skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're definitely polarizing, in the sense that some people intensely dislike them and never use them, others love them and always use them.

It reminds me of the debates about font antialiasing back in the 1990s. A vocal minority of programmers then insisted that font antialiasing wasn't suitable for coding, as a pixel-oriented monospace font (e.g. Monaco at 9 points) provided better text density and better readability[1].

Then, like now, I could see the validity of the arguments of both sides. Readability is a highly subjective thing (and also varies over time, even for the same person). And the screens and antialiasing algorithms of the day weren't as sophisticated as what we now enjoy.

Personally I waffled on it for a while, but now I always code with ligatures enabled in my main work (which is predominantly using TypeScript and Rust, so the default ligatures of these fonts make sense).

I suspect that the majority opinion will shift to using ligatures for coding (if it hasn't already) once that is the default experience of most editors with the default fonts, and it becomes something you have to turn off, rather than turn on.

[1]: This is an example of Monaco, although what they show as 12 point is how I remember 9-point looking... not sure if my memory is faulty or what, though, it was a long time ago. https://www.fontriver.com/font/monaco/
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/457125/do-any-exte...
> Which game will you play today?

I can't be the only one who was hoping for a thermonuclear war option :)
RIP legend. Not sure that I would be where I am today without Kevin being an inspiration and hero to me growing up.
People find his ideas fun. That doesn't mean they're good.

Astrology is much more obviously incoherent, but it isn't going to "collapse under its own weight" any time soon either.
I'm pretty sure this attitude is the reason why the phrase "melting pot" fell out of fashion

If someone moves to an entirely new country, it's likely less intimidating to find an environment that's similar to home

> You should not be free to bind your culture to a race, ethnicity or national origin/heritage.

I find it interesting that you leave religion out of here, even though there's a nontrivial correlation

This same attitude has been deployed as an antisemitic mechanism (ref, Adorno: The Authoritarian Personality). I'm not saying that's what you're doing, but this attitude has historical precedents and there's a reason why people find it highly offensive
I don't even write Python but after watching Beazley's concurrency talk I will watch David Beazley talks all day. Adding this to the list
Legislation preventing data broker sales to government agencies moves forward
This is unconventional, but what about writing them a letter? Address it to the CEO and mention that you're also sending a copy to the FTC. I presume someone is going to open that mail, and while this isn't going to resolve anything quickly, the advantage is you don't have to wait on the phone for hours...
I'm on macOS, so gotta build the thing from source since there's no mac binary on it.

And fpc src/mp.pas produced some errors. Oh well. Gotta check at weekend.
> Sometimes this would include a vibraphone (Gary Burton could really comp), or even a jazz harp.

Citation needed for the jazz harpist comping chords.

(No points for solo jazz harping-- only for jazz harping from inside the rhythm section.)
Well obviously they would pick someone who had the right ego-bias / personality to act as this savior figure. Someone who wouldn't just do their duty but love it and go beyond it. The selection of the right patsy would be half the problem!

Even under the weaker assumption he wasn't like that to begin with, a savvy and ambitious person would ride such a wave of opportunity and "grow into the role" so to speak.

But yea, it's well designed, so it's supposed to be "hard to believe". The public is supposed to believe the simple fable that Snowden is a hero exposing privacy violations, and that it's about privacy. This is no denigration of the public really, it's just the sophistication of the storytellers! :)
I don’t recall having any bad experiences on Aeroflot.
Hey a story from the USCSB!

Fun anecdote the company I worked a few years at was investigated and audited by them. We were handling a lot of polyisobutylene type chemicals and had a few small fires and near misses in the plant. (Its used in diesel detergents.). We reached out to them before anything serious went wrong based on our environmental engineers recommendation

Anywho the uscsb did a spectacular job writing up a whole book of protocols and recommendations that made the plant safer and quieter. They even helped coordinate annual response events from the local PD and FD and helped with our annual report to the city.
> I think part of the genius of React is actually not using [signals]

Except that with the introduction of hooks (aka "OCaml 5.0 effects, but in JS, as a UI framework") you get some of the same interesting issues cropping up in React codebases as well, just spelled differently (stale closures, implicit dependencies, weird debugging issues)
tell me mor about your sql journey? how did you learn? what did you practice etc.
We're already saving thousands of human hours with a dozen people from playing with ideas in the last three weeks.

Thanks to data processing, humans going about it manually, we have saved $40MM a month. I am quite certain we can save a few hundred million by the end of the year.

We have not yet even started ingesting our own data yet.
How would this even be mitigated while preserving the (wacky) existing support for runtime-selected PKCS#11 provider libraries? It strikes me that the most compatible way might be to double down on the wackiness and try to perform the required feature detection in some more indirect way like parsing the named lib with readelf(1) or the platform equivalent.

The sensible thing would be to force users to register available provider shared libraries in an ssh-agent config file, but that feels like a pretty big breaking change.

Edit: Didn’t realize a patch was already available. I see that they did in fact fix this with a breaking change, by simply disabling the functionality by default, and recommending that users allowlist their specific libraries:

Potentially-incompatible changes
--------------------------------

* ssh-agent(8): the agent will now refuse requests to load PKCS#11
modules issued by remote clients by default. A flag has been added
to restore the previous behaviour "-Oallow-remote-pkcs11"

https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html#9.3p2
Cooling dialysis?
Hence how silly it would be to send multiple reporters and the point of my original comment.
It looks like a near clone of what Attio is doing.
Aside from my thoughts on discrimination in general, which I'm willing to concede isn't a strong argument here, I think describing affirmative action as necessary is naive. Ensuring that disadvantaged groups grow up with quality schooling, healthcare, and whatnot should be the top priority. Creating/improving colleges (because Ivy Leagues aren't the end all be all, even if the social networking is better), reducing tuitions, perhaps providing money on the basis of poverty (which is, I daresay, objective more correct than the basis of race) in the communities and for college are secondary measures. Affirmative action is comparatively simple, convenient, and utterly propagandized policy. If money is the bottleneck, I daresay it's more due to the lack of political will to distribute money cough massive wealth disparity cough.
> Cisco courses

These Cisco certifications are such a scam tbh. Cisco commands and CLI are the most confusing, illogical designs for any feature. And they make sure to put in tens of thousands of features and hundreds of ways to configure every different feature. Then they create these overpriced courses and pay for their own employees to take every single one. Since Cisco employs a lot of people, and prefers people with Cisco certifications, this creates a lot of demand for the courses.

Most of the certifications could be replaced with a single 2 month networking course that explains the workings of features, provided they redesign their CLI to be slightly usable.
Having read and loved Ghost in the Wires, I felt a special bond with Kevin. I loved his antics combined with his fearless exploration of how everything around him works. I'm really sad reading of his death today. He was far too young.
My favorite story from the book is how he set up a computer to tail the logs of cell towers in his area for phone numbers matching the FBI agents assigned to his case so he would be alerted when they were on to him. Wow, that's bold! But also, reading that I realized how our society had allowed ourselves to be surrounded by tracking machines that the government could use to find us at any time, and man it was beautiful to see it turned back on them.
That's good to hear. It's one of those cancers that is normally not noticed until it's far too late.
What greedy executives? This was the early days of the Internet and there was tons of competition. And yes, OF COURSE IT WAS MITNIC'S FAULT. Why in 2023 would you even think of blaming the victim.
No, I think the alternative is that drone shows don't take place until they can be done safely. This doesn't seem unreasonable to me.

You don't need to worry too much about the aquatic life in the Yarra. It's a disgusting shithole of a river at the best of times.
The war on drugs has very little to do with drugs so this is a bad analogy. So long as you are white and don't look poor you can do whatever drugs you want and the law won't get in your way. I have literally done a bump of K with an on duty cop at a music festival.

The push for legalization isn't about people making their own choices, it's because it's not possible for the government to have this power and not abuse it and harm reduction via regulated production (taking away choices, clearly) and medical supervision.

This argument doesn't apply to video game gambling. Nobody is getting their hit of digital lootboxes from their dealer and the government isn't arresting players for Fortnite possession. You can have all the thrill of random drops without it being tied to your credit card, there are still recovering WoW addicts.

If people en masse suddenly started spending ruinous amounts of money on Yu-Gi-Oh that's a pretty strong case against them. Regulation follows the harm not the principles.
Jonas Vingegaard stretches Tour de France lead on decisive day
If your timer has not started after years, perhaps you should try again?

I’m not sure what your complaint is, Siri does quite well with timers and alarms.
Europe did exactly this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Passengers_Rights_Regulati...

Incidentally, I find flying in the EU to be far more pleasant than in the USA. Perhaps it is related.
Kevin is partially the reason I decided to work in information security. I remember reading his book, art of deception, and it gave a name to the skill I had practiced most of the childhood, social engineering. Later on in life I got to meet him and spent the first at least 2 hours of time in shock n awe. Afterwards, he was great to talk with and offered me his number if I ever needed another set of ears. Sadly I haven't talked with him since the pandemic, but he will forever be remembered.

Hopefully our paths will cross again.
Consider that buildings in Venice are all on wood pilings. The water eventually petrifies them into stone!
>20% inflationary APY with an algorithmic "stable"coin

Was a reference to terra and the anchor protocol. And while it's true that its flaws were less obvious than some truly stupid tokens from 2016, I don't think that's a fair characterization of the problem. In some ways it was actually a more obvious failure than dumb 2016 tokens. If I announce a perpetual motion machine, you don't need to actually analyze its schematic to know that it can't work the way I say. The same is true of a self balancing token pair scheme. A high school economics class is all that's required to understand why it can't work.

An overcollateralized loan is traditional lending. It's a software-implemented mortgage. How reliable it is is dependent on the risk profile of the backing assets and the creditworthiness of the borrower. A liquid market is a workable but imperfect way to assess value. It cannot measure risk - the information simply is not there. Volatility is not risk.

As for what portion was baseless... I think that's a fundamentally subjective question. From my perspective, the vast, vast majority in both years was baseless. I look at the entire cryptocurrency space as a place where interesting tech could have found value, but it's so infested with fraud and speculation that it can't.
Ask HN: Dealing with Our First Hire
I've been experiencing some problems with my founding engineer and wanted some candid advice.

Context: He's pedigreed from a great CS school and worked at multiple well known big-tech companies, so have assumed that he's a high performing, action orientated programmer prior to start up life.

I'm also technical, but have always been passionate because I'm always working on my own projects, so maybe need a reality check on dev attitudes.

Current Problem: We started a company and have been getting various sales meetings where multiple large buyers have expressed interest in what we're doing. I mean huge enterprises, with multiple million ARR chances.

So, we've been sprinting towards building a MVP over the past 2 months, but he seems to be struggling - he's constantly asking for my help to architect the solution, refuses to read documentation or latest developments in our space, and doesn't test his solutions so our product is breaking on live demos.

Most worryingly, he's showing a lack of initiative in actually building "new product" - he only wants to chain existing solutions, rather than trying to imagine how we can make things better.

I've tried talking to him, and he brings up that I have unrealistic expectations for devs and that he's always been a 10x engineer. Am I being unreasonable in my expectations for him?

Please let me know if I'm being unrealistic on employee motivation
Not a single frontend dev I know in real life has had the same negative reaction about hooks that I often see on HN.

I remember some people taking a little longer to adopt them either cause it wasn’t necessary or cause it didn’t click right away, but eventually everyone learned how to use em, and no one complains about them cause they’re just a tool you use if you use React (which is the framework of choice for most companies).

Honestly, the reaction I often see from HN around most frontend topics usually doesn’t match what the frontend and full stack devs I interact with regularly are saying. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like we all love React and want to switch state management libraries every week; it’s that React is fine, the ecosystem is fine, and we specifically don’t use every library that comes out week after week.
RIP. The world lost a true talent today.
> The essential reason America exists was we said "hell no" to a parasitic, hereditary elite,

Is it avoidable having a hereditary elite? It seems like every society develops one. It even happened in the supposedly classless USSR and they had a name for it the nomenklatura https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomenklatura. Even in the US there has existed groups with hereditary and elite status but there has been a lot of social change over the past 100 years. The American problem is deciding who that elite should be now. I think a lot of the conflict and turmoil we are having is caused by different groups fighting to establish themselves as the hereditary elite.

Peter Turchin's theory about elite overproduction might have merit applied in our context. We have too many people vying for too few elite seats and the losers seek vengeance. Admissions into elite schools appears to have become a battleground.
If you're going to throw around accusations then bring receipts or don't bother. I'm not going to investigate some unnamed man nor do I care that an asshole was employed by DORA. Assholes are employed all over the place.
None of the commenters expressing this bullshit sentiment will provide their children with 1% of the education, health, freedom, security, etc that Mitnick will have left for his child. We struggle our whole lives to provide, it looks like he already assured that for his family, even into perpetuity if managed well.

It's not like he gave himself cancer on purpose and chose to leave a child with nothing out of spite. He played the hand he was dealt, it seems.

"Mitnick has filed a 13G form with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosing ownership of 9,379,829 shares of KnowBe4, Inc. Class A (KNBE). This represents 6.9 percent ownership of the company. "

" companies announced on Wednesday that they have entered into a definitive agreement, with KnowBe4 stockholders set to receive $24.90 per share in cash, "

"Vista Equity Partners to Acquire Security Awareness Training Firm KnowBe4 for $4.6B"

https://fintel.io/news/mitnick-kevin-discloses-stake-in-knbe...

https://www.securityweek.com/vista-equity-partners-acquire-s...
Even with all that data/information, Google still cannot find a more sustainable business model. Despite the countless number of sustinable businesses humanity has produced, so-called "tech" companies just cannot find one. These are not creative people. "We'll just keep on playing eavesdropping intermediary ("middleman") until we have undermined every business, every government and society along with it." Sounds great. Good luck.
Interesting that Stanford found the 2009 paper "lacked vigor" and Genentech found no-one "reported observing or knowing of any fraud, fabrication, or other intentional wrongdoing in the research leading to and reported in the 2009 Nature paper." [0]

So basically the euphemism "lacked vigor" = "wasn't scientific" but since it wasn't "intentional" or "known" no-one can be blamed for it? Am I the only one who doesn't really care if bad science is intentional or fraudulent? They should be judged on their science, which was objectively dogshit, not on their morality, which is subjectively dogshit, but conveniently can't be judged by the relevant parties because everyone involved got amnesia.

Maybe I'm being too harsh but shadiness in public health really irritates me.

[0] https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
The Stripe tool is probably just a chatbot built on openAI's API? Avoids the privacy concerns of using chatgpt.
https://www.toool.us/equipment/Emergency-Pick-Card-p36508921...
The top answer there is pretty handwavey:

> Since no eGPU is built on the same architecture as Apple silicon, there are no drivers for it.

While it might stop eGPU manufacturers from achieving the same level of system integration as Apple, there's no reason an integrated GPU can't coexist on a system with a dGPU. Multiple major GPU manufacturers ship ARM drivers, and presumably you can still run modern MacOS just fine with external graphics hardware.

The more likely answer seems to be that Apple is deliberately not focusing on this feature so they can sunset support for non-Apple GPU hardware.
I am excited to read about system recovery in most cases.
The Evolution of Password Hashing
A newspaper is not a single entity. In its life it will have hundreds or thousands of employees with a range from good to bad. You can claim that there's a management structure that should know what's going on but they put trust in their employees even if they are ultimately responsible. If a reporter claims a government source said X but doesn't want to be revealed they need to make a decision based on that reporters history. Basically it's difficult to prevent rogue employees from putting out garbage stories.

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

Here a more recent article from the NYT examining the original reporting about the Bush scanner story showing how it was mostly misleading and the paper's response to those claims at the time (that they were misleading)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/04/us/politics/fact-check-pr...
(See EDIT at bottom for pastebin link)

For any single news organization over a period of time a certain amount of articles will be inaccurate, sometimes purposefully. The NYT has been around for 150+ years and what matters it is how they manage their reporters and sources. We also need to look at the positive accomplishments. Shouldn't that be weighed against the negative when making a judgement of trust?

The NYT is probably responsible for more breaking news and investigations than any other paper in US history. Stories we might not have have known about without the resources they allocated and their contacts (i.e. government or business sources)

I don't think trust is black and white and that people who claim it is may have an ulterior motive. If you dismiss news organizations based on having a few misleading stories without considering what they have accomplished you wouldn't trust any news organization. This of course would greatly benefit corrupt governments, businesses, and people.

EDIT: Here's a pastebin link to the section of the 2018 article where they examine the original reporting

https://pastebin.com/VKHyGARK
> It doesn't, at least not for us.

So then you filled out the request because the default is exactly the same as OpenAI: retained unless you manually apply for an exception.

https://customervoice.microsoft.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?...

> I'm not sure if it's narrower, but it is there and I have a strong suspicion that MS is just trying to extract additional rent from companies that really want to turn the filter off.

You don't need to question if it's narrower, OpenAI used to surface it as an API separate from the moderation API and it's much stricter by design.

> No. Azure OpenAI is for companies that don't play fast and loose with data - their own data, and their customer data...

I don't know if you actually believe this or you're just not aware, but the companies that don't play fast and loose aren't using OpenAI period: Azure flavored or otherwise.

OpenAI has SOC2, GDPR and CCPA compliance. They comply with HIPPA and offer BAs. They sign DPAs on a case-by-case basis same as Azure.

You're pretty much proving the value of Azure in your comment: it's a veneer of familiarity that coaxes people who are convinced the new kid on the block must be untrustworthy.

If OpenAI can't promise something Azure can't either: They're entirely dependent on OpenAI for this. Every idiosyncrasy behind Azure OpenAI maps back 1:1 to OpenAI.
in the cljs/reagent world anytime you need to do direct dom stuff you just use a ref - that must me the same for react proper?
I, too, was concerned it was some kind of hacker gotcha trick, but took the leap of faith and mailed the cash.

They did ship the card to me.
Fully AI-Generated Influencers Are Getting Thousands of Reactions
What a legend. I remember reading text files about his lore in my early days of exploring the web and being absolutely captivated by it all. Rest easy, Kevin
> How would this even be mitigated while preserving the (wacky) existing support for runtime-selected PKCS#11 provider libraries?

Put the pkcs11 libraries in a specific directory, configure only that directory, let users manually add others. Or stop using forwarding and configure ProxyJump where needed. (If that's the only use case you're interested in)
So how do I discover a command? In a GUI client you'd have a menu, a search through menu, and a command palette with fuzzy search, then also more context-sensitive mouse context menu
Be wary of survivorship bias. Many of the people who were on Aeroflot planes flown by drunks or children aren't around to share their experiences.
I have never, ever considered timers and alarms to be the same thing. If nothing else, a timer happens after a specified period of time. An alarm happens at a specific time.
Fun fact: LiveScript is a FP-oriented language which compiles to JavaScript. It's been around for a while now :-)

https://livescript.net/