skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had to switch off silent mode on iPhone for audio to work. Any chance it’s the same issue for you?
What a throwback. This was one of the few websites on speedcubing available back in 06/07. IIRC there are a few prescient sentences about advancements to cfop which came to life as seriously developed 'research projects' by 13/14 and nowadays fully utilised by the very fastest.

This is one of several competitive methods but it remains the most popular by far. I enjoy them all but the modularity and flexibility of cfop makes it my favourite and my home.

Thanks for the post.
ELKS 0.70 released: Linux for the 8086
Building one the WW2 designs isn't really that hard today, is it? Getting the fission material on the other hand... Just ask Doc Brown, because it is not the 80s anymore were you get Plutonium at pharmacies, ah those days!
I propose that government can sell CIAndroid phones with competitive advantages like low price or "reduce taxes by 10%" app.
This still doesn't really make sense to me. You can't scale an application that relies on a database heavily to this level because your fundamental constraint IS the database. If you are already hitting your max number of connections with a small number of applications there are no benefits to further horizontal scaling. You are just passing the buck around because only a limited number can hit the database at any one time.
Just use a custom user.js, LibreWolf doesn't deliver much beyond a few major tweaks and a logo.
JPerm's youtube tutorial should hey you started.

The OP (old Pochmann) is a super simple method.
Learning 3bld if you can already solve a cube is actually less work then learning to solve the cube at first
Not to mention that there's only so much the layout of ground floors can tell you about social organization of a civilization which isn't described in written records, even if relatively evenly preserved. As in the famous "Motel of the Mysteries" parody, in which an archaeologist of the future discovers the underground remains of a 20th century motel and ascribes probable religious significance to everything from the television to the toilet.

I mean, "lots of houses, all of them quite small and all nearby burials without ceremony" could describe a hierarchy free anarcho-syndicalist utopia. But it could also describe a monastery, a barracks, a ghetto, a town built for subjects of the undiscovered nearby imperial palace or a slave colony, all of which are usually associated with particularly rigid hierarchies. If apartheid era Soweto was buried under a volcano, it would probably look like a settlement organised on relatively egalitarian lines by late twentieth century standards...
I've worked in an environment where they used git-flow, but it was very much a "traditional" (?) software company; they offered long term support, that is, backporting patches to older released versions, that kinda thing.

But they also had long lived branches that lived for like 9 months. It was still manageable because the feature was usually limited to one 'domain', and they usually had only one or two people working on the feature at once.
Amethyst: Tiling window manager for macOS
Tiling window manager for macOS
https://archive.ph/vgeHw
Emoji Generator with AI
They should rewrite it in Rust.

That will make it 1000x cooler and it will be adopted immediately, thus validating the Rust infrastructure in the kernel... 'Cause nothing else is using it.
John Grisham Returns to the Scene of the Crime
These tests happened. Most experts suspect that their success rates were far below claimed outcomes. But the important question is can you put the bomb on a weapon, launch it, and detonate it at the target. I think probably not very successfully. I also suspect they’re not stockpiling these things as claimed.

I also don’t think it matters because they would be pretty dumb to use them. I’m of the mindset that they will most likely simply collapse at some point and the nukes will become unmaintained and useless.
There’s a “Flexport is hiring” on the jobs page from only 19 days ago. Flexport has hit whatever the rate limit is for hiring posts for most of a decade. They should be banned from jobs posting at least temporarily.
Okay so on the Postgres question this mailing list thread is interesting: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/8181205c-69e5-bde7-15e...

I am no expert on Postgres but the thread seems to suggest the default out-of-the-box JIT performance is actually more efficient than a custom vectorized executor that was built for the PoC. That probably rules out any low-hanging optimizations based purely on vectorization for OLTP specifically, but there are undoubtedly many wider ideas that could in principle be adopted to bring OLTP performance in line with a state-of-the-art research database like Umbra (memory-first design, low-latency query compilation, adaptive execution etc.). As usual with databases though, if the cost estimation is off and your query plan sucks, then worrying about fine-tuning the peak performance is ~irrelevant.
I suspect we have some of that already here on HN.
Learning Zig
> All mammals that form groups instinctively form hierarchies

Specifically, Primates species (that's us) very much do so. I've seen texts examining the similarities between Human and Chimpanzees in that regard.
I do a lot of things that don't generate a UAC popup, I find the cases where it appears to be pretty predictable.

Arguably it's a problem that you need it to install almost any piece of software so in principle any malicious software at all can do something evil in the installer. That said Windows does have a reasonable model for people installing software just for themselves that some software actually uses.
When I started taking piano lesions a few years ago, one of the first rules that my teacher established was: "No Moonlight Sonata" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

My guess is that it resembles in a way playing "Smoke on the water" in a guitar shop.
> "Going forward, BMW says it will continue to offer subscription-based services but only for software options, ... which is completely understandable."

Is it completely understandable though? Maybe I'm an old man shouting at clouds, but I remember when the concept of a software subscription was itself seen as an unseemly money-grab.
In the past scolds were attracted to evangelical churches.

Those are no longer in fashion, mostly limited to one day a week, don't pay well or at all.

Now they can excercise their scolding from on high in the administrative layer of colleges and Fortune 500s all week and get paid for it.
Hum... There are plenty of ways to turn that CO into plastics, like the GP wants (but all will require even more energy).
This is cool! How do you plan to make it sustainable? I can’t imagine this being cheap over time unless you have a sponsorship with OpenAI.
> In NYC for example, there's been a large uptick in teen shootings, many adjacent to schools, and a lot of it involves the idiots posting on social media before & after. (emphasis mine)

“Spouting off” is an idiom that can also mean “speaking without a filter” and that’s what OP meant in this case.
Yes working on adding llama2 and AWS bedrock support right now for open source models. But we also want to let users bring their own models - is there a specific model you're looking for?

Who knows longer-term I'd love to help users fine-tune their own models on llama2/gpt-3.5!
The current model is an improvement over previous methods of value distribution which trended nearly exclusively toward warlordism or hereditary monarchism (but I repeat myself).

A model which on the margin (not totally) allows decisions about value allocation to be made by people who generate value seems to follow homeostatic principles which are evolutionarily fitting for a relatively peaceful time.

One may quibble that this equilibrium is largely limited toward English speaking nations and European peninsula, and that even there exist edge cases on the high and low ends. Thats focusing on the empty end of a glass that is generally getting fuller over time.
This is why signing binaries is important.
https://archive.is/cVnZV
Yeah agreed with this.

There is a version of this where SpaceX, through a standard process, refused service for military purposes, as described in their ToS. And there is another version where a single individual unilaterally took a reactive action.

I think these are two very different stories and it's honestly not clear to me from the current reporting which is closer to the reality.
You get 60GB of disk on the Always Free tier, which is pretty decent even if the server is slow.
Beware: you may be using IBM services without knowing it.

Softlayer is for example, owned by IBM
I was working a shift at the coop on Monday and was pleasantly surprised when two women in extravagantly oversized, feathered and sequined outfits came in on their way home from the parade. So yes, I do live in this community.

I don't think anyone denies that there is often crime and violence in Flatbush, Brownsville, Crown Heights, and other neighborhoods around the parade route. In particular, it's a stretch to assume that everyone giving you downvotes "doesn't want to accept reality".

For my part, I wonder about the most effective way to reduce incidences of violence in our community. I know that these are some of the neighborhoods that have systematically been denied investment, perhaps that has a part to play? Also, these neighborhoods have experienced the brunt of overpolicing in our community for quite a long time. Somehow I don't think that the answer is more police. I don't think the answer is normalizing this appalling and illegal move.
It's real, but highly uncommon (that is, every incident will be in the news); compare that to e.g. instances of drunken rages, alcohol poisoning, Korsakoff and drunk drivers which... is still reported on, but a lot of it goes by silently.
On the Golden Balance in Life
The mere existence of a fork doesn’t prove anything one way or another. I can fork Firefox right now and say “It’s Firefox but without the code that the aliens use to abduct people.”

Mozilla gets a some heat from the tech community for their pretty reasonable business model. I’ve seen Firefox be accused of being just about as bad as Chrome when it comes to user privacy and product monetization.

To me that has always felt like a “both sides are the same” argument.

In other words, not all telemetry is created equal.
This is so cool. I'm a huge classical music fan.

I wish you could distinguish between "right" and "left" hand keypresses to control each line separately
Yes, I'm aware that Apple Maps was very different 11 years ago when it launched. While it still has a lesser POI database than Google, I would say in the areas where it has launched its in-house maps (Currently 20% by area, 11% by population - primarily lacking South America, Asia, and Africa)

You'll be happy to know that the Louvre is now marked as closed on Tuesdays, has a 94% positive rating, and its own 3D model

In France, Apple Maps has

- country-wide bike routing (accounts for the size of road, elevation, and prefers bike lanes where present)

- trains and busses (I can't say with certainty that every local bus will be present but the trains are)

- Paris will have detailed bus and bike lane markings directly on the map

I've attached a screenshot of public transit navigation in the greater Paris region:

Apple Maps: https://i.imgur.com/9n61j0F.jpg

Google Maps: https://i.imgur.com/uHHkYVZ.jpg
> Voyager Labs, a surveillance company that has been sued by Meta for using nearly 40,000 fake Facebook accounts to collect data on an estimated 600,000 users.

If interested, this is Meta’s newsroom piece of legal action against Voyager Labs for scraping user data:

https://about.fb.com/news/2023/01/leading-the-fight-against-...
Three of the biggest per capital military spenders are communist countries, and its all sold as 'patriotic duty'. Capitalism is a hope fraud from some, but Communism is hope fraud for all but a few.
I just want to point out that, after "living" with this for 10 minutes, it's totally changed how I read HN. I'm going much more slowly, but spending time on the summary of links that I would never have opened.

Thanks! This is awesome!
https://archive.is/QmIxc
do you have an example or directions?
Human nature is dark and we love ganging up on outgroups. When a socially acceptable way to do so emerges, we go all in and really bad stuff happens. People intentionally or though emergent behavior channel this desire for their own power. That's what's happened in the past and that's what's happening here.
I’m guessing CO2 that didn’t undergo conversion? Or the non-CO2 gases (comprising ~5% of the Martian atmosphere) that made it into the system and thus weren’t affected? Or the CO byproduct that wasn’t expelled separately?

Edit: thinking about the numbers some, I think non-CO2 (Martian!) atmospheric gases is a good guess for the bulk because they’re 5% of the atmosphere and the conversion input is two CO2 for one O2 out, so at the 2:1 ratio with 0.95 of the input converted you end up with 98.96% converted to either O2 or CO, and the rest is whatever else you had mixed in there, if I did the math right. Depending on how the O2 and CO are separated, the non-CO2 gases not affected by the conversion/reaction could plausibly end up all with the O2, all with the CO, or some mix of the two (probably by weight?). Add in a few ppm of CO2 that slipped through the process unconverted and Bob’s your uncle. Maybe.
That was a lot of fun. I know the first movement off by heart so that was fairly easy.

Third movement was much more fun - trying to get some of the timing on that was pretty tricky. Had to alternate between 2 fingers and then throw in the 3rd one for some of the trills.
Just like that North Korean symbol downloader on GitHub, which had a malware downloader hidden in plain sight for nearly a year with no one noticing?
Oh I see! I know that from the Tor browser, didn't realise they all do it that way.
The Area 51 of the East Coast
Honestly, I find that in many cases I would trust an anonymous random Joe more than a company because they can be more mission driven and limited in their ambition than a growth driven tech company. Firefox keeps trying to push advertising while keeping it private, trying to get people to subscribe to a VPN subscription. Google actively undermines adblocking extensions with Manifest v3 and Web Integrity API. Edge tries to monetize your browsing data by trying to randomly sign your browser in your Microsoft account and sync your bookmarks, history, and passwords to their cloud and keep trying to get you to use their chatbot. There are several more examples.
Regardless, parent’s point is that there’s no wall keeping them in.

As an aside, the Spartans famously claimed that they were their wall. But I wonder: Spartan construction was very simple, and they despised those with expertise or a craft (the small class of free noncitizens who along with the helots did all productive work). Maybe the truth is that a project with the scope & complexity of a good city wall was simply beyond them. They couldn’t do it, so they told themselves a sour grapes story about how they never wanted a wall to begin with. Just a hunch but I like it.
If you are running aws lambdas I believe you should be using the RDS proxy product(This is a very similar product though).
This is a fundamental change in a core value of western academia. For the entire history of academia in the US, open-mindedness and fostering debate has been central.
Technically the threat of/capability of violence has been sufficient, at least sometimes.
I went back to the beginning of the book and am a few chapters in. It's interesting to read in that I'd say about half of what I've read so far is either prescient (author had some incredible insight) or extremely reflective of 90s prejudice (lots of stereotypes about nerds and asians).
It wouldn't. HN lives in a SW bubble where Foss is the solution to everything , but fails to see that capital is the main barrier in the semi industry and, unlike their Node library, the secret sauce of cutting edge chips is a matter of national security at this point and will be kept as close to the chest as possible.
> getting someone else's computer to accept a rogue root CA is a big deal

IMO not necessarily. See this part of what I said:

> telling their users to trust a certificate signed by them, without properly explaining the consequences of that. And a lot of novice users would likely use that proxy service. Gleefully unaware that even the “encrypted” traffic is completely visible to the proxy.

But in addition to that, note that where I was using the word “only” was specifically in the part of my comment where I was talking about how I set up Squid for myself using my own Raspberry Pi and my own personal computer.
You always use the same method. Some people experiment with being method neutral but the consensus is that's not worth the effort. Given finite amount of time for practice is better to master one method rather than two. And even if you could master more methods is not clear that given 15s inspection spending time for method choice is a good thing.

However you can use different methods in different events (e.g. for one handed).

And the notable exception is 2x2x2 where if you want to be the top competitor you basically have to learn all the methods. During the competition you search mamy solutions and pick up one you can execute fastest.
Brings to mind the recent overview that Ars Technica did of their infrastructure stack: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/07/ars-o...

Approx. 12 different AWS services and 30+ instances...
Not sure if you all read the article, but the controversy IS NOT about people confessing to crimes on Facebook. It is people who might have friends (who they dont have befriended on Facebook) and thus might be guilty by association and suddenly all the mights turn into a Dossier of a potential criminal. Some magic black box decides if you did crimes or not.
because VCs don’t back them unless they do something that is hot right now and VCs all invest in the same stuff.
I don't understand why ANY determination has to be made about "social elite" or ... "non-social elite" matters.

The fact that construction and some planning took place seems to just be evidence that some planning and construction took place.
RFC 3986 provides a generic URI grammar that is not scheme-specific, though other standards that define URL schemes may choose to subset the subset that grammar as they see fit. If a URL parser does not recognize a scheme, I would expect it to parse the URL using the generic parsing procedure.
There is a huge difference between the “best viewed in Chrome” I was replying to there, and “simply won't work without Google services” that you are now asking about.

My personal answer to the goalposts in this new position: If a site refuses to work without a Google account, or if Google Ads are blocked, or without some other Google service, they are simply making it clear that I am not the target audience for their broken creation and I should mosey on elsewhere. Much like sites that refuse to work because my stalker blocking measures at home block their adverts (accidentally or, more likely, because those ads are from source that is trying to stalk me across the Internet).

As I said above: this attitude might not be practical for all, or for some all of the time. But it hasn't done me any harm thus far.
Amazing work. This is a real treasure. Thank you.
Pretty much against what the mission of universities is. With that position he might need to become a pastor, but certainly not head an institution like a university.
you can only raise money if you know people
https://archive.ph/E5fiE
Meh, if you've been following their day to day business, mainframes are just one part.

IBM now is primarily a big IT consulting business (think Java, not zOS), one of those semi garbage shops like HP Consulting, Oracle Consulting, TCS, etc.

They're a 2nd or 3rd tier company as far as job quality and compensation is concerned.

I wouldn't worry about them, these companies will probably outlive the both of us.
> In NYC for example, there's been a large uptick in teen shootings, many adjacent to schools, and a lot of it involves the idiots posting on social media before & after.

Do you have a citation for this that doesn't just parrot an NYPD source?
The firm was also creating fake profiles on FB. It isnt clear if "what you say" even came from you!
How would you rate it? How does it affect your productivity? Collaboration, any influence? :)
"4nm" I hate that they diluted a perfectly fine naming scheme because of fucking marketing.
Some modular synth producers I've seen like venetian snares use renoise to pull it all together [1]

Aphex has had some things to say about it too although for 'vordhosbn' at least it sounds like he's been more happy with a program I never heard of until now called Playerpro [2] [3]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBaKOcuNTYs

[1] https://imgur.com/a/eofh5

[3] https://forum.renoise.com/t/anyone-who-likes-aphex-twin-and-...
Elites to poors - See! Without us you wouldn't have the pyramids!

Poors - WTF do I want a pyramid for?
Technical companies tend to be more modestly valued than consumer oriented companies.
Why? Maybe part of it is because of the inflation of tech stocks. Maybe because if you are providing a new service or product for a highly technical market, the total possible market capture and subsequent payout for venture capitalists is much more easy to calculate. Maybe because scale is limited. Maybe because the pace of adoption will be slower.
I’ve read it, and I agree with you 100%. Open sourcing won’t don’t anything with an ASML machine costs $300,000,000.

Open sourcing software works because some many people already have the hardware (a computer)
This whole thread is very off topic for HN so I shouldn't even engage, but this comment just seems so bizarre that I feel weird not responding: The current leader of Russia is Vladimir Putin, who certainly can be described as an ex-Soviet, having begun his career working for the Soviet intelligence service. His inner circle mostly share that same background.

Am I missing your point?
That sign example is exactly what the film industry does to notify people of filming activity inside an establishment. It’s perfectly reasonable.

Using the example of sexual assault just makes the issue look more extreme than it is.

You might as well say “By entering this building you consent to be murdered,” but we all know that’s taking the slippery slope too far.

Usage statistics and bug telemetry isn’t the same as getting groped. Homebrew is up front about exactly what is collected: https://docs.brew.sh/Analytics
The fix for that would be to invest serious amounts of money into replication - a problem known at least since the early 2010s [1].

The problem is, replication is expensive, thankless and most importantly rewardless busywork, so it's mostly limited to cases where a successful replication itself promises value like in the LK-99 "superconductor" craze.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
Japan at this point has so much plastic for everything it's crazy. I know the residents "recycle" it (burn it) but it's still amazing to see everything individually wrapped multiple times, or things that don't need wrapped, wrapped again.
For the love of all that is good, profile it.