skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad I actually read the whole article, because it paints a very different than the title and intro to someone who wasn't aware of this case until now.

I thought it was kind of weird that someone would feel the need to bribe a sheriff's office instead of filling out some paperwork normally and paying a nominal fee. Turns out the sheriff's office was (allegedly) refusing to issue licenses unless they were given a substantial donation? That's not bribery in my book, it's extortion, and the headline should reflect that.
Keisan Casio is shutting down
I am confused - is this review or a patent application?
This has been a clear danger for a while now. Beyond just mere danger at this point in fact. You guys are late to the party but it is nice to see you guys catching.

This is the literal death of the internet if nothing is done to stop it.
Not for me... well, I'm on Windows.

It is currently the best tool for me, as a non designer, to smash together (design) icons and export in my choice of format.
I just did a studio tour in Hollywood and the tour guide mentioned that a lot of their most famous productions were done elsewhere because high brow directors hate the backlot. I gather most of the usage nowadays is for TV. Big budget films are either on location or just done on completely fabricated soundstages and/or CGI.
My guess is that they'll prefer to get nominations.

Having once done a grant application process - I think their approach is smart.

If they opened grant applications, they'd get thousands of (sadly mostly very low quality) applications. It's extremely hard to vet.

It's a much safer bet to wait until projects are already popular in the community, already being relied on by people, and where those devs would love to spend more time on their open source projects but they're limited by money.

Yes, the downside of this is that some people could make things happen if they were given money first. But, if I was them, I'd still prefer to do what they're doing and pick projects that are already successful and give grants to those.

(This isn't a comment about your project specifically, for all I know your project might be a popular open source LLM project that lots of people already rely on, in which case they probably already know about your project and will probably reach out to you for the second round, is my guess)
That seems like very careful wording around the fact that pharmacists don't diagnose illnesses. My prescriptions never have a "for x disease" written on them.
A changing course is one of the biggest impacts of flying outside. You have the wind directly acting on your drone, and you have the wind acting on the gates and flags. Flags will spin around in the wind, double gates will lean, sometimes quite a lot in the wind.

There's a whole skill to feeling the wind on your body and anticipating how the drone will behave. When I feel a big gust of wind I'm going to slow down out on the course to get my bearings.
I don't really think this is as complicated as you're making it in this case. The regulation should be that ISPs are to simply pass along data that comes their way. If they fail to do that by impeding certain traffic, they should be fined or in egregious cases jailed. No different from how you'd fine or jail something like a restaurant owner for violating health codes. You would expect a restaurant to serve you clean, un-tampered food; likewise, you should be able to expect your ISP to serve you data and to not tamper with it.
VS Code has a MAUI extension in Preview: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/announcing-the-d...

That extension is an interesting return to official Linux cross-platform support (since MonoDevelop was left as a community effort).

I had wondered if a focus on cross-platform efforts in VS Code might spell the death of VS for Mac, but I hadn't expected them to announce it before the MAUI extension and C# Dev Kit extension were both out of Preview.

That said, even though I try to avoid Preview extensions in main profiles, I've heard good things about those extensions from those that don't mind as much.
Graphhopper is great. Thank you.
That is out of your control across many teams. Your only hope is having hard rules on what to do with flakyness so that teams aren't able to spend 3 months telling you "please don't skip because we'll fix it in our next sprint".
AI Copilot for Wedding Planning
A friend and I are hacking on Whimsy, an AI copilot for wedding planning, by leveraging LangChain and GPT4 to guide with task automation, decision making, summarizing content, etc.

We're leveraging AI to find vendors (venues, photographers, florists, etc), smartly write emails to vendors and coordinate availability, coordinate RSVPs, generate reminders, and visualize all of this in one centralized dashboard. Ideally, this will guide users through their entire wedding planning process.

We're currently testing out our first feature, helping users to find a wedding venue, given their region and budget.

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If anyone has hacked on this in the past or is interested in building in this space, we'd love to chat!
PlayStation Plus raising annual prices by up to $40 later this year
I am expecting lots of biotech progress during my existing likely natural lifespan.
It's hard to tell what they meant by that. Did they mean it's time that Amazon disagrees with Employees who want to work remotely and commits to it by firing them?

What did you mean by "Sounds like an ideal experience."?
Fortunately, all questions of how legit Avi Loeb is, does he have a good reputation, how many mistakes has he made in the past, etc etc and all such ad-hom considerations can be safely tabled.

The paper has been written, let it go through peer review. Lets hear the reports from more labs about the samples--heck, send some more scientists out there to see if they can find more samples and whether the results are reproducible.
If you're from IIT, you must be aware there is clear difference in the performance of those who come on quota(like oBC, SC, ST etc) and those without quota. If you extrapolate the same academic performance throughout the students career, and assuming for the incoming class of 1000 have to select 10 professor on the academic performance, who it's gonna be? The dude who came on quota or the dudes who were off the chart in the tests? Do you suggest we should also appoint professors and give grants based on the caste?
This may be a bit of a depressing point but, for a long time in western society, a women's role was accepted to purely be a mother and caregiver. When you say "was seen" I think it's important to clarify that it was seen that way from the point of view of society - society certainly impressed this view on women raised within it but I don't think we can disentangle the taught behaviors from natural behaviors.

Some of these beliefs still stretch into the modern day in really toxic ways - my sister-in-law (a tenure track professor) got a lot of flack from tenured professors who had deferred having a family until the window had closed when she had to duck out of a semester for maternity leave.
The one I wrote about my field. I faced possible public humiliation for every mistake I made, so I busted my butt to learn all those gaps in my knowledge :)
They farmed it all out to think tanks and said "Give me something I can vote on."
Dazzle camo and decoys seem like the obvious answer, and anything flying is still gonna have to contend with AA weapons platforms. It doesn't seem like it would be the hardest problem in the world to honeypot an autonomous drone into a kill box.
Eventually you'll run into a "you've used too meany of these codes" error unfortunately.
The author already acknowledged that there are other ways to do distributed transactions

> The traditional solution is to use two-phase commit through a protocol like X/Open XA. However, while XA is supported by most big relational databases like Postgres and MySQL, it's not supported by popular newer data stores like MongoDB, Cassandra, or Elasticsearch
It is actually insane how unbearable it is to browse without ad blockers. When I visit any random news site on my iphone, its almost impossible to actually read the article.

It looks like something out of a satire movie made in 2002 about how bad ads will be in the future.

I was trying to read one out-loud to friends regarding a local restaurant and the text kept jumping around as ads loaded in and jumped around again as they changed.
Generally the systems that allow this have much more advanced driver attention tracking. Usually using infrared projectors and cameras aiming directly at the driver's face.

Tesla is attempting to add visual driver monitoring using the interior security camera near the rear view mirror, but it doesn't have the same level of fidelity and they still require both camera attention and steering wheel torque for normal customers using their assist systems.
You don’t need Visual Studio for Mac to use C# and .Net. Visual Studio Code provides a pretty good cross platform experience, same for Rider (if you prefer IDEs). VS for Mac has always been a subpar tool compared to VS for Windows, and was competing with vscode. I’m surprised they maintained it for that long, it makes sense they stop now that vscode caught up, that’s where they will invest their energy moving forward. VS for Mac was its own codebase, I believe a fork of Monodevelop renamed Xamarin Studio, then renamed VS for Mac after Xamarin acquisition (I’m saying this from memory, I may be misremembering a few things).

The language is still interesting to explore, and .net is incredibly reliable and stable and will stay cross platform, it’s a really good platform to develop for IMHO.
And where would that end, right? /s

Thanks for saying the quiet part out loud so.
So there's basically three views on social welfare. The far right doesn't want it to exist at all, or if it must exist it should be funneled towards the already powerful, because nobody deserves it. The left says that we need to distribute social welfare in order to equalize society, because everyone deserves a good life. The liberals, in between the two, view welfare as a means to make up for societal failures or outright wrongs. It's not about the fact that these people are needy, it's about the fact that they're needy and it's our fault.

Race/caste/etc based welfare distribution comes from that last model.
How much do human drone racers memorize the individual standardized track layouts vs reacting on the fly?
Same. And it's because you cannot develop for iOS without a Mac.
I had similar issues with EDID on an old monitor. I pulled the cover off the back and found the I2C EEPROM that stored the EDID data. I soldered a jumper to disable the write protect on the EEPROM and was able to reprogram it using the Linux i2c-dev device.
Backend with a lot of existing code that's still in .Net Framework using tech like WCF and Windows Services.

I could get away with doing dev directly on the Mac if I was _only_ working in .Net Core on our newer applications and if I was willing to use Rider. Neither of which are true.
Everyone carries some cultural/personal baggage, if that affects the outcome of some otherwise fair procedure it's a sad story but it's not the procedure's fault.

>the university solicits six appraisals from relevant experts at other institutions

If you think this could be improved, well, show us how.
There's also Flexpansion for Android (no training required): https://flexpansion.com/wp/
Enterprises started to provide their own private ChatGPT by OpenAI service, it's 3.5Turbo but quite good.
Show HN: Mastonews, a personal Mastodon RSS feed generator
Hey HN! Author here.

I created this app so I could track the personal blogs and websites from the people I follow on Mastodon. It was something that I noticed specially on Mastodon: there were many interesting and quirky websites of the accounts I follow there, stuff that it would be really hard to come by otherwise thanks to search engines enshittification. So Mastonews was the way I found to solve this discoverability problem and to display the feed to me with emphasis in the Mastodon account the website is related to.

The website works right away with accounts that have public follows, it only requests an OAuth if your follows are private. If you don't have an account on Mastodon, feel free to use my account to test it out: "henriquelalves@mastodon.gamedev.place"

I wrote a bit about my main motivation behind this website on my blog: https://henriquelalves.com/posts/notes-about-making-the-web-.... Feel free to ask me anything or give me feedback on Mastonews!
I haven’t done what you or the author have, but one workaround this is using something like QMK or ZMK. Especially the Leader key on QMK.

Thanks for the post though, I need to do some analysis of my own typing habits to automate them
interesting appraisal as life expectancy in the US has been going down for the last two years.
Wyoming Schools Unprepared for Space Alien Invasion, but Maryland’s Aren’t
I've done a version of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36632397

Let me know what you'd want to see added!
Just state you believe improving American politics is hopeless, and stop asking questions as if you expect to be convinced otherwise.

To me, this nihilistic cynicism is self-fulfilling. If the population believes and furthermore accepts, as you do, that politics is inherently irredeemable and corrupt, then that is the politics we will get.

Even if a system is riddled with problems, it is the obligation of a citizen to at least give a damn and expect more from the system.

Additionally, it is ridiculous to ridicule people for trying to fix issue #1 just because there are 10 issues. We can call for fixing, through mere voting or more strictly through law, that legislators are to be mentally fit and retire when they are past a traditional retirement age.

We can also be demanding/expecting our legislators to work for our communities, or lobby/petition to change House elections to Ranked-choice, to lobby for campaign finance reform, or whatever changes you feel are necessary to the structure of our governments.
This will be my last comment in this chain since this is going nowhere. Patronymics and matronymics are used by some south Indians, who are at the most 20% of the population. The simple point made in the OP is essentially that caste-based surnames are typical in India, and
which you have not refuted.

No, you don't have to fill your caste but you are typically expected to tick one of the SC/ST/OBC/General boxes (these being the categories of reservation), and then provide a proof if required. The sentence you quote refers to this, and not on how they were hired, which is what you are saying. RTI queries can absolutely answer things of this kind, please just read the question the OP asks in the linked pdfs.
At the time, Tuesday was the best day.

Now it makes no sense other than being an obstacle, and therefore one more thing in the way of people actually running the government.
Do it anyway as in the employees should commit to their stance on working remotely , or Amazon should commit to their stance on RTO? Re-reading it, it's hard to parse for some reason.
Depends on the framework you used. If you used gtk or qt, it is enough for them to support wayland.

If you have something homemade, or you talk directly to x11 server; well now you have to talk directly to wayland server, using a different protocol.

There are also some changes in semantic, most visible & commented in the screen sharing scenario: with x11, you could just silently grab the desktop framebuffer and run to the bank. That's a no-no with wayland, you must ask a privileged process to mediate the access (and that process will ask the user which display or window to share, if any). Some apps are taking their sweet time to switch to this concept.
No one said anything about it being bad. The point is, the article and the title are calling it ice cream and it is not ice cream.
Yeah, I've read it. His point on communists telling him those instances of communism are "doing it wrong" is relevant here.
Session time is a real time metric but revenue updates are quarterly, so the revenue will lag behind user engagement metrics. That and/or enterprise customers signing up in droves which drives revenue up but doesn't guarantee an increase in user engagement.
I'll add that this setup works great, ran it for a good couple of years before finally dropping it (not for any looking glass reasons, eventually just didn't need it anymore with proton).

Also loved that it integrated so well into OBS directly to stream from!
I wonder why the developer picked the D language?
Why not?

I talked to customers as a dev - it's just that customers couldn't come and pester me to make me do extra work or change priorities. Is that too hard or inconvenient to understand?

Scrum fits new development more than maintenance and I've never found any other "phase" where it doesn't fit reasonably. I've been in situations where I've thought we needed longer sprints.

Ultimately if the overhead is too much we used the retrospectives to remove it.

The problem is if you're the only one in the team that wants some change - then you cannot force it.
The shininess of the engineering blog and the actual product seem to be completely disconnected. All the major players (Airbnb, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter) go on about all these often genuinely impressive perf optimizations, but if you actually try the product they're borderline unusable. It's pretty clear that the blogging is just a clout chasing exercise, but the cognitive dissonance is still palpable.
OK so maybe I should've just linked e.g. to that very detailed (and sort of lengthy, but entertaining) video by acollierastro "harvard & aliens & crackpots: a disambiguation of Avi Loeb" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY985qzn7oI) which is definitely not flamewar-ish.

Guess I've gotten somewhat thin-skinned given the volume of faux / overblown science news of late.

For those reading this, there's yet another post here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37327330) that links to a harvard.edu article that gives more details on why the collectors of the spherules believe they have reason to assume that (1) they are really from the suspected meteorite, (2) the material's composition doesn't resemble materials known from other meteorites.

Many questions remain though; for those interested in spherules from outer space, there's yet another earlier post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37317442) that links to a video that shows how excrutiating it is to collect and sort out teeny meteorites from the environment. Having seen that and a clip about the expedition's method of collecting (lowering a strong magnet to the seafloor) I wonder how often they lifted the thing up to collect material because otherwise they could not produce statistics about abundance in relation to the asteroid's flight path.
[Nah] Being afraid of automated, weaponized drones

[!!!] Being afraid of social media enabling something like automated, weaponized drones

This boogieman from the future is kind of overshadowing the fact that social media is already weaponized and used to harm people, and can be used in increasingly effective ways without the need for shaped charges or even physical objects.
Have you read about latest NVidia results? There are no other GPUs. Else they wouldn't have 800% profit growth.
Performance only needs to be good enough and my laptop is rarely unplugged. I prefer alternative form factors. Touchscreen is great. Trackpads without buttons suck.
I would assume they'd consider it an ineffective use of effort unless required. Any monitoring system would cost to implement and very likely would reduce sales if it's not entirely customer controlled.
It doesn’t exist. This isn’t how banks transfer funds between accounts.

It’s fake. As a result, you can’t actually evaluate the engineering trade offs of the proposed solution.

Here’s the thing: do you even need transactions (in the sense of ACID transactions that are resolved heuristically, as described in this article) between your microservices? Likely not.

And what are the implications of having to wait around for PGSQL and Mongo negotiate a transaction between a third data store? Probably blocking and latency and all the associated problems which will lead to … not use transaction across service boundaries.
My "go broke" comment was a little bit of hyperbole. Not much, though.

> the "fixed ongoing expenses" that cause people to go broke are things like housing and debt payments

It's not usually the big stuff that gets out of control, it's the little stuff. It's very easy to sign up for a $5/mo subscription without thinking twice. Signing up for a $2000/mo lease gets more thought put into it.

You're unlikely to rack up a whole bunch of the $2k expenses, but lots of people do get into financial trouble by racking up thousands of dollars in expenses, $5-$20 at a time.
Invoice pdfs https://many.pw/sd
What’s in Floodwaters?
I've heard enlightenment called many things, but "an overreaction" is a new one.

> In many ways he’s the archetype of I’m 14 and this is deep.

He was 29 when he set off on his quest, and in his mid 30s when he attained enlightenment.

Enlightenment, btw, is just about the polar opposite of fake or performatory 'depth'.
> Crippling the performance for the users who choose to use the GPL program together with a non-GPL program is definitely incompatible with "unlimited permission to run".

How so? It says "run the unmodified Program". The checks the Linux kernel does are part of the unmodified program. If that unmodified program doesn't meet a particular user's needs, they can go find some other program. The GPL does not impose any requirement that the unmodified Program must meet all of the needs of all users. Nor does it impose any requirement that the unmodified Program must treat all other programs equally. Nor does it impose any requirement that the unmodified Program cannot have any restrictions on use that are not explicitly imposed by the GPL.
Get a better editor. I can mouse over FILE_HEADER_OFFSET anywhere it's used and get the value.

But still your describing a bit of a wild setup. If the value of FILE_HEADER_OFFSET is 42, how did you come to calculating the value? What if MEMORY_BLOB_OFFSET is also coincidentally 42? If you have dozens of source files filled with literal magic values that's completely unmaintainable and inscrutable.

A constant doesn't have to be in a separate file if it's only used in one place.
> They are crippling the app development story for .NET on Mac now IMHO, and it wasn’t great to start with.

I had the misfortune of installing and using Visual Studio for Mac last year, and it was bad. The primary disservice that Microsoft did with that app was naming it Visual Studio, which places users expectations on par with the real visual studio line of products, which are feature complete and world class. To me Visual Studio for Mac felt half baked and missing features that were already made available to visual studio code through extension.

As Visual Studio Code is still available and it’s support for C# has been continuously improving, I’m confident no one will miss it.
I guess you missed that generation where they were trying to transition the Google Wifi product into the Nest lineup, while Google Home was still in its adolescence.

That one device needed the Google Home app to set up initially, the Nest app to configure day to day, and Google Wifi for advanced legacy settings and port forwarding and such. Three apps for one device? Was a real WTF moment for me...

Router aside, some of my other devices would end up in Google Home, others in the Nest app. Eventually I got tired of the bullshit and switched to the much cheaper & simpler Wyze ecosystem and never had an issue again.