skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He is just another mindless robot, sent on rounds on behalf of corporate wonderland, to tell govts and regulators what to think. Basically a lobbyist. From what he chooses to talk about, you can see how totally vacuous corporate wonderland actually is.
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FastAPI doesn't use Semver; it uses ZeroVer: https://0ver.org/
Why, what did this person do that was so serious they should be jailed?
Why is SUSE so seldom talked about? I don't know much about the distro except it has been around a long time, has professional support, supposedly is popular in Europe, and isn't it an RPM distro?

Is there any downside to its fully free spins?
Someone will have to pick up the pieces later. It may be you, or it may be someone whose desired heading corresponds to those other things. If we are talking about value creation, we have to acknowledge there will be externalities we create while creating value. Those will sometimes be good (more opportunity) and sometimes be bad (crappy projects). The hope is that there is more good than bad, otherwise we have a failing startup on our hands.
"vision" only goes so far and in the case of authoritarian narcissists like Jobs and Musk (perhaps more so Musk) can just as often sabotage progress as lead it. Elon Musk seems like the kind of leader you have to know when and how to lead out of the room just to keep things running sanely

At the end of the day, he isn't designing the rockets. He isn't building the rockets. He isn't even flying the rockets. He pays the people who hire the people who do those things. That has value, but not the kind of "billionaire genius entrepreneur who built a technological empire with his bare hands" value that society gives him. People have called Elon Musk the most brilliant man who ever lived, the man on whom the very arc of human evolution and progress depends, Tony Stark, Edison, Einstein and Davinci in one.

I don't think the parents' statement is unfair. I think it's unfair that the world will know Elon Musk's name a century from now and that no matter what he does (barring, maybe, mass murder) his carefully crafted narrative will live on, but the names and stories of the people who actually turned his vision into reality have already vanished under the sands of time because they are merely assets, no more important to the hierarchies of capitalism or the great man narratives of history than office furniture.
In case it wasn't immediately clear (it wasn't to me) "2 asses" refers to the as/assarius, a coin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_(Roman_coin)
Sticking with the balance sheet analogy, the phrase would be “technical asset”.
"Strictly" seems to be constructing a strawman - I would guess almost everyone who believes in decriminalization acknowledges other motives like puritanicalism, racism, classism, labor productivity, adherence to the societal norms, etc.
> A solo dev can pull this off in half a year.
> Only thing complicated is scale

So, a solo dev cannot, in fact, pull this off.
Internationally Disney+ gets most of the content that's shown on Hulu in the US (as Hulu is US-only).
You know things are going well when you have to yell at the internet that your not dead.
Instagram has launched many other services as “just a view in Instagram” that people did not use.
LOL. I feel like a geezer whenever I talk to people about what enterprise software was before RoR came along. XML. So much XML. Do you think that you should write XML in order to query data from a DB with a perfectly serviceable query language? People sure did think that in 2001!
All of my figures are for Android. None of the app sizes will match on iOS.
Interested in knowing if they're made by native SDKs or React Native or, unlikely flutter.

will they do desktop apps? electronjs came to mind for that, yes it's fat but it's the only one truly cross platform now.

Not a IG, FB, Threads, Twitter user per se, just interested in what stack Meta uses to build Threads, looks like a mix of various pieces from their existing code base to me.
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I’ve written against the Facebook Graph API and Twitter’s. Facebook was rock-solid (although they tightened it after Cambridge Analytica to the point it no longer supported my use-case), Twitter couldn’t go two weeks without a failure or regression of some sort. Gave me strong contempt for Twitter’s engineering culture and I suspect Meta would know this as well. As a former CTO and hiring manager, I’d certainly consider a stint at Twitter on a candidate’s resume as a black mark.
Thanks! I was thinking on the same lines after reading a few examples.

Also in fact, I was thinking what the name V stood for. Now I think it may stand for Vibe, because it vibes with people, or should that be the other way around? Heh.
Something like an implant? Unfortunately I think we're probably (and this is a wild guess) 50+ years away from being able to fully replace all the hepatic & metabolic functions of a human pancreas in some kind of implantable. They're incredibly efficient, and also horrifically complex, and if you mess up the balance they keep, it's pretty much a death sentence (see: pancreatic cancer).

Controlling glucose is far easier, by comparison; just one input, and two outputs.

Sorry to hear about your pancreatitis, hope you can find a treatment plan that works for you!
> And I’d say that the above answer [from chatgpt] was better than 95% of the fake reviews I came across.

Perhaps this is because the easily identifiable fake reviews are poorly written? The real question is how many fake reviews are good enough to avoid detection?
Decriminalization is a cowardly half-solution that only creates more problems, leaves violent gangs in charge and does nothing to improve the purity of drugs. A measured and thoughtful legalization program for the most popular drugs is the only solution if we want to curtail black market dominance and save human lives.
Who’s going to pay for that? Why would those people want to work if they can just freeload?

There are serious problems with welfare programs. They’ve been the downfall of entire countries. Look at Argentina where the bloated government payroll can be viewed as a sort of work for welfare program. The country can’t afford it and its currency blows up on a regular basis as a result.

That’s not saying you should have no welfare programs, but there’s a balance to be maintained. Probably it should be time limited so people are given a sort of “financial rehab”, but not disincentivized to work. And it shouldn’t stop if you get a job, why, just why would you want an incentive against that.

Some people seem to think there can be consumption without production or life without work, but that’s logically incoherent.
Being in Band, one learns Music; being in a band, one learns music. The attrition rate of band students in extracurricular or post-high-school musical endeavors is a bit disappointing. It is similar to the kids forced through piano lessons who quit whenever they have a chance.
Taking your comment too seriously... Webgl is the more ubiquitous target, so I'd still prefer that when it's sufficient.
https://ewpratten.com

I'm pretty bad at sticking to a set list of topics. I like to just write about whatever is interesting me at the moment. Lots of semi-how-to-style posts where I end up explaining how to do the things I find interesting.
> I would add that intuition and knowing how to question it is also vastly important.

I agree. Especially knowing how to question and how to break problems down. I'm not sure intuition is a thing that can be taught, but it's a thing that emerges as a consequence of being curious and learning how to question and find answers to those questions.

That aspect is also why I think that being generally curious and having a broad base of knowledge makes you a better engineer. It's amazing how often apparently unrelated knowledge can give you an insight into solving programming problems. People who are laser-focused on "computer stuff" specifically often miss important insights.
Thanks, that makes sense.

My mental image was closer to a system framework, like adding node.js with npm, assuming that it wouldn't come with the more security restricted parts (NFC access etc) either way.

> SafetyNet

TIL
Some of this is possible in the type system like a range:
From stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39494689/is-it-possible-...

type Enumerate<N extends number, Acc extends number[] = []> = Acc['length'] extends N
? Acc[number]
: Enumerate<N, [...Acc, Acc['length']]>

type NumberRange<F extends number, T extends number> = Exclude<Enumerate<T>, Enumerate<F>>

type ZeroToOneHundred = NumberRange<0, 100>

One limitation is that this has to be bounded on both ends so constructing a type for something like GreaterThanZero is not possible.

Similarly for zip codes you could create a union of all possible zip codes like this:

type USZipCodes = '90210' | ...

Often with the idea you have in mind the solution is to implement an object where the constructor does a run time check of the requirements and if the checks pass instantiate the instance and otherwise throw a run time error.

In functional programming this is often handled with the Option which can be thought of as an array with exactly 0 or 1 elements always. 0 elements when a constraint is not met and 1 element when all constraints are met.

This [0] is a library I wrote for JS/TS that provides an implementation of Options. Many others exist and other languages like Rust and Scala support the Option data structure natively.

[0] https://github.com/sbernheim4/excoptional
It's rich from someone coming from scala. I frequently see lambdas returning lambdas returning lambdas that return a new object.
> I have lost a friend due to addiction

So have I. The drug was alcohol. Adults make choices and live with the consequences. shrug
some building codes are written in the blood of people who were injured or hurt, some are to stop people from building slum and becoming slumlords.

Regulations don't assume one size fit all, rather they tell you the minimum standard you must meet to participate in this, at least in our society.

If you think egress requirements and insulation requirements are too restrictive for you, then you don't belong in an industry that builds where you live and work.
Using in public.
Sorry, not trying to use innuendo! I’m explicitly saying that you’re using a post hoc justification for Nahel Merzouk’s murder because you’d already decided that it’s okay for police to murder people like him.
> A gasoline pump doesn't need to know anything more about a car than whether the gas tank is full. In and out, five minutes of liquid flow, and the only evidence left behind is a credit-card number and the delightful aroma of benzene.

And the CCTV footage, and the credit card records, and your GPS data, and the cellphone tower data, and the... Honestly, I never really cared much for Elon Musk (even when he was a tech darling), I don't have a Tesla, I don't own any $TSLA, but the mental gymnastics folks are doing to turn him into a mustache-twirling villain is kind of funny.

NACS was open-sourced anyway, so anyone can build their own chargers. This is such a bizarre & far-fetched article. I mean, the guy owns Twitter, but you really think he needs some convoluted Dr. Evil-esque plan to collect data about users? Uh, okay.
> OpenAI trained GPT3.5 and 4 to never do anything offensive, and that has a lot of negative side effects, well-documented in research.

I'm absolutely disgusted by OpenAI for this "do no offense" approach. How can people so smart be so damn uneducated?

Then again, this industry has disgusted me for a long time so it's not really a surprise.
The chargers would be artificially cheaper though. The land for the gas stations has already been acquired, they've been hooked up to utilities. Installing chargers at them will be a fraction of the cost of originally building them out.
My impression was the unherd.com was big on capitalism. No?
> I can’t in good faith recommend anyone support a company that allows people in positions of power to “debate religion at the water cooler.” That’s a hostile work environment.

This is likely some cultural issue (I'm not from the United States), but I don't get what some person of power who loves debating religion at the water cooler makes the company a hostile work environment. Quite the opposite: in my gut feeling the fact that religion (a topic that has a tendency to cause heated discussions) can be discussed at the water cooler is rather a point of evidence that the work environment is really healthy.
If govts did not play capturing huge masses of money to do favors and we limited ourselves to court and hearings when needed, people would be way more responsible in their actions and the services would be way more efficient and oriented to waht people want without excuses and make-up.

This is not how states operate, unfortunately, and they are not interested at all in making things change. People in the state live to a big extent from selling favors, whether we like it or not, via regulations and capturing money to make others happy. All, with our taxes.

I know many people do not think this way but if you took the time to read and understand the inner workings of politics and power you would almost never think well of a person whose job is professional politics.
> verifiable receipt

lol. the current amazon scam is to purchase the product (ship to a random address to defeat “common address” detection) then leave the fake review
Andor is quite good. But still a bit too much Disney in some scenes.
Muting individual accounts is not useful when there are hundreds of accounts with baseball crap.
I've also had a great time installing Windows 95 into a DOSBox instance. Might be even easier than a full fledged VM.
Isn't it far more biased to assume that anything Musk ships is good?

Features and shipping should be evaluated empirically by results, not by deciding a priori that the decision maker is good or bad.

So I think you might be projecting a bit with your bias. And for that matter, I didn't even mention Musk's changes at all, yet you seem to be grouping me in with people that have! (But for the record, I preferred the feature set of Twitter before Musk started changing things. Still, the feature changes are still a loooot less important than the user base. And by prioritizing replies by paying versus non-paying customers, the user base that I experience on Twitter has gone down in quality by a ton, meaning that it is far less useful. That and shutting down the site for a few days and letting me experience zero of the user base-or rather a feed refresh two reply threads before 600 tweets were hit-was completely boneheaded. Stupid. B-player move.
Yes

> the priority is the mobile apps, but we are working on www

https://www.threads.net/t/CuWp3eMNE8h/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ...
That's the reason why CS classes and degrees exist. Or at least it should be.

No company will pay you for several years just to learn complexity theory, write sorting algorithms, study schedulers, rewrite UNIX tools, understand hardware architectures, etc... They want you to be productive right away, and the shortest path is just to follow recipes with the latest framework.

That's the point of education, universities teach you what you won't learn on the job. So that when you finally get to work, you will have a better understanding of what you are doing.
Schmidt is just the luckiest man in the world. He used to be technical once upon a time, then failed his way (Novell, Sun) into the Goog, where he was most famous for trying to silence people talking about his swinging whilst simultaneously declaring, "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

P.S. Also notable for kissing Steve Jobs ass by enabling Jobs' illegal no-hire scheme.
I see it as multiple things combining to reach a critical mass. Yes it was the killer app but it was also the first time it was actually good enough to chat with. Put another way- it's the shittiest LLM application going forward or the worst LLM application that people are willing to pay for. The hype isn't specifically for ChatGPT but imagining the trendline of LLMs or LLM adjacent tech projected forward combined with still falling compute cost and further democratization.
> "Good enough" very often does the trick.

Absolutely. From an engineering standpoint, "good enough" is often the right thing. An essential thing engineers do, after all, is to select appropriate compromises.
The amount of people I want consuming recreational PCP around me is 0.
I'm not sure I understand. You seem to be restating what I said. These are not appropriate for longevity, and will biodegrade. Could you help me understand what I'm missing here?
The entire point I'm making is that, however well that community may have fulfilled those roles for people embedded in the social context of its ingroup, it did a lousy-to-failing job of the same outside that circle.
gravitas matters, if you will ;)
No, I don't presume to know your children. But I am more qualified than you to compare them to other children, because that's part of my job (unless it's your job too, I dunno). Based on what you've told me, and that's all I have to go off of, your kids are above average. It's kind of wild to me that you're on here arguing with me that they're not.

Kids who get A's, B's (even some C's); and do sports or music are well on their way to successful futures. The kids getting Fs and Ds who aren't involved in any music or sports are the ones who won't be getting spots at top colleges. That's not to say they can't have successful futures nonetheless.

Maybe so we're all on the same page, you can articulate what the profile of a "top student" looks like to you.
That's only $21B a year until 2030. Pretty cheap, considering you can wipe a good chunk of carbon emissions and get cleaner air in the bargain. Plus less dependency on foreign energy sources.
I don’t know how Portuguese law works but in the United States non-profits have private owners and are private corporations. The contrast they have is with “for-profit” corporations, not “private” corporations. Given the primary purpose of being designated a “non-profit” is a tax advantage for the corporation, I’m willing to bet Portuguese corporations likely don’t differ in this manner.

Privatize is an acceptable verbiage for a government or government-owned entity which has outsourced to a private corporation.
When the Chinese banned opium the British went to war to reopen that market because it was so profitable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars

It seems like many drugs are banned in various societies today, so I don't quite follow you.
But rails was modern backend development back then, it offered an alternative to a world full of mod_perl, PHP4, Java servlets with JSP and XSLT.

Having had the displeasure of working on all those stacks it's hard to overstate how transformative rails was at the time for me.

Built in unit testing is one thing, not having to write a java class to expose a custom function to an xslt processor in order to format a string is something else.
> Unfortunately, their operation inadvertently flagged my domain name as one of the domain names to be sinkholed because it matched the pattern of command and control (C2) domain names generated by a malware family named Nymaim, one of the malware families hosted on Avalanche. Although, they had validity checks to avoid sinkholing false-positives, my domain name unfortunately slipped through those checks. [...]

That's incredible. That "[the domainname] matched the pattern of command and control (C2) domain names generated by a malware family named Nymaim" was enough to get it sinkholed is nuts. There should be a fair bit of manual checks here before applying this sort of death penalty.

Take my username. I actually got targeted by my bank some years ago for a similar reason: "crypto" surely means you're doing crypto-currencies, right?, so you must register as a money services business (MSB)! Uh, no, nothing of the sort, and thankfully I was able to disabuse them of the notion that I had anything to do with crypto-currencies. (Indeed, I'm vehemently opposed to proof-of-work currencies, and as for proof-of-stake, why not just do double-spend detection and leave it at that?)
I went to a pediatrician near where I lived. Long story short, she was very toxic, making ultimatums and giving what was revealed as dubious practice. I consulted other similar pediatricians, who all gave me radically different answers than hers.

As a result, I chose to write a detailed review explaining why I thought she was unprofessional, citing examples. Of course, my review got nuked.

Same happened with a photo shop that screw up a photo development for some films. I left a factual review, with a sample in pictures. I can see my review with my account, but no one else can.
You might want to check Pylyzer then (https://github.com/mtshiba/pylyzer).

I'm not involved at all. It is still very very early in development. But as it is in the same vein, I thought I'd mentioned it here.
Gangster-style yakuza rarely bother normal people. It’s not worth the trouble for either party. There are some industries with a lot of yakuza-owned and operated companies, but their main goal is to make or lose legitimate money, so unless you are aware of some tells you’d never know that they are yakuza.
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You can't type your homework into a calculator and get the answer out (at least not after basic arithmetic).

You have to understand the problem and how to use the tool.

If one's understanding of how to use the tool is limited to "access the tool and dump in the question, then blindly paste the response into my homework document", I'd say you are not learning much. It's obvious that every contemporary teenager can learn that in a few minutes. That's not giving us the capabilities to move forward as a society.
There is something very wrong with the controls for jumping, as others have pointed out.
Yea it’s nonsense. Factories are fantastic. If you want to do something as a hobby, sure don’t use the most advanced tools and do it by hand, but for everyone else especially professionals who are charging other people for their time and effort using the best possible tooling is essential.

In fact, if somebody didn’t use a common library or framework and instead “rolled their own” it’s downright irresponsible, obnoxiously egotistical and just creates a huge maintenance burden for whoever has to maintain it when you move on.

Take for example a crud app in ruby. If instead of using rails or another framework you instead “rolled your own” for one it would take you way longer for two it would never be as battle tested as the framework and lastly you are guaranteeing that whoever has to maintain it will need to learn the idiosyncrasies of your amazing implementation with zero outside help. It’s a recipe for disaster.
Nobody knows if the author checked the commit graph, which is really where you are expected to go if you want to know why it was needed. Maybe it turned up nothing, we will never know.
> He said it allowed people to think of the debt in a bottomless way: once you’ve accumulated some, why not a little more? After all, the first little bit didn’t hurt us, did it?

Isn't this exactly how people mismanage financial debt? If anything it shows the analogy is a good one.
As long as the developers/maintainers feel like "Anything MAY change at any time" and "The public API SHOULD NOT be considered stable" is true, both the "spirit" and specification (if we may call it so) say it should be on 0.x.z
> It is important to note that this is not a list of exploits, and the programs listed here are not vulnerable per se, rather, GTFOBins is a compendium about how to live off the land when you only have certain binaries available.