skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh? Regulators are investigating a potential issue. This really is kind of a case of "an honest [company] has nothing to fear from the police" (which is, of course, far less generally true when actual police are involved); there are rules, and if they have not broken them, _there is no problem_. If they have broken them, then this should be corrected.

An SEC investigation isn't some sort of weird exceptional event; given their rate of enforcement actions (https://www.sec.gov/page/litigation) they presumably start small ones every day. You just don't hear about them because they rarely involve irritating internet celebrities.
That's a feature, it is by design and some folks like it. I do. Surprising to hear people are hitting your inbox with the oddball period.
I took a start script from 90 seconds to 30 seconds yesterday, by finding a poorly named timeout value. Now I'm working on a graceful fallback from itimer to alarm instead of outdated c directives.
I will say Microsoft is overly agrees installing Teams. When removing I find three different listing under add/remove programs. The App Store version Microsoft Teams, the Microsoft Teams system installer, and Microsoft Teams.

It then proceeds to try and set the default to auto-launch and request a Microsoft sign in at login.

This is aggressive, annoying and in at least to me comes off as desperate or in the least adwarey.
Ask HN: On-Device Text to Speech
Hey HN, has anyone found a viable solution for doing this locally and offline on iOS? I'd like to offer a privacy-friendly text to speech feature to my App, and Apple's speech synthesis sounds awful compared to some newer models and TTS engines. The only thing I've found is an older TensorFlowTTS example here: https://github.com/TensorSpeech/TensorFlowTTS/tree/master/examples/ios

Any pointers or tips appreciated.
> I've gotten sensitive emails and account signups with different dots for years.

Please, please give an example..

Also, read this..

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150?hl=en#zippy=%...

> if your email is johnsmith@gmail.com, you own all dotted versions of your address

> If anyone tries to create a Gmail account with a dotted version of your username, they'll get an error saying the username is already taken.

> Your account is still private and secure. Emails sent to any dotted version of your address will only go to you.
Oh thank you. I have been doing a hobby project on search engines, and I kept searching of variations of "Magnolia" for some reason. ""Marginalia"" at least for me is hard to remember. Currently, I am trying to figure my way around Searx.

Does Marginalia support "time filters" for search like past day, past week etc? According the special keywords the only search params accepted is based on years.

year>2005 (beta) The document was ostensibly published in or after 2005
year=2005 (beta) The document was ostensibly published in 2005
year<2005 (beta) The document was ostensibly published in or before 2005
Plenty of companies use Vagrant. OrbStack's pricing is almost as much as an annual Parallels license for each of our devs. Most places using Vagrant will be using VirtualBox on Intel, or Parallels on Apple Silicon. So you haven't seen many requests because Vagrant users already have a solution and OrbStack wouldn't save enough money to ever switch to it.
The SEC doesn't have _exclusive_ domain over this sort of thing, though it is probably the more natural investigator.
> But it does always cost you something. Developer time isn't free, after all.

According to the rest of the comment we seem to largely agree. But this statement is what I want to challenge a bit.

Basically it comes down to this: We're doing plenty of unnecessary stuff all the time, especially in business IT (web applications, CRUD, CRM, CMS, reporting etc.) software.

Your Electron example points to the right direction, but there are also a lot of practices regarding code organization (patterns, paradigms), being too liberal with pulling down dependencies, framework bloat etc.

Simply getting rid of things that we don't need and thinking about performance in very rough terms gets us _both_ better performance and minimal code. I would wager that this isn't a tradeoff as in you describe. We might, especially in the mid-long term, actually gain developer time.

This often means thinking about DB access patterns, indexing and so on as you mentioned. Meaning we think in SQL and lean on the capabilities and heuristics of our DB. What does the DB actually need to do when I do these queries? How can I model the data in a way that gives me just enough flexibility with reasonable performance? Which parts of the system needs to know what? How does the data need to flow through it?

All that stuff we sometimes put on top (ORMs, OO patterns etc.) can get in the way of that. Does it really make us more productive to put these abstractions on top? Do we gain anything from doing these OO incantations?

The article in question is a really good example of removing complexity and drastically increasing performance at the same time.

I have a good example as well.

Our internal image optimization module that we use to generate differently sized images and formats in order to accommodate browser capabilities and screen sizes, was getting noticeably slow, especially for e-commerce related sites and brochures that typically feature a gallery per product/service.

Long story short: It got 50-60x faster simply by removing a convenience layer, writing SQL directly, processing the images in grouped batches and so on. AKA all just low hanging fruit. The end result is also simpler. It took work/time but it didn't need to be that slow in the first place.

And we are our own users too! We have to maintain, extend, test our code. Faster code gives us faster iteration cycles. Fast feedback loops lead to much higher productivity and flow.
>it unfortunately leaves out a lot that a true forest requires and the resulting land will be less ecologically productive and every time the same region is re-logged a good amount of topsoil is lost

What is a "true" forest? When a forest burns down and regrows, is it still "true"? Do you think that's better than logging and replanting?
A potential career path would be to work on commercial console emulators at Nintendo or Microsoft. Or on compatibility layers like Wine/Proton.
I've done this at least twice for the same reasons, and it's lead to me pulling my number off discord twice now. It's stupid how similar logging in and creating an account look.
> Here are a couple of insightful talks by esteemed American academics that shed some light on this dark period:

> https://www.youtube.com/live/qciVozNtCDM?feature=shared

> International - Path to Peace in Ukraine , Jeffrey Sachs [239]

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sachs

> In 2022, he appeared twice on one of Russia government-funded top-rated shows, hosted by Vladimir Solovyov, to call for Ukraine to negotiate and step away from its "maximalist demands" of removing Russia from Ukrainian territory,[73] for which he was criticised by the Wall Street Journal.[74]

I am not sure id trust the opinion of a person who gets platformed by literal Russian propaganda on their opinion on Ukraine.
The macroeconomic models underlying such economist proposals [1] are complex unwieldy frameworks that can be coaxed to prove whatever you want to prove. Biases are injected at all steps of the process: the data collection, the construction of the model and its application. Furthermore they have a good track record of never predicting anything that actually happens.

Yet it is clear that important policy questions cannot be settled by shouting.

For the longest time the challenge for (macro)economists was to break-down their tools and make them understandable to wider audiences. Separate ideology from empirical fact.

You can't operate in a democracy by arguing that some black box said so (incidentally a lesson also for the various AI acolytes).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_scoring
Ask HN: IC Design Resources
Is it possible in this day and age to make custom ICs (ASIC) as a hobbyist? Lets say that I want an IC based on some verilog... lets say that I want 120 of them... Is it possible to get them made for reasonable price for hobby work... lets say... 1$ per chip?

Also looking for resources to learn how to make the designs (GDSII?). I have absolutely no clue what I'm doing here but I'm willing to sink about 1k into this little diversion while I'm looking for work.

I am currently an embedded software engineer and this appears to be the next level lower in the stack.
you just made the claim that people who prefer real programming languages are the reason for bad shells. if there is a false dichotomy, that would be it. sure it is possible to have both, but the focus of the shell needs to be on interactivity. i don't at all care if the shell has a good programming language. i only care about good interactive features.

there is a lot of overlap though, as a good interactive shell does benefit from a better language syntax and from things like types, arrays, etc.
The only issue is motivation. With a team size of 1, people don't realize how much they depend on having just one other person there. Some people can do it. I think a lot are in for a surprise.
The link you provided is from April. When I click on the article, then click on the cited Twitter stats “visits to Twitter.com”, then scroll to “Total visits in last 3 months” (for Twitter of course), the report appears to indicate that traffic is up 1% MoM and currently at a high for the trailing 3 month period (which is all they provide). It is just shy of Instagram (which I was surprised to see).
There is a bit of nuance in how these two are different and I'd say Mastodon feels more like early Twitter or early Facebook. On the consume side, that means your home feed has no algorithm.

Practically, it means you only see what you want and you only see it linearly. You never wonder "why am I seeing this and how do I make it go away?" (e.g. Elon constantly in my feed for some reason) Content can only enter your home feed via your followed tags or handles. The home feed is linear like the early days of FB.

Early FB was great; I used it as a news feed as I only "liked" sources I wanted news from. Today? The feed is algorithmically assembled and full of content that is indistinguishable from ads (because of course, both FB and X make their money from ads and algorithmically enhanced engagement). Am I seeing this because someone paid to boost the views? How do I get this feed to behave? (Hypothetical question; maybe it's possible with a lot of tuning and config -- Mastodon just does exactly what I want/expect out of the box: follow these tags + follow these people = see this content in a linear flow)

To me, this simplicity makes it much more approachable on the consume side.

On the publish side, it lets you see the activity level of tags in the past week. This makes it easier to decide "how should I tag this content?".

One other aspect that I think the HN crowd can appreciate is that you don't have to figure out the platform settings for privacy and opt out of ads, tracking, and so on. Yes, there are still some privacy settings to toggle, but Mastodon isn't an ad platform and doesn't make money from being able to track you across the web and feeding you ads.

More intuitive on both the pub and sub sides, IMO. If you liked early FB and early Twitter, you'll instantly find Mastodon more pleasant and intuitive to use.
The Cynical Genius Illusion
Semantic search without the napalm grandma exploit (Ep. 600) – Stack Overflow
Congratulations Patrick and Neeraj on launch!
RunUO is what turned me from a player into a programmer. I believe there’s still a forum comment out there from 2001 where I was asking about the mess of squiggly brackets {} and if this is really how programming is done. It’s a really fun reminder of what that first exposure to programming felt like.

I’ll never forget how magical it was to make my first edits to the code and see it reflected in the game. Created a feedback loop that has continued to reward me over 20 years later. :)
Woah. I had never crossed paths with this, it's great. It describes really well an experience I had with a few subcultures... And it hurts I can see it happening in real time to a subculture I've been part of since the early 2000s.

Thanks a lot for sharing.
That's only necessary when you have more than one word abbreviated the same (e.g. "db" could be either "debug" or "database"). Someone here commented that this is a missing feature in OP's solution.
Covid-19 Spike Protein Is Pathogenic, from Both Virus and Vaccine mRNA
Libre. Because it ensures that if the company behind it goes bad, you (or somebody else!) can fork it so it doesn't threaten your business.

Gratis but proprietary means that the vendor retains full control, which they have an incentive to (ab)use, making it a riskier bet for a company.
Apocalypse 5: Pattern Matching (2002)
My problem is that it never recommend me good stuff.
I never found Not Just Bikes videos on YouTube, but through reddit.
The same way the ai news channel I found made by someone that isn't someone who don't know anything they are talking about, was found also through reddit.
The only good thing YouTube recommended me this year are uscsb videos.
Abstract:

>The production of ‘safe and effective’ vaccines was a key public health target. Sadly, unprecedented high rates of adverse events have overshadowed the benefits. This two-part narrative review presents evidence for the widespread harms of novel product COVID-19 mRNA and adenovectorDNA vaccines and is novel in attempting to provide a thorough overview of harms arising from the new technology in vaccines that relied on human cells producing a foreign antigen that has evidence of pathogenicity.

Conclusions:

>In this narrative review, we have established the role of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, especially the S1 subunit, as pathogenic. It is also now apparent that widely biodistributed spike proteins, produced by mRNA and adenovectorDNA gene codes, induce a wide variety of diseases. The underlying pathophysiological and biochemical mechanisms are being elucidated. The lipid-nanoparticle carriers for the mRNA and Novavax vaccines have pathological pro-inflammatory properties as well. The whole premise of gene-based vaccines producing foreign antigens in human tissues is fraught with risks for autoimmune and inflammatory disorders, especially when the distribution is not highly localised.

>The clinical implications that follow are that clinicians in all fields of Medicine need to be mindful of the varied possible presentations of COVID-19 vaccine-related illness, both acute and chronic, and the worsening of pre-existing conditions. We also advocate for the suspension of gene-based COVID-19 vaccines and lipid-nanoparticle carrier matrices, and other vaccines based on mRNA or viral-vectorDNA technology. A safer course is to use vaccines with well-tested recombinant protein, attenuated or inactivated virus technologies, of which there are now many for vaccinating against SARS-CoV-2.
A bidding system will help tech companies in California more preferentially than the agricultural engineering firm in Alabama. Is that better for the US? I’m not sure
wow - that's pretty good
Coffee Meets Bagel Outage
The website won’t scroll, so I can’t get to what I assume is the operational part.

Safari on and iPhone 12, running whatever the latest OS is.
It’s the fourth day of the outage. Looking forward to the post-mortem.
I really like this metaphor
JVM Anatomy Quark #22: Safepoint Polls
Funny idea, but crashed for me after a couple interactions.

I listed to a lot of crappy music but the LLM thinks I listen to a lot of Taylor Swift, which I actually don't.
Swedish cities hit by four residential explosions in an hour
Great idea. I was going to make something like this.

Quick webpage faux pas though - on my iPhone I cannot press the button at the bottom, it is off the page

annoying iPhone css issue that often happens because height:100vh will be the height including the navigation at the bottom. I don’t know why Apple made it like this. It is such a pain in the ass.
The “+” aspect mostly works great but has some weird edge cases when other companies don’t accept them. For example, I have a few apple ids using this feature, from moving to different countries. Apple no longer allows new accounts using “+”. My existing accounts work for iCloud, app, store etc but they do not work for logging into Apple support.
My passport has two of my names in both Ukrainian Cyrillic and Latinized form, neither of which is my full legal name per Ukrainian law. My id however has a legal full name in Cyrillic, but not in Latin. To make matters worse, the same set of Cyrillic characters can be represented by different Latin characters and it's somewhat up to me to decide how it's spelled when the document is issued. Since I can have more then one passport at the same time, the names in Latin don't even have to match.

Then I have a residence permit in a different country, where my full legal name is spelled in Latin characters based on what is written in my birth certificate (which you guessed -- is in Cyrillic). So the Latin rendering there is entirely based on what I asked the translator to write there.

In the end, out of three documents I can id myself with, no pair has the same combination of characters for my name.

add:

To make matters even worse, my original birth certificate (not the one I have now) was issued by the soviet union and uses russian cyrillic and the same name there is both spelled and pronounced differently.
I was under the impression a lot of larger sawmills were using leftovers in engineered wood products now. E.g. *DF and OSB
>Then all the shaving, sanding, cutting, drilling, etc. and surprisingly small part of the growing tree ends up as a part of a building.

It doesn't just get tossed in the trash, though. They do all kinds of things with the off-cut.

Some of it will end up getting burned, but even in that case it's displacing other forms of heat source, albeit less efficiently.
Oh replanting is much better than leaving a cut block to nature but a “true forest” in this sense would have an ecosystem - many different plants which support a population of animals etc…

Without that it’s more or less a wheat field in ecological terms it’s just a monoculture of trees which actually don’t draw down much carbon until the forest is mature ~200 years or so whenever there’s enough ecological productivity to bury dead trees before they can fully decay
The only thing I'm aware of is Google's open source silicon program: https://developers.google.com/silicon
Glenn Howerton's performance is so good. Best performance I've seen this year, that's for sure.
This was featured in the early episodes of HBO Newsroom.
There will probably be one in a few months. They're generally pretty thorough. Here's a previous example (pdf): https://www.caa.co.uk/media/r42hircd/nats-system-failure-12-... (93 pages)
Gotcha. I must admit on Linux especially where I just have Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2, Ctrl+3 mapped to virtual desktops, I'm not unhappy on a single screen. I'm just aware that 20 years ago when it started to become more common, it was one of the few completely black and white productivity gains you could get as a programmer (alongside solid state disks). Seems odd if that doesn't hold in general today.
It's been a long time I used Qt but I have good memories of the framework. It supports OpenGL(amongst others)

https://doc.qt.io
You're trolling, right? Discord's sign up pattern is similar enough I've actually made this mistake not once, but twice. I think it's closer to a failure of design than anything else - it's almost never correct to blame user error for things like this.
Thanks! Ill take a look.

Edit: WOW this is exactly what I wanted thanks a ton!
When a forest burns down and regrows, it does so in a much more natural way than if humans just slap down some trees and nothing else and call it a day.
> Now that is off the table as Russia has formally included large part of Ukrainian coast into Russian Federation.

That was off the table in 2014 when they did the exact same thing to Crimea, so theres no real change there, not that it changes the status of any of the territory they still remain areas of Ukraine (like Crimea) they are just temporarily occupied.

> If by independence you mean the ability to persistently ignore your largest, trigger happy neighbour concerns - indeed such independence was likely doomed from the start. That's the "flashing jewelry" part for you.

Independence means the right to choose whatever you want for your alliance. Which Ukraine has the right to do.

> And again, I'm not really talking about personal choices (maybe Ukraine did have to go through Second Independence War like USA did), but about the desirability of such scenario to be copied by other countries.

I think it should be desirable for other countries to be independent and not subjugated by their bigger neighbours.
> You've listened to a shitty song a lot.

I don't know what song it means, the link is broken https://www.yourmusictastesucks.com/google.com
The Pudding already did something like this two years ago:

https://pudding.cool/2021/10/judge-my-music/
UTM has been a solid hypervisor for me for the past 2 years, and it's received several great functionality and feature improvements over that time too.

But perhaps my favourite aspect of UTM is that it stands for Universal Turing Machine (arguably the best name ever for a virtualization product).
Poor quality article. I’d never use the National Observer as a source as they are very biased. The National Observer are a group of well meaning social justice eco warriors that will gladly ignore any facts that don’t support their narrative, because they know they are correct. They do bring attention to otherwise ignored issues.

However, the worst of the forest fires this year were in pristine untouched forests in areas experiencing extreme weather as predicted by scientists. Many were basically impossible to fight.

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/21/1188618934/canada-wildfires-a...

‘Canada is the second-largest country in the world, and almost half of that is forest," Barber said. "A lot of that forest is remote, untouched wilderness, and it's very difficult to manage wildfire in those areas where there is no road access or any of the infrastructure needed to support firefighting activity."’
I use it as a really nice qemu wrapper, and if you treat it as one it’s amazing.
they are obsessed with trying to force there products to be only used roughly like intended

Or else they e.g. probably wouldn't patch out item duplication glitches which are close to impossible to accidentally ran into, or they would allow you to change control a age old basic features missing from Nitendo games instead you can only use controls in the intended (and play tested) ways. Similar they where quite obnoxious when it comes to streaming, reviews or other content containing game-play video for quite a long time. To some degree they still are.

Through for many people it's not just one game I mean Nintendo has quite a bunch of successful exclusive titles, to list some: Zelda, Mario Cart, Smash, various jump and run Mario titles you could split into 3D main titles and 2D complementary titles, Splatoon, Mario Party, Fire Embleme, Xenoblade, Kirby and more. In practice you tend to have at least 10 high quality enjoyable (but expensive) exclusive games. (ignoring Wii-U which flopped and leading to some strange results like Mario Cart 8 being republished with the DLCs pre-included and later a large expansion pass instead of releasing a Mario Cart 9).
Whenever it links me to a 'shitty song' I've apparently listened to, that link just 404s. Also, my favorite artist definitely isn't Taylor Swift, lol.