skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point of https everywhere isn't just to protect e-commerce or passwords or other potentially private-only information is the concept that everything that you do should remain a private conversation between you and the end host. Because there is a massive amount of eavesdropping and tampering of pages by service providers that happen a lot more than people realize and it's done totally transparently. So even for a site like HN if you want it to be read only are you sure that what you're reading is what was actually published?

Backwards compatibility does not extend in perpetuity. It's also not reasonable to think that it should extend in perpetuity and that everyone else should be held back because you refuse to upgrade. As a website operator I would want to have a reasonable assurances that what I am transmitting is what will be received on the other side without being tampered or intercepted regardless of how private the communication may be.
Why do you love edn? Specifically I also like edn, but I always felt like my use of it was glorified json.

I did like integrant, at least I felt like I understood it, unlike component.

There were two things about edn that made it seem better than json to me, tagged elements (and readers), and symbols. I don't remember exactly my use case but I used symbols in edn to something like namespace-resolution for multimethods. It was something like including a file in a classpath or loading a file, dev vs prod kind of config.
Build with Me: Using SvelteKit to Create a Blog with Markdown Posts
Daily reader of Meduza here. They publish consistent and high quality coverage both about headline events in the war as well as odd ramifications of it in Russia and Ukraine. And it doesn’t have the annoying US-centrism of Ukraine coverage that you get elsewhere.
If growth (ie the first derivative) is flat (which means a steady rate of increase) then an increase of cases does not mean an increase in rate.
To pick an extreme example, should you steal something that's lying out in the open in a dodgy area because someone else will if you don't? Some things you do for yourself, and an action isn't required to have an effect for it to be moral.
I’m working on adding missing data support for strings as part of adding a UTF-8 variable-width string type to NumPy. Not a general solution but should help with a lot of use-cases. https://numpy.org/neps/nep-0055-string_dtype.html
Minus the ones the screened out?

Homeless is such a broad term. It includes people that most people don’t even know exist.

When people say homeless they are referring to the visible ones on the street.

Most studies and statistics like to use the ones who are homeless on paper. They are the ones who don’t have place to live other than publicly provided facilities. There are entire apartments of people you would otherwise not know are “homeless”, simply because they are not the one paying for their own room and board.

We need a new term. Something to call the people that when somebody says homeless, we invasion in our head.

Homeless is to broad. Nobody thinks you are differently because you got kicked out of your apartment or lost a job and fell behind on mortgage.

In the other hand. The people clogging intersections. Spitting on others, taking shots in public, doing drugs and fuxking on the street, nobody thinks and no study shows 7500 would do anything other than make it worse. Ans that is why this study excluded these people from the study.
Base 10 is sufficient. Any base 2 number can be represented exactly in base 10. If you need rational numbers, you need something other than floating point.
>This is installed by adding a shady repository to your apt sources.list...

In the article they show a video which shows the user downloading FDM from the official website, and the file coming from that repo.
Do people even have to know? I’d anyway these days distribute via itch or steam
Lithium tech developers eye ways to boost water recycling
The Mexican government have released footage of 2 aliens
I'm not sure what to make of this. The Mexican government have released footage of 2 aliens that they have found in a mine. Carbon dating puts it a ~1000 years ago. They've done DNA analysis as well (and released the results).

Here's where they are x-ray it: https://twitter.com/Truthpole/status/1701920162700759144
In the trinocular port, there's an eyepiece, which I forget the magnification of afraid. And to that port I added this - https://www.alanwood.net/olympus/photomicro-adapter-l.html and then used an OM to EF mount converter, which the Canon camera directly attached to.

I've since bought a microscope imager, that provides an output over USB. But I think I need to remove the OM converter, and get a shorter adapter to successfully attach to the microscope C-Mount.
What's really missing is one (or multiple) open source "bring your own engine and asset pipeline" editor tool(s).

Game editors have pretty much all arrived at the Unity scene model and editor workflow (game object outliner to the left, scene view in the middle, property panel on the right, asset browser at the bottom, plus floating panels for things like animations, material definitions, game specific data, or anything else really - everything needs to be extensible through scripting).

The Unity Editor and asset pipeline is hackable enough to use it as editor for another engine, I did that in the past as "proof of concept" and it definitely works, but is most likely a legal minefield.

Blender is also definitely hackable enough to serve that role (see: https://armory3d.org/) (again I did something similar in the past with Maya, it kinda works, but this wasn't very popular with artists because they were overwhelmed by the unfamiliar and complex Maya UI).

PS: the Defold examples page is actually really cool, with realtime examples running in the browser:

https://defold.com/examples/animation/spine/
Truth be told - we’re looking at ditching them but with banking, home, and auto we are likely stuck with them for the fact of inertia.

Our mortgage was immediately sold to another firm, so there’s no nicety on the part of having a consistent firm there. The process was painful, our processor was impossible to get in touch with, often a 48 hour lag for a reply.

Shortly before moving I was side-swiped by a man suffering a medical incident (diabetic coma after a blood draw) while at a red light. Our premium increased due to “driver history” a month later.

I’ve previously worked directly with USAA staff for due diligence when selling software / services to their firm and they are absolutely on the ball on that front. However, their actual software as an end-user is a hassle, e.g. password rules and UX that look about 25 years old at this point and suggest some languishing old mainframe.

Sweet, sweet inertia…
Gift cards in general are a scam, I never understood why giving money is a problem.
Seems that the NSO business model is based on ultra exclusivity and a very small number of business clients. Technically, Pegasus could probably retransmit itself to infect another device, but it doesn't fit their business model so I doubt NSO would do this regularly.
An asshole NYC driver can kill a pedestrian with ease too. Do you feel unsafe walking on the sidewalk or crossing at intersections?

Why is that? Could it be because of good grade separated pedestrian infrastructure and cultural norms that protect pedestrians?
Ask HN: What's a Senior Software Craftsperson to Do?
I've been in the industry almost 30yrs. I'm a polyglot and pick up new stuff pretty fast because it's about understanding more than diving deep and memorizing.

In May, I was let go without warning and without reason (not a downsizing, they had just hired half a dozen people and still had open reqs.) I've been on the job market since and still haven't had an offer.

While I continue the search, I've built and deployed some pet projects (nothing I can turn into a business) and gained a bit of experience in some new things like game dev (Godot, Unity ... even Play Date.) I'm double apping with Door Dash and Uber Eats to keep some cash flowing, but it's not tenable long term.

Maybe I just don't know what the market wants. I'm fluid and flexible, I can build systems that are long-term stable and maintainable, I can get to know that bespoke stack in short order. What should I be doing to land some work?
Rails 7.1 Beta 1: Dockerfiles, BYO Authentication, More Async Queries, and More
>> Writing is the single most important skill that will help level up your career.

>> - My Father

I am Liam's dad, and he surprised me with a link to his first blog post last night. So, what do you think of his writing? (It's so cool when your kids follow in your footsteps, right?)
... long term it is Chinese and Indian manufacturers who are making affordable electrics, not Tesla and other Western carmakers who absolutely refuse.
Another cycle? I've seen it so many times. Designers and front end devs need to do something so they refresh the UI every few years to justify their existence. Thanks to SaaS we now have no choice if/when we upgrade.
GPT-2, GPT-J, XLNET, BERT, Longformers and T5 were all freely available before Stable Diffusion was even a press release.
I don't disagree, but two reasons we don't see them (yet):

(1) much harder to launch as some amorphous vertical AI - like, what would a 'Transportation AI' look like? Versus targeting a specific workflow within it - "AI copilot for truck drivers".

(2) The large incumbent software platforms that already are powering the day-to-day workflows are THE companies to implement AI first and most accessibly. So the likely winner of the vertical AI race is whatever incumbent platform is already in the highest % of companies or powering the highest % of workflows.
Same predictable comment every time, and by the same exact people too. The first part is not even close to being true. And you never mention that the downsides of AI are astronomically larger than Web3. The downside of Web3 is bugs in immutable smart contracts where people lose only what they voluntarily put in. The downside of AI is human extinction and people losing in all kinds of ways regardless of whether they want to or not.
The new iPhone Pro does support 4k HDR output via DP/HDMI from the USB C port this generation... but I can't help but feel the iOS environment is just too awkward to make this really take off. Maybe they really did all this for the Vision line and this is just a first step.
In some countries cell phones became ubiquitous even earlier, like in Japan where they started taking off in the 90s (~1 million phones by 1991, 10 million by 1995, 50 million by 1999).
> This can be proven false by contradiction: it may be possible to _know_ that one of our problems has no solution.

This claim requires a bit more explanation, not sure if possible. Can you elaborate, or use an example?
I had an old hacky community program basically ruin my Windows install so I agree, it was a BLP viewer it automatically added previews on windows explorer, but if yo u removed a file while previewing a blp it'd crash your explorer and all your open tabs would close, really annoying.
Makes sense to me, although if you're using it professionally as an individual, then I would also seriously consider a last-gen A6000 (about $4K) - despite advances in quants, I'd say 48GB is a better minimum bar atm especially if you want to use long context, run multiple model types, do local fine tuning, etc.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37496741
Similar - I found many good new things. I like the discovery playlists, even with the tracks I don't like. If they never missed, how could they ever suggest something actually different and exciting? It's "discover" not "average of what you already like".
Pictor telescope: A free-to-use Radio Telescope
You're brave, putting "ActiveX" and "fun" in the same sentence.

Wine Gecko supports ActiveX, supposedly, so if someone implements all the common ActiveX components, that could be a cross-platform method of running HTAs outside of Windows.

That said, I'm afraid the Electron API is the closest thing we have to a cross platform HTML application these days. On Manjaro, several packages are already implemented by installing Electron next to the application specific code, so that would be the closest thing to a modern HTA alternative that I know of.

PWAs work fine if you don't need integration with the system itself other than file prompts, for chat apps for example. They're not really alternatives to HTAs to be honest.

It should be noted that HTAs are a common way to infect computers (because they're executables that aren't usually recognised as such) and they're disabled in many security conscious environments.
Bot farms is wildly different than money laundering.
I spotted the video on Twitter earlier this morning. Is it really "the Mexican government" or just made to appear that way?
Right. You should generally never install a proprietary software package provided by the vendor in RPM, DEB, or similar. What keeps the use of those hooks safe is purely social convention and review internal to the Linux distribution, and vendors routinely use those hooks to do unacceptable things.

If you must install proprietary software on your Linux system, either package it yourself or use something like Flatpak or Snap (or even AppImage).

Hopefully in the future vendors will increasingly move to providing well-sandboxed Flatpak packages by default.
I agree that individual votes by and large don’t matter, but when public policy makes it harder for an entire class of people to vote, that does matter, especially when there’s a correlation between the class of people and policy preferences.
Thank you for the 10th grade math lesson, I've edited my previous comment.
Sounds like just typical OCD. Some people have to line up their notepaper and pen perfectly parallel on the desk before they're mentally able to continue past that point.
Do people think the Koch brothers are geniuses? How about Dwayne Johnson?
From what I was able to read previously, it has no ability to spread by itself and has to be installed by a targeted attack. There is also a tool from Amnesty International that can detect it (or was able to): https://github.com/mvt-project/mvt

It is a race though, so past info may no longer be valid. However, I doubt it will ever be able to spread by itself, since it uses very expensive zero days to infect and they will be quickly fixed after detection.
A lot of formats are Hjson compatible, notably JSON, and also what users wrote thinking it was JSON but they forgot some quotes or had a trailing comma so the JSON parser refuses it while the Hjson one is perfectly happy.
What you are talking about is a Charge card, but in Europe you can get a Revolving credit[1] card as well but I would say they are not as common as in US.

On the Charge "credit" card you don't pay interest unless you go into overdraft at the end of the payment day for the month.

With the revolving credit you pay the balance on your own terms but you pay the interest rate for it until closed.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/revolvingcredit.asp
some more information available here: https://bcachefs.org/

and here as well: https://www.patreon.com/bcachefs/about
Being pedantic, you can delete open files on Windows if you open them with FILE_SHARE_DELETE.
Haha, well fair enough the crash is bad indeed, good point! This isn't intended behavior though and presumably, it doesn't crash on in cases of this technique being implemented in uninstallers. (a bit of a guess i admit!)
I agree, I quite like https://dhall-lang.org/ for that reason. It strikes a good balance between features and being a config language.
Dolby wouldn't appreciate it.
It's startling how much transportation has already been optimized, and agriculture + AI is a natural pairing, but John Deere isn't a startup in the traditional sense. They've said they will have fully autonomous fleets by 2030.
They're calculating CO2 reduction based on 10kg of clothing, and you can rent for 2 weeks.

Who brings 10kg of clothing for a 2-week trip? This doesn't include shoes.

So it's 10kg of tops and bottoms for a 2-week trip.
I use the word "folks" a lot because it's a gender-neutral informal plural. Historically it would have been "come on guys", but that's not how we talk anymore. There's no attempt to pretend that as software engineer in California that I'm somehow from the Midwest (though my family is in fact from Iowa).

And the modern money system is extremely complicated, and doing a 5 megabyte TED talk on why fiat currency is actually a really good system as long as it's run by well-intentioned people seems out of scope for an HN comment.

I'll politely ask you to rephrase your objections in a substantive way? If I'm peddling "vile trash" I'd like to fix that, but your comment isn't particularly actionable on that.
"Perfect config language" is too high a standard.

JSON could be much better, and good enough for far more purposes, with the top 3 tweaks there.
Most of my apps in my daily driver Mac were installed this way.

Notable exceptions: Microsoft office, Google Drive.
I'll never understand why both the Purism and Pine folks don't focus heavily on making one or two _really good products_ and instead try to make a bunch of stuff.

Purism has:

- Liberty Phone

- Librem 5

- Librem 11

- Librem 14

- Librem Mini

- Librem Server

- Librem Key

Pine64 has a more severe case of ADHD:

- A bunch of SBCs: Pine A64, A64 LTS, Rock64, RockPro64, Pine H64, Quartz64 A and B

- Pinebook, Pinebook Pro

- Pinephone, Pinephone Pro, Pine Note, Pine Tab

- PineTime,

- SOEDGE, SOPINE compute modules

- IP Cam

- Soldering Iron

- A powersupply

- Pinenut

I have bought several Pine devices (A64, RockPro, Pinebook, Pinephone) none have really been _great_ though. I've not hear a lot of good things about Purism hardware either.
for good typing you really need buttons. the issue keeps getting danced around, but ultimately I think where you want to end up is where you have a device like a twiddler on one hand that somehow is easily retractable out of the way.

or, you have a pocketable keyboard like the (failed to launch) textblade.

foldable bluetooth keyboards come close but they need to be able to fold smaller.
For non Amazon books, check out bookshop.org if it's in your country yet, they're created to provide an alternative to Amazon for brick & mortar independent retailers. They basically manage inventory & shipping for them and you can direct part of your sale to a specific shop or let be shared among all members.
Pg_partman vs. Hypertables for Postgres Partitioning
Combined flywheel and homopolar generator — a smaller version of the device Oliphant built at the ANU.
I hope they don’t decide to make their own engine for Rust 2.

If they need custom stuff, build it for Godot instead.

If Godot can become the Blender of game engines, game developers will be in a much better place.
Yeah, Unity games seem to famously not run well, and many gamers I know are turned off by hearing a game was made with it. I think we'll see Godot rise in popularity as well.
The new Phoenix, a 3rd generation self-custodial Lightning wallet
So, something I've really wanted to do, but don't have the chops for is this:

Make a small dongle that plugs into an ethernet jack and sets up an wifi access point that is run over a VPN. e.g. I could give one to my friend and any device they connect would connect to my VPN.

a) Is that possible?

b) Would that get around Nintendo Switch NAT issues?

The last time this chip came up I got the idea, but I'm not sure how doable it is.

Edit: I forgot that a stretch goal would be to change the setup. You could have the VoCore connect to a wifi network, and then plug the USB side into a device (nintendo switch doc or computer) to emulate a USB ethernet adapter, but of course send the traffic over wifi through the VPN.
Just so I'm clear then.

If I want to launder 100$ using this scheme.

I setup a Spotify Account, to stream my 'Music'.

Then I hire some bot farm to listen to my 'Music'.

Then Spotify pays me the ad-revenue since so many people are listening to my music?

So if I can hire the bot farm (and whatever other overhead expenses are needed), I just need to get $50 from ad-revenue to justify spending $100 on bots?

It seems like the bots would cost more? If bots are this cheap, I'd think more people would use them just to pump their numbers.
I often use Amazon to search & then just search the brand online, often you can but direct from them
To be fair to JSON, this is why there are no config formats that are good enough for everyone. They either try to meet all of these requirements and people complain they're too complex, or they choose a subset of the requirements and only satisfy a subset of people.
What mental burden? I punch my destination into my nav and it tells me if & when & where I need to charge.
I was hoping someone here would know more details.
Once you move past comparing hashes against known malware (by definition useless against novel malware), and the slightly more complex matching of specific binary strings, detecting malware with "shitty heuristics" is basically all we've got.

Companies that buy AV/EDR products expect them to detect unwanted behaviour while allowing any sort of weird, hacky, abuses of the system that they rely upon for their business.

It's never been entirely clear to me why windows provides such a rich interface for one process to inject and start executing code in the address space of another but IMHO I want to know when this is happening even when it's done by a "legitimate" uninstaller.
It kinda always baffled me that MySQL always had better (free) GUIs (MySQL WorkBench) while what was in my opinion (and nowadays I think most others) didnt have any good ones

There were always some commercial GUIs for PGSQL, but the free or opensource ones were very bad

PgAdmin is very bad in my opinion, functional, but .. i guess i never really liked that it was web based, it felt slow and clunky and the aesthetics were off

Now Azure Data Studio have a PG Plugin, I didnt try it yet, but I used Azure Data Studio for MS SQL, and I am starting to like it a lot, I do hope Azure Data Studio continue to support many more DBMSes and hope that it get more adoption and support for PGSQL and from the PGSQL community

EDIT

One more thing I want to mention, Azure Data Stuido, have a feature that currently only support MS SQL, its the database project

In a DB Project on ADS (Azure Data Studio), you work on your DB declaratively , i.e. you work on a SQL script that describe your table or other objects (A Create Statement) and the Poject tooling auto generation to alt and deployment scripts by comparing changes vs target , you can deploy directly from ADS or generate a dakpac to be executed as part of your CI/CD

Also since all you code is simple .sql file you can easily use source control

All other tools mentioned below have nothing that come close, not even DataGrip from Jetbrain

I do hope that MS will add support for other DBs to their Database Project feature in ADS, its an amazing feature, and the only way one should work on a DB
Many US airports are at least on newer light rail systems. NYC is probably not uniquely bad but it is worse than a lot of cities in terms of transit accesas from the airports to Manhattan.