skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my favorite bits of errata about the musical Hamilton was how much Lin-Manuel Miranda felt troubled that he couldn't quite fit more about Ben Franklin in given time constraints and the overall plot shape. He did write a song for Ben Franklin and then after the musical blew up he eventually passed "Ben Franklin's Song" to The Decemberists. I think it is such a fun song. It uses some very boastful cursing, but Ben Franklin as a person certainly earned that.

On the interesting front and semi-related to the article at hand, I remain amused by a somewhat recent news story of a building in Paris getting renovated for the first time in decades and the renovators discovering a bunch of very early American currency in the walls but that not being anything of a mystery because "of course" that was likely where the bordello Ben Franklin most hung out in while ambassador to France had been. (I believe he also famously recommended it to Thomas Jefferson when Jefferson took over that role from him, though I don't think Jefferson was quite the same sort of person to appreciate such an "ambassadorial" tip.)

Also, from time to time I think about Ben Franklin's suggestion that the national bird should have been the Turkey. Turkeys are far more utilitarian than eagles, and also native exclusively to the continent. (Plus Turkeys are often deeply symbolic in what became the American Thanksgiving story.) I think Franklin was probably right about that being a better choice of icon for early American history and sometimes like to imagine what the US would look like if it had Turkey icons and statues everywhere like the bald eagle has. I think the Department of Defense seal with a turkey would actually be scarier than the current "war eagle", but I've also seen a turkey murder a car because it caught its own reflection in the car's glossy/waxed paint job, decided that reflection must be a rival turkey, and felt that was a fight it needed to pick. (If you want to believe that may even be a metaphor for the modern US Department of Defense in general, I won't stop you.)
Maybe I'm just dumb but it claims simple phonetics but even after reading the pronunciation ("Say it like you mean it") section I still don't really understand how it's supposed to sound?

The singular "a" between verbs and objects, is that a long or short vowel sound - do vowels have short and long distinctions at all? It says all the consonants are pronounced how they are in English - but consonants don't have just one sound?
I think we're going through a recession in Free/Open Source ecosystem. Hardware and Software companies all alike trying to protect their "investments" by making things harder for other parties.

Eagle, Spark Fun, Arduino, Prusa, Red Hat, SourceGraph, VSCode Plugins (was it OmniSharp), etc, etc...

MIT & BSD licenses are used as a weapon against GPL more and more...

Rust's "Rewrite In Rust" movement is used to replace GPL tools with MIT versions which can be closed on a whim...

"{VSCode,Chrom}ium" projects give the illusion open source while being effectively used to harvest community effort, too.

I don't think we're on a good track.

Disturbing times.
But they got caught, they retracted, the system works. It's not a perfect system, in a perfect system people wouldn't be incentivized to publish publish publish or be damned to the back waters. The institution is broken, but the safety nets work.
> Have you seen the 25 messages/3 hours limitation for GPT-4?

If can't tell if that's about the API or the web app, I don't think you're familiar enough with the subject to speak on it.
Other threads with comments? If so, which ones?
Culture is inherited, you’ll get the most influence from the people you grew up around. Kids tend to be either a lot like their parents or try to be nothing like them at all (trying to be the opposite is still a huge influence)
ISO 26262 specifically mentions automotive applications. This seems to a step towards using Rust in critical automotive systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_26262
We're in kind of a golden age of font quality and variety, and have widely available screens able to actually show & benefit from the details. It's almost the only fun thing about the current stage of computers/the internet.

I think we're also individually creatively starved from a generation+ of dismissing artistic and aesthetic pursuits. It's a socially-acceptable-within-computer-people-society way to acknowledge and participate in the creation of beauty.
Moreso text formats, but I highly recommend the entirety of Patrick Wyatt's (major developer on Diablo, StarCraft, Warcraft, Guild Wars) `Code of Honor` blog, where he has written war stories of developing Blizzard's earlier hit games. (It's been a while since he last posted there.)

One of the more popular posts:

https://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/the-starcraft-path-finding-...

Also, it is easy to draw parallels between David Craddock's `Stay Awhile and Listen` book and Masters of Doom. I tried to quickly whip up the Amazon link, but I'm seeing multiple versions and listings... apparently multivolume? When I first encountered it, it was a single book.
> Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity ("I'm just trying to have a debate"), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
>This is where I buy arduino stuff. >https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004305055818.html

>And yes, the price is $.57 and $1.29 shipping. Its a total of $12.98 for 10 of 'em. And that includes USB cables and headers. And, they're also individually sealed.

Yes, I've bought Arduino's from AliExpress. But that link is for a $0.57 "micro usb 30cm", i.e. a cable. The actual boards start at $6.36. Isn't shopping on AliExpress fun?
In this case it’s probably not so much that the author was forced into journalism, and more that the student was empowered to cover this story without fear of retaliation due to his parents’ large megaphone.

With the sheer volume of scandals coming out of Stanford these days, it wouldn’t shock me if a critical mass of former students start feeling empowered to speak out now as well.
> I think you still need xargo/cargo-xbuild for no-std embedded sysroots, but there may have been some upstream development on that front since I last played in this sandbox.

Cargo's build-std flag is the bespoke way now. Unstable, but working it's way to stable. AFAIK cargo/build aren't getting any more development in lieu of build-std.
So crowdsourced black hat SEO indeed beat Google’s ”thousands of the most intelligent and well-paid engineers of the planet”.
Macros are very helpful for making many things. There are some problems with how macros are working in C, but it is also beneficial sometimes.

One thing that C does not have something like METAFONT's "vardef"; if you have "scoped macros" that can be declared as global or local variables and as members of structures, it would cause less interference than the current system and can even sometimes provide other benefits too.

Others include e.g. possibility for macros to define other macros (probably several other programming languages have such a thing), for appending to existing definitions (like {append} in Free Hero Mesh), for altering existing macros with a value calculated immediately instead of each time the macro is called (like {edit} in Free Hero Mesh), etc.
> "GPT-4, back then, ported dirbuster to POSIX compliant multi-threaded C by name only. It required three prompts."

I had early access to GPT-4.

I don't know the first thing about you. I don't want to call you a liar, or an AI bro, influencer, etc.

I couldn't get GPT-4 to output the simplest of C programs (a 10-liner, think "warmup round" programming interview question). The first N attempts wouldn't build. After fixing them manually - the programs all crash (due to various printf, formatting, overflow issues). I tried numerous times.

Pretty much every other interaction with GPT-4 since then was similarly disappointing and shallow (not just programming tasks - but also information extraction, summarization, creative writing, etc).

I just can't bring myself to fall for the hype.
your argument is only true for normal, trouble-free, law abiding, functional families. You are right, millenials take their time to have babies later, because they plan, because it is expensive to have kid etc etc.

You are probably projecting yourself as a well-off individual to the society.

this is not true for low SES stratum: the girls in poor hoods start hookups in middle/high-school. They get pregnant at high school, have unplanned babies without father etc etc.

It is almost as if we are talking about two different Americas: white & black. Medium+ class and Poor class
I agree. I suppose it is meant for different folks. I like that Fira Code is easy to set up, readable with good ligatures and powerline, and something I just don't need to think about.
https://github.com/chadams/mini-lang
Ask HN: What hardware are you running for your home server?
Obviously interested in all of it, but here is what I am rally trying to solve:

I live in an apartment, so unfortunately I cannot run full fat rack mounted equipment for space, heat, and noise reasons. Also, a partner who isn't keen on the sight of it

I was thinking maybe some small thinkcenter or dell micro PCs + a NAS (Thinking QNAP because they are cheaper). Lower TDP would be great too. Power costs are a concern.

Thinking about Nextcloud, plex, jellyfin, home assistant, local backups, etc... I know that it evolves quickly
I met Fernand at the first ElixirConf. Lovely dude, had a lot of fun hanging out. Chatted a few times since then, always a treat. I use his software 100 days a year
That's literally what it was commissioned for, so... yes, obviously we're looking at Avatar? Yet again, an abused font that should be taken away from every mom with a facebook group and given a safe place to be itself.
Not trying to hide our competition but honestly, we came to build this because I didn't find any.

The leader 15 years ago was SugarCRM but sadly they ended up getting bought by a PE fund and closing the source. There is a project called SuiteCRM[1] that continued with an open source fork but in my opinion they lack the "modern" touch that we were looking for.

Besides that, other options I've seen are Yeti [2] or Odoo [3].
Odoo is very successful but it's different because it's an ERP so CRM is only a small part of what they do. They tend do do a lot of things so can't do all of them very well.

[1] https://github.com/salesagility/SuiteCRM
[2] https://github.com/YetiForceCompany/YetiForceCRM
[3] https://github.com/odoo/odoo
CVSS is meaningless, literally a Ouija board that reflects the intuition of whoever's computing the score. A more reasonable way to look at severity is on a two dimensional scale of lo-hi severity and lo-hi situationality. This is a high-severity, moderately situational bug (it would be highly situational if it required user interaction, and not situational at all if it didn't require control over the remote SSH server).
Thanks, that's interesting!

> There's availability API but it won't tell us if the archived webpage does indeed display content (say, if it was behind a paywall or cookie banner

Right - that's the problem. It takes a human to tell if the archive link is worth anything.

I do want to do something better with this someday (someyear?) - most likely a way for community members to submit and vet archive links, and then (if so) an "archive" button in the detail bar to point to it.
Less revenue for the school means higher tuition costs for everyone and less scholarships.
>The incentive isn't necessarily there to remove them.

There is a reason people are using chatgpt as a replacement for google, or appending results with Reddit or Wiki
Joe Duffy on Midori and async/await in a C# dialect: http://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/19/asynchronous-everything/
The libraries are on the client's machine, not the server's. And they're not "poisoned"; the default distro-provided libs already provide the remote execution capabiity (eclipse-titan, libkf5sonnetui5, libns3-3v5 and systemd-boot packages from Ubuntu 22.04).
> unable to compete with Chinese companies that charge a fair price

That's debatable. I don't think China has the same labour laws or costs of running a business. Maybe it's fair from their perspective, but we really should have tariffs on such products so that they would cost as much as if manufactured in the west and perhaps use that money to help domestic businesses grow.
I did both community college and Harvard undergrad. My experience is that while some intro classes were similarly structured, Harvard offered far more accelerated options for people who are prepared for it. You're right that the student body is a huge difference though.
Know any other interesting accounts of ancient history? Seems you may know a few others!
That's because any subject can be made boring and not that many people can make learning at least pleasant, if not fun.
Don’t add website DRM to Chrome
> But how can you fix it? I'm afraid good answers need very deep change

How the hell do you manage to bring deep change to large entrenched bureaucracies like universities though? Honestly, I’m surprised there wasn’t a crackdown or any supression on the guy who exposed this person.
There are also other concerns depending on your threat model: if you're parsing user-generated strings you definitely want to be able to handle corrupted unicode, for security reasons, and in these scenarios the way you handle recovery if you choose to do so may aggravate exploitation.

Consider a corrupted codepoint at the end of a user generated string: will it recognize the closing quote as such, or will it assume it is part of a corrupted codepoint and try to skip over it?

So many ways to shoot yourself in the foot by "abstracting away" the formal semantics of your inputs, I think it's pretty much never worth it. (An interesting search term here is LangSec)
>introverts find interactions with other “draining”

I'm pretty sure this is bullshit.

Level of drain = lack of trust in that person X overall level of anxiety

If you're highly anxious and socializing with people you dont trust (strangers, acquaintances) then the experience will be stressful and draining.

Ive met many self declared introverts who have no problem socializing for long periods in small groups with people they trust absolutely.

Ditto self declared extroverts who are "socially performing" in a critical sitation where they will be judged can't help but find that experience draining.
The key for me has been focus on creating value - by being consistent at coding, year in and year out.

When you stick with it, over time, you start to recognize patterns and cycles, that trends emerge, peak, and fade.
Sparkfun put out an app to help detect skimmers primarily on gas pumps [1], though it no longer appears to be available on the google play store.

[1]: https://github.com/sparkfunX/Skimmer_Scanner
Not just a metric driven company, but one that's so large the left hand doesn't know what the right is doing and neither of them could optimize their jobs for the other even if the incentives were for them to do so.
:-(

I recently went through the opposite of this. A purchase at denon.com was declined, got a "please verify" email from my issuer which I approved and re-did the purchase. My issuer authorized the payment the second time, but then it got held up by NoFraud who sent me their own "please verify" email which I did. I had used an iCloud Hide My Email address for the purchase so a day later I get another email from NoFraud:

> Thank you for confirming your recent order. We are the fraud solution for the merchants website. We flagged the order for additional review before we notify the merchant to process it. To complete the verification for approval, we require an alternate email address for the cardholder. Please respond with an alternate email address.

At that point I tracked down NoFraud's phone # and called them to finally get the transaction approved.
Disagree. Processes and actors are nearly identical, except that the kernel has the ultimate ability to preempt everything.

Supervisors are built on `link`, and every process in erlang must always exit with an exit status. This is identical to a process handle with a process exit status.

The whole point of supervisors is that they are extremely simple - you can implement all of Erlang's OTC and supervisory semantics with, more or less, recursive functions (which are the foundation of actors), names, and links.
Pretty sure 4chan is knocked down quite a bit. Sometimes when I search 4chan gif or b, I get a page of unrelated websites.
Obviously, we wait for the investigation to complete. But I don’t know of any valid reason someone would “not be able to provide an adequate explanation” for something so basic.

Occam’s razor would make me think that if no one has ever seen the data and it made him famous, it’s probably fraud.
At the risk of sounding glib, I was asking for data and not anecdotes.

>The mistake from a scientific point of view is how to define legacy preferences and how to measure such impacts.

The paper looked to define legacy preferences using multiple datasets where the school measured the importance of alumni relations in admissions. The datasets had to agree for a legacy admission classification (e.g., both say that alumni relations are "very important" regarding admissions). The measure used in the studies that showed no evidence was the level of alumni donations. It's pretty easily quantifiable. Other studies cited show that when legacy admissions were abolished there was not a statistically significant change in alumni donations.
Or, you know, comics (paper or web, same difference) or comic panels/illustrations.
CVSS are bunk. https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/cvss-system-criticized-fo...
The Irony of American Assimilation
Sort of Token Ring meets Spinlocks. Claims significant performance boosts; LevelDB RON vs. Shiftlock: user-mode +20%, kernel-mode +80%, RON-plock +300% / +1900%.

Paper discusses existing issues w/ multi-core atomic ops. For example: in SIMD-ish algorithms, where multiple cores execute the same code, some cores will be slightly faster than others due to thermal or manufacturing differences. Faster cores will usually win races with slower ones, skewing algo fairness and tending to stall particular cores. RON creates deterministic locking order graphs (first core A, then C, then B, then A again) based upon measured core-to-core latencies.
Thanks for the reply! No need to delete - correcting things going forward is the only thing we care about, and I greatly appreciate your intention to do so.
The website has a better view of that. https://typeof.net/Iosevka/ Scroll down to the variants section, where you can choose presets and it will show the set of characters and highlight the ones that are modified in the selected set. Or select each variant individually. (Not present on mobile; view in desktop mode.)
This is a good point. I do know of a handful who joined the community strictly because they realized they were getting too heavy. One (adult) guy's dad had a sit down with him.

Another guy I know needs a hip replacement and his mobility has been decreased for the last two years or so as he waits. His weight has also gone up dramatically. Interestingly in his case, he's tried all kinds of different diets which have all had negative effects at best.

Still, there have been a few people that fit the profile exactly as you describe— heavy people who find it very difficult and eventually decide the juice isn't worth the squeeze. Running is very difficult when carrying extra weight. There are surely people who decide they can't do it even before they give it an honest try. But that's kind of what I was referring to above; the amount of times I've heard people say "I honestly cannot believe I had that in me" at the completion of a race is why I keep coming back.
My first B2B customer was an app dev who approached me about including my software in his reading app. He paid an initial fee, and a a revenue share. His app was eventually acquired by another company, and they're still paying customers!

In general, you may have to give stuff away for free to break into a sector. Then you prove your value with the first customer or two, and use the qual/quant data from those pilots to get paying customers.
rocksmith works like this i think
Yes whitespace in unicode is expansive. However, you could (and I assume most languages do) specify that a newline is \n or \r\n which are expressible in ASCII.

Maybe I'm wrong though, just an assumption about what's common.

(See for example how Go, which is Unicode aware, defines tokens: https://go.dev/ref/spec#Tokens.)
> Hell, some of the internal skimmers just solder jumper wires to pcb pins/testpoints don't they?

No. Most modern card terminals are tamper-resistant and will erase key material if opened.

(Besides, it's not like you're going to be able to casually crack open a payment terminal, pull out a soldering iron, and modify it while you're standing in the store checkout line.)
Alphabetic? AAAPlumbing (btw my wife gets tons of business because her name starts with an A, and the insurance website is sorted by alphabet)

By date?
The negative outcomes you describe are fairly independent from the training curriculum in school though. An equivalent would be saying that computer science degrees are worthless because sometimes people become parasites who work in adtech or fintech.
I wonder if it works in the opposite direction too. If you dual majored biotech and journalism maybe it'd give you a leg up on writing about biotech; you'd know what to look out for and what's BS.
Sorry just added. Feel free to reach out.
I'm inclined to say that those are false positives, given the obscurity of the vendors who are flagging the URL.
Ok, but can you please make your substantive points thoughtfully, without name calling, fulmination, or putdowns? This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Any videos or online courses that you would recommend?
Sorry. It was down a few minutes ago but should be back now? Could you trying clearing the cache (cmd + shift + r)?
This will be DOA. CRM is a essentially a solved problem.

However, since you are open source I think there is an opportunity to either sell the framework to ISVs (think a property management system provider who wants to provide CRM functionality to their platform overnight... like embedded analytics such as Looker) or have the community create industry specific CRMs.

Good luck.
Lenovo ThinkServer TS140 16GB Xeon E31226 v3 3.3GHz 1TB HDD. Running Plex and Homeassistant for over 5 years on windows. Been great.
They’re easy to miss when you are trying not to see them.
> They willingly ignored most of the AI advances over the last 10 yers.

Nonsense.

CoreML, Apple Silicon (Neural Engine), and even Face ID all have AI advances built right into them.

Apple is not desperate to join the AI hype mania and neither is it a direct threat to them.

Their iDevices and services make enough tens of billions for them to eventually catch up or acquire other foundational AI companies to do that. That is a luxury reserved for extremely profitable companies that can afford to wait or enter late.