skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Python ended up 'specializing' in data contexts

There's a big sub-continent of data stuff in the Python ecosystem, but Python the language hasn't specialized there I'd argue - it has enabled the 3rd party number crunching and data libraries like NumPy and Pandas, but not specialized over other domains where Python is used.
At least calculators don't give you plain wrong information
We never said it would be a good education ;)
Well for example the definition often used in the UK is from Elizabeth Stanko[1] and is ‘any form of behaviour by an individual that intentionally threatens to or does cause physical, sexual or psychological harm to others or themselves’. Which comes from "Counting the costs"[2]. Under that definition, threats of harm are explicitly defined as a form of violence.

The definition of a crime of violence[2] in the US also explicitly includes threats as a form of violence. "The term 'crime of violence' means—... (a) an offense that has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or prop­erty of another, or
(b) any other offense that is a felony and that, by its nature, involves a substantial risk that physical force against the person or property of another may be used in the course of committing the offense." (18 USC § 16 my emphasis)

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/E-Stanko

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/E-Stanko/publication/24...

[3] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/16
Based on the amount of software written in it.
I disagree. Everyone does iterative development, always, but it comes disguised as waterfall/scrumfall/kanban/whatever.

The product is developed using waterfall and then it gets put in front of a stakeholder, who has changed their mind in the time between the initial spec and the delivery. So another, smaller, waterfall is created. This is iterative development. And it always happens, because no-one gets product development right first time.

We'd actually benefit from realising this. Which was the point of Agile - that you can change course during development and so develop the right thing through iteration. But Agile is (by definition) unpredictable. So you end up with this half-arsed solution that pretends to be predictable (except what it predicts is only the first iteration) and pretends to be Agile (except changing course is impossible) as the article says.
Even with heat loss by tank, It's x2-x5 efficient if it uses hear pump water heater. Also storage system works great when solar generators are active.
Good, let's further isolate the population from independent sources of information and leave them completely in the dark about what's happening both in the outside world, and in their own countries. I often wonder who and for what purpose posts comments such as this one because they play so well towards what these dictators want. Or is it just ignorance coming from those who has never lived in a dictatorship.

I will also let you know that many neutral countries receive our internet through some of those you imply by your statement. You would cut significant chunks of mostly poor population off the internet. We have some connectivity through other countries, but it will be back to the dial-up days for at least 5-10 years until more fiber is laid out.
yea one of the things I've learned at Fintechs - all that Cobol code banks run on.. yes it's from the past and hard to maintain but it contains quite a bit of invaluable knowledge that you're bound to relearn if you rebuild.. And relearning in banking can be very expensive
Dude, stop repeating this same thing. Everyone disagreeing with anti-kiwi farm stuff is immediately a "common Kiwifarmer tactic" according to you.

I count at least 9 similar comments made by you in this thread alone. I don't even know how someone can spam a thread with 9 comments without being throttled.

@dang - please have a look at this spam? This is an important discussion to be had and having this kind of inflammatory stuff is not productive.
I think I would be okay with not having the ability to generate queries from natural language if it came with the possibility of my data randomly getting clobbered!
I’m terms of cooperative multitasking I suspect this is not the same as what we had in Classic MacOS in the sense that we now have a zillion cores, so presumably one or two non yielding processes don’t actually hold the whole system up.

I’d also assume that a function that is misbehaved (doesn’t return) could be terminated if the system runs out of cores.

My point is that cooperative multitasking doesn’t necessarily equate to poor performance. Time sharing was originally a way to distribute a huge monolithic CPU among multiple users. Now that single user, multi core CPUs are ubiquitous, it’s past time that we think about other ways to use them.

I’m really excited that this project exists.
This is the one they are going to buy, not quadrocopter, but fighter jets:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kratos_XQ-58_Valkyrie
The simple answer is don't rely on information you find on the internet, SEO killed that years ago. And chatgpt was trained on that awful mess. Go read an actual book
> Zuckerberg would only censor speech about Facebook and himself personally.

Facebook is the mother of all censorship. Nudity, speech, political views just to name the top most. They only want people to post fluffy stuff on their website.
I don't think the Germans now accept your reasoning and your specific story doesn't really provide support for it.

Countries have laws againt hate speech and libel because we realise that these are evil forms of "free speech".

We have laws about every action that we can do because those actions can harm other people and speech is another action which can harm others.
I was excited to start using the 'pinned' and 'raised' domains feature, only to find that it breaks the way that I use the "I'm feeling lucky" bang (a single ! at the beginning or end of a query).

A separate "I'm feeling lucky" bang that directs to what would be the top ranked result, ignoring user-specific adjustments, would be a great feature.
Everyone wants aliens so much. Hoping they will bring... piece/technology/money/space travel/time travel/... But if they are already here looks like they help us as much as we help chimpanzees..
> But it requires the workers to have a lot of capital in the first place, which is rare.

That depends entirely on what sort of business it is. Far from all businesses require up front investment. E.g. starting a service company like a cleaning business or computer contracting firm or whatever with a group of friends wouldn't require much up front investment.
An increasing number of jurisdictions are passing laws against doxing so the site you're defending will be harder and harder to defend.
You CANNOT deactivate an email with one click. If you delete an email address you would expect it to be dead. Not so—-if an email is sent to the address it is re-activated. I’ve reported this annoying behavior multiple times to no avail.
It’s weird, I want to say the same, but then realize everyone I know is using some sort of FB product. Facebook for local groups and marketplace, Instagram for messaging/posting, Whatsapp is ubiquitous outside of USA.

Regarding Threads, I’m also not sure. I don’t think it’s being used widely, but that’s how Reels started as well. Everyone wrote it off as TikTok clone, but now I get to see people use it while I’m on public transport in different parts of the world.

Agreed about the Metaverse part though. Oculus is still one of the things you try out for a couple of hours, and then forget about it.
> … a seatback tray table, it is generally not the right shape for all but the smallest laptop …

As someone who very much prefers having a physical keyboard, the only workable solution I have found for UK trains is an iPad with the Magic Keyboard, whose cantilever design is relatively shallow, and which provides a firm base for balancing on your legs.

There is no reason this form factor couldn't be achieved with an android tablet, but it feels relatively uncommon. Most keyboard cases I've seen are only really suitable for stable table/desk scenarios.
Imo prophets.
have you ever considered devoting your full attention to what you're reading? And that doing that enough will improve your scientific reading comprehension to the point you don't need to rely on chatgpt mangling the information into nonsense?
Ask HN: What it the tech stack of the new WhatsApp desktop?
Uses UIKit.

How to tell if its React Native, SwiftUI or just Cocoa?
Sometimes it's a big no-no on HN to comment or point out background information or context and sometimes it's not.
This is actually one reason I prefer the Ruby ecosystem — whimsy is still welcome. The world has enough Noun Manager projects.
VC funded world in a nutshell
Don't worry, they are disappearing in Europe as well, mostly (imho) thanks to ever stricter security standards. I read that it's very hard to design a small car that adheres to modern standards.
The train stops that are mounted on the tracks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_stop) can be used to arbitrarily stop trains. This is obviously much less practical for the attacker.
thats too many ifs.

Retrain the LLM without access to the repo data. Ask for the same solution. Enjoy the hallucination. Provenance established.
So this is a bit like React on the OS level? Cool project, especially the cooperative scheduling part. Although I'm not sure why insist on a single function (if not for a "hold my beer" moment), because for any non-trivial program the single function will obviously act as the entry point of a state machine, where the state is stored in the context. I'm also not sure about redraws - is the window of a program redrawn every time the function runs?
This seems to match the definition of a unikernel. Here is another one in Rust: https://github.com/hermit-os/hermit-rs
If MicroPython is Python, i dissagree. It spelled syntax error where there was any and indentation makes it very hard to distinguish code blocks especially by beginners and especially on windows where the font is not proportional in the interpreter.
XQ-58A Valkyrie AI driven drones part of USAF $5.8B bid
It's not the opinion I disagree with, it's the actions and policy changes that result from it, which turn into genocide. If a website has people talking politics, that's fine; if a website has doxxing and organizing lynchings, that's not fine. The problem is that one thing (opinions) can lead to the other (genocide) if not kept in check.
Swedish club have 'found loophole in the offside law'
I guess that's a neat legal perk for someone seeking to victimize severely autistic and vulnerable people. One's victims can't afford lawsuits.
I do believe (but, though I work at Mozilla, I don't work particularly close to the relevant team) that our support team regularly gets help requests from people who have locked themselves out after e.g. wiping their device, and we can't help them recover their data. It's a hard balance to strike between usability and privacy, though Google obviously guides the user more to the never-lose-my-data end of the spectrum that also happens to give them more insight into what the user does.
Is GPT-6 the proverbial magic wand that makes all your dreams come true? Because you just hand waved away all the complexity just by name dropping it. Let's get back to Earth for one second...
You made the joke worse.
Fair question, probably Germany.

They chose to believe in a liberal capitalist just-so story that more commerce with an unfree nation inevitably led to a burgeoning middle class demanding Western style democracy, and well, they fucked up real bad.

Same theory was applied to China, same theory failed.

Hence the European's sudden desire to expand the capacity for LNG offloading in European ports, they chose the faith based thinking of certain economists over cynical realism, and handed Russia a leash around their necks, who, in a move that shocked no-one who wasn't in German government in the last 15 years, used it to try to control them.
The Zen of waterfall:

At some level everything is waterfall. If anything is to get done at all the programmer has to make a plan, then put his head down, arse up and implement it.

At another level nothing is waterfall. If the plan is successful it was shipped to the consumer (which may be the programmer himself), and it's very presence changes things for the consumer in ways that they didn't foresee. They then realise they need a new set of changes.

What we call waterfall model is really referring to the scale. If the plan is grand, the specifications for such a grand plan need to be detailed, the implementation long, and the time between putting the head down and evaluating results is large, and we call it waterfall.

But if the strategy is to explore the solution organically, the re-evaluations are frequent, the waterfall periods are short and we call the strategy something else.

So in the end everything uses waterfall. The programmer would not get the long periods of intense focus he need to be productive without it. But also nothing is waterfall, because no plan can foresee everything, it must be continually re-evaluated in the light of unexpected changes it brings as it is implemented.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23970156 : by rstuart4133 on July 27, 2020
Pretty snarky comment in my opinion. From my understanding, OpenBSDs main reason for not supporting things (apart from the obvious lack of resources) is that they are not free (require blobs etc.).

Security concerns are typically solved in software by them as long as they can get access to the hardware in a free (as in freedom) way.

I actually applaud them for their hard stance and am happy that we have this end of the spectrum as well as the Linux end (pragmatic, just get devices to work somehow, willing to accept some non-freedom). It's certainly not the easiest path to follow.
Are JaaS user’s users affected?
Police and prosecutors don't seem to take much interest in online harassment cases (they're probably expensive to investigate, and it's difficult to even convince them to care at all), so criminal cases are unlikely. Meanwhile the site tends to pick victims that don't have money to hire lawyers for a civil suit (their victims are average people, not rich).

There's also the problem that their mode of operation may make it difficult to hold any single person liable. They basically engage in crowdsourced stalking, so there's many small contributions of different people whose connections would be hard to prove. As a collective, they obviously know what they're doing, but many individuals have plausible deniability. You can't try them with conspiracy. And that's if you can even track down who your pseudonymous stalkers are.
>using greentext arrows on HN

>upset that Wikipedia accepts mainstream news orgs as valid sources

>mfw
Interesting question. I don't believe that neither Intel nor AMD have actually found a way to make SMT completely safe against Microarchitectural Data Sampling attacks, so maybe it's not actually possible?

If you only care about security, then I think OpenBSDs approach is currently the best, but it also seems like they got lucky a few times, like with Zenbleed, where they for unknown reason never really adopted the AVX to the same extend as Linux or Windows.
What part of the comment was maligning? It was entirely factual.
The maintenance on that thing must be wild?
ffs, they're OAuth providers. It's not like they're passing the video streams over to Google and Facebook so they can mine them for PII. All they'll learn is that a user with an identity on their platform is using Jitsi. So what?

Meanwhile, the vast majority of users around here will have a GitHub or Google account, and probably Facebook as well. This is hardly much of an inconvenience.

And if the complaint is that now Jitsi can tie back activity to a durable identity: yeah, that's the entire point. They're fighting abuse. At some level, to prevent that abuse, they need some form of trustworthy authentication. That, by definition, means to some extent piercing the veil of anonymity.

It's also why running their own auth doesn't fundamentally solve the problem, as anonymous users creating their own accounts on their platform is a minor speed bump to folks who would use the service for nefarious activity. For that auth to be worth anything, they'd have to engage in their own forms of user verification, and that'd be no more privacy protective, and frankly probably less so since you'd have to trust their security posture.

The fact is they simply cannot run the service in a way that's both perfectly anonymous to Jitsi themselves and simultaneously resistant to abuse (thereby protecting them from potential liability).

Look, I get it, I'm not a fan of the big tech providers, either. But the claim that this somehow crosses the privacy rubicon is a massive overreaction. And the software itself remains as Free and Open Source as it ever was.
I would give a look at pixi as well
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37154660
There was a very good one, well-designed too, and Dropbox bought it. Then it just disappeared :(
Data already exists[0][1], the big co’s have more, and they are figuring out how to release it tactfully without upsetting their employees and getting bogged down in debates. Like how China builds high speed rail while California can’t get around everyone’s conflicting opinion. HN is just a bit of an echo chamber of antisocial pro-wfh opinion, from majority employees that care about their personal interest rather than total company productivity, that you’ve never heard of the data.

[0] https://www.nber.org/papers/w31515
[1] https://wfhresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/SIEPR1.pd...
What can't they provide their own login instead of using Facebook Google GitHub?
British Rail Class 40 Locomotive Motherlist (2023)
Show HN: SideHN, browser extension showing a HN comments sidebar
Sorry, I realized I pasted the wrong URL - here is the correct link:

https://www.gamingmuseum.at/
This article doesn't really get at the core questions of "What exactly is WASM", and "Why should I care".
One in four organizations screens applicant's social media
I think problem is product managers are very common and probably unavoidable in most organisations.

Can't have product owners without actual ownership - without real equity in the product being developed do they really own anything?
Google's Project Wycheproof
Finally, someone that tries non-UNIX alternative concepts with their hobby OS...
Darn, I pasted the wrong link - here is the correct link:

https://www.gamingmuseum.at/
There is a real chance the next German election might result in an AFD government. Which after years of tribalistic conflict left them in a state where the most extreme positions are in control.

Just thinking that you ought to have those kinds of laws doesnt mean applying them wont result in a tragedy.

Edit: Might have misunderstood your reference. The KPD NSDAP dynamic is often referenced as the "verängstigte Bürgertum". It was quite the popular reference during Pegida, but it has been a common explanation since it happened and isnt just a modern take. The coups during Weimar, and the political reactions to them has to be seen in that light as well. Can recommend Heinrich Hannovers "Politische Justiz 1918–1933" on the atmosphere of the time.

Edit1: His "Die Republik vor Gericht 1954-1995" is also something i would recommend reading for a more realistic view of Western Germany. And Ingo Müllers Furchtbare Juristen. Might be worth reminding people that actual nazis got quite the nice treatment till very recently. The current wave of prosecutions against KZ guards is a historical abnormality, unless the allies actually hung you you got away with a slap on the wrist and in good social standing. Because you were needed against the Soviets. A AFD/CDU might get really bad, there were already CDU politicians during the burning refugee housings in the 90s that argued for more compassion for the drunk piss stained mob.

There was this great picture of a piss stained drunk doing a nazi salute during one of the Pogroms that i cant find on google and bing anymore. But luckily i dont have to worry about such things anymore because everyone means well.
Resistive dryers aren't common in Europe; they are mostly condensation dryers which use much less electricity.
Subdomain Hijacking Puts Thousands at Risk
I wonder how useful these models are going to be for "Tracking Everybody Everywhere All at Once".
we're using AWS X-ray for this purpose, i.e. a service is always passing on and logging the X-ray identifier generated at first entry into the system. pretty helpful for this purpose. And yes, there should be consistent log handling / monitoring. Depending on service we differ between error log level (=expected user errors) and critical error level (makes our monitor go red).
I guess those services already treat identity seriously, making a trade off where you swap some end user privacy for a free as in beer system that on the whole tries to prevent sock puppet accounts.
I find myself clicking around because how snappy this is to load
there is now a significant body of research on this, mainly on the significance of proximity to the decision maker and the value of 'osmotic information transfer'

Google the following papers

- The Power of Proximity to Coworkers (2023)
- The Old Boys Club (2019)

Also, many cases of precedence in history where simply being close the King (the decision maker) itself leads to the accumulation of power / influence (therefore career progression). Praetorians in ancient Rome, bodyguards to the Emperor but ending up accumulating power enough to actually decide who was going to be Emperor, or the Eunuchs in ancient China - originally emasculated house servants, but ended up controlling access to the Emperor and becoming powers behind the throne.

Trumpian deep state theory is an attempt to disrupt the bureaucratic power of institutions which have acquired and compounded power, wealth and influence by being proximate to the ostensible authority
said it a few days ago: there's an interesting connection between teeth, vestibular system and hip-flexors, which can lead to lower back pain - found it on youtube, there are a few vids on so called "postural restoration"
I reckon it’s also expensive to stream your audio/video to N different participants in a peer-to-peer fashion.
Step 1: You give them your money.

From the seller's perspective, there's no need to bother with step 2.
And they ARE free to engage in debate, and they DO - nazis are NOT oppressed in the US. But services like Cloudflare are ALSO free to not platform it. This is the freedom of choosing who to do business with. The "proletariat" can - and do - engage in debate in millions of ways. Else the insurgents couldn't have organized the Jan 6th coup attempt.
> Waterfall doesn't mean not to iterate

I don't want to be pedantic, but waterfall does mean exactly that by definition (or at least it used to). There are plenty of variations, that include prototypes or MVPs or iterations (e.g. V-Model, Spiral model).

> waterfall is just the straw man of scrum zealots

You can't just change the definition of a word, and then call people using the original definition "zealots", see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy
Font files already have embedded code for hinting. So while this might increase the attack surface somewhat, it was already there and I honestly trust wasm execution more than the severely underdocumented and poorly understood hinting VM.

https://www.truetype-typography.com/tthints.htm