skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
:() defines a new function called :
{ :|:& } is the body of the function, where we call the : function recursively, piping (|) its output to another call to :, then backgrounding the whole thing (&)
; indicate the end of a statement and the start of a new one
: and finally the last : calls the function we defined to start the chain

Essentially each time the function is ran, it creates 2 new copies of itself, which each create 2 copies of themselves, etc. until your OS stops responding and crashes.

Nowadays many shells recognize this particular fork bomb and refuse to execute it
And this is why we can't have nice things, because some a-hole wants to have fun breaking a site
Yeah -- this is nice but doesn't save anyone from having to pay a zillion bucks for some custom ERP integration
The economy is basically affecting everything and anyone
Trademark are there to reduce confusion in the marketplace so it’s not about the look of X alone but also the products involved. Acura’s A logo is very distinctive but Audi couldn’t just swap their logo an A in a circle using a different font and be ok. They are both car companies so having different A logos would be confusing.

Where the specific design of the logo is critical is for shirts etc. If you’re selling clothing with other people’s logos that’s a problem, but a distinctive X design is going to be fine.
Did the covid lockdown require a war? Did everyone say ‘fuck off Id rather have my freedom than help fight the pandemic’?

No? Then clearly there’s a path to getting people onboard with fighting climate change, it just requires the right messaging and education
I think the intent and scope of their failures is orders of magnitude different in terms of their impact on society and the free Internet though.
GPT-4 function calling can label hospital price data
> In the utopian "every device has a unique IPv6 address!", that would be the case.

No - every device would be routable. Routability is not the same thing as reachability.

This whole implicit / explicit thing is a bit silly. A DSL router doing NAT on IPv4 has a firewall, and a DSL router that's on IPv6 has a firewall. If you throw packets with an RFC1918 destination address at the WAN port on a router doing v4/NAT, it will drop them because of its firewall - nothing to do with NAT.
I wonder what the most successful joke rebranding in history has been up until now.
Link Notion to your local filesystem
This is a little tool that we build to link Windows Explorer or Finder to any web tool using deep linking.
Depending on the work, depending on the tool it's a discussion worth having. With parameters of the discussion set by the law.
> Also given PSD2 there is always the option of someone developing 3rd party banking apps.

1. From what I've seen, the PSD2 APIs haven't really been created with end users in mind – there are non-trivial accreditation requirements on people/entities wishing to make use of those APIs, the expectation being that only professional middlemen will dally with those APIs.

2. The PSD2 APIs don't necessarily cover the full functionality of a bank's online banking functionality.

3. While you can probably still get quite far with "just" the ability to query the current account data and recent transactions, as well as being able to initiate payments, this doesn't sidestep the bank's authorisation requirements – meaning that unless you can use a hardware TAN generator or something like that, you're still dependent on the bank's app for payment and account access authorisation.
LLMs are also pretty good at programming and I would expect this to nuke programming ability completely, wouldn't it?
Yeah, but the TAM on that is like you, me and 5 other people also in this thread
If you reread the post you are commenting on, he literally says he is not going to throw it away, so the environment cost is zero.
I am not saying it makes the articles bad, I'm just saying that the titles are clickbaity and annoy me.
Nx solves all of the issues you're citing. That is how you do ML in Elixir
Furiously typing a blog post: wrong assumptions software engineers have about train tracks
Cool. Now how do we deploy that to 100+ Chromebooks without spending more on labor than buying new Chromebooks?
There are a lot of great online business promotion opportunities out there right now, and I'm not just talking about online promotion. Many people forget about the effectiveness of solutions like https://www.printsafari.com/us_en/calendars . Printed products, and especially calendars with a company logo and contacts, seemed to me a particularly good option, which I plan to implement with printsafari.
that's called a PRT
Also titles that ask a question and titles that include "could" please ?
Seeing as we're sharing our fun and games...

When I was at college back in the 80's we had access as students to the college's VAX 11/750 (an 8750 Systime clone) to work on our coding projects. The student terminals were on one half of a large divided room, the other half being used by the college IT folks. Often, if there wasn't a spare terminal on the IT admin half of the room, one or two of the IT folks would use two of the nearest terminals just over the divider.

One day, bored out of my mind waiting for my COBOL project to compile, I wondered if I could capture the sys admin's username and password. I wrote a script using the CLI to perfectly simulate the login prompt complete with beeps, messages and all. All it did was clear the screen, sit there waiting for user to enter their username and password, when they did the script would mail me said username and password, display a username/password error then logout to the real login process.

After trying the script out on a couple of unsuspecting classmates and having a bit of anonymous tomfoolery I decided it was time to try this out for real with the sysadmins. I logged into both terminals the IT folks normally used and left the script running. A few hours later I returned and to my surprise and mild anxiety I found out that I'd captured the SYSTEM login password :o. For about a month or so I'd full control of that machine, and would re-run the script occasionally whenever the SYSTEM password changed. I told no-one and on my last day at college logged in and deleted the script, just in case (this was around the time the law in the UK was getting a bit heavy with regards to unauthorised computer access).

Combined with access to the huge set of manuals for that machine I spent a heap of time exploring and learning about VMS and no-one had a clue.
> even though it's adding to the problem

Yes, it's adding to the problem, very little. Yes, it's helping you, very much. No, you don't have an alternative.

I sincerely wish you it doesn't break. Keep cool!
Support small businesses (internet ones too) • Cory Dransfeldt
Driverless trains still need operators (who can be remote) and can only operate if the tracks are surveilled and kept clean (one of the huge issue of driverless trains us braking and braking distance).
Also in some (most?) countries, regulations impose a strict versioning of invoices and a strict irrevocability process (meaning you cannot edit an invoice after its been delivered). To be compliant with the laws, as a company you need to prove you are using a system which is compliant with theses constraints.

For instance in France, it has been mandatory to use such compliant software since 2018 for all companies.
Ask HN: Does a framework exist for “open-source SaaS”?
The OSS model for collaborating on code is broadly understood. I'm curious if anyone has been successful in deploying and hosting a SaaS app in an open-source way, using community or public user funding.

For example, many of us use Calendly. There are many for-profit Calendly alternatives. Could we band together and create an open-source, truly free Calendly alternative where users split hosting costs in a fair way? The cost for functionality would go down to pennies per user, since no one expects to make a profit. I don't necessarily want to take on the whole burden of self-hosting an open-source platform, but would be happy to pay for usage if those funds only go towards keeping the platform online.

Just curious if some such experiment has been successful, or perhaps why they fail.
Excel default invoice templates are great, and you can begin programmatically improving them from there. Excel can even have a separate sheet of “standard line items” you can reference, do the math for you, etc.
SO changed its policies a long time ago already... they don't want to answer your questions. They hate your questions (and by extension, they hate you!).

It's ok, you deserve the hate. After all, you're asking the wrong questions.

They want questions that are "textbook-worthy" or possibly "encyclopedia worthy". They're on record as having said this officially. If programming and technology is just messier than that, if it's more complicated than that, and you still have questions that don't fit because of it... well, fuck you. They don't exist to answer your questions, they exist to answer great questions that they can use to build up this pretty little sight that now has some purpose other than whatever it was you thought you were using it for.

The Z guy, he's playing their game. He's awesome. You, you need to be punished until you comply.
I'm looking at using https://bigcapital.ly/ exactly for these reasons.
The only intuitive interface is the nipple. Everything else is learned.

Now, it might be that the learning curve is steeper than the existing solutions, but think of all the things you had to learn while using reddit:

- what is a sub?

- What is the difference between posting a link, a text, an image?

- How does voting affect the front-page?

- What is Karma?

- What is a DM?

Now, think of things you'll probably have to learn to use Lemmy.

- what is an instance?

- What is a community?

- How do I find communities to follow?

- What is the difference between "local" and "all"?

Why is it that "the masses" managed to learn how to use reddit, but wouldn't be able to learn Lemmy?
Most bottles are 660ml and cans are varied, but many are 500ml.

However, in pubs and restaurants, the standard glasses are 568ml and half of that, for a half-pint.
I had to interact with several bank customer support departments and I'm surprised by experience you described. Are you a $$$-business customer or something?
A website can open your mail client for you, but I don’t know if it can attach a PDF for you.
For me at least, I often go directly to the official docs. They're much better in 2023 than they were in 2013, pretty much across the board. And if that doesn't work, it seems you're more likely to find your specific problem being asked in the issues of the official Github, Gitlab, etc. than you are on SO. Even Reddit and some language/technology-specific forums will have better results now.

The fun thing is... I think SO saw that coming. They made that huge push to be the central documentation hub for everything from huge projects to internal teams. It just wasn't well thought out and expensive iirc, and had an abysmal adoption rate as a result
Screw the batteries, its the tiny amount of RAM that is going to kill the laptops. We need to make it so that soldered on RAM can only be sold if the laptop ships with at least a certain amount of RAM. Should properly be 16 now, then 32 in 3 years.

You could ban it entirely, but there are some advantages to soldered on RAM, such as higher possible max speeds.
Microsoft Loop – Microsoft's Notion Alternative
Yeah for the hundreds of millions of dollars they take, and supposedly don't take profit from, it's hard to understand how ICANN performs such a poor job of regulating registrars.
It looks very nice. I have used wealthtrace in the past. I see a lot of mentions of various other tools in the thread. You might consider a competition comparison page to distinguish your solution.
> It's INSANE how tiny of a percentage you can usefully tax away and get enormous societal benefits

The problem in Norway's case is that the a lot of the richest people just moved to Switzerland or wherever...
I also think Stackoverflow is great, but to be perfectly honest, I haven't used it much in the past year and a half. And I have no idea why.
> My theory is that he is desperate. He was forced to buy it.

Yeah, and now people are deriding him for that, which makes no sense. As far as I know, he made an offer, had to publicly announce it beforehand (due to law), then the stock market tanked, making the Twitter purchase nearly unaffordable for him. Then Twitter was loaded with massive debt. Very bad luck. But people hate him so they are satisfied with any misfortune he may have.
I can do the same with my Ansible and docker-compose scripts.

Moving to another provider feels like the selling point of ORMs (moving to a different db engine), whereas most often it will never happen.

It's fine that you use k8s and it looks like it's the perfect fit for your case, but tech often thinks "my solution" equals "everyones solution".
I wonder how many of these effects my phone could produce if its software didn't suck. My guess is most of them.
Didn't they try being just a non-profit and it failed? IIRC they had to establish a corporation to sell defaults like search or they wouldn't have had enough funding to continue.
> The reefs will move north

With an average speed of 1 inch per year they better start sprinting now
> The reason people are creating nonsensical conspiracy theories about the Twitter buyout is that they want to believe there's a rhyme and reason to the madness, the same way they created nonsensical conspiracy theories following 9/11 because it meant that the US was in control after all and not actually (figuratively) brought to its knees by a handful of foreigners with box cutters.

Exactly. People want to believe that the richest man in the world somehow deserves to be so, mainly through their effort. They want to think "if only I put a bit more work in, I could have it all!" The thought of somebody becoming the world's richest man AND being as unstable and erratic as Musk appears to be is disconcerting for those who want to live in a world with some kind of order in it.
Would it be unfair of me to rephrase as, "It is possible to do this ridiculous, difficult thing that doesn't even always work in order to get some insight into a situation which would be trivial if the source were available with reproducible builds"?
https://web.archive.org/web/20230725041854/https://www.nytim...
It is clear this is at least 2 - 3 years in the making. It doesn't seems any of the 2024 products on Intel Roadmap will have APX ( This could be wrong ). So I assume the earliest being 2025.

The question is when will AMD adopt it. Zen 5 is done and Zen 6 may be too late for these changes. Zen 6 is already looking at 2026. If they waited til Zen 7 it will be at least 2028.

Intel is still 35% behind Apple in terms of Pref / Clock on Geekbench.
Another solution is to use an editor that doesn't rely on the browser or electron (which is just another browser). That's the main reason I switched to vim, all my tools were electron and the fan was constantly spinning. No regrets, highly recommend.
Everything is a drop in the ocean if you split them in ever smaller categories
Then, maybe the "crawler" should be an actual PC navigating to the browser, taking a screenshot (or live feed) of the page and processing it with AI.
Double that, "degraded performance" is simply a lie. It's a major outage. Also paying Protonmail customer, Pro plan.
There is no such thing as clean VHS. VHS is roughly youtube's 240p quality.

Also the first video has 1440p options on youtube so why do you think it's compression giving bad quality? This is about as good as VHS gets. I think most people don't remember how bad it was on tiny CRTs.
In this case, the question actually says “and more importantly, what do you think?”

So the answer is actually on topic.

It may be a bit… stylistically unusual, but I think I came away with a pretty good idea of what the answerer thinks.
This guy just (like a few weeks ago) started to put together a decentralized newsgroup toolset based on the NNTP protocol.

https://dialup.cafe/@vga256/110609250159276517
Flee tropical areas or flee to tropical areas? I can tell you that living in a tropical area (closer to the equator) i haven’t noticed any perceptible effects of climate change.
> Here in the UK, WhatsApp is ubiquitous, and to even _think_ of using a different app is, by most laypeople's standards, absolutely weird.

Several countries in Europe have already 1/10th of their population using Telegram. Telegram sees more than one million download per quarter in the UK alone.

Telegram is simply a much better app (better UI/UX) and nobody around me finds it weird. As soon as friends and family tries Telegram, they're hooked.

The network effect is already there and I guarantee you that if there still people finding it "weird", it won't last long.

There's also zero problem using both WhatsApp and Telegram (which many people do: I don't but many do).
Clearly you do not remember "New Coke" where they did in fact attempt to rebrand from Coca-Cola the actual brand to "Coke" in addition to the formula change.

The brand kinda succeeded, as everyone calls is Coke, even though ti is actually Coca-Cola Classic and Coke is dead because the Coke formula was terrible tasting
It is incredibly easy to bash something, very hard to come up with your own ideas.

To show this, reader, try to do a small experiment yourself - something your interested in - but make it really, really small. Can be testing products you use often to see which is the best for you.

It is REALLY hard! And it's extremely easy for people to pick it apart. "Oh, you know more than the guys who wrote the standards?" "I've been using that for years, you're just using it wrong" "Here's a picture of me doing xyz it works fine"

They spent two seconds, you almost certainly spent days and days on your really small test.

This is why you won't see people back up these claims. They didn't spend time or effort getting there, and they won't spend that time or effort backing them up.
As a matter of fact, there’s even more developers making a hard left into AI who have never touched crypto.

The interesting follow up question is: what will they actually spend time on? Training new models? Copy pasting front ends on ChatGPT? Fine tuning models?

I think many of them will be scared by how much of a hard science ML is vs just spinning up old CRUD apps
Amiga OS 1.x was definitely rather amateurish looking (blue and orange color scheme.) The 2.x series and above looked much more professional (gray scale, more of a beveled 3D look, etc.)
In high school I'd reserve workstations for my friends by unplugging the keyboard. The PC would fail to boot with "Keyboard not found, press F1 to continue" which was enough to get it designated broken and avoided.
Performance should improve soon.
> embarrassingly obvious when someone is "microdosing".

Maybe because of the placebo effect. Chances are that if you were actually microdosing but didn't knew about it you wouldn't even notice it.
Leandra Fishman Joins Apollo.io as CRO, Fueling Growth and Product Innovation
Former Intercom and Twilio executive, Leandra Fishman, has joined the company as its first Chief Revenue Officer. For the last 32 years, Leandra has been building go-to-market motions at companies like Twilio, SendGrid, and Intercom. She has now joined Apollo.io to lead the company’s global growth strategy and drive revenue expansion initiatives.
Is this sarcasm? Almost impossible to tell. I think it isn't.
Maybe. It's worth entertaining. But even then the discussion should take everything into account. I take the position that housing need to be built either way. But do all offices building need to be built?

If at any given time half or two third of your work force could stay at home. It means there is less office capacity that need to be built.

In any case, I welcome the debate.
Seems like you also must have a github account to use that.
This feels somehow even worse. I don’t think it’s more readable than Op’s example, but now it’s also weird to write.

The chaining example in OP’s first example is way better
> I think I noticed a point reduction - is this common? Why does it happen?

Yes. You received a "down vote". As to why no one can say without knowing what got downvoted.
1. back in the day high-level programming lanaguages were also a business model. In order to sell their computers the HW vendors would provide a FORTRAN compiler for free.

2. Declarative programming can work for narrowed problem domains using DSLs/middleware, but not in the generic case. If you don't want to be locked, either chose a standardized DSL (e.g. BPMN), or implement compiler/interpreter/runtime/middleware by yourself.

3. SQL originary targeted end users (Analysts), but today it mostly target developers and DBAs. Today end users would mostly use BI tools or dashboards, not SQL directly. So I wouldn't use it as an example of Declarative Programming.
Have you heard of Commercial open source (COSS)? It's a growing industry of promising OSS tools combining the benefits of proprietary SaaS with open source software.

As for the Calendly alternative instance - have you heard of cal.com? It's free for individuals.

I recently wrote this article featuring their origin story: <https://blog.scoutflo.com/cal-com-the-coolest-open-source-al...>
Those rough moderators would close off discussions for the most trivial reasons, yet SO still allowed those discussions to be indexed by Google (despite rel="nofollow" having been a thing since 2005 or so). Presumably this was because SO still wanted the Google juice.

It was irritating as hell to have the top several Google links go to SO discussions that had been shut down by the moderators.

> I can't blame them

I'm sorry, this is like saying you can't blame cops for beating up the occasional suspect because they encounter a lot of genuinely bad people every day.

If you can't do the job in the presence of shitheads, you have no business being a cop. Or a forum moderator.
https://archive.is/bSO44
> Mozilla is one of the rare companies with a mostly white clean shirt.

No. Not even close.

> while we should rejoice that they have been doing amazing things for 20 years despite the competition being terrible people playing dirty.

I reject the "other"-ness in this comment. I was a Mozillian. I was helping do those things. The notion that I should heap accolades upon a bunch of folks who are only now affiliated with Mozilla and who were not contributing during the era in which Mozilla was doing the great things actually deserving of the goodwill associated with its name? And who have themselves been positively poor torchbearers for that name? Condescending.

2023 is the project's 25th birthday. It did amazing things for about 15 of them—by which I mean the people who made up the project. "Mozilla" is merely a legal fiction.
A350-900 Flight Deck and Systems Briefing for Pilots [pdf]
There's a Pixel tablet that can run GrapheneOS for <$450 on Swappa, that tickles me way more.
The comparison is between ice extent measurements at the same date, at differing years, so the day-to-day correlation is not the relevant metric here, but the year-to-year correlation, which should be very low.
So long ago organs like eyes are an example of convergent evolution.

https://evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.100...
For most of my conversations, authentication really isn’t an important consideration. If someone snoops the random pics and texts I send back and forth with my friends, so be it.

But it’s awfully nice to use the same app for different communications too, where authentication is important.

Signal has done a fantastic job of nailing that balance, and I appreciate that.