons of drawbacks. Building a functional, secure website at scale is a lot different than exposing some ports and loading certs.
I thought that this option solved this problem? https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/conf-file.ht...

But with the myriad of fetch* functions maybe it only applies to some.
On Qubes OS even a zero-day would likely not be sufficient. It relies on hardware virtualization and runs everything in VMs. My daily driver, can't recommend it enough.
Just a casual egoism ('I object, but if my children...')
C++ looks very handsome.

Usually someone will pop up showing crazy meta programming template code and use it a straw man to declare cpp=bad.
Its good to also just make a living will - how you want to die, who your medical proxies are, what kind of care you want!
Fast, hermetic end to end tests.
I think your expectations aren't really inline with the environment from the perspective of these different possible employees.

In Switzerland, my minimum salary expectation was 30k more a year if working in English for a US/International company remotely or here, that was extremely realistic and someone in Germany would be looking at a much larger loss in pay when working for a German firm.

If they are making that choice they may think local job and culture should be rubbing off as a benefit, so you only need to send them to one general event to show their limited potential upside isn't making progress per year despite high cost per year.
I remember speakerectomy being a thing circa 15-20 year ago, to reliably get rid of the console beep.

Most MB still have speaker connections, just have nothing connected to it by default. A couple of years ago I bought a speaker off Amazon (actually a pack of 12 for 1£ as that was the minimum order) just to decode the POST beep when troubleshooting some overclocking issues. Of course I promptly removed it when finished.
They were normally numbered.

However that means that it was possible to sort them, not that it was possible to sort them (manually) in a short time.

Since a card was a program text line, there were frequently many thousand cards in a program and the smallest programs had a few hundreds.
Oh you never lost data with btrfs, but you might give up following the trail of mailing list posts and wikis one fine spring morning when it failed to mount.

ISTR hours-long repair operations and a level of desperation that a lot of people wouldn't have had time for. This is assuming you didn't use its RAID or other features that definitely would eat your data.

(This is experience from 10 years ago when I was looking for the latest and greatest features to support a hosting platform)
This sounds great, wonder how Apple will react and maybe EU should follow suit.
You want to make it easier for people, not harder.
The Only Unbreakable Law – Casey Muratori
Oh man i remember Castle beginnings back when i was an article writer for pascalgamedevelopment.com. Glad to see it still pushing a long, go pascal, you good thing!
Good to see an open mind! I think most critical rationalists would say that epidemiology is a den of weakly explanatory theories.

Even though I agree, I'm not sure that's 100% epidemiology's fault by any means: it's just a very difficult subject, at least without measurement technology, computational power, and probably (machine or human) learning and theory-building that even now we don't have. But, there must be opportunities here for people making better theories.
Funny thing that I'm learning about this exhibition from a Scottish newspaper and not from the local ones. Guess media here got more "important" topics to cover /s

The only thing related to this thematically are "scandalous" Xi's and Putin's murals on Towarowa street
The very same Louisiana that insists that age verification on websites is completely safe and reasonable? Shocking. Sadly, probably not the first such breach we'll see, though perhaps the least embarrassing.
Two notes on language and self-domestication:
- 77kya is very late for the emergence of language (though how far it can be traced is still object of heavy debate and nuance). The tenuous consensus nowadays is that the last common ancestor with the Neanderthal/Denisovan branch had at the very least a partial capability of language. 'Behavioral modernity' is also a bit of a red herring on its own, in light of discoveries like this and how similar Neanderthals were to us in terms of archaeological record.
- Re self-domestication... The concept is very messy and disputed (I've largely given up on its usefulness, in fact). But in any case 6kya is too late, simply because all modern humans are prosocial, as parent comment said.

Source: human evolution PhD, I have worked in faculty of language evolution, prosociality, genetic basis for self-domestication.
What food do you have in mind that is delicious but not ultra processed? I don’t think any whole food gets even close to competing with foods such as pizza, French fries and ice cream. I think the addictive component is one aspect of it, but I also personally believe the body has a internal mechanism that keeps track of its micronutrient and macronutrient deficiencies and induces cravings to obtain those nutrients, regulated by the memory of past foods in the microbiome, so that also can trigger overeating.
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I always seek new challenges. I have found few organizations, established or new alike - are able to offer me the tech challenges I need to survive in this industry. Without challenging problems and with petty office politics, I tend to become numb in an organization - usually within a few months of joining. Then it becomes a slog, and I don't want to lie like a mundane and just-another employee who is going through the same motions.

I don't know if there's a solution..:(
I totally agree, usually simple is fast. Get the simple stuff right and scale can be simple too.

Of course sometimes a complex problem is difficult to solve simply, and sometimes being verbose is a good tradeoff to help maintainability.
If you read more from Carmack, I think you can see why. He pretty much just works on things he finds interesting. Even at FB/Meta, he avoided the draining work of active leadership and was basically a research scientist that occasionally made posts to try and influence people.

It's pretty easy in my experience to work long hours on things that are intellectually engaging. It's the stuff which is frustrating and causes stress/burnout that is hard to work on all the time. I could easily spend 50 hours a week building a compiler but not 50 hours a week writing google docs, sitting in meetings, and talking to people - that would kill me.
Except in that scenario you absolutely don't want green threads but real threads. M:N threading (especially if N=1) doesn't help you get parallelism, and parallelism is what you need for modern CPUs.

So that again keeps green threads (and thus mass concurrency without parallelism) in the niche category.
One is amazon for unspecified purposes and the other is amazon providing service long term to twitch.
Interesting to see how many people were clamouring that deep learning hit a wall and the whole thing was a fad that would end soon right before it exploded.
The easy option would be to have a default law like "you open source your code 5 years after it was created for phones/tablets/cars/etc and it automatically applies to your suppliers as well and the necessary software tooling to get it working. If this requires hardware to program the devices, provide the blueprints of the devices as well".

Then it would be understood and agreed that anyone making software they have to release as open source what was closed source 5 years back. This way I would say that you can't bring the "but the competitors will use this to steal my business" argument.

What you would get in essence is a snapshot of what technology looked like 5 years ago (or a decent number of years people can agree on) and you can fork from there if there's a will to give a second life to various devices.

But really, I don't want an ugly phone because someone decided batteries should be user replaceable like in the old days. And yes, I like my iPhone to be sleek.
Unless they actually paid for Scientific American when it was "good", they have little standing to complain if it is still producing accurate and informative content.
Show HN: A product hunt for prompts – 300 marketing real-life prompts
That is a very good point. Thanks!
And that's why every poor sod in CS have to learn sorting :)
Alas all my stuff is in Azure, and I'm still waiting for them to offer smaller VM sizes comparable to their existing B line. I currently use a B1s (1 CPU 1GiB) that comes to ~$5/mo while the cheapest ARM VM would be ~$25/mo (2 CPU 4GiB).
Yes and,

>then a twitter thread from a virologist debunking everything with a thread about how the lab leak theory is ridiculous.

The virologists & evolutionary biologists writing these twitter threads are, shall we say, 'highly conserved'; On Twitter, it's always the same few folks - Rasmussen, Andersen (now off Twitter), Worobey & Debarre, self-referencing each other ad nauseam. Second-tier (at least in terms of volume) Holmes, Bauer, Goldstein, & Rasmussen's PhD advisor Racaniello.
Implementing a Personal Transportation Hierarchy
As slow as they are, this is why interpreted languages are far better for development than anything compiled, there's no time spent waiting minutes for the damn thing to recompile for making a one line change.
Neato - I made an RPI bus arrival sign for my desk, wondering if I can repurpose these fonts.
> This is so cool, I haven't seen this ... Python I think? The doctest I think it was called.

@pytest.mark.parametrize

https://docs.pytest.org/en/7.2.x/how-to/parametrize.html#pyt...
I am looking at launching very soon - next week. It will be a brand new platform so it might not be something you're look for. Can I DM/email you when I launch? Even if you end up not using it, I'd appreciate any feedback I can get.
I really don't like clickbait titles like this. Is yours startup's killer feature your age? Why not describe what your service does in the title?
I have a Samsung A32 and the bloatware has been completely unobtrusive for me so far, and no ads either.

My purchasing and usage habits for mobile devices is to get something new that is mid or low-range, use it until I notice performance issues, or the bloatware does something I don't like, then flash a custom ROM.

That's served me pretty well in the past, but I may still have hangups from teething pains with rooting devices and compatibility issues on custom ROMs back in the 2010's
Apple to Android and Android to Apple – Do People Really Switch?
YouTube legal team contacted Invidious developers -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36250582 (8 days ago, 22 comments)
It’a not bogus though. People just severely underestimate how much exercise they need to drop significant amounts of weight.

Also there is the longterm benefit due to increased metabolism.
How long before Chrome changes their license to disallow ad blocking?

Why should users think they own their whole screen, after all? "We estimate we can sell up to 80% of the visual field before inducing seizures!"
Because whilst crypto provides an excellent solution for the "how to skim money from the economy by persuading less skilled investors to give you money" part of finance, it doesn't address the actual problems finance purports to solve like sending capital to its most productive use, maturity transformation, insurance, pensions etc.
>On the other hand, over the long term, more muscle weight will passively consume more calories and thus can help maintain your (lean) weight, especially for people who like eating a lot.

This is misleading - the amount of additional energy passively consumed by muscle mass is pretty insignificant - 10-15 kcal per kilo of muscle mass.^[1]

Resistance training is still good, but definitely not good for this particular purpose.

[1] https://www.unm.edu/~lkravitz/Article%20folder/metabolismcon...
But isn’t that the point? The naming convention is for protocols that have syntax support
> I'm surprised that Carmack seems to find this absurd

No, he doesn't. Right after the quote you have:

> No, it just means that focusing on a single thing for an extended period of time is challenging.
Thanks. Yes, od's ubiquity on Unix was the reason why I mentioned it.

And right, it's output has issues for some uses.
It’s like a form of role playing.
If the information isn’t based in science, is it actually informative?
That's a great question!

There is no single approach. It's a soft skill. I don't think there is a single magic question you can ask and you'll get a black-and-white answer.

Here are some ideas:

- read about the company on glassdoor. Try to read between the lines. Are the reviews fluff? Are there any veiled criticisms. Read the high praises and the vulgar criticisms with a grain of salt. They are a signal, but people often have an agenda or are led by emotion when they post like that. Pay attention to the mixed reviews who give you the good and some bad. See if there are any patterns between reviews.

- I hope you will have an interview with either the hiring manager, or one or more peers. Ask them questions about how it is to work there. Find way to ask without asking "How is it working there?" directly. Some ideas:

- Am I joining because the team is growing, or am I replacing someone? If replacing, why did the person before me leave?

- How long have the people on the team I am joining been there? You're looking to get a feel for tenure and seniority.

- How often do you speak with your manager? Their manager? The CTO? The CEO? In general, the more often, and the more approachable leadership is, the less likely you're thought of as a cog and seen more as a human.

- Ask if they could give a concrete example of how their values or principles have been used in practice recently. Make sure you read these ahead of time. If they can't tell, then their values might be bullet points on a glossy brochure that have no application in reality. If they don't know their values, that means no one cares about them.

- How often do you have to work overtime? Is it normal? Is it occasional? How is that recognized? How is that seen?

- Ask how they define and recognize excellence on their team. Listen to the story they tell. Is it mechanical? Do you get a non-answer? A blank stare?

Draw your own conclusions. This is not a set of checkboxes. The best companies are not perfect. The worst companies do some things right (I would hope). It gets easier with time, as you get more experiences under your belt, you'll understand where you fit and where you don't. You'll build a gut feeling for this.
> U.S and Germany, and comparing with Asian countries like Singapore and Taiwan...
I'd rather the streets be clean.

Surely you must realise that US will not become clean like Singapore just by adopting it's drug policy?

You must realise that other policies that keep singapore clean will have to be adopted too, like massive fines for littering, community, and among them an aggresive 'socialist' housing policy?

"Remarkably, Singapore has achieved a home ownership rate of over 80 per cent among its citizens. This is through three policy pillars operating since the 1960s

Housing for over 80 per cent of residents is the ubiquitous high-rise public housing blocks built by the Housing and Development Board (HDB)"

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20181025-the-cost-of-ke...
The edited title made me think a "restaurant hostess". Geeeeeez....
Great, thank you for the roadmap.

That is a pretty convoluted process to do not enforce a law.
Like what? Having the world’s biggest economy matters much. much more in this case
Just google for it. Many studies are easy to find online. Of course, it is not the same for all sports.
There are several things that limit the lifetime of a phone:

1. Battery
2. Software
3. Charge port/headphone port
4. eMMC storage runs out of writes
5. Accidental damage
6. Screen scratches
7. Wanting more RAM/storage and faster processing

Batteries are getting better, and we can extend the life of a LiIon battery by about 5X by limiting charging to 80%. If batteries inherently had as short a life as they commonly do in phones, then electric cars would be doomed, but there's no real reason why we can't get phone batteries to last 10 years or more.

The software can only be solved by constant effort. There are certain things that could possibly be done to make it easier, such as arranging the device-specific stuff so that the effort already spent on producing a newer set of software for a newer device can be more easily back-ported to the older devices. I think this will only be solved by legislation, such as a law saying that the software must be updated for X years, or even just a law saying that the support duration must be very clearly advertised with the phone allowing consumers to make a choice.

A USB-C port is rated for a minimum of 10,000 plug/unplug cycles, which should be enough to charge the phone once a day for 30 years. If that isn't actually being achieved then we need to ask why not.

The eMMC storage is a problem with many phones. My phone is just starting to slow to a crawl because its main storage is old and it takes a while for it to perform certain writes (or something - it's hard to get an accurate picture of what is happening in there). There is zero information that a consumer has available when deciding which phone to buy to tell them which ones will have a problem with this. This seems to be a fairly obvious target for a law, similar to the software support duration.

Accidental damage - I remember reading a statistic about how the average phone survives a ridiculously short time before being dropped and broken, and I don't get it. I haven't dropped/broken a phone ever. I guess we just let the people who are constantly dropping their phones pick up the tab on that one.

Screen scratch protection is also getting really good now. My current phone has lived in my pocket for several years, and there's almost zero scratching on the screen. Just don't keep your keys in the same pocket.

In terms of replacing a phone because you want something better - I had a look recently to see about replacing my phone. The ones on the market at a comparable price to what I spent on my current one had specifications that were really not much better at all. It doesn't make sense - if a phone with those specifications is deemed suitable for today's market, then my old one with almost identical specifications should be fine too.

So, I don't really see any barriers that aren't insurmountable to a phone lasting several times longer than they do at the moment. Ten years should be easy, 15 years should be possible. At the moment, it's more like 3 if you're very lucky.
What has he done recently that you think is dishonorable?
A wooden toothpick works very well.
updated to fix the calculation bug, sorry!
I don’t think it’s super clear from your post.

In this friends case it was the NFL part that caused the damage. Not the fitness part.

I once did a boxing class. The day we did drills with with those boxing pads that require 2 hands to hold up, my head was throbbing for the rest of the day. Tried it again and same thing. Then I quit. Clearly I cannot take a serious punch.
When was the last time you bought moonshine / self made alcohol to save money?

Its not blocked, its cheaper than store-bought beer.
Show HN: An event-driven alternative to Google Analytics
Hey makers! Recently I have had problems with Google Analytics because it is GDPR compliant and uses cookies.

The alternatives I have found seem expensive, complicated and some don't offer everything I want, that's why I created MetricsWave.com.

MetricsWave allows you to analyze your business traffic, but also to launch events, analyze user behavior and, why not, share some of these events directly on Telegram, so that the team knows, for example, when we have achieved a new sale.

Beyond all that, it also allows you to log deploys and almost anything you can imagine.

Plus:

- Does not use cookies.
- GDPR, CCPA and PECR compliant.
- It is highly customizable and you can add as many parameters as you want to the events.

What do you think? I would love to hear your opinion!
Awesome, thanks for letting me know!

I'm still not sure though about some nitpicky things:
- do you change all the weights, or just the ones from the last layer when fine-tuning?
- do you just train on the _code_ field from the JSON file with the self-instruct data, or do you also use the other fields to train (or do you use the other fields just for downstream evaluation purposes)?

I think it could be a major selling point of your paper if on Github (or in an appendix to your preprint, if you update it on arxiv), you had a section where you document the training process in detail
It's okay to be egoistic.
People do not run marathons every day, not even do that their whole life.
OpenJS Foundation Receives Government Investment from Sovereign Tech Fund
> Most people think you HAVE to forbid stuff sometimes. If it's forbidded it's because it's dangerous and it kill people.

Sure, but that does not apply to magic mushrooms, noone ever died from OD on magic mushrooms.

Provably does not apply to LSd either, MDMA is debatable, etc.

There are like 100's of drugs, and most aren't like heroin.
Finally, toilet seats made of gold can be had by everyone! ;)
Cybersecurity findings from Verizon’s 2023 data breach report
> We had some issues with white heroin a few years ago, it was sold to tourists as cocaine or something else, can't remember.

Thats pretty evil
But there is varying degrees of trust required. Also the quality of trust.
I did once, iPhone 3 to Android honeycomb. I help a lot of people who are iPhone/iPad users (volunteering with elderly users) and they're awesome devices if sometimes confusing to seniors.

But, I'm content being an Android phone owner with a macbook pro. The upsides of integration inside the Apple ecology don't work out for me economically compared to owning a motorola Android device with good battery life.

I won't say I'd never switch back but it's unlikely several Android phones down the timeline.
Consult a trust & estate attorney as there are potential tax consequences if the beneficiary of an IRA or Life Insurance policy is a trust rather than a person or persons.
It's just not working, I `poop`ed all day long!
They don't have to run for office, can't be fired, represent entrenched interests, and tend to amass power to justify their budgets (mission creep). They are deep, state actors.
I averaged 1.4 years out, so not too bad I guess. Mostly on fashion sense and cars/taxis/buses, but also a few other things like Downing Street gates, pedestrianization of Trafalgar Square, types of camera tourists are using. Surprisingly many little clues once you get into it.
I remember reading that Diane Greene, then CEO of GCP ,was keen to buy GitHub, but Sundar didn't see the point of owning it. Sundar's argument was supposedly, owning GitHub wouldn't improve the market share of GCP.

Yes, Google was part of the negotiations to purchase GitHub, but there wasn't full commitment for the alphabet CEO.
The article discusses having automated testing set up in conjunction with Red Hat's increasing interest in it.
With all the drama surrounding Reddit at the moment, it's nice to look back to a time when things were so much simpler, and most of the things we had to worry about were just tech.