skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the scene might as well be proprietary.

That is such hyperbole. I have no formal IT background and I taught myself the Linux command line, Python, and Emacs in the course of a single year after I heard about this new Linux thing that was free to install. This was 2000, and from communities like Slashdot I saw there were plenty of other nerdy young people taking up the CLI and other Linux stuff, just out of curiosity and without any connection with the IT industry.

Sure, none of this software will ever appeal to the broad masses*, but since the 1990s programming has become so much more accessible to the general public, because of both the free-of-charge software and the free-of-charge documentation. Learning to program on earlier platforms could be very expensive.

* Still, I have heard rumors of a corporation in the 1980s where the secretarial staff – middle-aged women with no formal computer-science education – wrote some custom Emacs Lisp and/or Awk. Maybe learning even relatively arcane stuff can be done by anyone if their salary depends on it.
The flagged post didn't put it eloquently but the sentiment is right, and complaining about naming violates HN rules about not complaining about tangential issues. As it is they've at least temporarily ruined the discussion by having the top post be feigned concern about something that's not at all material to the content.
WWII wasn't the united states idea.
GPT4-5 will change the nature of the job: instead of digging thru a pile of smelly code to find the right place to fix something, you'll ask GPT for a list of suggestions, and the top suggestion will be usually correct. However if it generates an arcane script to update your database, you can't trust it and can't verify the script without assistance from an expensive software dev. There is some similarities with lawyers: gpt4 can write a lengthy contract for a few cents, but you still need to pay a lawyer thousands of dollars to verify it.

However, when gpt gets fluent in formal logic, the number of knowledge workers needed to run a business will shrink tenfold at least.
Never heard of it, looks like an early GUI DBMS?
Not really. Look at the New Deal. That makes a ton of sense, but was incredibly political. Also the war on poverty. Complete sense. Super political.

I guess maybe I don't know what you're talking about with common sense becoming politics. Do you have an example?
I tried to an object-oriented program (C#) in a non-OOP language (Go) [video]
Security of out all the domains of computing seems to me like it will be amongst the last fields to be automated away. The lack of precision in AI systems is pretty damning because it only takes ONE mistake to cause a breach.

As others have already mentioned, AI is already extensively used in security operations. I think we will see more and more people replaced by AI who spend their days crawling through logs since it's hard to imagine something AI is better at. This is a domain of security where sheer data crunching can make up for imprecision.

When it comes to things like LLMs and secure application development, AI is happy to suggest code that it got from a stackoverflow thread with massive and glaring security holes. Or code which is not inherently insecure, but assumes the systems it connects to can be trusted, which is a dangerous assumption. It isn't even close to comprehending the broader social, business, and security context of an organisation and achieving a balance of those concerns. It needs an IMMENSE amount of handholding from a true expert to be useful.

By the time AI can replace cybersecurity experts, it will be able to replace human IT and development experts altogether.
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I see a lot of poor people with iPhones, Apple Watches, Earpods and such. These are what you'd call an "affordable luxury" and probably a bargain when you consider you might go through 5 $300 Android devices in the time that you get out of a $1000 iPhone and all that time you are struggling with an Android.

It's kinda like

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/72745-the-reason-that-the-r...

but the psychology is weirder in that rich people know a "luxury" watch costs upwards of $10k so it is quite the trick to convince the hoi polloi that a $500 watch is a luxury device at the same time.

I've noticed also that poor folks are also very aware of expensive wireless plans from Verizon but seem to have little awareness of wired internet plans, free Wi-Fi, etc.
> but when the government invests our money,

Should the government be in such investment business? And is this an investment? Or another bailout of sorts that'll ultimately benefit the shareholders? And upper management?

Half-a-billion is a significant amount of money.
He's talking about Putin's public justification of the war, and how it backfired.

He can't talk about Putin's internal reasons, because he can't know them.
To add on that, there are several competing theories of statutory interpretation in US legal thought. It's a very complex subject. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_interpretation#Sta...
Surely it’s always meant that. It’s just a long pause.

I’d think something like “are you serious…” would be pretty universally understood.
No, it's really not. It's the incredibly naive "oh I just thought about this great idea, how about we just focus on not killing each other" that is just provokingly ignorant.

I mean, there's are multiple related research fields with LOTS of smart people who have worked on this at an academical level for the past 70 years, give or take.
Is "game over" good or bad in this context? Maybe good for job security, bad for career?
Quite a while since I saw a file named a.out !
Sure. But (and what I should have added) I don't think they would need to go back that far.

But you're right, you can get the same results with both.
> From that story is sounds like MacBasic wasn’t a priority at all to Apple

Did you miss the part about Microsoft threatening the hardware line that produced the vast majority of Apple's profits at the time?

It sounds to me more like the priority was not having their profitability decimated.

They killed a Mac native version of Basic that had been completed because Microsoft forced their hand.

>The fact they let MacBasic slip from the launch window is a pretty big red flag,

As mentioned in the article, they needed to wait for the system APIs to stabilize.

> Basic still had a hard time getting traction, especially since the system was evolving rapidly beneath it.
Video description:

> How can you create a class hierarchy in a language that doesn’t have classes? The Go (Golang) language doesn’t have classes and doesn’t do inheritance so when I tried to write an adventure game in Go, it looked as though I wouldn’t be able to get very far.

> I’ve previously written adventure game sin object oriented languages such as Java and C#. In those languages I can create class hierarchies in which one class (say a Room) inherits the features of another class (say Thing) and adds on any new features. Go doesn’t let me do that……or does it?

> In this video, I show how I created a ‘class hierarchy’ in Go even though it doesn’t have classes and so, in principle, it shouldn’t be possible to create a class hierarchy.
> I wouldn't use Go as a good example of naming a language. It worked out because the language had the weight of Google behind it

this is called the no true scotsman fallacy - "I'm still right in XYZ case because XYZ isn't a real instance of ABC (the thing I'm making a claim about)"
They don't run GC, but they subject the extra pointers to GC, whereas good RC languages generally support values. Doing nothing is usually cheaper than doing something.

This is more a Java problem than a GC problem; C# supports values just fine, and some heroic JVM-targetting languages also manage it.
I really enjoyed running a one shot of Thirsty Sword Lesbians.

I guess maybe when I said it was the best introductory, I also included (in my head) the massive online following for 5e, making the meta of gaming a little easier for people with no experience with table tops.
I don't remember people thinking they were cooler or had better taste because they owned an Apple II.

They very much did, just like lots of buyers of different competing consumer products. As to the image, Apple cultivated it almost from the start.

If anything, old Apple required more suspension of disbelief than current Apple - you bought something that was sold to you as a luxury item but wasn't built like one.
http://www.combinedfleet.com/economic.htm does a nice job of outlining how hilariously overmatched the IJN was in terms of naval production. In addition to that, the IJN didn't have an effective pilot training pipeline, so by mid war they were struggling to outfit their air groups for their carriers, and after the Battle of the Philippine Sea, their naval air arm was absolutely broken.
Fried food might be tasty, but it's but going to be the better (for health) alternative. Especially not fatty and cured foods.
Again, just passing around a javascript function doesn't mean it's a shader. Javascript isn't running the GPU and javascript isn't doing any rendering.
It's still in the console, this one is not (yet)
Unless you want to get a beautiful spectrum on a EMI/EMC test receiver, but it's certainly not relevant in this project... Building a discrete CPU at some MHz and passing modern EMI/EMC tests sound like a fun (and somewhat expensive [1]) nerd-snipping project to do.

[1] The expense of EMI/EMC tests at an actual lab is well-known. Doing it in a home lab at a much lower expense is possible with pre-compliance tools like a TEM cell, a broadband antenna and a spectrum analyzer, but these equipment still costs a few thousand dollars.
That information should be available in summarized anonymized form, referenced from the law language.

The judiciary should keep it up-to-date.
Looks nice, but the marketing design ('make it just like Apple') doesn't match the product they're selling. Apple is technology for people afraid of technology, but self hosting is decidedly not for a technologically afraid audience.

How will they pay for maintaining all the apps and making sure that they are properly integrated into the platform as they get updated?
Can we use it to compute taxes ?
It's in the article, but here's a direct link to the video from the person who made it. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zd6WtTUf-30
I completely agree with all of your arguments there. Those would have been far more meaningful than the arguments made by the anti-outdoor-cat argued in this post.

I'm of the same camp. We live in a very rural area, and none of our cats are allowed outside. Primarily, our concern is with the potential for getting hit by a car or killed by a coyote.
No one expects you to view social media all day. That are asking “did you see ___” because they want to tell you about it but first check you haven’t already seen it.
The fully vegan products are actually pretty common here in the UK. They taste fine to me. I wonder if it's something to do with certain products needing a particular texture which is hard to get without eggs.
An https site would be advisable. check out lets encrypt.
This may be a hot take, and one that's very biased, but I think people with bad intentions exist, and when they make a move against the interests of the good, we need to both be prepared to and willing to face that evil. This isn't to say that the US hasn't done countless things in the name of this idea that have been misguided at best, but there has been plenty of good things that have came from being a military superpower, and I truly believe WWII is an example of that. The Nazi military complex was incredibly strong, and without an equally strong response from the allies it's hard to see how we would've prevented them from going onto their larger goal of world domination. I don't think the incredible allied response was a bad thing, despite all of the bad things that happened as a part of that pursuing that interest.

In my opinion, we can't unilaterally invest resources otherwise invested in our military without equally opening ourselves and our allies to opportunistic attack.
Are you interpreting "GC every heap allocation" as "each heap allocation causes an entire cycle of GC"? That's...not what that phrase means.
This is quite a misunderstanding of how the law actually works, probably enhanced by lots of lawyer TV emphasizing obscure wording tricks.

In reality, laws are already written in a relatively normal language, and the words almost always mean exactly what they mean in plain English. The only problem is that the legal concepts they describe are themselves complex, and often they end up in a tangle of references to other laws and regulations and legal precedent etc.
> it's quite rare to die of food poisoning.

I’d go so far as to say it’s virtually unheard of for healthy adults to die of food poisoning from cooked food going bad*. It’s mostly children, the elderly, and the immunocompromised that are at risk. The fast majority of microbes that cause food born illness are really common in our environments and we’ve built up plenty of immunity.

* fecal contamination and other toxins like paralytic shellfish poisoning are another matter
I've greatly enjoyed Agile, personally, though have heard and read about horror stories
Could this be because Apple doesn't run a social media service? On some levels, are their products/ services competing _against_ social media?

Or is this just part of Apple's (and many of its users') elitist and exclusivist mentality: they're better than everyone else, they don't need to interoperate with the rest of the world, and their sharing is reserved for the select.

(Not all Apple users are like that and probably not even the majority anymore, but it _is_ Apple's mentality, it was the dominant mentality among Mac users, and it's still common enough and OMG loudly pronounced enough by current Mac users.)
This is definitely half baked IMO. Not a whole lot of benefits over running TF with Cloud Build and a storage bucket. Definitely have more control and better UX than the weird hoops you jump through to set this up.
Uber was supposed to help traffic. It didn’t. Robotaxis will be even worse
Yes, that was the one :) Next time you are adding a vision tower to your foundational model, feel free to draw upon this legend ;)
Sure, I get that part -- but then how do people use the predictions?
Four Years of Team Topologies: The Good
Hi Hackernews, four years ago to the date, Team Topologies was published. I am taking the opportunity of this date to write about my take on Team Topologies: the good, the (probably) bad, and the ugly. This first post is about the good, which are also the reasons why I chose to implement it at one of the highest quality railway companies on earth. Happy to read your thoughts on this framework!
I owe my whole career to learning BASIC on my Apple IIc as a kid. My first program was an implementation of Mad Libs. I loved playing Lemonade Stand.
There's another kind of chilli oil, pressed from Hungarian spicy paprika/capsicum seeds: https://rubinpaprika.com/magolajok/fuszerpaprika-magolaj-csi...

It has a deeply nutty flavor and the spiciness is a bit sneaky, but it's a great addition to finishing oils.
No, it's not, because I didn't make a universal claim about anything. A No True Scotsman fallacy must follow a overly-broad No Scotsman statement.

All I said is that Go, specifically, is an awkward name that probably shouldn't be used to justify further awkward names.
Ya I love finding sites that are uniquely someone's, not SEO optimized knock-offs. I personally might not find the design appealing, but I appreciate when someone makes their site theirs. Likewise, most will not enjoy my site's design, but it's mine.
Is this page archived yet? I cannot access the page..
I think the best way to discover you want to do something with smart home is seeing someone else do it. Then you can advice this to them and have less fear of becoming "the tech support".
Geographic ‘hot spots’ for cigarette and firearm deaths in the U.S.
Is a single H100 enough?
Is there anything particularly painful about working with the Google Cloud Terraform provider? If there isn't, I would rather use OpenTF with that provider and manage state myself.
The pre-iMac snobbery was when Mac were considered to be the BMW of computers - “it just works”. When the iMac came out the snobbery change when color iMacs showed up on TV shows. The snobbery become more younger, urban and hipster with the iPod.
There are entire genres (hip hop, reggaeton, dancehall, etc.) that have sampling built into their DNA, and are still going strong, even outside the big acts. And they are still sampling, it's far from dead.
> Apple always wanted to be better, more expensive and in a sense more "premium" than the competition, even back in the beginning

I don’t think so. They wanted to be better, but not more expensive. Certainly, a lot of Woz’s hardware was dirt cheap for what it did and sacrificed programmability.

For example, the Apple 2 graphics modes “were peculiar even by the standards of the late 1970s and early 1980s” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_graphics#Peculiarity_...), and Personal Computer World wrote “no-one has colour graphics like this at this sort of price” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II#Reception)

Similarly, WOZ’s disk controller cut corners to be cheap relative to the competition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II#Overview: “The approach taken in the Disk II controller is typical of Wozniak's designs. With a few small-scale logic chips and a cheap PROM (programmable read-only memory), he created a functional floppy disk interface at a fraction of the component cost of standard circuit configurations.”)
Maybe so, but on the way there, 95% of IT personell will have been made redundant long before many manual labor jobs.

Existing manual labor jobs are what’s left after industrialization and robotics, if you think about it. IT is full of low hanging fruit for automation.
Synology boxes do all of that, except e-mail [1], and the web UI is quite decent.

[1] it's quite difficult to run your own e-mail servers these days, making it trusted by the rest of the world is a lot of work
Oh, AWS uses both, does not help much.

It has prices such as 0.000001$ per request (which is evil) and virtual currencies like Load Balancer Capacity Units (LCU).

Circle CI has points too.

Basically, everything so you would not figure out the total price easily.
Can't we fix this once and for all using variable length integers?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable-length_quantity

This way the counter can scale up to any number of bits.
Some people derive joy from doing it this way. You or I may not agree with it, but that doesn’t mean it’s a wrong way to enjoy something.
They have an interesting links page: http://datasciencemanifesto.org/links/

This one seems like a better manifesto actually: https://statisticsblog.com/manifesto/

APIs over Databases links to Martin Fowler's microservices https://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html
It's not a ligature, but you're definitely onto something. I checked again, and all the characters of my name are individual paths, except for the f's. I put a space between the f's, and now they're two separate characters as well. I double an n, no grouping. I put in a double f elsewhere, the grouping happens for those.

It's amazing to me that the PDF ecosystem is this broken after thirty years. I'm boggled that there isn't a commonly-used way to add structured data to a PDF to enable it as a machine-communication standard as well as a human one.

Edit to add: I found a "disable ligatures" option in Pages. Setting that didn't fix the "f" grouping. :-/
This is way more organized than anything I have seen like this before. They have a section on how to host a meeting with before/during/after meeting tips. That definitely gives the impression they've got their act together as a group and are trying to make it easier for newbies.
Look into Willow by Tovera. It's exactly that.
See: climate change, American social security administration, preservation of ancient manuscripts and ruins, etc...

But at least Jeff bezos is putting his fortune into an immortal clock in the desert (I'm being sarcastic but the desert clock is actually real and supposedly a gift to future generations as if measuring time wasn't a problem that stone-age civilizations all over the world were able to solve independently).
Relative to 151 it's "only 24", OP is really not diminishing the significance of that accomplishment, but defining it more clearly.
If you look at the current major offerings like SentinelOne, they start off with a generic best practice baseline, then slowly “learn” the normal traffic on the network to be able to better define the abnormal incidents to the IDS.
I often use semantic scholar (https://www.semanticscholar.org) as my first place to search on new topics.

Once you get the search results up you can then refine and sort by: relevancy, recency as well as “citation count” and “most influential papers”.

The later I find especially useful when exploring a new topic.

They have a login account but to be honest I haven’t really explored what that offers. Anyone have an account and finding that useful?
You make a good point. What occurred to me is that some more
standardised method for coding threat events is needed first. But
that seems tractable given existing CVE taxonomies etc.
I don't have a first-hand account here, but it should work as long as you run Links in graphics mode (but which machine runs Links in graphic mode and not another more enjoyable browser like, say, Netscape?)
Hm... I read the post as a person writing in a difficult situation... you are complaining that is not comfortable to read because of the form ?
Yes I am. Java's GC can stop the world at any safepoint. It isn't limited to when objects are allocated and it doesn't do it every time.
> At the end of the battle they mention that by the end of the war the US was completing multiple carriers per month, and they were just orders of magnitude ahead of every other country when it came to manufacturing power and steel production.

I saw a very interesting video a few years ago [1] - by the end of WW2, tank production figures were:

Russia built 106,000 tanks

America built 102,000 tanks

Germany built 47,000 tanks

Britain built 36,000 tanks

Needless to say, once you know one side had 5x as many tanks, the outcome becomes something of a foregone conclusion....

[1] https://youtu.be/N6xLMUifbxQ?si=Srf6tPVwrre20d2X&t=1702
If you insist. I'm saying I don't have any of the other indicators mentioned -- just the elevated heart rate.
OFS
Deliberateness is not the same as consistency.

You can have well defined standards, that are wildly inconsistent. For example, in python, in file A:

def get(dict, key):
return dict[key]

In file B:

def get(key, dict):
return dict[key]

Imagine working in this codebase!
Web Rendering Proxy – Use historical browsers with the modern web
And that is why platform/devops is safer than the sysadmin. Not only do they help developers create new things, but make it complicated enough that you can't disband their team ... {tongue in cheek, sort of...}
> Xenon [...] an anesthetic when inhaled.

That reminds me of a bit of dialogue from the classic game Deus Ex (2000), where a biotech office-worker is complaining about their job:

> This chemoreceptor patent-proposal is kicking my ass. Hundley won't let me down until it's done. Hardly worth filing for, in my opinion. Who wants to smell the difference between xenon and radon?