skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure I quite understand, is the implication here that some disciplines overtly try to stifle understanding by making things harder to grasp? Why would they do that?

It's perfectly fine to read Butler and not understand it, in the same way as it would be for another to read a textbook on quantum mechanics. There seems to be a hidden assumption in what you say that holds that the domain/area-of-discourse Judith Butler is working in is one you should be able to understand without difficulty, but you really have no good reason to feel that. It's really not her job to ELI5 to everyone, or at least, its not something her peers or publishers care about. And why should they?

Yes, like in STEM, there is false positives, paper's and researchers that rise to the top that maybe shouldn't, but that is different than saying entire disciplines are sustained by bad faith.

I can't speak for the Gellner paper, but if you spend some time with it, understand a little about where she is working, Butler is a very rewarding writer that is incredibly influential to many many people. There isn't some conspiracy or shared delusion here. And the fact that she can say things that resonate with so many people in her domain, shows huge evidence of her general abilities around information comprehension, articulation, and communication.
Something I wonder about is whether anti-malarials would work against Prototheca as well, given that some have herbicidal properties. My cursory search for whether they've been tried turns up nothing, which is unsurprising given the rarity of the disease.
That seems like a questionable reason to ditch CS to me. Was it really that bad to do the technical writing courses?
Google’s new security pilot program will ban employee Internet access
A brillant man who, as a kid, inspired and motivate me by his cool exploits (even though I didn't end up pursuing cybersecurity).
The....Gerber Baby? Is there a story there? She seems pretty normal and pleasant from her Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Turner_Cook
The multitenant sharing of one large table with uuid seems rather crazy.
Sadly they dropped the new intro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFhkzK7jkKg ) they debuted on the last video, and goes really hard. Don't get me wrong, I love the production value on classic CSB videos too, but they truly went the extra mile there.
I think you're asking which font attributes people care about.

But fwiw, there is this game-ified tool to choose fonts: https://www.codingfont.com/
Be aware: It’s Open Core, not all Open Source.
Absolutely the best font I’ve ever used. I can easily read letters from far, from close, in bright light, in darkness.. used it since day one. Also using it in my terminal. Thanks JetBrains, I love it.
Why in the year of our Lord two thousand and twenty three do we still tolerate loading shared libraries with executable stacks?
I'm wondering the same thing. Wikipedia page isn't updated, I don't see any updates on https://www.mitnicksecurity.com/ or https://www.knowbe4.com/, and I can't find any other news mentions about this.

I also can't find mention of him having pancreatic cancer, but that's not necessarily a confirmation of anything. He certainly could have kept it private.
> This article also doesn’t do justice to the nuance that introverts find interactions with other “draining” … but it’s not necessary that they suck at it.

The nuance on the flip side that I see discussed even less is that extroverts are not necessarily actually good at interacting with people, especially in more structured settings, they just maybe enjoy doing it more. Presumably there is at least some correlation between extroversion and good social skills, since if nothing else the extrovert might get more practice. But my anecdotal experience is that they're definitely clearly distinct personality aspects that fairly often do not go together.
While that is true, in Genshin Impact at least, the main game is so easy it's not really an issue unless you choose to be a min-maxer, and there's no PvP competitive aspect. You can beat the abyss full f2p, but it will take a bit longer to get there (as someone who has been a denegerate min-maxer in other games, I have no interest in pushing for it myself). The worst whales I've seen are those who get emotionally attached to a character.
It's 1995 or so. I'm at U.F. getting my CS degree. Our facilities guy is giving a tour of the department's server room to some big wigs.

For some reason, he decides to demo the UPS cut-over switch. I have no idea why. But he manages to toggle it the wrong way and instead of switching the entire room full of servers to the UPS, he manages to cut power to _all of them_.

My recollection is that the cooling went out too and the room was suddenly very silent. But in retrospect that doesn't make sense.

What I do remember is that it was non-trivial to bring all our Unix servers back up because over the years they had been setup with NFS mounts in a loop such that for A to boot, it needed B to be up, which needed C to be up, which needed A to be up.

Oops.

So it took a lot of manual intervention to bring everything back up.
New study shows bags can hold water too. In all seriousness though this is good to know. I'll start keeping a body bag in my trunk from now on.
Google will eat at it further with stuff like this from the article:

"Google knows this, so it adds a “Question and Answers” block before the first SERP result, probably diverting a tremendous amount of traffic away from that page."

They scrape answers from sites that they used to send traffic to and publish it themselves. In many cases, though, those sites won't exist without the incentive of organic search traffic.

I get why Google does it, but it does create a feedback loop where less of that info will be out there to scrape.
I have a PPL in the US, and live in Germany. Essentially, the problem here is that there aren’t really any small airports or flight schools here in the same way, because their largely isn’t any recreational flying. There are gliders, and that’s about it. Even if I could rent here (I looked and it basically didn’t exist), my license is only good for US registered aircraft, so it would need to be converted into a EASA license. That process isn’t so worth pursuing unless I could afford my own aircraft, since recreational flying doesn’t exist.
It's next to impossible to find a game you can just play, or even buy. Everything is poisoned.
hmm, that's an interesting perspective. see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36795067
i can definitely see that the comfort level is a factor. however, it can take a long time before i get comfortable with someone. i have no idea how much, but a few hours at a party are almost never enough, unless we hit the right topic. so yeah, after those conversations i was bouncing off the walls too.

likewise i have given presentations on various topics in front of dozens or hundreds of people. my comfort level depended on how well prepared i was, and how the audience reacted. during the speech part anxiety is higher because i get little to no feedback, but then the Q&A can turn things around if people have lots of questions that show their interest in the topic.

oh, and when i am drained, i can't go to sleep. i have to do something interesting for myself for at least an hour or more in order to divert my thoughts away from the draining experience.
As I write this, there's a pending edit, accepted for review, of Mitnick's death.

That seems to have been reverted pending a reliable source:

Edit: <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_Mitnick&old...>

Revert: <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_Mitnick&old...>

Wikipedians typically resolve such issues pretty quickly.
IDK about anything else, but Mett Porker is pretty damn funny.
Yes. Now the trick is to convince people that satisficing isn’t just laziness or somehow a road to business death.
RIP. I can't appropriately explain to anyone who wasn't around for it just how much he influenced my thinking from the late 80s to late 90s.
Definitely one of the worst classes I experienced was Thermodynamics where I had to tip-toe around calling out gibberish in the 1st edition book authored by my professor. He was a real hard ass that would make you feel like the idiot for asking why the book and the whiteboard don't match.
Journalism is the same way though. They write highly technical papers for academic audiences. Journalism is just distinct in that there are marginally more jobs you can get where you practice direct skills/techniques around the domains. In the rest you can still get this kind of with teaching!
He certainly was an interesting person. It was always amazing the degree to which law enforcement prosecuted his hacking and cracking, when it seems like much more impactful crimes involving computers go uninvestigated. Plenty of people are hounded by threats of violence into leaving their jobs and homes, that seems far more impactful than Mitnick's crimes.

And FYI, while he died unexpectedly young, a 57-year-old man in the US has only a 50% chance of living to see their child reach 23 years of age. I, personally, wouldn't feel comfortable risking leaving a child with a likelihood of dealing with my death at that relatively young age.
Yes I've personally heard similar stories. Students who were prevented from graduating until they produced significant results, even though their dissertation studies were approved by committees. So they'd eventually resign because they got fed up with it.

Or students and postdocs threatened with presenting or publishing null findings that run counter to senior scientists' previously published theories.

Etc etc etc
My link is to a motherboard with a J4125 processor.
I don't think the phrase has changed meaning?

> The phrase originally meant that one bad thing corrupts and destroys all associated.

It's saying if you don't remove the bad apple, you will get a lot of bad apples in the future. The presence of a bad apple doesn't imply all of them are already spoiled right now. If you're seeing other apples that still haven't spoiled, it suggests you still have time to do damage control. That seems consistent with how the metaphor is used nowadays.
I disagree. $95 glasses are not a luxury good. I think this might have more to do with the relative saturation of the glasses market at each price point, where there was not enough offer for a midrange product before Warby Parker stepped in.
I think I pay for every SMS? For a thing that’s supposedly free it’s wild how much of a money maker it is for people
Yeah seems like it was something he kept hush hush.

Sad to hear the news :\
I'm a bit "on the younger generation" but I remember the movie based on his story: "Take Down" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159784/.

To this day I know the difference between a cracker and a hacker :)

RIP.
What problems are companies solving with LLMs that they couldn't previously solve?
Wyse 5070
I would wager there's not a lot here. The company I work for has been live since May with a major LLM feature and it's not a direct contributor to MRR, but we have had folks in the sales org specifically call it out as helping in the sales process, and some data indicating it gets people new (and in our Free tier) more likely to convert to paying customers.

But I don't think we'll see what delivers true business value until next year when a lot more companies have been live for a while.
A visual tree iterator in Rust
Without deciding whether your particular mention of webrings was a joke or not, the nostalgia for them that has been cropping up lately is a little bit puzzling to me as someone who remembers well those days. Because webrings themselves were often full of just pure junk, not to mention broken links, or websites that hadn’t been updated in years but we’re still “under construction” (with the de rigueur gif of a hardhat or something).
It is so positive that they had to basically super nerf widow and hanzo from the game(I mained widowmaker, so I quit), and queue times are 10+ minutes. I would go back to 2019 OW in an instant, but they deleted it. So its not really OW2 but OW 1.5. Very dishonest and par for the course for Activision Blizzard.

It’s also easy to say how much better the game is when there is no OW1 to compare side by side. I will say I had much more fun in the beginning than now. I think Birgitte being released was the beginning of the end for me, and Tracer had hard nerfs as well making her almost useless except in pro hands.
Well just doing the math, they must have conceived after his diagnosis, so presumably that was baked in sadly just knowing the actuarials on pancreatic cancer.
I think you have it backwards: targeting "equality of outcome" necessitates policies to pick winners and losers. Specifically, it requires policies that aim to minimize both.

Equality of opportunity doesn't mean hobbling talented people or enforcing that everyone be given identical opportunities. It simply means that people regardless of talent (in a given ability) ought not be restricted from an attempting to take an advantage of an opportunity should they happen to have it.
China banned under-18s from playing online games more than an hour a day, and only on Fri/Sat/Sun and holidays. Online games are far more addicting in my experience, but it's always easy to waste hours offline as my 90s childhood shows.

That's from a recent article - not sure if it changed since.

https://apnews.com/article/gaming-business-children-00db669d...
Pollution fears after 350 drones fall into river in Melbourne lightshow fail
The real OG of hacking
Interesting how you choose typescript?
React discourages direct DOM access, but it’s still possible.

https://react.dev/learn/escape-hatches
> Making it easy to connect data sources, and fetch data in real-time like in BI tools

Please don't roll your own and rather leverage other FOSS projects, such as Airbyte (or Singer). This also puts you in a better position to leverage those tools to push local CRM data to upstream providers, which are incredibly common place for custom workflows.
A global subsidy war? Keeping up with the Americans
Very sad that he did not see his first child.
Ask HN: What is (your) Dragon Book for learning AI/ML?
Everybody has that one book that changed a topic for them. For me it was the Dragon Book (Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools). I was able to use that book as a jumping of point to tons of other papers etc in a kind of iterative fashion - more importantly to build to scratch personal itches.

I am trying to do the same with ML/AI. I learn best by building (specifically building tooling) and I am struggling to find a path like this in ML/AI. I know the area is still relatively young so a book is not easy to hope for. Even a curated list of gradual papers would be awesome. Ive tried Karpathy's NN Zero to Hero, Andrew Young's bunch of ML courses and others. Not to mention tons of articles on tool X being amazing and another tons of articles on the same tool X being pointless (eg X = langchain) isnt helping establish a starting point either.

I also understand I am like the millionth person probably asking for this and yet (may be) like the millionth person I cant help feeling lost and not knowing how to start building fearlessly.
App Review guidelines still ban:

> 1.1.4 Overtly sexual or pornographic material, defined as “explicit descriptions or displays of sexual organs or activities intended to stimulate erotic rather than aesthetic or emotional feelings.”
Everything is high school. A rebel thumbing their nose at the system must be punished, while the conventionally corrupt deserve the benefit of the doubt.
At first, I was like “ugh another JavaScript framework?” But after reading a bit more, it seems like a wicked cool idea
The parent poster was pointing out that this requires having two in-memory complete copies of the file:

[... for row in open(filename).readlines()]

The readlines return value is one copy, and the list comprehension is another copy. However, that first copy can be avoided with:

[... for row in open(filename)]

The entire file must still be read to evaluate the list comprehension.

Additionally, this doesn't do what you think it does:

>>> header, *records = (row.strip().split(',') for row in f)

Compare to this, using a variable for clarity:

>>> gen = (row.strip().split(',') for row in f)
>>> header, *records = next(gen)
Why do people (especially on Hacker News) have the desire to point out that binary simplifications more truly exist on spectrums?
A literal hacker news.
RIP.
Wow that's so unexpected. He's been an icon in the computing community for 30 years. He's gone way too soon. I didn't even know he was sick.
I remember reading Kevin Mitnick books in the early 2000s and it really open my eyes about social engineering and how hacking is more than just cracking a code. Help me become a better DevOps and Software Engineer.
Thanks for the feedback! We have been discussing this a lot.
Here is one of the option we have in mind for the upcoming months and we would love to know if this could work in your opinion.

Data ownership:

a) Twenty makes the distinction between Twenty owned data models (People, Company, Pipeline) and your own data models.

b) Let's say you use the cloud version: you can plug your own external database as a datasource. You would be able to describe your own data model through config file, Twenty would understand it and will keep in sync your data with the one stored in Twenty. Your data will remain the source of truth regarding whatever is tied to this datasource.

c) So, if you wish to switch to self-hosted, you can, you will have to transfer Twenty owned data to into your own instance through exports / imports. You would not have to transfer your own data as this was already configured as an external data-source.

Extensibility:

a) Twenty is exposing a GraphQL API on top of your data that you can leverage. It doesn't matter if you are using the cloud version or if you are self-hosting it.

b) We are thinking about a plugin system. To enable that, we plan to provide developers API for both FE and BE that will keep consistent between the different versions of Twenty (of course, they will likely be some breaking changes between major versions but hopefully minimal so you can keep using the latest version of Twenty).

c) you can build anything you want using these 3 apis, either an external tool leveraging the GraphQL API, either a front-end plugin on FE API, either a backend plugin on BE API. You will be able to deploy your plugins to the cloud version (we will make sure they only impact your own tenant, which is challenging technically). Here too, if you choose to move to self-hosting, you will obviously also be able to write and deploy your own plugins on your self-hosted instance

So, if we provide stable APIs and are able to safely run custom plugins into the cloud, it doesn't matter if you are using the cloud version or the self-hosted version. As both are using the exact same source code, you should be able to switch between the two quite easily.
If you self-host, you completely own your data, if you use the cloud you don't but you can still fully benefit from Twenty APIs and extensibility.
What about the other 8?
You want dialysis?
dang / mods: if anyone passing deserves the HN black banner, I think Mitnick deserves the banner.
Yeah. My native language has some very awkward placements of certain symbols as well actually. But I chose to sacrifice the letters æ, ø, å years ago by switching to using US-based layouts on my computers. Sometimes I use Dvorak layouts (even have a custom one I made for my mechanical keyboard that I sometimes use). Most of the time I write on a computer in recent years has been using the keyboard on my MacBook Pro computers with just US QWERTY. I very rarely type anything in my native tongue on the computers. Mainly just on the phone. And I am 97% sure that the times I need æ ø å on my macOS laptops I can long-press or option click some of the related characters like a and o.

For a while, when I originally switched away from my native language QWERTY variant, I would sometimes need æ ø å on the computer and I would Google aelig oslash and aring respectively and find the symbols for those letters that way :p
More along the lines of pre-lisp introduction of "IF', per logical &&/|| for flow groupings [0] as primitive intro/demo concept of type theory (using/abusing basic combinatory logic[1] in high level program vs. easier to follow/modify language provided abstractions).

logical && equivalent of do group of statments as long as all succeed

logical || equivalent of do until at least one of the groupings in sequence succeeds.

Per give "IF" would be written as:

(
(
((expr == false) && (expr2))
|| ((true))
)
)

----------------

[0] : https://thepalindrome.org/p/matrices-and-graphs

[1] : John's Lambda Calculus and Combinatory Logic Playground : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35125828
Go to arXiV and download the latex source. Plug it into ChatGPT and ask it to implement in pytorch.

I've really enjoyed this approach.
In Chile more or less all data plans give you free Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger don't count towards data usage) and Prepaid any balance charged over ~1$ Gives you from 3 to 30 days of the same
"perfectly" needs big /S
Close is a strong source of inspiration for their opinionated approach. We hope that we can make the difference with the User Experience in the short run (For instance you can uses blocks in notes). In the mid run, open source sounds like a big differentiator as you will be able to customize Twenty to your needs.
Watch "Freedom downtime".

There they make it clear that the New York Times columnist and book author John Markoff made up absolutely everything.

The movie "Track Down" (US) / "Takedown" is also full of BS.
Doesn't that statistic depend heavily on how old the child is to begin with?
Oh My Gosh this is so sad !
You should try Halls of Torment. It’s $5 on Steam. It’s a fantastic example of a neat game with a great gameplay loop that has no gambling or in-game store. There’s many examples but this is the one I’m currently playing.
Some of us still remember Google Chat using XMPP a few years back, because "interoperable messaging", and then not.
Same! His book on social engineering was profound to my teenage mind. Rest in peace.
The other commenter was insinuating a different ED than Emergency Department and Eating Disorder in their next statement. One that a little blue pill may help with.
Mitnick was a hacker hero of mine in my youth. I think I’ve understood his role as jester prior to conviction less as I’ve grown older, but there’s something about the boyhood charm of being so divorced from the potential consequences of one’s actions that is almost unique.

Mitnick had so many stories that entranced the people around him. I heard one second hand of Mitnick dealing with a bank who had early voice verification software. Upon meeting the CEO he gave the executive his card and departed for the evening. Arriving back at his hotel, he called the CEO and asked him to read his phone number to him. The phone number contained all ten digits which Mitnick had neatly tape recorded so as to make the CEO’s voice reproducible. He then proceeded to use the bank’s vocal banking system to transfer $1 from the CEO’s account to his as the authentication mechanism was reading out your own account number in your voice.

When Mitnick arrived back in the board room the architect of the voice verification system was crestfallen and the bank CEO delivered a check on a silver platter.

Now how much of that tale is embellished I will never know as it was second hand, but that was the kind of whimsy Mitnick brought to our world.

Rest in Power.
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