skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Which is why you can pay more to be treated better.

Being treated with respect is now a premium service? And how exactly does a company profit from acting like an asshole?

I fly exclusively on low cost airlines, and Ryanair is the only reason I use the "exclude airline from search results" feature. Their labor practices are also abhorrent.
I watched a presentation a long time ago that went through the math of Von Neumann probes. I don’t remember the details, but it was something like a sufficiently advanced and motivated civilization could convert a Mercury like planet into enough Von Neumann probes to put one in every star system in the universe in some finite number of millions of years. The argument was something like at this point, there should be one in our solar system. And if there isn’t, why not?

I think Avi Loeb has cried alien too often and too easily to be taken seriously at this point. I think there is about zero chance any of the UAP things are anything. But I wouldn’t be too surprised if there is an ancient probe just dormant somewhere in the solar system. Would we recognize it if we saw it? Maybe not unless we got close to it. Could we find candidate objects that look out of place? Fascinating line of thinking.
You go to the countries with the highest birth rate in the world and they are no feminist paradise.

Japan for sure ranks pretty high on women freedom and rights and chances are that the track for these issues has been improving in the country over the years, not declining.
Fair - but they've created a piece of software that has become the backbone of many of the world's largest company's processes. And, as far as vendor lock-in goes, they are unbeatable. Adopting SAP alone is a multi million project with 20+ SAP consultants and once you've introduced it, there is nearly no way to rip it out.

The software itself may be bad - but their ability to capture value is incredible.
It's Tor -- but with a cryptocurrency that will make someone else rich.
Google: "Why is the market behaving as if we have no credibility??"
Show HN: LLMFlows – LangChain alternative for explicit and transparent apps
Hi HN! Over the last several weekends, I've been building LLMFlows as an alternative to langchain.

There's been a lot of discussion on the shortcomings of langchain in the past few weeks, but when I first tried it in March, I thought there are 3 main problems:
1. Too many abstractions
2. Hidden prompts and opinionated logic in chains which makes it hard to customize
3. Hard to debug

This inspired me to try and build a framework that solves these 3 issues, and therefore I started building LLFlows with the "philosophy" of being "simple, explicit, and transparent."

A few weekends later, I think I finally managed to reach a state where I feel it's ready to be shared.

I would love to hear your feedback! Thank you!
> for many it will be a case of “Social media was nice while it lasted.”

Good for them. Social media is a miasma of addiction and time-wasting. ~~They~~ we should `touch grass.social`
Root is absolutely, mind-blowingly, amazing. It gets a bad rap because it forces you to use primitives that were designed back in the early nineties. If you're "just" trying to analyze some data, your experience will indeed be "horrible" compared to what's offered by Python, R, Matlab, or Julia. But beyond that... Root adds fully working reflection to C++. Root gives you dynamic library loading and reloading - you can fix a bug or add a new feature, recompile parts of your program and keep working without restarting it. Root has a feature complete C++ interpreter, with scripting and a REPL loop. You can work with it completely interactively. After prototyping you can save your code as a script. After identifying performance critical parts of your code, you can compile them and get the full power of bare metal C++, without changing anything about the code. Yes this is technically possible with e.g. python + numba as well, but not as straight-forward. Root is fully interoperable with Python and R - you can mix scripts and REPLs between the languages and pass objects between them. Root can serialize any object, without requiring any custom code whatsoever (some serious dark magic needed for this). In fact you can pause your entire program and save it to disk or send it over the network to keep running somewhere else. Root has its own file format for efficiently storing massive amounts of data in arbitrarily complex structures. It can stream it over the network too, with probabilistic read ahead and caching for maximum efficiency. Root comes with libraries for physics/math/stats that rival those of the largest commercial and open source offerings. Each one of these is a massive technical achievement and Root has had most of them for decades now. Oh, and it has largely maintained backwards compatibility through all this time as well.

Of course, very few people outside of CERN need all of this. Even within CERN, many projects don't. But for those who do, there are very few - if any - alternatives.
For a system that doesn't intend to handle arbitrary unaltered Python code, I think a post announcing a "Python Compiler" should make this clearer in the first paragraph.
this is just actually true; a certain amount of demonstrated non-idiocy is required to get the invite to the cloaked channels.
Use Stencil / the ionic framework with emberjs [video]
Live demo: https://limber.glimdown.com/edit?c=MQAgqgzglgdg5iAygFwKYwMZQ...

Here demonstrates how you can use CDN-documentation with Ember to use webcomponents, written with Stencil.JS.

This example uses the Ionic framework.

Stencil.JS: https://stenciljs.com/

EmberJS: https://emberjs.com/

Tutorial: https://tutorial.glimdown.com/

Component used: https://ionicframework.com/docs/api/toggle

PR to the Stencil docs to update them for modern ember: https://github.com/ionic-team/stencil-site/pull/1192/
Thanks for checking out Toolpad.

I agree that Retool and a few others are ahead in this category. Like them, we also have a drag-and-drop UI builder that makes them a competitor. But we see Toolpad as a more code-friendly alternative that can be directly imported into an existing codebase. Toolpad supports extending your existing backend functions to the canvas and ensures that a single source of business logic exists.

Retool, and others are SaaS tools that are good initially but can get pricey quickly as an org scales.
IRC was bigger while I was growing up. But due to living with an internet connection that'd drop multiple times a day, I was never able to really use IRC because I'd ask a question and then get dropped. Getting dropped does not immediately log you out, the server has a timeout period. So when I'd get back in, I'd have to ask people to repeat whatever they said since the last timestamp I'd seen.

Not to mention some IRC channels are really high latency, you leave a message and someone else replies ten hours later. If you miss the reply because you were offline, you couldn't expect anyone to be around to repeat missed conversations back to you.

Due to this I've never really liked IRC, its not good for mobile devices or people who live with DSL or dial-up. Sure you can "just get an account on a bouncer" but that's pretty esoteric knowledge that I never encountered until after university.
It is somehow unGermanic that the "click here" for the second half should be broken.
I think he meant child prostitution, which is a popular pursuit for some Australian* men in certain Asian countries.

* But not exclusively, see Gary Glitter for instance.
IRC had huge momentum like 5 years ago that just disappeared overnight. Freenode jumping the shark didn't help but I'm still surprised.

I loved the days where I'd be in a couple IRC rooms and a couple slack rooms all in the same IRC client. Slack killing IRC support still bums me out.
Don't underestimate your skillset. I've repaired plenty of phones myself, but I've also been working with small tools and soldering electronics since I was a young child. My father, who is a perfectly capable adult human being with experience using many tools (but not many small detail-oriented tools) tried to fix the screen on his phone after I implied it might be pretty easy and he ended up having to buy a new phone.
Announcement posts tend to make it hard to find the source code, so I include the license in its source code repository.
If it’s publicly available, they don’t need a warrant. That’s been the 4A law from the beginning.
If my workplace made every employee run an Exchange server rather than IT running one for everyone, I'd leave
Butter might be one of the best examples since it's one of the best things to buy in bulk to save on costs, and folks who cook use an epic amount of it.

I used very little butter living alone and not cooking more than an average American, if not substantially less. I then got married and now have a family where we are cooking at minimum one meal per night, including some baking.

I'd be surprised if we didn't go through 4lbs of butter per week on average at this point. We typically sub butter in for most oils, as those oils were subbed into recipes during the anti-fat crusades a few decades ago. When you do this your consumption increases even further.

If you tend to not cook yourself or avoid animal fats like the majority of people I could see butter usage not being that high.

Butter also freezes indefinitely, so having less than 90 day supply on hand (12lbs or so) just seems irresponsible to both my family and society as a whole. Keeping even just 30 day stores of staple products seems to be a thing of the past in the US, but I feel it's setting us up for tears.

Edit: Others have already said it, but Costco is actually fairly bad in general for commodity items like butter or rice where you don't care about brand. You will likely find far better deals on "generic butter" at your local restaurant supply store, or even just regular sales at your local supermarket. Ethnic stores for things like bulk rice will almost always be substantially cheaper as well. Costco is rarely the cheapest unit cost, but it wins on convenience.

Where Costco shines are the few specialty items they run through way more volume than most such as imported Kerrygold butter and that sort of "upscale" branded items. Their white label booze is also substantially cheaper for better than average quality as well.
Yep, my understanding is that Google interprets you clicking then going back within a short period of time as “I didn’t find what I was looking for.”
More like your company is in the minority; most orgs recognize the problem with that idea…
Excellent game. I haven't finished it yet (though I got what I'm pretty sure is the hardest picture word) but the key strategy seems to be to pick a (hard) target word, sketch out some chains from there to some easier ones and then try to reach one of those.

Minor suggestions: better contrast in the tab screen for not-yet-founds, have all instructions in the supporting text (i.e. Tab and backspace too). Maybe allow hyperspacing to any word you've previously got to, although that's maybe a bit radical.

Personally I find the dance-ey style of graphics a bit tiring to look at, but that's just me.

EDIT: I'm finding that I tend to fixate too much on single-char replacements and not enough on anagrams. Curious whether that's just me.
German car manufacturers need to start taking Chinese competitors and BYD in particular way more seriously. For the past two decades they have been able to coast and keep their sales numbers up by minimally tweaking their old designs.

German car companies are not vertically integrated and are bad at software. They will get beaten badly on price and software quality, and consumer loyalty won’t last. They will have to reinvent themselves if they want to survive.
Punishing criminals before they offend and setting clear boundaries beyond which you need user permission to act? Totally the same thing.
Show HN: Smart Bash Directory Navigation
> California has a population under 40M (39.2M) and doesn't exactly feel sparsely populated.

California also has some rather terrible housing density issues (exacerbated by pro-land-speculator policies like Prop 13), which is a big part of why it feels crowded despite having a fraction of the population per square mile.
It's nice that they are cheaper until you realize that you've booked a connecting flight through Kiwi and then realize that Ryanair doesn't offer that service, so you'll be picking up your checked luggage at the layover and the queuing again to check the luggage for the next destination. You miss the connecting flight, good luck with Kiwi. They're notorious for their poor handling of this exact scenario, since the money will have to come out of their pockets. Ryanair can only be held responsible for delays of the first flight.
Bad luck on timing? Feels like luck had little to do with it and migration testing wasn't fuzz'd enough?
I am sure I must have checked out Indeed; but when I look at it now, it is not as full of posts from recruiting companies as I remember. Still a lot though: "Senior X Developer required for one of the leading FinTech companies...", "We’re working alongside a leading scale-up... in order to to find a Full Stack X Engineer..." and so on. I wish there were a simple way to filter all those middlemen out.
Well, it is meant for Marines. Hence also the wide margins, so that even after perfect binding and trimming there's still plenty of space for making notes with a half-eaten crayon.

Joking aside, lots of military manuals share the trait of introducing their subject matter well, in order to ensure that whoever's using the material has at least a reasonably strong basis in the "what" and "why" as well as the "how" - I suppose ideally that's something that'd be covered in training, but also that manual authors don't assume they are writing for an audience that is guaranteed to have been trained. The result is often a supremely useful resource in whatever subject it treats.

Frankly, I can think of worse models for the technical documentation we as software engineers produce...
Yep, and even common nonlinear elements like diodes and transistors are non-Ohmic.
I'm really baffled by this. For example in the US, it's enough to just associate something with Russia for everyone to immediately drop any kind of critical thinking. You don't even have to provide compelling evidence for it. The association alone (real or made up) is already enough to completely corrupt the subject's image. This trick has been played dozens of times but somehow people still fall for it...
Show me your definition of intelligence and I will show you how people might reasonably disagree with it.

(The simplest refutation would be that demonstrating intelligence requires first demonstrating motivation on the part of the subject. The current way we interact with "AI" is much more akin to prodding an organism with a stick, seeing it recoil in response to the stimulus, and then claiming that it therefore has intelligence. No, you haven't demonstrated intelligence, you have at most proven it has an autonomous sensory response -- anything beyond that is confusing the complexity of the response with complexity of the mechanism producing it).
Etsy sellers say a fraud protection program is destabilizing their businesses
If it's heavily used inside Bloomberg, that's good enough for me!

BTW, the original Comdb2 paper from 2016 is good [0]. It has features that even today seem awesome. It sounds like a really nice distributed MySQL/PostgreSQL.

[0]: http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol9/p1377-scotti.pdf
...As a whistleblower, you might as well call yourself everything you can, because as is evidenced by the degree of diplomatic murder hornet swarm you can kick up by outing governmental dirty laundry, you'll need all the help you can get.

See about every whistleblower of the last decade and a half.

McAfee, Assange, Snowden... and yet not one official ousted or inconvenienced. Astonishing really.
Yeah, why don’t murderers just commit their murders via their company?
Regulation has nothing to do with progress. You're comparing a single country of over 330 million people mostly coming from a common culture, speaking one language, so big and isolated that it was never invaded from the outside, to an entity only 30 years old consisting of 27 different countries with completely different cultures and languages (currently 24) whose inhabitants saw some of their countries at war multiple times. What the EU has accomplished is a miracle to me.
Apple rejects new name 'X' for Twitter iOS app
Building a BitTorrent Client in Elixir
I think the strongest parts of Shape Up are the betting table and the circuit breaker. The betting table is where 2-3 company leaders select projects employees will work on from all the pitched ones. The circuit breaker is a calendar date, circled at the beginning of a project, after which all work on that project comes to an abrupt, screeching halt. I also think these are the hardest things to implement for social reasons.

The parts about shaping and cycles are good, but I think the amount of attention the book gives them underemphasizes the importance of the betting table and circuit breaker.
If it's any consolation, I believe Five Eyes access puts a nation above any old NATO member in adjacency to US hegemony and will become even more of a geopolitical asset in coming decades.

But yeah any amount of reading about the CIA in Aus, especially 1975 stuff, makes the power relationship clear.
Didn't Immersed + Oculus 2 basically create the Virtual Desktop mentioned in the article?
I find it very disappointing if not worrying that this wasn't picked up by more people... This is something any of us could have noticed.
No, we had LFortran, so naturally we have LPython now as the second frontend. We chose "L" in LFortran to be unspecified, although let's just say I live in Los Alamos, and we use LLLVM.
Exactly. The threat model doesn't care what somebody says their intentions are.
IRC is the perfect chat protocol for interoperabitily between Big Tech and small tech, ofc where it is reasonable. Namely, regulators should enforce the availability of an IRC bridge (with TLS where pertinent authentication is to be used).

Twitch has been providing a non-TLS and public IRC bridge.

Moreover, IRC chat can be extremely well extented, namely with bells and whistle features if the client supports them, and if not can be ignored and and then displays harmless garbage (you can encode A LOT in a short text string, and now with utf-8... you can encode MASSIVE load of things within a short text string).

From a noscript/basic (x)html, just need a irc:// URL and were good. We can even have pre-authencitated irc connection using a transient TCP port opening with IP[46] locking (ok... you will need a pool of IP[46]s for significantly sized services).

Ofc, the bad thing: most of the time the noscript/basic (x)html browser will fire up an irc client, then you get 2 windows. Or we could have an IRC client integrated into a noscript/basic (x)html browser which will open a "frame"/new tab, well... modularity, and this would still be cosmically less costly from a technical point of view than any Big Tech web engine.

It is like some _LEAN_ p2p protocols (streaming, live or not) directly integrated into noscript/basic (x)html browsers with good and honest default (that's the hard part, it will be abused, and if it is too much, won't actually work). Well, a "private" tracker would do the "trick". Still, it could fire up an external p2p-enabled media player (via <video> with the p2p URL with the private tracker and video hash, or the private tracker infos could be part of a dash file).

Ofc, you have to expect the worst from Big Tech: adamant lobbying against that, sabotage up to shadow-hire hacker teams, etc...
Ah ok, wasn't sure if the numbers incremented first or the letters
A Differential Datalog Interpreter
Do employee’s store stuff in the “recycle bin”/“trash”? And get upset when IT empties it when the disc is full?

Yes this is a real thing.
As in many countries with declining population, as the demographic pyramid is inversed, voting power is concentrated on the elder side.

Good luck passing any laws that put elderlies at a clear short term disadvantage ("the country will be better for it in 20~30 years" won't resonate much to a 70 yo couple)
> That would mean blocking UK users on their properties, not helping them find ways to break the law.

That's a sad reflection of the tech industry. Too much "we can't make money from them" and too little spitefulness of the sovereignty of foreign governments.
Volvo/Polestar is also under Chinese management/ownership.
Wait is Snowden still considered a loser here? I can't keep track of the narrative.

We have an agency beholden to no-one with the power to blackmail any journalist, lawyer, politician, associate, etc.

We have an agency that seems to take pride in "hacking" the constitution. We've been shown glimpses and glimmers of clever mechanisms to run-around the US Constitution.

Go ahead and use a VPN and lock down your stupid android OS. You fail to grasp the breadth and depth of sources for harvesting "public" intel.

If you want to be a founder and have no moral code there's ample opportunity here. IoT and connectivity make it cheaper than ever to generate intel on people. Fingerprint people's voices in public, travel patterns, associations, bluetooth/wifi device ids, home wifi attributes, etc. Who's the customer? Big Brother.. Spy on your fellow Americans to help combat Terrorism.

Tin foil hat on: It might be too late for any of this to be meaningfully reformed. The people-in-charge already have enough blackmail on politicians they can drown out dissent. If there is any reform, the info gained from illegitimate sources is already stored as weights into a neural model for future use. Creating the neural model would be "constitutional" because the models aren't "searched" lol

Our national security apparatus is running on self-signed certs. Hope nothing goes wrong with that!
Right. And governments failed to establish public policies to make that unattractive when they certainly could have.
This is a hypothetical, speaking as if Wyoming actually existed.
Growing up my farm-raised mom got the horsey bug for a bit and altho we only had a half acre and couldn't keep horses ourselves we rented a horse from a family in our church. An uncooperative moody unfriendly half-arabian half-something else mean jerk that we could only ride bareback for some reason. And so that's how I rode it all around. I guess I didn't know any better, but I got used to it.

Until the day it decided it had enough, bucked me off and turned and kicked me in the face (luckily it had no horseshoes). Then I made it clear that I was done with horses and 'Diablo' went home (where he never wanted to leave in the first place) and I never had to see him again.

Hope you enjoyed my pointless tangent.
Europe has been seeing a collapse in per-capita energy availability [0] since 2007. The invisible hand of the market is probably working out out what hard cuts are needed to make the best use of what is still available. It wouldn't be remotely strange if Germany was deindustrialising.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-energy-use?tab...
> If python is being used as a scripting language

And when it's not ?
Thanks for this thread. It's disheartening that SLSA and dependency-driven attacks aren't clear to the general development populace, but you've done a good job of explaining the threat even assuming the best of intentions (which I sure don't) out of app developers themselves.

It's a layered set of problems, and the answer is high walls.
CISA’s security-by-design initiative is at risk: Here’s a path forward
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