skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, you are making a completely unrelated argument. "Rocky helps sell RHEL": assuming it to be true, that is not a contribution to the open source world. It does not bring new software into the world. It is only a marketing help to IBM's balance sheet, and it helps only insofar as the open source world benefits from IBM making money from RHEL.

Second, the sole direct beneficiary of this hypothesis, IBM, apparently thinks it isn't true, and from what little comments they have released appears to have come to this conclusion after quite a bit of analysis.

Third, from my position of ignorance, I think IBM is probably correct. Why? Because the free burger in your analogy isn't Alma/Rocky, it's Fedora. A user who runs Fedora on workstations or small production servers is very likely to consider RHEL when choosing an enterprise distribution for large deployments, because they are already familiar with the ecosystem but they want stronger stability guarantees than Fedora Server. But a user who is running Alma/Rocky has much less reason to move to RHEL: they gain nothing but the license hassle.
I don't use Facebook atm, but in case no one answers, my usual loadout is ublock origin + eff privacy badger.
I'd add these use cases:

5. automated processing of unstructured paperwork and ingestion into ERP systems. Basically, upload any kind of bill and get all of the information into the system, not just "find out the total amount". That can save so much in accounting it's not even funny any more.

6. related to this, something that sorts incoming emails. Classify stuff into "look into it now" vs "look into it later" vs "yet another bullshit marketing email".
Ever heard of culture and art? ...Life is not just about work for innovation...

Edit: Oh and then there is also the whole social interaction thing and love and romance...
Mostly CD-Rs, but I have a few pressed CDs which don't read at all any more, despite looking fine on the outside.
Want to protect dolphins, whales and other bycatch?

Don't eat fish.

https://www.seaspiracy.org/facts

10,000+ dolphins are killed as bycatch off the coast of France every year

Millions of tonnes of dead animals: the growing scandal of fish waste

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/09/millions...

Are fish far more intelligent than we realize?

https://www.vox.com/2014/8/4/5958871/fish-intelligence-smart...

A fish can sense another’s fear, a study shows

https://apnews.com/article/empathy-zebrafish-oxytocin-origin...

Eating mackerel no longer sustainable, Good Fish Guide advises

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/05/mackerel...

4 Ways The Fishing Industry is Destroying the Planet

https://animalequality.org/blog/2022/06/07/fishing-industry-...
Non-native speaker here. Can't think of any rude ones, but here are some odd ones:

"Sperm whale" always sounds a bit funny to me, but I don't know whether native speakers find it funny, too.

"You can't have your cake and eat it, too." I understand the underlying logic, but it always seems a bit weird, since 1). you can eat half a cake; 2) if you don't eat a cake, you will no longer have a cake in a few days anyway; 3) it's a very long phrase for a short idea; and 4) the fact that "have" can also mean "eat".

"blow job": seems to be the opposite of what the job entails.

"first off": Why the "off"?

"ladyfinger": I understand the finger part, but "lady" finger? A bit cannibalistic, isn't it?
> I've never heard it mean anything else, and I've lived everywhere except the far west coast...

At least you've lived around. One of the things that amazed me when I first came to and was traveling the US is seeing Americans in one state say some phrase, only to go to another state and have those Americans claim it was never said in America.

People really like to absolutely generalize based o their ow necessarily limited experiences.
I agree with your sensible c comment.

I think that the cop tragically overreacted/panicked and is basically already condemned (including by the president).

This is a tragedy for everyone and the rest is pure hooliganism.
Thank you for the thorough and enlightening reply. I should have revised my statement to be something more like, "... what github offers is not traditionally utilized in git", because you're right, git doesn't need github, even for workflow related things. It's just that not too many teams utilize a pure git solution, probably just because it's not visual enough perhaps. Thanks again for your thoughts.
Portraits of a Democracy
I love this just for the getting around of Apple's restrictions
It would make sense. Kind of.

One of the many problems with the banks is that they may require you have an address you call home, in order to open, and keep, a bank account.

Bitcoin can, among other things, bank the unbanked.

Too bad grocery stores, and most other businesses, don’t accept Bitcoin as payment.

And keep in mind, many people are homeless without being drug users. So even buying drugs, which is one of the things Bitcoin is most suited for, is not super helpful to many homeless people.

Anyway. If giving Bitcoin to the homeless does not help them, it’s nice to see that there is a way that Bitcoin can be used for helping the homeless directly. Namely by donations which can be turned into foods and other things given directly to the homeless.
I ran across and had to fix something similar in a previous job.

The organization's SAML assertions were being rejected for invalid signatures. What I found in the code that created the XML and signed it, someone had changed or removed a tag after the signature was created but before the XML was written, thus the signature didn't match what was in the actual assertion. Reverting that change fixed the immediate problem, and made login work again for most cases. It took a bit longer to address the underlying issue.

On the whole were trying to support SAML using a library written at a fairly low level, one intended for people trying to implement the SAML protocol itself, not use SAML for authentication. This lead to ongoing issues that they never really solved.
We must not give up on teaching French
It doesn't actually though. Like someone else mentioned, they spend an untold amount of money on advertising. Like $4 billion in 2022, aka 10% of their revenue. https://www.statista.com/statistics/286526/coca-cola-adverti...

That's not a cost to produce their product, or even ship it, or store it. That's strictly just "buying more customers", which has no bearing on my initial claim - that soda is extremely cheap to produce.
What a shame the his post requires an account to view...
People like you exist and do stuff like that and yet no one has an upgraded version of the NES Zapper after all these years.
Why? Did it ever work?
digikata’s comment above suggests it is possible. It would be great to have something that isn’t attached to the editor of choice.
2023 is the year of the freeloaders finally getting demands to pay up or GTFO.
After the last mass exodus I am surprised people still comment on its status. I mean people say they'll leave it but few really do.
I think it comes down to what you think the purpose of the law should be. Some people believe the purpose of the law should be to prevent people from physically hurting or stealing from one another. It should only be able to stop you from doing those things, and not force you to do other things.
Exactly. Import attributes are supposed to effect the imported module, not the importing module.

This turns what looks like a function call in the importer into something like macro expansion (it doesn't look like actual macros though).
I feel like it's very informal, I heard it in high school in the DC area, mostly when kids were talking about cigarettes. I haven't heard it much in adult life.
> Because producing an image of Muhammad is an explicit prohibition in Islam. Providing services to same-sex couples is not a prohibition in Christianity.

Is a distinction like that even relevant? I don't think the US court system is going to wade into determining who is correctly practicing their religion or not. That itself would be a glaring First Amendment violation.
Id say the point of nosql is rather "the right tool for the job".

You can use an SQL db engine as a kv-store, but you can probably make a more efficient kv-store if you do not have the SQL constraints.

(Oth SQL engines are pretty efficient for lots of use cases these days)

Another example where SQL may not be the right choice is time series or graph DBs.
As a person who was looking to buy some of this new set, so glad this has been found so the street prices of the collector boosters will drop.
This phased out obsolescence (where people who care can create an account to archive old content before the site's deletion) should be the new norm!
It’s still P2W, because more money = more power. The goal in those situations is to have fun, not win, so inherently P2W is lessened. However that does not mean it doesn’t exist. It’s still a very real problem that’s only getting worse, regardless of whether you care or not.
Apollo's last update
Interesting. I get this controller headphone port feature when using the PS5, it's too bad it doesn't carry over to PC.
Copyright in the Bitcoin File Format: a question of content over structure
Social media is entering end-of-life. Good riddance, honestly.
The main JS implementations do not run ahead of the spec. They implement at Stage 3.
fxa auth is superior to pocket auth
I am unable to read the tweet, I'll have to take your word for it
No, it's just a really expensive game with a subscription model. What's the price to pay to get four copies of each card in every standard set? That's your quarterly subscription fee.

It would be pay-to-win if you could do stuff like, pay a fee to take a second card at once during a draft, or tutor a card from your collection during a game, etc...
Not impossible. It's not like they're going to DRM this shit with treacherous execution environments and all that. Your browser is still your user agent. I'm sure an extension to bypass this would pop up days after the wide rollout, if any.
Online advertising is even more fun than that: There's the merchant/website, the advertiser, the ad network, and the public. You can even add the advertiser's competitors! The public gets ads they don't want, the merchant can fake some of their traffic, or maybe it's the advertiser's competitors. The ad network is ultimately not all that interested in giving the advertiser that great a deal, or even if they are, they might still lose to those trying to steal ad revenue. You then see a company that was trying to sell ads to sports fans in indiana, that see that all their budget really went to ads placed in front of a bot farm from Philippines. I know of a failed alcohol startup who, after analysis, saw that 40% of their youtube marketing budget ended up attached to channels playing Peppa Pig.

So sure, adblock away, but don't think that the consumer is the sole loser in the ads race: It's far worse than that.
Amazingly, there are long threads discussing drinking, even though Tolstoy's essay is not about drinking. You can substitute it with “media consumption”, etc. I guess no one bothered to read it.
My personal suspicion, not based on anything scientific, is that the strenuousness of the lifting needs to hit some non-trivial level before your brain (and body) starts to adapt.

I don't know what your routine looks like right now, but if you are looking for a place to start, I highly recommend Jeff Nippard's youtube channel. He has really good advice on routines etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMjyvIQbn9M&ab_channel=JeffN...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deDlhPmT2SY&ab_channel=JeffN...
It's not really a problem to lose money on some users if they are making money over all. And they are, because Youtube is very profitable and drives billions of dollars in ad revenue a year. They never really cared about every user being a profit generator for them. Except, last quarter, they missed their ad revenue growth expectations—as did much every big company around—and they are freaking out. That's what this is. It's not a question of whether Youtube can afford to keep the lights on, it's that Alphabet wants them to be continually _growing_, and this seems like a way to do that. I think Netflix empowered them to do this by cracking down on shared passwords, which was successful for them (at least in the short term).
I’m sure I could find a similar comment about cryptocurrency or NFTs. There’s always snake oil salesmen.
Then again, if we are initializing something being declared, we have:

T *p = malloc(sizeof (T));

or

T *p = malloc(sizeof *p)

In the former, there is internal consistency with the repetition of T.

In the latter, repetition of p.

In the former, you're not going to change one T without the other, just like in the latter you won't change one p without the other.

Assignments give advantage to the latter:

p = malloc(sizeof (T)); // no local redundancy linking parts together.
Ten years as IC before I switched to management. My level has been flat for about 6 years though due to poor choices (I stuck around in a couple of go-nowhere projects, ...)
Fascinating info, thanks for sharing this with all the details! Didn't watch your youtube video but do you use any formal systems like TLA+ internally for validating your designs?
No broker API change in 10 years? No bugs?

I call bullshit. Reads more like a scam for trading signals.
What does it count as to follow a bunch of racist tweeters? Are you saying it's not indicative of anything?
I don't see a problem with this at all. Maybe it's cheap because it's not as good? I am not sure.
It's probably a fake case anyxay: https://newrepublic.com/article/173987/mysterious-case-fake-...
“Multi-level marketing pyramid scheme for the homeless.”
previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36055902
When you consider how many mistaken ideas people have about beauty, health, and identity just because of advertising. There are people who will literally fight you if you bad mouth their "Brand." Not to mention the trillions of dollars wasted on products that literally do nothing or are actively harmful to their users. It's insanity.

The most insidious part is that by the time advertising has completed it's work, most people don't even know that their ideas originated from an advertisement.
it's more of a database to keep track of books I want to read in the future.

I use a notepad.
It's malicious compliance. They might as well say that since their code is somewhere in Pi, it's all open source.
bro you are just wrong, look at the old youtubes from before they lobotomized gpt4. Unless your argument is that AI hasn't yet marched to your house and picked you up out of your chair in that case I mean I guess OK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLiheMQayNE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbIk7-JPB2c
As far as I know you can still self-host Firefox sync.
"Dr Wright, the First Claimant, claims to be the creator of the Bitcoin System, specifically the person who wrote the original Bitcoin code and the author of the White Paper, a document entitled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, which essentially describes the Bitcoin System. Dr Wright claims to own database rights in various iterations of the Bitcoin Blockchain and literary copyright in the White Paper and in what is referred to in the claim as the “Bitcoin File Format”.

[...] Justice Mellor also accepted that Dr Wright created the Bitcoin File Format and it was the product of his own intellectual creation. The issue for the court to resolve was whether the Bitcoin File Format satisfied the fixation requirement for literary copyright to subsist."
I would take a lower battery life for higher refresh rate. 60hz gaming makes me nauseous, but this is probably because I haven't played a game at <360hz in a long time.
The good old days like yesterday, when ad blockers worked on Youtube, and you could read through Twitter anonymously.
Yep, this sort of bonding is very important IMO. But it's also a giant trade-off. I can bond with people I work locally with at lunch, I have to leave my children for a few days to bond with people I work remotely with. It's a much heavier burden. I think it is often worth it! The town I live in doesn't have offices for every interesting company in the world, so I have to compromise on who I can work for if I'm not willing to work remote, which I currently feel is an even heavier burden. But if my perfect job also had a local office, I would be very pleased!
Hmm, seems to me that this is for a really niche use case (adding metadata like timestamps or git commit tags to your JS bundle). Is it really something that needs to have native language and syntax support over just adding a custom build step?
That sounds like a major security liability
A lot of restaurants already dislike black patrons, they consider them to be stereotypically "bad patrons". So, I think this will happen much sooner than we'd hope.
Illegal but not immoral.
Because companies like Canon sell multi-thousand dollar cameras and attachments to police agencies that are designed to make sure photographs can't be tampered with so that they're admissible in court. There can't be the possibility that a rogue cop altered a photograph, or the case can get thrown out.

It's why the cameras police departments use cost 5x more than the consumer versions.
Because it would have to be a global moratorium. That isnt going to happen. If it is not universal, there is the fear that the other side will continue and get the upper hand.

But this was the same thinking behind the atom bomb, we have to do it before anyone else does. As a defense.
Good. Maybe this will incentivise the last 6 people still using Twitter to finally leave.
I know people complain all the time about non-core-hacker stuff being posted to HN. And there's usually a point to be made why any particular post should be acceptable.

But come on, somewhere there's gotta be a line to be drawn, no?
So reading this article I thought I would get some new data that's an ah-ha moment of yes there is an evil corporate conspiracy to pay women less for the same jobs. Instead what I learned was the same things that previously learned, the internships on the career path that the example in the article women are a choosing don't pay or pay less than other internships in other career paths.

This isn't a gender thing, it wouldn't matter what the gender was of the person, they simply are in fields that don't pay internships. Now there is a valid debate to say if unpaid internships are right or wrong but that is not a gender pay gap debate.

You cannot compare two different career paths and what they pay and then say that there's some sort of inequality. Especially since we know people choose different career paths for a wide variety of reasons and gender is an influence on which kind of career you want in your life. Not all careers are equally as financially rewarding. And honestly I don't think anyone would want to try and live in a society that tried to pay all people who work the exact same rate regardless of the actual value of the work to society.
130k, .NET backend developer with 10 years of experience. Fully remote. I clock 35-40 hours a week, not working too hard because my capacity is a lot higher than that of my current team. Trying to ride that in such a way I don't end up burning out.
Report reveals US Space Force unprepared to counter orbital threats
And nothing of value was lost.

I’ve been watching the market closely for the past two years and it’s just stunning to see the number of startups that have no obvious value add proposition.

It’s mostly dishonest swindling with no path to profitability.
There are still lots of them. Unfortunately, many of them are overrun with ads. I don't mind advertising (on these sites it's at least pretty well targeted), but it does slow them down.
Removing the bankruptcy exemption from student loans as was the status quo prior to the 1980s solves this. The lenders then have a vested interest in ensuring that their lendees generate enough income to pay off the loans.
At which point, maybe a "GUI-interface" will be cheaper to build and maintain in the long run.

Now if AI could automagically update inventory data with what's actually physically happening on the lot, that would be cool.
Signs You Are Living in an Information Crap-Pocalypse
There is only one course of action here and anything short of that is deeply sad and spitting in the face of Tolkien.

This card needs to be placed in a storage container somewhere randomly in the world and opened only 20 years from now at which point a group of individuals will attempt to take it to Tongariro which was the filming location for mount doom in the movies. They will each be offered 1 million $$ to sell the card at that point but if they accept it they will get the million in half off yogurt coupons. If they actually agree to cast it into the volcano of their own volition then a team will do that safely and film it well while the "fellowship" receives the actual million they were not promised if they agreed to do this.
Ask HN: SQL and Natural Language?
Is anyone using LLMs to write SQL now? I use ChatGPT primarily now and am annoyed by having to teach it my schema every step of the way. Looks like Datagrip etc don't have any integration / GH Copilot equivalent. What tools are out there to get natural language to SQL that can inspect the schema directly?
Meanwhile, you can play 900p xbox 360 era games on the Steam Deck for at least 4ish hours if you don't run them full bore, or 8+ hours if you do something like emulation or very specific games. The game output the past five years hasn't been good enough to justify needing better than that for me.

Millions of units sold seem to suggest that's closer to the real value people see in them as well, rather than playing yesterday's best AAA game at 4k

There's so much to play in the past 30 years of video game history that the Steam Deck (and this handheld) can do effortlessly for several hours, and as cheap as $350, all the elitists who can't seem to care about gaming unless it's twin 4090s with 128 cores at 5ghz and 128gb of DDR5. I don't think you guys actually care about PLAYING video games
A lawsuit based on what law?

I don't know why it would be illegal for YouTube to use its recommendation algorithm to favor videos with ads.

It's a for-profit business after all.
The shark is man-eating.

Like the popular song by Hall & Oates, she's a man-eater.
Hard to believe this was already being articulated so clearly over a century ago:

> No wonder that the man who realizes the significance of all these figures and the trend disclosed by them is coming to look upon the editorial department of the newspaper as merely a necessary means of giving a literary tone to the publication, thus helping business men get their wares before the proper people.
If you need something you don't need an ad to find that out.
> Adding promises later would be challenging and leave technical debt.

I wrote an "aio loader" many years ago that can load (in the browser) AMD/CommonJS/node or just "include this script in your html" dependencies that asynchronously loads dependencies (and their own dependencies) with support for use via plain `require()` without callbacks, `require(foo, foo => {})` callback support, and even dynamic async loading (`var App = await requireAsync("foo")`).

I never published it publicly (it's just ticking away on our production sites) but I was motivated to push it to GitHub just now [0].

[0]: https://github.com/mqudsi/loader
> Or even single examples

Most, if not all, Google fellows? Just randomly pick one.
Woah, nice. Zig has a nice sweet spot of providing useful functionality at compile time vs. having "macros can make the text you read mean practically anything" like in, e.g., Lisp.
Don't have pets also (they eat 1/5th of worldwide fish production)
The standards are only “open” because Windows browbeat OEMs decades ago to conform to its requirements via WINHEC

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Hardware_Engineering...