skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a cool find! Calendly still has the killer feature of being able to check multiple calendars to find scheduling blocks. Syncing accounts on multiple Google Workspace instances at a time still remains a pain.
This bill is step one.

No, it's not.

It's just the latest in a long line of campaign finance reform --- most of which is ineffective because it was purposely designed from the get-go to be easily circumvented.

The open secret here is that you're counting on an organization (Congress) to police itself.

This makes no more sense than an counting on Congress to avoid raising it's own pay. How has that worked out?
There are definitely more than a few London companies offering $100,000k+. That's something like £80k, which while not guranteed, should be reasonably easy for any senior developer. And that's not counting stuff like pension matching.
Definitely. I hate that Shelfari is dead and that Goodreads sucks. That's why I clicked on this comment thread. But what should convince me that this product will not be dead? Sure, I believe that it won't be killed by Amazon in particular, but why should I be convinced that it will survive on its own terms?
Ask HN: What is your streaming setup like?
With the modern era of streaming services beginning to resemble cable TV in many regards, what has been your approach to maintaining access to your favorite movies and TV shows?

I've been a Netflix subscriber for ages, using Plex to stream everything else, and like many, I'm considering dropping my Netflix subscription.

While I've never been a fan of Hulu, the new season of Futurama debuts in just a few days, and so I've been rethinking my approach a bit and thought I'd ask HN for some input on the subject.
A necessary evil as long as the publishing industry continues to have a choke-hold on copyright law. IA recently lost a lawsuit trying to fight this “digital copies must be lent like physical objects” nonsense.
Does anyone know why applets loaded so slowly and flash loaded so fast?
savvycal is a personal favourite of mine, even if it's a commodity service, good user experience isn't
Thanks! It seems both spellings are correct, however nice to learn the main one, and additionally an idiom. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/lede
Unfortunately the server I use doesn't support sliding sync yet.

edit Also, how far is Element X? I just tried it out with a matrix.org account, and it still makes the pretty bad UX blunder of confusing private one-on-one chats with rooms. I don't doubt that they're rooms technically, but you really need to hide that fact from the user if you wish to reach Telegram's usability.
Hong Kong e-sports player suspended for 3 years for pro-democracy account name
So, its not just me!
My first $10k internet dollars
5 months ago, I launched jimdesigns.co, my one-person subscription-based design studio for SaaS startups, and by doing so, made my first internet $.

Today, I passed $10,000 in cumulative revenue. This is not a significant amount whatsoever, but it means a lot to me and feels pretty surreal tbh.

This is neither an overnight success as I previously tried for years to make money online by building online tools, without any success.

Therefore, by no means do I pretend to have the secret sauce on how to make money online. I just thought I’d share a few thoughts on how I believe that happened for me:

1. Focus on what you’re really good at, and what you know best instead of trying to solve problems that you don’t have for an audience that you don’t know. In my case, as a product designer with +10y of experience designing SaaS products for startups, I didn’t have to look further.

2. Don’t fall into the build trap. In my case, a design studio only requires building a landing page, which means that the rest of the time can be focused on getting traction (+ client work).

3. Deliver outstanding value (product or service). That’s the only thing that matters to your customers. There is no shortcut here, your product or service got to provide significant value. In my case, getting high-quality designs for your SaaS at a fraction of the cost of hiring a world-class designer is a no-brainer.

4. Make your pricing a no-brainer when you’re getting started as the initial goal is to learn and get traction, not to get rich.
The $10,000 is total revenue, not MRR but I’m still pumped to have generated my first 5 figures of internet dollar!

This post is not about bragging about my little win, but rather to inspire some folks out there to get started. In fact, my only wish is that I’d started earlier.

You can follow my journey on Twitter (@JimDesignsCo) as I continue to share my journey.

Jim
Goodreads is a pretty bad site overall. Its good for tracking which books you've read I guess, but I don't think its better than a google doc sheet. The average reader there doesn't really have good taste in books. You are honestly better off just using a google doc to track your books, and use /lit/ for discussions and recommendations, since /lit/ has much higher quality reviews, and discussions than good reads. Maybe a federated good reads will be better as it filters out a lot more people and might get rid of a low brow stuff.
I was shocked when I typed "pronounce McDonald's" into Google and the answer starts with, "muhk". Really? "muhk" instead of at least a "mack" or the more accurate one I use, "mic"?
I don't see how it's going to beat Perl, which already lets you do the same things, but inside a full-fledged programming language. Many webmasters and server admins have already learned some Perl, and it's considered very easy to use (and even easier when you try to read other people's code).

I looked at PHP/FI for my own homepage before, but it's really nothing more than a rudimentary template language, a slightly more powerful version of httpd's Server Side Includes. Rasmus (the developer) seems to be quite happy with keeping it simple. Perhaps you'll be lucky and he'll change his mind and convert it to a full scripting language. Heh, maybe we'll even get two frustrated undergrad students who hate Perl to rewrite the parser so they can use it to write their computer science project. Maybe you'll even be very lucky and somebody will decide to write a popular system for writing web journals in PHP/FI that would take over the world (but how many people would be so self-absorbed as to maintain a web journal anyway).

And you still don't have the database and hardware side covered. PHP/FI seems to support mSQL. mSQL is cheap for commercial use, but still not free, and it doesn't even support JOINs! And you also need a server. You also need a server. httpd used to be cool, but NCSA is no longer maintaining that. There's a serious of patches running around, so you could just run a patchy version of httpd, but how far will that take you? Next you need a proper OS to run that thing on, but while we're all waiting for GNU Hurd, there's a guy from Finland who made a free *nix OS that's been gaining quite some traction recently. These Scandinavian guys are full of surprises. Maybe you'll be lucky again and there's yet another guy in Finland waiting to unleash a free software SQL database with joins, who knows.
Skyrim and Fallout 4 were made with about 100 people each. Witcher 3 had about 250 developers, and Cyberpunk 2077 closer to 500. Larian's Baldur's Gate 3 team has over 400 people, 10 times the developers they had for Divinity: Original Sin (1).
> on Lex Fridman's podcast with Marc Andreessen

There's two to talk.
Plus, if you already have an older ICE car that works perfectly fine, isn't it better to keep driving it (in terms of carbon emission and other environmental impacts from mining, production, distribution and disposal), than to swap it with a new electric one?
The point being made isn't whether or not the futures are evaluated on one thread or many, but that by default, library authors assume that something may be evaluated on multiple threads which imposes some constraints on both the argument and return types from functions.

So for example, the tokio executor could run single threaded or on a thread pool. However, tokio::task::spawn takes a future as an argument that may be evaluated on a different thread, so any caller of this API and the designers of the library behind it need to guarantee the argument is thread safe.

That constraint is reflected through the type system by constraining the argument type of tokio::task::spawn<T>(fut: Future<Output = T> + impl Send + 'static) which means "fut is a type that implements Future with the output of type T and is Send (safe to send to a different thread) and does not have any lifetimes that outlive the 'static lifetime (contains no references to non-static data)".
> and $10,000+ of compute hardware per inference session.

That is not true. A common macbook with lots of RAM (>32GB) is enough. Or any x86 computer with lots of RAM. llama.cpp is CPU only and quite fast
This is true. But I also enjoy reading things people I know have read / are reading, so that I can talk about it with them.
> Now, this may be naïve or uninformed, but...

Like, that costs money and stuff.
We appreciate your feedback. We wanted to let you know we're currently working on a new app. In general, the Linux app does lack features in comparison to our Windows application, this has to do mainly with 1) the fact that the Linux team is quite small compared to the window team and 2) the linux team is quite recent. Differently than the other platforms, Linux is an extremely fragmented OS. To support it means supporting a galaxy of combinations among distributions, network subsystems, service subsystems, key stores, desktop environment. In the last year we have been working hard to re-build the foundations of a new Linux application from the ground up. The new app is designed to be solid, extensible, and future-proof, and will allow our engineers to ship faster new features, like WireGuard, and all those that are presently missing from the current app. The alpha has been released, which you can check out here: https://protonvpn.com/support/linux-prerelease/. We're working towards a public beta. Rest assured, our aim is to have the linux app on par with the other clients. The new version (v4) is very flexible and it will be much easier for the community to contribute.
Installing Debian bookworm without systemd
This is very good.

David is also doing online immersive courses - 1 week long but I believe he also splits them into one day sessions now. Highly recommended !

He has a real talent for explaining complicated concepts in a very simple and approachable way.
I tend to think this is a fair trade-off for services like this because:
1) for end-to-end encrypted services, I think what you most want to verify is: is my data actually being encrypted with my keys before being sent over the network, which open-source clients allow you to do
2) you can't personally verify what code is running on a company's servers anyway

and to a lesser extent:
3) there could be legitimate security reasons to keep server code confidential
4) there could be legitimate competition reasons to keep server code confidential

Overall I think it is a fine tradeoff. And of course, there is already a great "full-stack open source" password manager out there, in Bitwarden.

There's an argument to be made we shouldn't call the whole thing "open source" and perhaps call it "open client" or something.
So .. your anecdote is that Oppenheimer repeated the contents of the Frisch–Peierls memorandum as explained to him by the Australian physicist Mark Oliphant?
If so, that's probably true for all insider trading regulations?
"Don't be evil" was deprecated from Google's charter around the same time that Apple removed "Computer" from their name.
Did you check their Wiki? Have a nice set of gifs
Invalid per the CSS spec is pretty self explanatory. There is a common CSS spec used by the JS engine and web browser. When the class used does not comply to that defined standard, the class is invalid.

You can see this when trying to trying to use querySelector with responsive:property-[arbitrary] classes (I think, or it might be a different pattern of which I'd have to go back and check) and other cases where the JS engine will throw an error for trying to use a class Tailwind encourages you to write.
This sounds good in principal but is not always true. You have limited resources, including time, public goodwill and attention. If you waste it all on inefficient action you've got nothing left for working on actual solutions.

>> should a historic bill be passed

Passed? They've never brought even a flawed bill like this to a vote, let alone passed one.
Yup. This is what happens when a company goes bankrupt. Customers are generally last on the list of people to be compensated when that happens and the police can't do anything about it.
Nifty.
Yep is lazy all right.
It works out of the box and let me navigate faster than my crappy bash menu that
I use to manage my docker containers.

It reminds me of the joke of the cowboy carrying a squirrel.

Why do you carry that squirrel? people ask him.

He pulls the squirrel out the squirrel and the squirrel would go "tsk tsk tsk"

And the horse started walking :)
When I first learned of the movie, I thought it would be a small/indi film that I'd have to dig up from my local library archives. Then I learned it was going to be a "blockbuster" and had mixed feelings - still pretty excited! I'm sure there will be about a dozen "that's not how it was in the book" moments but whatever, can't be worse than the last movie I saw at the theater (Dial of Destiny)
Step 1: let n = 0

There is no Step 2.
Trade on insider information.
> It’s also unnecessary as a sales tool because what would “pro-corporate” mean in the context of a book social network?

Does whatever maximizes Amazon's short-term profits, probably.
I don't think that trying to shoehorn LLM into being AGI is the right path. Maybe some are trying to achieve this, or are hoping for this... but IMO this is trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. It's definitely an element in the overall puzzle, I think we can all agree, though. Even so, rather than warping this hammer to also screw in a bolt, why not combine it with another tool more fit for the job?
His source is literally a Russian propaganda photoshop of a legitimate leak. You can see both versions at the following link.

https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/1644226867623280641

He claims its been wiped from the net but thats not anywhere near true, it very much exists and is very obviously photoshop.
To less of a degree, when applying for law enforcement jobs, family members and sometimes friends have to surrender a lot of personal data. I had to hand over my SSN along with pretty much all my PII and do interviews on behalf family members when they applied to be cops. I tried to say no, but at the end of the day they're holding their jobs hostage until I comply. Hate it.
> This topic was posted earlier today but was seemingly killed..

I don't like you cause you contradicted me the last time, therefore I'm going to mod you into oblivion :]
Huddles... I never understood what they are for. Slack already had video calls with screen sharing. They were easy to start and they worked well. Then they added these huddles, more difficult to see (sometimes people do not realize they are invited to one) and they seem like the old video calls with a worst onboarding. There are only huddles now. So nothing changed except the setup of the call.

By the way, I'm not a native speaker. I know what a call is, I eventually checked what's a huddle now. "a close grouping of people or things."
An example that comes to mind would be overlooking something during an audit in exchange for a kickback.
Ah, the good old “army building” incentive to look big
In the context of the Bhagavad Gita the quote given by Oppenheimer is actually pretty accurate if you look up the relevant passage in Sanskrit and consider possible translations: Chapter 11, Verse 30-33 [0].

A quick summary of the context in the Bhagavad Gita:

Ajurna, an aristocratic (Pandava Prince) warrior highly skilled in archery - right before engaging in a battle of two armies (two groups of cousins: Kauravas and Pandavas) for the succession of the throne - upon seeing all his close kin arranged in two opposing parties all with their unique skills and feats ready to kill and be killed - the warrior prince falls into a deep emotional turmoil. He begins to talk to his charioteer Krishnu who reveals himself to be an avatar of the deity Vishnu.

This dialogue evolves into a whole contemplation in which a part of the upanishadic cosmic view gets revealed to Arjuna/the reader; somewhat akin in style to the secular western form of Plato's dialogue (in this case the Socratic method is led by "reason" or "logos" not a sophisticated mythology like an avatar of a specific deity).

The dharma in the specific case of Ajurna, is to fulfill his caste duty of Kshatriya [1].

Or from the lens of quantum mechanics and modern history the bomb in some way or another was inevitable.

Its fine-tuned parameters (1) put in the Big Bang, the idea (2) conceived by Szilard [2] and the Anglo-American military apparatus (3) rather than merely convinced in its superiority putting the actual resources/technology into the ultimate pragmatic use [3][4] (first mover & cost/risk-reward ratio).

[0]https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/chapter/11/verse/30

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kshatriya

[2]https://www.newscientist.com/definition/invention-nuclear-bo...

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nuclear_weapons_program...

[4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg#Membership_i...
The editorial actually very carefully (and rightfully) isn't arguing for 'let China do all the mining' (or even avoiding duplicating mining efforts). It clearly says so "But it would be unwise for the rest of the world to rely on just one country for the processing of critical minerals" (and logically the same would be true for mining).

The editorial is arguing against trading blocs. In fact, it's arguing for some form of free trade. This benefits China in both that it is currently in a dominant position in terms of market and capacity, and also favors China in that it neutralizes one area where the US generally holds advantages - better soft power, and a being generally thought more favourably than China.
>And how many successful CEOs of large companies were successful without demonstrating they could manage a large org before getting promoted.

Almost all succesful startup founders who haven't had managed anything before?
In the last 5 companies that I worked at, all used Google Workspace.
Yesterday, while using ChatGPT-4, it gave me a very long answer almost instantly. It felt like I was using ChatGPT-3.5, including the poor quality of the answer. In the following prompts, it became slow again, as GPT-4 is supposed to be. The quality improved as well.

I think they are trying some aggressive customization on their infra to try to make it economically viable, but it's just speculation at this point.
> I think you can ignore the transportation part,

No. Why should I accept less from a private school when the public school already guarantees it? This is incredibly important for special needs students and families.

> I'd suggest that additional funding for special education...

This already happens. In part, it depends on the state and county. Schools get more money for special needs students. I'm fine with them getting more money, but let's not pretend that the school receives the same funding for special-needs and non-special needs students.
Well sure. Because if the US govt's patent on hypersonic rocket propulsion (as a conjectural example) were public knowledge, it would be trivially simple for their rivals to use that information in their own programs or countermeasures.

Surely it's evident that most nations would find an imperative in keeping that knowledge guarded?

The govt doesn't have to patent these techniques at all. They do so for the benefit of public enterprises (so contractors and military industry can benefit) and so that the knowledge does eventually enter the public commercial sphere. That article itself mentions multiple patents that eventually had the veil lifted and/or expired.
> Mining isn’t a huge source of greenhouse emissions.

Heh ??! Mining is a huge source of GHG, especially if you count scope 3 (you should): https://www.mining-technology.com/features/cop26-scope3-net-...

> Within mining, scope 1 and 2 emissions account for 4%-7% of global greenhouse gas emissions. This rises to 28% of global emissions however when accounting for scope 3
They probably meant RIP Twitter, RIP what it once was and used to be capable of.
> There are already scripting languages available. Why not just use something like Tcl which is lightweight and easily embeddable? Why re-invent the wheel?

This just begs the question: why are there already multiple scripting languages available.

And this further begs the question: why are people still "re-inventing" the wheel by building new languages?
Foundry Services Readies Intel 16 Process: Low Power FinFET for Everyday Chips
Not just in banking industry but many other Finance or Legal industry as well. Pretty much standard practice.
Been using a customized Iosevka build for years and can't use anything else, and I've tried.
Speaking as someone who grew up in Houston and then moved to France -
a society that depends on cars as the only method of transportation is,
at least in my opinion, much more miserable than one that can be
lived in car-free.

You're right that a sustainable future doesn't have to miserable.
Ask HN: 31 years with past few years as failures. Need a fresh start
For the past 6 years I have been a bit lost. I've travelled and done things socially but not created any good personal or work capital. I enjoyed life frankly put because it was an option to with some menial jobs. I'm now feeling totally lost. I would like to write, I would like to get a nice job or do something a bit more meaningful.

Is there anyone willing to connect with me and offer some advice? I feel a little lost and in need of some meaningful work.

Willing to do whatever possible to make anything work!
Stay awash in american conservative drivel, HN.
The section "Securefox" should probably be renamed "Privatefox", but labels are misleading. It's best to read the project files to understand the balance taken with security, privacy, and functionality. Let's make it simple:

Want a mix of speed and privacy, while retaining functionality? Use Betterfox user.js.

Want more privacy and security at the expense of site functionality? Use Arkenfox user.js.

Want Tor prefs but without using its nodes/relays? Use Mullvad Browser.

Want anonymity? Use Tor Browser.
> A systems programming language should not have mandated a technique like this

Rust doesn't mandate anything. It's unipinionated when it comes to concurrency; use whatever approach that you think is best. Async/await is just one option among many.
One of my favorites! I like to use it in the terminal since it’s such a skinny font, so things like log lines fit better on a tiny laptop screen
I definitely agree about the schizophrenic restrictions - buying food is fine but God forbid you want to buy socks in the middle of winter (which are sold in the same store)
TIL kangaroos are harvested for meat
Timing buys/sells before during investigations, early access to judgements, pre-IPO info... your basic insider trading.
Even if they're buying a lot of a relatively narrow index fund the ability to directly benefit from a specific company would be greatly reduced.