skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> so I raise the prices to the point that I know hammers are always on the shelf

you mean, you raise the prices to the point where you maximize profits by taking advantage of the shortage to extract maximal value from consumers. In other words, the exact greedflation we're talking about.

"hammers are on the shelf" is an arbitrary threshold that need not be met: supplying 50 consumers with hammers can be done with no price or marginal profit increase at all

if the analogy is to fit reality, you then raise the price even more (since profit isn't necessarily maximized when demand=supply), blaming the further increase on those pesky supply chain issues, while pocketing the extra money

> Any my revenue is down

actually, it's up, along with profits. That's how bad the greedflation is, and how little the supply chain issues actually impact either
50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to AI Dungeon
How on earth can you claim to feel like you havent missed out on much when youve never tried it. What you're describing is more akin to growing up in your parents religion than making a personal choice.
> It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

I’ll just leave this here.
Because building a sane filesystem with only the needed libraries needs knowledge and some effort, whereas containers exist to keep people from using their brains.

If you know what you are doing you have several alternatives:

1. Just link your binary statically.

2. Set the path to the picked out special libs as an environment variable only for the binary.

3. Re-think what's wrong with your system that leads to the pain of you wanting other lib versions for that binary.
Berlin Type
good decision from red hat. oracle, alma and rocky cant just take other peoples work, profit (not just monetary) and give nothing back. thats not what community means.
This is an excellent resource and much-needed.
Normally when I’m interviewing people I do go much further than asking about the topics they covered in their resume.
So? All you have to do is "docker exec -it container /bin/bash" and run "apt update" and "apt install vim", then remake the image with fixes or re-run the container once you've figured it out.
Related: https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/germany-sign-fonts
Easily display colours of your image on upload
I'm confused by what you mean here, could you elaborate?

For clarification - you purchase the hardware then you are required to download the phone application. You find this app by scanning the QR code printed on the physical device's box. This app is free. It does not link to a premium version.
Oh. I remember having to deal with this. What a fucking nightmare.

See, a large part of the problem comes from the fact that there are really two things you want to encapsulate under the word "auth," (authentication and authorization), but OAuth2 only evan attempts one of them, and pretty badly at that.

That isn't to say OpenIdConnect is perfect or anything, but at least when you're doing the dance of encrypting a signed token (which, BTW, is the correct order, because in order to modify the payload and still have it validate, an attacker would need to break the encryption first in order to modify the payload into something malicious), having proper TTLs, and then, on top of that, having a way for the client/user side to signal the server/API resource side that "hey, I'm done with this token a little early, so just ignore it forever now, mmmkay," you reduce the amount of damage an attacker/malicious observer can do by intercepting one valid token.

Oh, but that's only if both the client/user side and the server/API resource side each implement their half of the protocol 100% correctly... which is, of course, nontrivial and full of landmines for you to step on. [0]

Now, I stepped in this particular pile of bullshit because the company I was working for at the time was in health tech, and we had a client who thought they wanted to exchange EPHI (electronic personal health information -- you know, the kind of data that HIPAA makes radioactive with its massive financial penalties) with our servers to do some other random crap I didn't really care about on their side. But, you can end up in the exact same place by replacing "exchanging EPHI" with "accessing any confidential or sensitive data," so don't think you're safe from all this just because you're not in the healthcare space.

Fortunately, in the end, our client realized that they did not, in fact, have the technical expertise and know-how to be able to deal with the security implications of what they were saying they wanted to do. So, our product and sales people talked them down to something that they could handle, and, which, fortunately, did none of give me headaches, cause me to lose sleep, or make me want to strangle people. And, that meant I could go back to paying attention to the things that actually mattered at the time, like making sure our RDS instance wasn't going to keel over, hiring a couple new senior SWEs, and occasionally even leading the team.

I see that turned into a bit more of a rant than I had expected, so I'm just going to cut myself off here. I hope anyone reading this is able to learn from my experience and maybe not drive themselves crazy in the process.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

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[0]: For instance: https://auth0.com/blog/critical-vulnerabilities-in-json-web-...
Or 1 million people sold $1 worth of Apple. If you want to execute a large trade, you'd probably have to buy from several sellers, and (my limited understanding of the market is that) you'd do so by matching sell orders in ascending order, thus pushing the market value up.
There are multiple TikTok accounts of (I think Canadian) bicycle parkin officers doing just this.

They basically just drive on bike lanes and give people fines for parking on it all day. People are just lazy, there might be a parking space just across the street, but they'll still rather park half way on the bike lane and half way on the pavement.
Interesting perspective!

On a light note, ... You don't own any pants or shoes at all?
I lived with a Rastafarian in South Africa for a while (I was a white European 19yo). He thought me a lot about atheism and Greek philosophy. He showed me that men should live a good life, be kind, not for heavenly spite or reward, but because "being good is something you yourself want" (as told by the Greek cynics). He had an unofficial dog-shelter, because, while being atheist, he did believe in reincarnation (a common Rastafarian theme), and that you should be good to animals because they may very well be your grandmother.
He therefore also was the only (other) vegetarian, that I knew of, in a capital city of a former South African Thuisland.
If anyone is still claiming the main or only reason for inflation is "money printing", they really haven't being paying attention to the world for the past 3 years and it's a terrible idea to listen to them.

Why are you ignoring a pandemic with associated measures such as lockdowns (although funnily, Sweden is very useful - they didn't lock down, they didn't print a ton of money, yet they're experiencing similar inflation to their neighbours), war in continental Europe, and the impact those had on global markets (higher costs of critical raw materials such as oil and gas, various metals, disrupted supply chains and bottlenecks, etc.)? Do you really think none of this matters, or do your political leanings tell you it's always the government's fault?
Microsoft has struct rules about the stuff you can sell for the server, and servers need to be EULA compliant. If they aren't they can get blacklisted or shutdown.

People do buy plugins but the vast majority of the plugins you'd want to use are free open source plugins. A lot of the paid/closed source stuff is kinda crappy or misleading anyway.

You can run a great server using free plugins and software. It might not be a money maker, but if your goal is to have people play and have fun and not buy stuff it's super easy and doable.

People do still donate to projects to support the authors who make the wheels spin.
> Google ranking is critically important.

I wonder how long this will be true. Already today Googles search result are mostly SEO-optimized garbage and I can't fathom that this will get better now that "content creators" have access to plutonium grade bullshit generators.
We're using LLMs to generate web scrapers and data processing steps on the fly that adapt to website changes. Using an LLM for every data extraction, as most comparable tools do, is expensive and slow, but using LLMs to generate the scraper code and subsequently adapt it to website modifications is highly efficient.

Try it out https://kadoa.com
I have never used heroin or other hard drugs. And I do not intent to. So I might have missed out, you say?
Ask HN: Why hasn't a readily available universal mosquito trap been developed?
Basically the title. Yeah, I know there's mosquito repellent spray, but I'm not keen on spraying noxious chemicals all over my clothes/skin, especially not in my own home.

It seems like every few years new technology gets developed to fight/trap mosquitoes, but yet when I browse Amazon and/or my local hardware store for solutions, there are none to be found (aside from the usual snake oil). Why is this?
The JSON people were adamant about discouraging what https://json-schema.org/ ended up being. There's a reason JSON.org never linked to it (even back when they had a full screen of links at the bottom of their page: https://web.archive.org/web/20180727095653/http://www.json.o... )
I use https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

You can use -F to get the available formats and find out an audio-only stream then -f FORMAT to download the specified stream.
That autoscroll on the opnsense website was extremely annoying.
Like a lot of things in Britain there's a chronic lack of development, and a 'pass the buck' trend.

Our water infrastructure is another prime example. There's been no real investment in decades and the system we have in place was designed for a population in the 1950s. As a result our reserves are woefully inadiquate, resulting in the annual 'hose pipe ban'. The rhetoric around it has changed recently though. According to one of the water boards its "because everyones working from home", ignoring the fact that we've had these issues long before the uptick in WFH.

Our electricity supply is just as bad, although this is one area thats getting a fair bit of private investment with offshore wind, but the lack of storage ability makes this useless at certain times of the year, resulting in situations like we had in late 2022 where old mothballed power stations had to be turned back on to meet demand.

Our housing issues are extremely frustrating. What little development does happen is often carried out to the bare minimum specifications to pass building regulations, with houses that may as well be made of paper and rooms the size of clossets due to massive overdevelopment on each plot of land.

Really we should've been building 3-4 new major cities spread around the country. We've had a few smaller scale towns (Cambourne comes to mind) but they don't go nearly far enough to solve the issue.

We've also got huge swaths of abandoned industrial land in the north, and whilst there has been some regeneration it's often "premium" tiny apartments in places like Manchester and Sheffield, primarily being sold to landlords who then let them out to university students.
I have had my fair share of drinks over the years but it never took over my life, it is a nice middle ground of it is there but not a key feature.

That said, you having never had a sip. Right on! Each to their own path and I completely get why some folks never try it. Just doesn't interest them and you cannot miss what you never had I guess.
Without paid family leave, many teachers aim for summer babies
This has nothing to do with carbon footprint. They chose laminated wood for development cost reduction. Prefabricated parts require a lot less labor on site and can be put up a lot faster. This moves costs from the developer to the buyers, as they will have to do a lot more maintenance over the life time of the building. Said maintenance and repairs contradict the carbon footprint reduction claim if you consider the total cost of ownership.
Planetside 2 has them on on huge map, but as soon as more player are nearer in one area the system got problems too. Lags, Jumps and wrong running clocks (different speeds an the map). They shard within a server. But PS2 Networking is really good and optimized, better as most current games, and Planetside 1 + 2 (and parts of the Engine) are 20 years old. Most new games are overwhelmed with 64 Players. PS2 can handle 200 on small areas without any problem.
What prevents spammers from also paying? Right now many times of spam is done by humans so if it can be made profitable with manual work today I cannot see why having to pay would change anything.
Why would you think that? A well built house can last hundreds of years. Why should it not be an investment?

It makes absolutely no sense to put any kind of money into something that one day will be worthless - like I read that it happens in Japan that on average a house is worthless after about 40 years.
> That and the fact that it actually made it to Titanic a few times and back without catastrophic failure.

i've no idea what i'm talking about but my guess would be that they were sort of aware of the design shortcomings and then just tried to compensate by overengineering the static components. and then they just pretended the material wouldn't progressively deteriorate towards the inevitable demise.
OPTical ARchiver – a codec for encoding data on paper
I may have something for you in the works actually. A team I consult with is working on a bare-metal as a service based service offering that provides a Heroku-like experience. Storage is network-attached on a low latency network and customers can select dedicated disk pools if they want. One of the interfaces to the infra is a Heroku-like interface.
> Roman Empire's "hands-off" governance model

Is really not something that would describe the medieval Roman empire (or pre-medieval one as well to be fair) very well.

It was the most centralized state in Europe well into the high middle ages. It had a large professional army, navy and bureaucracy (unlike every other state) and a relatively very high tax burden to match it.

Which is one of the reasons many of their subjects really didn’t mind being conquered that much. The Germans, Arabs, Turks, Bulgarians were generally more “hands-off” and less into persecuting religious minorities (at least during the initial periods after the conquest).
Getting JSON with TypeScript types from ChatGPT response
Reasons You Should Not Ignore Flaky Tests
RHEL is branched from Stream and released from the branch every 6 months.

I challenge you to find _one_ package in RHEL (as of the git.centos.org c9 branch) that reverted an ABI breakage that is in Stream, without said reversion having been applied to Stream as well.
You'll surprised.
A bit over a decade ago, I met the founder of a company called EarPeace [1] that makes volume-reducing earplugs for music festivals in a bar in a suburb of Guangzhou. He gave me his pitch about the irony of how people who love music end up damaging their hearing by going to loud music festivals, concerts and bars. I've always been sensitive to keeping the volume of headphones low, but had never thought about the danger of loud environmental noise in entertainment venues. I guess I always assumed that making your best customers slowly deaf surely wouldn't be very good for business. I mean, they're already poisoning our livers and making us hungover, they certainly wouldn't also make us deaf, would they?

Ever since then, I've carried a set of EarPeace around on my keychain and used them religiously in loud environments. When I owned a Vespa for ~5 years in Hong Kong, I'd always put them in before driving....motorcycle forums are filled with bikers who have destroyed their hearing from wind noise.

Once apple watch added the ability to warn us about loud noises, level and time allowing me to quantify the potential damaging sound levels I'd been avoiding all of these years, it was pretty shocking. Bars and club can easily come in over 100 dbs and 110 db isn't really that rare.

I highly recommend some sort of volume reducing earplugs - not only do you protect your hearing, but it also makes going out much more comfortable. By reducing the volume of instead of blocking the sounds, you can make out more detail of the music and what other people are saying.

Edit: on the same note, does anyone know if earbuds with active noise cancelation like airpods pro offer similar hearing protection benefits?

1: https://www.earpeace.com/
Have to ask...is "artificial child pornography" demonstrably a bad thing, if it a) isn't generated based on images/descriptions of real, individual children b) can't be shown to increase the likelihood of consumers of such generated imagery/text going on to consume the "real thing", or worse, actively carry out pedophiliac behaviour? What if there was good reason to believe that artificial pornography had the opposite effect (e.g. it somehow more than satisfied whatever twisted desires such consumers had)?
And is it obviously worse than other artificial pornography that portrays clearly morally/ethically egregious acts (just not of children)?
And (1) it looks dope.
One option is to use a voltmeter that plugs into the cigarette lighter outlet. There are a bunch of cheap options on Amazon.
I'm willing to accept your point if you or they, can confirm that they are in fact talking about an optiplex that idles at 8W, which I doubt, for 43 dollars.

Despite DELLs willingness to slap the same series number on everything from an ATX tower to a "paperback book", they are far from the same thing.

I'm willing to accept I may be wrong, so let's see.
The infrastructure issue is very much true. In my former town they got permission to build 2500 new homes on a patch of greenbelt land. In doing this they added a roundabout to the busiest road in the city, which is already suffering as it's a former country lane that is still fairly narrow.

They didn't build anything to support the new development at all, so now all the local schools which were already struggling from being oversubscribed don't have any capacity, meaning there's now a daily (paid) coach service taking kids to the next town to go to school.

Flooding has become a major problem in the area, the former field had a ditch system at the bottom of it, which no longer exists. That main road has now been closed on several occasions, and the older houses that run on the opposite side of the road endured several feet of water running through their houses last year. The solution? Slap a couple more drains on the road - those residents already know they'll be flooded again come winter.
their official fat sdk is a run of the mill eclipse reskin w the usual gcc ports and half working libc options last i used it :-)
>Happiness is a reward from our ancestors
>Long-term happiness only comes to those who emulate their successful ancestors

The title made sense to me in terms of the subtitle when I read it. Our ancestors figured out how to survive and encoded it into happiness and passed it on as a gift. It's a sort of embedded encoding they've figured out and left for us in how to survive.

Conversely I've begun thinking depression is a mammalian adaptation to weed out ineffective strategies more quickly.
Hm, maybe I am an old school here... but I just have nets on all windows and doors at home, which I can attest, work pretty well!
Okay, I appreciate this because it's constructive, upvoted. From this though, I don't understand why you would conflate consensual and nonconsensual work. It's unquestionable that trafficked women get forced into sex, but that's an issue for regulation and protection, not damning a whole industry or everything would get shut down.

To answer yours then "Do you feel the backpage ordeal was positive or negative for the sex worker industry?" I have no clue what this is about. I've been through the article twice now I can't see any mention of anything, a quick search through the HN comments, ditto, so where did this come from?
I am in Indian immigrant living in the UK for past 5 years. The housing system here feels extremely stupid to me. They basically resell houses 100+ years old at 5% higher value every year. It's kinda like gold or bitcoin, except those assets are actually very limited in number. But housing is simply artificially limited due to policies.

Total UK housing stock is worth 10T GBP vs 2.2T GBP GDP output. Don't think any other country comes even close in terms of skewed reliance on housing as a driver of wealth. I can't imagine the reduction in net worth of citizens (65% are owners) when house prices crash 20% due to higher interest rates. That would be 2T of the 10T value - almost the same as GDP.

Anecdotally, every British person I know has a common long term goal - save enough money for a 5-10% deposit on a mortgage. The incentives here are all wrong. You build wealth by investing in a house & taking 90% loan to value mortgages instead of actually working harder. Work is just a means to save enough for deposit & afford a mortgage premiums and maybe 1-2 holidays a year.

People complain UK is stagnating. Companies don't want to IPO in London. I can tell why - banks don't want to lend to SMEs. 50% of their lending is actually housing mortgages. Same with people - they would overwhelmingly invest in a house rather than own company shares. Housing is the root cause of malaise in the economy. Take away the incentives to own a house by building more homes, increasing mortgage rates and eliminating government policies helping people to buy & this country would just become much better
I've succeeded with interviews looking for three things:

* Find a candidate who takes apart with ease a couple of rather rudimentary programming problems. NOTHING crazy. Something practical and easy to understand the purpose of.

* Look for passion in technology and coding. Ask them what they would learn or do if they didn't have to work for a year.

* Look for rapid upward trajectory (potential). Someone doing the same thing for 5 years, meh. Someone going from data entry to automating a gnarly task with Go in a year - give me a ticket on that rocket ship.
very interesting point!
UK's housing stock is the oldest in Europe [1], so the rate of new construction is definitely not high enough to be able to say there's loads of new construction. Compared to demand, and compared to total housing stock.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/02e104fa-5959-4723-8da0-7b2b072b6...
It's plausible, but it was partly written by ChatGPT. From the paper: "Big thank you to ChatGPT for helping me draft this section." So of course it's plausible. That's what ChatGPT does.

There are a number of systems where someone bolted together components like this. Now we need more demos and evaluations of them. I just read a comment about someone who tried a sales chatbot. It would make up nonexistent products to respond to customer requests.

The underlying LLM systems need some kind of confidence metric output.
Well, yes, you have missed out. Clearly you're choosing to miss out because you don't think it's worth it - but that doesn't change the fact you're missing out.
Natto – write JavaScript on a 2D Canvas
Human Relatives Were Butchering and Eating Each Other 1.45M Years Ago