skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm planning to quit to devote myself to a project that's been in the incubation phase.

I'm a bit unclear on why you think it might be considered a bad thing by prospective employers in the future.

Taking a project from the ideation phase to proof of concept to a product ready for end-users demonstrates follow-through, as well as the ability to manage all stages of the software lifecycle that don't involve team dynamics.

I figure it's more likely to be a selling point than something that would detract from my candidacy.
> Don't [...] camp within 100 yards of streams, creeks, or rivers.

Why? Alligators? I keep away abit because of the humidity. But I have never thought off it as a rule?
There should be a place where people can bet on how long this runs before the chatbot "helps" customers by telling them about other customers' accounts.
I mean it's certain that there's a lot of steps that happens in the onboarding process of a new employee. But do you think that there's a need for this problem to even be solved? Like I doubt people really care, this is a problem people VERY rarely come across. I don't think making a product would be worth the effort to solve this.
You can camp for free in all unimproved areas of US national forests that aren't designated wilderness areas or otherwise designated as off limits for dispersed camping. This is something like 98% of the forests. The exact rules can vary a bit from place to place, so always check with the ranger station in that area (don't rely on the website!) for anything special.

You usually need to have a permit if you're parking your car at a trailhead, though.

But in general, the rules are:

Leave no trace. This means: no litter, bury all your poop (but no toilet paper) in holes at least 6 inches deep, use spots that have already been used for camping before when possible, etc.

Don't damage anything.

Don't cut live trees or other plants.

You can collect and burn all the firewood you want, but you cannot take any out of the forest.

Generally speaking, do not use fireworks or firearms.

Fires must be completely extinguished if there is no person around. Completely extinguished means that you can stick your hand into the ashes without discomfort.

Store your food in a way that prevents animals from getting to it. Do not feed any animals, not even squirrels or birds.

No camping within 100 feet of any water sources, trails, or improved campgrounds.

You cannot stay in the same area (I think, but I'm not sure, that "the same area" means within 50 miles) for more than 14 days within a 31 day period.

Do not build any structures.

If you leave your campsite unattended for more than 72 hours, the forest service deems it abandoned and may disposed of everything in it.

No amplified sounds (music players, PA systems, etc).

Also, for most of the "don't do this" rules, there is an implied "without a permit". For instance, you can remove wood from the forest if you have a permit to do so.
… but can also lead to burnout.

I’ve worked in a number of industries in a number of roles for others and myself. I’ve burned out faster working for some employers than others but also while on my own projects. I absolutely prefer working for myself, but it hasn’t saved me from hitting walls now and again.
Speed of light between two points is probably not going away :)
That's fine. Let me rephrase: if you're not using the latest and greatest HDMI protocol you're not getting full fidelity audio.
> I'm not saying it's impossible to write a bad printf line and never test it, only to have it fail years later in production. It's absolutely possible and it has happened to me. Lessons learned.

A modern compile time type checked formatter would have prevented this mistake, you are deliberately choosing to use poor tools and calling this "pragmatism" because it sounds better than admitting you're bad at this and you don't even want to improve.

In fact C++ even shipped a pair of functions here. There's a compile time type checked formatter std::format, which almost everybody should use almost always (and which is what std::println calls), and there's also a runtime type checked formatter std::vformat, for those few cases where you absolutely can't know the format string until the last moment. That is a hell of a thing, if you need one of those I have to admit nobody else has one today with equal ergonomics.
Fortran now has operator overloading, though.
I always saw the NUCs as proof of concept for small form factor PCs and to that end I think they have succeeded. There are a ton of different form factors now.
lol your username is perfect for this comment
This is why I tell everyone who'll listen that if you want to prep for a disaster, step 0 is to hold a block party. Most people don't even know their neighbor's names!
Hi Shawn, re your side note, I disagree with you that we'd be better off if weights couldn't be copyrighted - basically because copyright gives options like GPL that can keep models open, otherwise we're just going to see everything good disappear behind trade secret. That said I fully support your "civil disobedience" in sharing the weights. I don't expect you to agree, but take a look at something I just wrote about this yesterday: http://marble.onl/posts/model_weight_copyrights.html . I'm happy to chat about it if you're interested.
From my use cases: NDI Video
Factor is a typed forth descendent
Surprisingly, not that bad ;) just a cheap hetzner box.
This kind of taking pride in ignorance just infuriates me to no end. Merely being ignorant of something is fine, as we're all ignorant of most things, but being proud of it just makes you stupid. Why do we put people like this on TV? </rant>
IME (compared to other distros I've used), NixOS actually goes in rather heavily on using the sandboxing features available in systemd.

For instance, most of my machines serve ~name/www as https://.../~name/, but this doesn't work out-of-the-box on NixOS, since nginx's sandbox isn't able to read /home by default.
Depending on how it was wired, maybe? A bullet going through the screen is going to create some nasty short circuits.
Of course, 99.9% of science is engineering, not "science". We do science all the time without asking questions or attempting to come up with generalized answers.

Is a scientist doing a linear regression not doing science?

Anyway, alphafold, while not particularly "scientific", did answer one scientific question: it is possible to predict the structure of most proteins thru a combination of limited structural and extensive sequence information, combined with a sophisticated (and "non-scientific") algorithm. That was an open question for some time and their results convinced the community that their methods were right. What's amazing is that while it's entirely nonscientific, the results have been absolutely blockbuster in the scientific field. And even better, the only reason Alphafold was able to show this is because there was a well-defined protein structure leaderboard.
A little premature don't you think? Langchain is only a few months old
Voting computers are not recommended anyways.
Port cited site examples in this thread to native erlang [0], elixir [1], phoenix [2]

Port postgres system to a completely erlang based solution.

[0] : https://www.erlang.org/

[1] : https://elixir-lang.org/

[2] : https://www.phoenixframework.org/
As long as LLMs and generative AI uses copywritten works for training, then they are going to be the enemy of creative people.
Only if they all were competing in the same market. Since they aren't, I like to think of it more as them competing for which one becomes the base meme. When people think of "dog" which variant do they imagine? Lab, husky, french bulldog, or something else? Which dog type "won" and created the strongest meme?
Alfred is a quite well-known macOS app (alfredapp.com)
Amature artists doing what? Trying to figure out why human greed is insatiable, therefore they have no place to live?

There are any number of problems that have to be solved together. Giving the capital class hyper powerful AI robots so they can own the world while everyone else suffers is an AI risk.
Pure data rate is not a fantastic example. I'd also offer up something like large or dynamic assets (I think flight simulator is a good current example of that) or a game that is simply extremely big and needs a shitload of dram or GPU memory to keep around effectively.
In C++34 we'll finally have a way of overloading the empty string operator, so that we can, at last, write AB for the product of matrices A and B. As God intended.
Not encrypted != not E2EE

Most online services are not E2EE, but almost all have E and that is expected and industry standard.
I’ve done Coremark scores across a range of different systems including NUCs and Pi’s.
A Pi 4 gets a single thread score of about 10k and a new entry level NUC gets about 20k.
If you look at older systems a Beelink T4 Pro Mini (using a much older CPU) gets about 11k well within the same ballpark as a Pi4. Comparing that to a similar aged Pi a Pi3B gets about 4k score.
For comparison a high end AMD Ryzen gets about 45K.
Swift HTTP Types
This would be a huge liability for the land owner:

1. Slip and falls.
2. Forrest fires.
3. Trashing the place.
Did a search and the link is right there.
The decline of personal websites from self-built Web 1.0 to platformed Web 2.0
There are more courts than just the US ones.
Urgh...that list of security features gives me a headache though. That's the problem with all these systems: Linux keeps growing more. Some of them overlap, some don't. "Best practice" tends to be "use all of them" but what's "all"?

We've got a real problem that the scope of things which have to be controlled keeps growing, and the ways to do that keep increasing as well.

And perhaps worse: there's precious little documentation of the implications of turning some of these features off. But that's far and away the most common thing you need to do because usually you have something that's broken, unless you disable a "security" feature.
yes, still is.
This is FUD. Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9tlJAqMV7U.
I don't subscribe to goalpost moving.
>docker is a nonstarter

I dunno, I enjoy not having to install 500 libraries on my system just to test an app. Also upgrading those libraries without butchering my system is also nice. Not to mention rebuilding a system is really fast. Too many pros outweigh the cons
I wonder why it picked that factorisation, as it's actually kind of neat: 3×5×7×11×13×37 = 555,555.
Sounds like a good idea in theory, but when i do imagine it, it seems like it might be a dystopian nightmare of the worst parts of our nature.

I think a better idea would be a regulatory environment for tech that - squeezed monopolies and oligopolies, mandated transparency, and mandated a minimal system of human-tended justice and appeals.
Along similar lines, this also solves a massive class of cheating for competitive/multiplayer gaming.

You can still do the AI screenscrape mouse bots, but there are clever statistical+active hybrid approaches that can catch those assholes too.
Ask HN: Turn Key Ubuntu Kiosk Mode
I’m building a home brew hardware device on the Ubuntu platform. There are 3-4 specific binaries loaded on to the device, and the user will at times need to be running one of them at a time.

Since I want the product to have a console feel, I’d like to boot directly into some sort of kiosk or app launcher, that would only allow the user to select from one of these preset binaries.

At the moment, I care less about actual security of the system (user breaking out of the sandbox), and more about ease of use and UX.

I’ve searched the web for an easy solution to this, but everything I’ve found seems like a lot of configuration and set up. I’ve also looked briefly into some of the game emulator Linux builds, but modifying these feels like overkill. I know some configuration will be necessary, but was hoping the community may be able to help me save some cycles with a few suggested applications or methods to achieve this!

I should also mention I’m open to both paid and free software options.

Any ideas?
We do have this in a way with healthcare.gov, since the marketplace allows consumers to view multiple insurers rather than those tied to their jobs. However these plans are still pricey, I put in some dummy data with a higher than average income (60k) and got plans at 280 per month at the bottom of the barrel. Seems to me like it's a good step in the right direction but the marketplace doesn't have an actual market driving force to reduce prices even with the 11 million plans selected for 2023. Having worked in healthcare billing processing software, this lines up, insurance companies really don't give a shit about reducing prices to compete since consumers at the point of billing are always a captive audience (if you don't have it and you have an emergency, you're fucked)
Happens all the time for SpaceX, by design

just one example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUPxxGVmeNU
GitHub CLI project command is now generally available
Hello fellow Renaissance person and building sciences scholar :)
DVD supports both encrypted and unencrypted video, so Bob is only breaking the law if he's releasing a decryption tool. The entire DeCSS case hinged on video decryption specifically, everything else was already implemented by other parties.

Now, if Bob decides to encrypt those DVDs, then you have an interesting legal area where half the law applies and the other half doesn't. DMCA 1201 only applies to things that protect copyrighted works[0], not just any kind of access control measure. And it comes in two parts: one that makes it illegal to break encryption, and another that makes it illegal to provide tools to break encryption. So if you put uncopyrightables behind DVD CSS's encryption algorithm, you can't sue someone for decrypting that particular DVD. But if you distribute a DVD decryption tool, then you're harming the protection of copyrighted DVDs, so you can't distribute a decryption tool even though some jackass might try to functionally recopyright public domain material with DVD CSS.

More interesting than the NASA case would be Kevin MacLeod. He releases Creative Commons music under a CC-BY license, and that license has a clause specifically prohibiting the distribution of Creative commons material with DRM on it. A lot of YouTubers use his music, probably didn't know about this clause, and definitely didn't know that the music industry would rugpull everyone by claiming that dynamic download URLs are a DMCA 1201 technical protection. So if these music industry cases succeed, it also means that a lot of YouTubers are open to some copyleft trolling on Kevin's part. I doubt he'd actually do that, but it's still shitty that this is possible.

[0] See Chamberlain Group v. Skyline Technologies; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamberlain_Group,_Inc._v._Sky...
From past experiences, it will take another decade or two for modules to get adapted to most existing code bases.
Probably too much competition from other countless small factor vendors. I did not know Intel was making servers
Yep, if there are zero members, then the statement "all members are vetted" is mathematically true. Well done.
So 'now' has a problem. We have no means to know if our social environment is actually stable or not. Currently we are in a long 'peace' after WWII. Maybe it will remain, and improving technology will improve our lives and and things will continue to remain stable. Or, we'll have further climate instability coupled with AI labor displacement and things will go to shit faster than they ever have in history.

The point is people that believe the world will be stable in the future are more apt to build a stable future. If everyone is watching the news and they believe the future will be unstable, then the future will become unstable as a self fulfilling prophecy.
For the curious, the subject area: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/35.9193/-117.0431&laye...
Daily drove qubes for 5.5 years. I liked it a lot.
> do you think of addition when you see `string + "concatenate"`

Yes. And it tortures me every time.

I religiously avoid string concatenation in Python for this very reason. It's not that "+" necessarily means addition; it's that it always means a commutative operation (to somebody who has learned some algebra). String concatenation is notoriously non-commutative, thus it is extremely disturbing to write it using a visibly commutative operator. Any other operator except "+" would be better. For example, a space, or a product, or a hyphen. Whatever. But please, not a commutative operator. It breaks my brain parser.
Talking of the extreme case of life being unique to earth seems unnecessary; there can't be many people outside of some fundamentalist niches that hold that view.

More generally on the subject considered seriously, without taking into account the various factors involved in predicting the probability of life it is unwise to talk of certainty and scoff at sceptics of its abundance.

There is also an important distinction to be made between life in its simplest form and at its apex; it is the latter that perhaps most people think of when looking upwards in wonder, and there is no reason to think that the distribution of intelligent life is such that we have good chances of contact and interaction, however we may wish it to be so.
> someone in Mountain View is more fluent in French than in English

No, I think this is for a case of any dispute of terms and particular formulations. The French version, I suppose, is the authoritative original, and a judge or an arbitrator might call for a certified translator to make exact sense of the letter's demands.
>that's just me disliking warmth

Yes it is and your anecdotes don't mean much. You are saying the winters are less severe. The growing season is longer and it is generally more habitable.

>people living through catastrophes which most likely would have been less severe if not for climate change.

Disentangle some emotion from the facts. People are dying less than ever before due to catastrophes. People that die from natural disaster today, largely have encroached on land that was always disaster prone and built massive infrastructure. The cost of natural disasters today is a direct result of populating and constructing in areas that are prone to tornadoes, tsunamis, earthquakes, fire and flooding. It is almost completely preventable.

>you spread climate change denial

False. This is a blatant lie as my comment states clearly, I believe the climate is changing. We are exiting an ice age.

The solutions promoted by people like yourself, are going to cause greater harm than good because you choose to believe the climate should not change! Yes, you who choose to make foolish argument and use phrases like "climate change denial". Yes, you are in denial that the climate is allowed to change.

'The weather should be just the way it was when my grandparents remember the good old days' -you

No, sorry it is you and your internal strife with change that is the problem. Petition the government to change the ways companies and militaries pollute the environment. Leave the rest of us alone with your carbon tax bullshit that we must pay for.
100 millinewtons from how many watts of input energy?

Spaceflight is not the most interesting application for this.

You can make it go around and spin a generator. After some speed it produces more energy than it consumes. Meaning fuelless generators.

So color me skeptical.
I think you are overestimating how much influence beancounters and marketing people have on the design.

I live in the desert as well and in the last 15 years between me, my wife and my parents have only replaced a single battery. We buy a new phone once a year and then rotate them, so keep them a minimum of 3 years.
Rpm is trivial to learn
This is exactly why java needs frozen arrays [1].

The safe thing to do is freeze the array before doing anything with it. Then, you can rely on COW to copy to the array if someone is modifying it concurrently with you reading it. In the general case, you'd have fast string creation and in the tricky case you simply pay the clone cost as a penalty for being dumb.

[1] https://openjdk.org/jeps/8261007#:~:text=How%20do%20I%20use%...
Twitter will be fine. The only people going to threads are virtue-signaling losers that won't be missed anyway.
https://community.influxdata.com/t/getting-weird-results-fro...

>Unfortunately @RoyalBlock at this time it does look like the data is lost for Sydney. We are still looking into it but I am 90% sure this is sadly the case.

https://community.influxdata.com/t/getting-weird-results-fro...

>Data recovery is still in process. If you where part of the Belgium customer you will receive the last 90 days of your data. Support will email you directly once this process is ready.

Better than nothing for the Belgium tenants, I suppose.
> So, you can embed, well insert, "other files" in a Word document.

The point of the article is that it wasn't running Office, but a less featured clone.
Could you share what kind of group policy changes you make?
At a previous job, we had a wrapper script that swapped the file out before attempting to launch Dell software installers/firmware updaters, because they sometimes checked for hardcoded exact strings like that in there, and errored out, and whether or not it did that varied back and forth over the years.
I guess I can see that perspective if I imagine myself too ignorant to understand the author’s point and what radiation actually is. Try to consider that cities emit all sorts of radiation, from low frequency radio waves, to UHF/VHF, cellular frequencies, visible light, and like every other object above absolute zero, infrared radiation.. and while not specifically the point, many of those could affect astronomers. So that’s probably why you and OP run against the grain of common logic here..
Every time I have to sprintf a string_view I die a little bit inside.
>What aspect of the YouTube servers' behavior can be construed as an effective access control? Is there even a rudimentary secret

My understanding is that YouTube does implement a trivial sort of DRM/encoding with a rolling cypher to the actual location of video file. This is what tools like youtube-dl implement, and what get their DCMA from the RIAA. It's supposedly very light weight in terms of DRM, and notably I don't think Google has ever attempted to change it to break downloaders.
Some C++ person recently wrote to the GNU Make mailing list about some grotesque experiments for supporting C++ modules inside GNU Make whereby GNU Make would communicate with some C++ compiler process over sockets and generate dependencies.

Any decent language with modules needs no make utility in the first place. You tell the compiler to build/update the program. The compiler compiles (if necessary) the interface definitions the program references, and in that vein recursively updates the whole tree, compiling anything that has changed; then links the program.

I didn't need any make utility when working with Modula-2 in 1990!
elon, is that you?
If this is your thing, you might like Star Wars Uncut from 2009

https://www.starwarsuncut.com/
Elo for VC – Founder's Choice
Ask HN: Sharing a BuildZoom Experience
BuildZoom is scaling quite a bit and often posts jobs. As someone considering building a new custom or semi custom home, I am curious what kind of experience people have had with them.
Thanks in advance!
Next step would be for the copyright-enforcement industry to sue VPN providers, claiming that they are making excessive profits by letting users sidestep the geofences, and so they must share some of the profits.
This is clearly what she meant to do