skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do the same thing using Privacy.com. Enough companies today use the "fuck you" approach towards their users, hence the users should use the "fuck you" approach right back at them.

What's funny is how people won't use virtual cards because they think bill collectors or the law will come after them. That's extremely unlikely to happen for an unpaid $9.99 bill, especially since it's not like bill collectors work on behalf of companies free of charge. It's in the best interest of companies to ignore the transgression, freeze the account, and wait for the user to come back and reactivate it; much less likely to happen if they actively punish a user because they missed a payment.

Same goes for the "but muh credit score" argument. Somehow my credit score is still excellent despite the numerous times I cancelled virtual cards or didn't feel like paying my utility bills.

So yeah, use virtual cards everywhere.
Telegraphs and Teletypes Influenced the Computer
It's also only me editing my notes and I have Obsidian git conflicts all the time.

Also, it freezes my typing every time it tries to push/pull. So if you put it on an interval, to make it more automatic, your typing will just be frozen every however many seconds
I think that waiver fatigue is a real thing.

I get warned about the dangers of death on basically every waiver I sign. I just checked, and I was warned about death on the waivers I signed for: bumper cars, a sauna, the local rec center, etc... I get that death is technically possible at any of these activities, but how are you to differentiate between the actual likelihood in the real world.

The waivers have gotten so comprehensive as to not actually warn you of the real dangers you might face.
Doesn’t seem like Apple shutting down this old, likely unpopular feature is evidence of Apple turning the Mac into an “Apple Chromebook”.

There is no “hard stop” on the life time of a Mac. Yeah Apple will eventually stop updating the software but this has always been true. If anything this situation is much better that it ever has been with free OS updates.

Finally even if there was a hard stop Apple will gladly recycle your product. No need for it to go to a landfill.
> I honestly haven't seen much of that on HN at all.

I read the parent comment as more a general commentary on the overall internet-wide reaction to this rather than being specifically about HN.

I agree with all your points. You summed up why this is interesting, relevant to this audience and worthy of analysis to see what we can learn from it.

I also agree with the parent that many (online and in media) seem to be showing very little respect for the deaths of fellow humans, based on arbitrary labels/assessments, when most of these "commentators" had never even heard of these unfortunate individuals before last week.

> it removed said CEO from the story so he can't answer for himself.

Yes this is worth repeating too. We're getting one side of the story from what has been rather sensationalist reporting all round. It looks on the face of it like he made some pretty terrible mistakes, but we don't know all the facts yet. I think inquiry is appropriate at this stage, but assassination of character before they've even finished recovering the debris [0], not so much.

[0] I would have said "buried the dead" but of course the families and friends have nothing to bury. If people can't feel empathy for the dead, perhaps they could at least spare a thought for their families.
https://archive.is/7zVXP
Deep sea portholes are usually cones of acrylic that seat right into a port in the hull [0]

[0]https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340442621_Predictio...
There’s a good documentary on YouTube from a year or two ago on the design and building of the sub, and overall it just seemed like such a professional operation, whereas OceanGate felt like a DIY operation.

The company that built the LF also seems to have vastly more experience building subs.
I pointed out the authorship because this article is not actually the piece of news reporting it appears to be; it does not have anything useful to tell us about whether "Norway's wealth tax is backfiring", because it comes from an author whose ideological perspective presumes that it must. Perhaps the policy is a failure, perhaps it is not; we will need to look elsewhere to find out.
These people are at odds with the military industrial complex.
As for outcomes, with just 4 months of daily usage, our average user improves Comprehension by 70% and Phonics improvement of 42%
This is huge for us!
For goodness' sake, don't tell Matt Parker that one can write computer programs where 2π is rescaled to 1!

We'll never hear the end of it. There'll be some Python program that takes four months to calculate 1.00000000000000000000000000000001 . (-:
That's actually exactly the question I asked my math teacher when I first learned about radians. I mean, I learnt degrees when I was very little, at an age when one tended not to question why, but I learned radians at an age old enough to question why. The answer I received was about making trigonometric identities cleaner: the derivative of sine becomes "just" cosine rather than a hypothetical turn-based sine (called usin by the article) having a derivative of a turn-based cosine multiplied by 2pi.

But this article seems to do a good job explaining that a lot of those 2pi factors appear when you deal with differentiation. So it seems useful to have both turn-based trigonometric functions and this new differentiation operator.
70 million people in America are obese. Eating food doesn't make you obese, it's over indulgence of food and using food as a coping mechanism.
Government regulation often benefits everyone. When a regulation forces all manufacturinng to reach a certain standard, then economies of scale for that drive down the overall price.

If you let consumers decide, what you end up with is upper class suburban mums eating healthy bananas, while the homeless dude eats bananas that were grown in a superfund site.
There is essentially no secrecy. Research the Nth Country Experiment
I don't get this bug playing fullscreen at 1440p on M1 macOS... maybe play around with the settings a bit?
Strongly not my experience. The tooling at meta was so good compared to my previous 5 jobs that I left with changed opinions about the tradeoffs of investing in tooling.
MIDI 2 has huge vendor buy-in. MS isn't leading the charge, Google and apple are supporting it too. I posted this because I thought the repo might be more immediately useful than the pure specifications, which were released a few weeks ago.
Bad memory. The idea that Windows Terminal was C# was in the back of my mind for some reason but I did not verify this fact. Thanks for keeping me honest; updated the text now.

PowerToys is mostly C# though, which I have also verified now.
If you're looking for someone who can find a problem with a product decision from big tech, you've come to the right place.
Yes. I've done that plenty of times on Solaris (pre 10); including logging at the PROM level...
The videos show the spheres moving quickly, often back and forth. Pilots have reported spheres hovering stationary over a spot during hurricane level winds. From all the reports it sounds like there is some kind of propulsion mechanism.
Ya good points. I feel like they mostly touch on the current state of FPGAs and their limitations. And you're right about the lack of a market. It's hard for me to envision a market for reprogrammable GPUs, because most people are consumers who just want to run games as fast and cheap as possible.

I tried to address some of your concersn about scaling in my response to imtringued.
Explo AI: Generative AI for Data Visualization
I think the author's point broadly still holds -- you can get further with more engineering resources and data, whether you're using 2015 era models or 2023 retrieval-augmented LLMs and fine-tuning. Just that now you can accomplish a lot more quickly with a ChatGPT prompt.
Happy Tau day!
Heavy and happy early user of June here.

I’m also a heavy user of Amplitude and I see how June solves many of my common use cases in a more usable way.

Probably for me it doesn’t make a huge difference, and I still do deep analysis at my dwh or amplitude. But for the rest of the org, that is less data oriented, I found that June increases their data driven mindset just by making it easier to understand and use.

That’s what good UX is for.
Lots of domination involves democratic politics and/or expertise as well as careful deliberation. I don't think there's a logical contradiction in what you've quoted and what you've written.
Bootcamp. Actual rosetta that can run 32 bit or powerpc apps. Airport and Time Capsule. The list goes on of pretty nice software and hardware that apple has abandoned over the years. I think a website like this would be pretty interesting to see all the products and features we've lost through the years.
I am surprised by how little takes on this seem to address the fact this is likely to be bureaucratic. There are many people or departments who would benefit from increased fundings in these areas.

Not seven saying its overt corruption. But if you work for the military in collecting sightings on unidentified objects and earnestly dont know what 10% of the sightings actually were, it behooves you to fan the rumors on it a bit.
I was never thrilled with it, but I'm probably not their target demographic.
Why does it break down?

Too many row insertions? Too many dB clients at the same time?

I'm genuinely curious here.
> what teenage boys want out of teenage girls

Is that any different to what teenage girls want out of teenage boys? ;)
Assuming you don't need to use UUIDv7 (or any UUID's) then https://github.com/segmentio/ksuid provides a much bigger keyspace. You could just append a string prefix if you wanted to namespace, but the chance of collisions of a ksuid is many times smaller than a UUID of any version.

ksuid is the best general purpose id generator with sort-able timestamps I've found and has libraries in most languages. UUID v1-7 are wasteful.
As I put in another comment, your class library might have a type that is equivalent to ISO 8601 data, indeed is convertible to and from it, but is a binary representation at runtime compatible with other types in the language.

So this technically isn't ISO8601, and certainly isn't "ISO8601 in a string", which is an _interchange format_ between application with potentially very different runtimes. I don't really recommend treating ISO8601 dates as mere strings, unless you intend to pass them through without even looking at the contents.

I refer to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.datetime...

Use types that support ISO8601 with an offset, always.

The docs even say that, even if many are not aware:

> consider DateTimeOffset as the default date and time type for application development.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/datetime/c...
I agree with this entirely. User interfaces in general have become harder to use and, if I may say subjectively opine, uglier. Both with Linux and most other OSes and applications.
You’d be hard pressed to find a more despicable founding leadership team in all of tech/entertainment and that’s really saying something: Jobs, serial sexual assaulter Lassiter and unrepentant wage fixer Catmull who was also instrumental in covering for Lassiter for decades.
Naive Question: The type safe part is just appending a string at the beginning? What if I do that with UUIDv4? is user_49b9cd12-9964-4b9c-8512-742f0a2c9be4 type safe now?
Non-US companies don't pay lower because they're evil or greedy, they pay lower because they also make much less revenue than US companies.
"Just remember to filter out special user IDs x, y, z, they're actually companies" is exactly the type of problems that when you solve will make the customer go "oh, this maps _exactly_ how I think about company events/metrics".

If you're "focused on companies", just add a company level event/metric API even if it's all sugar and you internally model it with user IDs or whatever. I don't think anyone is saying tracking user events isn't important, it obviously is, just that in addition you should introduce company events to truly differentiate yourself from the "ordinary" analytics providers.
Who do you use for game server edge computing? Edgegap?
I think there's a new approach for “How do you get the data?” that wasn't available when this article was written in 2015. The new text and image generative models can now be used to synthesize training datasets.

I was working on an typing autocorrect project and needed a corpus of "text messages". Most of the traditional NLP corpuses like those available through NLTK [0] aren't suitable. But it was easy to script ChatGPT to generate thousands of believable text messages by throwing random topics at it.

Similarly, you can synthesize a training dataset by giving GPT the outputs/labels and asking it to generate a variety of inputs. For sentiment analysis... "Give me 1000 negative movie reviews" and "Now give me 1000 positive movie reviews".

The Alpaca folks used GPT-3 to generate high-quality instruction-following datasets [1] based on a small set of human samples.

Etc.

[0] https://www.nltk.org/nltk_data/

[1] https://crfm.stanford.edu/2023/03/13/alpaca.html
Trove of new coronaviruses uncovered in bats – but threat is unclear
Or how 3d touch was going to change ios then that must have cut into margins too much and only lasted a few models.
> Generally speaking (I'm not a fly.io customer) at this point that phrase WORRIES me as a customer of any service.

Any time I read an announcement like this I refresh my knowledge of competitors and make a mental note that it might be time to switch soon.

> It makes me think that the company exists just on a constant flow of VC or similar money and what I'm using or paying for isn't a realistic or future cost and I'm involved with a system or platform that is getting stretched larger and larger regardless of income and the more money they raise the harder the fall will be.

If you're an investor that's a valid concern. But as a user? I've been happy to have VC funding subsidize my food via Hello Fresh etc. whenever I'm inclined.
I hope you aren’t testing for equality with pi or e or rho or square root of two. One and zero and -zero might be special cases. If you are testing max(0, pi) also you will be sad sometimes. Especially tho if you are doing computation and then testing for equality you will mostly be wrong.

What are the cases you are mentioning? Surely something more complex than a float for a loop variable? When the error is less than a threshold, when the sign changes, when the number of objects 8n a partition is one, I can’t think of a calculated float that would be a test for something with equality.
As a person completely naive to the finer points of plastics manufacture-do these additives tend to be drawn from a fairly small and well-understood universe of chemicals and combined in predictable ways, or is it a bit more DIY at the level of a specific manufacturing plant or product spec or batch run?

I guess my mind is instinctively reaching for the ways FDA attempts to ensure food safety by compelling manufacturers to publish ingredient lists, and by maintaining registries [0] of hopefully-well-understood additives (and banning the rest, in historically dangerous categories like colorants).

Sure from time to time agitators take that information out of context to whip up a scare about one ingredient or another, and sure some of the food that comes in from overseas has after-the-fact labeling that’s a little sus. But at least there’s an expectation that the information must exist and be legible.

[0] https://www.fda.gov/food/food-ingredients-packaging/determin...
I don't know what frameworks they are using at Square but when I was doing Xamarin development it was absurd how much size/overhead was added to an app, to the point that a simple Hello World app was a few dozen MB while a plain Java (or later: Kotlin) app was a couple MBs. I heard from other mobile devs that excessive bloat from adding any framework or 3rd party libraries was a known issue but devs who can code it all by hand were rare and ultimately clients didn't care as long as they could put an app in the app store (even if it was 99 MB of bloatware).
The problem of fraud in the generic drug industry is the topic of the book "Bottle of Lies" by Katherine Eban[0]. She joined Peter Attia for a fantastic episode of his podcast[1]. It isn't often I burst out laughing while listening to a healthcare podcast, but I did several times with that episode. Attia and Eban are imagining the situation as the naive new employee from the U.S. drug manufacturing industry is presenting a report to the board of his new Indian generic drug company how their fraud has been working, and how to fix it.

All those patients who can't get their generic drugs: How many of them were getting fraudulent drugs before that had little or no effect on their disease?

One U.S. startup tried to make a business model out of analyzing every batch of drugs they sold. [I'm sorry, did you think every batch of the drugs you take was verified as the real thing between you and the (foreign) manufacturer?] Valisure is a startup that bought drugs in bulk and actually tested samples, using mass spectroscopy, to verify they were the real thing, then sold them on to U.S. patients. Alas, their business model does not seem to be working out so far. But they did detect massive contamination in Zantac which lead to its recall five months later by the FDA.[2]

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Bottle-Lies-Inside-Story-Generic/dp/0...

[1] https://peterattiamd.com/katherineeban/

[2] https://peterattiamd.com/davidlight/
> has this ever not been the case?

Windows XP got patches for over 10 years IIRC. It was a different time, but you did ask "ever"
While I understand and appreciate the aspects of the bill that offers protection for whistleblowers, I don't understand cutting all funding for reversing such technology.

If it exists, don't we want to understand it ASAP? Regardless of whether it's alien in origin or not, why in the world wouldn't we want to study potentially advanced technology?
I think this is just due to the maturation of the community; it has grown and diversified, so enthusiast hackers represent a smaller proportion of it. The same dynamic is at play in the tech community at large.
Show HN: Learn the via Socratic Method with GPT-Peers
Analysis of gut–brain axis shows ASD-associated molecular and microbial profiles
Fun fact: a much younger version of me started the push for this 22 years ago

Edit: I don't want to make out that I spearheaded the project or anything. I just spent several years politely bothering people at music industry trade shows and on industry forums. All the heavy lifting was done by other people.

https://www.soundonsound.com/people/sounding-36
Your snarky comment fails given that height is non-transferable whereas money is? Hair transplant would be a funnier comment. Alas.
There is a typo in the text above that I can't edit. Are should be aren't in a sentence.
Wind?
UK government looks at nationalising Thames Water as crisis deepens
> It may take a generation or so to get there but more and more the next crop of startups, etc are building on things like Fly instead of AWS and friends.

I'm currently at a startup that started on Aptible a few years ago because there was a lack of expertise in systems development. We're now in the process of migrating to AWS natively because of cost savings (it's why I was hired). Aptible is costing us 3-4x what native AWS will. Yes, we're incurring some operational overhead, but the automation and tooling for managing infra is reasonably mature (Terragrunt & Terraform aren't perfect, but they work well enough).

Ultimately, startups may start with higher-level cloud providers, but they'll eventually migrate to lower-level providers eventually. At the higher end of the growth curve, companies likely wind up getting back to on-prem in some way.
This is a good thread to catalog red herring techniques.

* The government has previously used X to divert attention therefore there is no X.
* The person saying X is an accomplice of X and cannot be trusted.
* Demanding the answer to the question about X is dangerous because national security.
* X is a distraction from something bad Trump did.
* X is a distraction from something bad Biden did.
* X is a distraction from the recent Supreme Court decisions.
* X could never be covered up by the government - refuses to believe copious whistleblower testimony about X with no reason than it's impossible for the government to be able to cover X up.
Brunost: Norway's Beloved “Brown Cheese” (History and Recipes)
That makes sense. However, it's not that different from using the same password on all sites as an attacker only needs the master key for your online password manager.
Thank you so much! This got me looking at the Ruby documentation about blocks. Very cool feature!
I think it is a more productive tweak to thinking to understand beliefs as not being fully true or fully false than to believe that one can be purely rational in one’s actions or beliefs.
It's great. I have a 8x8 motu midi rack that i've had for probably 25 years, might be one of the only consistent pieces of rack gear I've had.
> accessing a computer or website you're not authorized to access (even if the website has trash security)

What does having "trash security" have anything to do with it?

In the real world do you look at a convenience stores and think "wow this store has such trash security, I can just take some things"?
What makes u think they'll stay?. First chance they get they'll move back to the USA because the salaries are that much better.
Show HN: Webhooks for platforms that do not natively support them
Hello HN,

We’d like to show you our project — Nohooks[0]. The aim is to add webhooks to platforms that do not natively support webhooks. We really believe many APIs can provide a better developer experience by providing webhook notifications to enable us to automate more things.

Nohooks works by intelligently polling the integrated platform's APIs, determining if a change has occurred, and generating webhook events. Nohooks currently supports webhooks from Notion’s Databases, Render’s Services & Deployments, and DigitalOcean’s Droplets. We will add more in the coming days and improve the types of events/payloads generated to enable new workflows that were previously impossible or difficult to achieve. It uses Convoy[1] to power its webhooks delivery and debugging dashboard.

We welcome you to try it out and give us your feedback — what platform would you love to have webhooks for that doesn’t currently exist? What webhooks best practices would you like to see implemented?

[0]https://nohooks.io

[1]https://github.com/frain-dev/convoy
True Latinists find the letter U vulgar to the point of obscenity because it didn’t exist in Cicero’s time.
replaced my MacBook Pro after 10 years, not having the latest OS didn't bother me at all with it. Only had to spend $100 on a new battery for it after 5 years. in total, came out to $10.83 a month for the life of my MBP and it still works i just finally needed the ARM version for something.