skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
John Guest has been making what seem to be very nice push-to-connect fittings in the UK for a long time. I’ve only used the US versions, and I’ve never seen one fail. If you avoid putting bending stress on them, they seem quite secure.

John Guest also has some very nice “ProLock” build-your-own-manifold fittings.

For what it’s worth, there are a couple of applications for which plastic or stainless steel are the only credible choices. Carbonated water is dangerous when in contact with copper or brass, and boiler condensate (which is basically carbonated water) will rapidly destroy copper or brass. So your boiler condensate drainage system generally ought to be made entirely of plastic.

I’ve personally had some rather impressive failures of copper pipe due, I think, to aggressive water at excessive velocity. Copper’s ability to resist corrosion is finicky.
… what on Earth are you talking about?
I remember reading that analysis at the time and thinking it was flawed.

What it didn't seem to account for was if you rated someone high enough (I can't remember if it required 4 or 5 stars), OKCupid would notify the person in question that you had done so. If you didn't want these notifications being fired off you had to adjust your ratings accordingly - now 3 stars is the highest rating you are going to give.

I think the stats really just ended up reflecting that men were generally more comfortable having their ratings broadcast than women were.
If it quacks like a duck
“I didn’t like doing it” doesn’t make this any better. It’s just hammering another nail in the coffin of device ownership.
Yeah, or if I were an expanding yet constricted population I would think “instead of contract we will expand, and find an addition” i.e. so many people will need more land.

That’s the normal human response, not “so many people we need to contract and subtract.”
Not using SSH to configure a machine is smart, but saying no SSH at all is not feasible for many things. When something goes wrong, you need to be able to connect to a running machine and poke around, and you don’t know how you will need to poke until you are doing it.
> which recommended that everybody should schedule a checkup with their podiatrist once a year to maintain foot health.

Considering the large numbers of diabetics or pre-diabetics in the USA this isn’t actually a stretch.
This is the Internet content I live for.
Santa Barbara’s wine industry declared war on weed. Pot is winning
I found Restic slower in general, though Kopia is not super fast either when you have many backup sources (in my case I have 30+ separate directories I am backing up; Kopia works amazingly fast per single directory but make them 30+ and it's not as fast because it's basically going through them one by one and it's NOT going through them in one pass, sadly).
Yeah. / An ideal tool IMO would provide searching, skimming, and playback.
> OP specifically wrote the code to help Box with its business.

That was the intent, but not what actually happened.

Is intent to donate code enough to put it within your employment contract, when it's done outside work hours and would otherwise be outside the scope of employment?
Explained just 6 months ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35151667
It's probably not legally his code to license, if his employment agreement is like the vast majority of engineers'.
Nothing crazy, just chat gpt and co pilot.
"director" is probably a reference to Woody Allen quoting Groucho Marx in Annie Hall [1]. It's a great movie btw. Comes highly recommended from Roger Ebert [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejnp589JuL0

[2] https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-annie-hall-19...
> Every time I have to fill a "shopping cart" for a US government data download I die a little.

I've worked in gov/civic tech for 5+ years and, as you're probably aware, there is now a highly lucrative business in centralizing and consequently selling easy access to this data to lobbyists/fortune 500s/nonprofits.

USDS/18f are sort of addressing this, but haven't really made a dent in the market afaik since they're focusing on modernizing specific agencies rather than centralizing everything.
Is it updated in place (open/write), or replaced (rename)?

If it's updated in place, did the web server read the whole thing into a buffer or is it doing read/send in a loop?
Trypanosomas change their protein markers to hide from the immune system. My recollection is this is why you can't create a vaccine for them.
If someone creates a new version so good that vastly outclasses the original version it deserves to make that profit. That's kind of the point. We want more amazing creative works. That's what copyright was for: to encourage the creation of new works.

We've already been robbed of all the amazing creative works that might have been but never were because of excessive copyright restrictions. It's hurting artists and it's hurting our culture.

We want copyright to give authors a chance to profit for a limited time, but it we need it to be much less excessive and restrictive so that new works and new artists can thrive.
Check out Infisical (https://infisical.com)
Then extend product codes until every single individual batch - or even every single individual item - has a unique ID. Store information hierarchically if you have to to save space, but we have the technology today to track every single component of our entire supply chain. The automotive, aerospace, and defense industries already do this. The food industry even has the processes in place, they just only do the bare minimum to execute a recall when the FDA calls them on their shit. Even pet food can pull it off! All we have to do is make manufacturers go that rest of the way.
Surely someone has to ask for it before it's work done "for hire".
That's what I think. I guess that contributors on these sites just pull in
raw MT-generated translations and post them as is,
or do these sites really have human Spanish/Indonesian translators that do actual proofreading? I bet they have none.

Take an example of desdelinux case. The original article (in Spanish) reads:

```
Bueno, como es de esperarse en Gentoo, existen muchas opciones de kernel, les dejo aquí una pequeña lista para que vean mejor a lo que me refiero:

gentoo-sources: Kernel 4.12 con parches especiales para Gentoo Linux.
git-sources: Kernel directamente descargado desde el repositorio Git de Linus.
vanilla-sources: Kernel completo sin ningún tipo de parche.

```

which is translated on the site as:

```
Seperti yang diharapkan di Gentoo, ada banyak opsi kernel, saya tinggalkan daftar kecil di sini agar Anda dapat memahami dengan lebih baik apa yang saya maksud:

sumber gentoo: Kernel 4.12 dengan patch khusus untuk Gentoo Linux.
git-sumber: Kernel langsung diunduh dari gudang Linus Git.
vanilla-sumbersource: Kernel penuh tanpa patch apapun.

```

Notice that linux sources package names (gentoo-sources, git-sources, and vanilla-sources) are translated despite being proper names, which should
not be in this case.

Whereas Google Translate renders the translated passage as:

```
Seperti yang diharapkan di Gentoo, ada banyak opsi kernel, berikut adalah daftar kecilnya sehingga Anda dapat lebih memahami maksud saya:

gentoo-sources: Kernel 4.12 dengan patch khusus untuk Gentoo Linux.
git-sources: Kernel diunduh langsung dari repositori Git Linus.
vanilla-sources: Kernel lengkap tanpa patch apa pun.

```

For more natural and flowing translation, I'd like to write it instead as:

```
Seperti yang diharapkan, ada banyak pilihan kode sumber kernel di Gentoo.
Beberapa diantaranya:

gentoo-sources: Kernel versi 4.12 dengan tambalan spesifik untuk Gentoo.
git-sources: Kernel dengan potret langsung dari repositori Linus.
vanilla-sources: Rilis kernel asli tanpa tambalan apapun.

```

These intricacies above reminds me of biblical translation context. Translation
can be done in either formal equivalence (word-by-word like NASB and ESV) or dynamic equivalence (thought-by-thought as in NIV and NLT). The former seeks to
stay close to original language's wording, but may produce stiff target language
text. The latter tries to convey meaning of original language in more readable
target language text by making use of context interpretation, which if it is
done poorly, can divert actual meaning from the original.

Thanks for the reply.
Io_uring capable? That'd be cool.

"async Io" doesn't mean a ton to me, other than hopefully not blocking. It'd be cool to have a great well integrated terminal file manager that uses high performance io_uring.

That said, I have a hard time figuring out when & where I'd want to use terminal file managers. I like the idea, but the flexibility of the shell is so unparalleled.
If you were to ask me to speculate... I'd suggest this may have something to do with impeding botting (possibly slowing down the massreporting/massflagging of twit/fb/ig pages)

There did used to be users on twitter who'd regularly 'call out' (yes, those types of people) a FB page or IG and it would go down within minutes from what was obviously a ridiculously sized bot attack.

One of the most prolific offenders vanished within minutes after the platform buyout, which was splendid to see.
And you use the “whataboutism” as your main argument for whenever someone isn’t anti-china. The world runs on reciprocity. Whataboutism is built into assumptions. It’s called fairness and it’s an intrinsic human trait.
How big are you? We’ve gotten wayyyyy farther than we expected with simply Google Groups.
I agree that Java definitely strikes a middle ground. It has enough features you can write code in the ways you want (generics, first class functions) but not so many you can create unintelligible messes (implicits).

I generally tend to think of Java is "truly general purpose" because it has enough speed/scalability to implement a database while being generally easy enough for beginners to learn and providing enough scope and structure for building big line of business applications (where only really C# competes). Outside of embedded (excluding smart cards) and the browser mono-language you would be hard pressed to find a field that you can't use JVM to effectively solve a problem.

Java I would still call verbose, it's more verbosity than I tolerated when I was greener but I have come to appreciate a certain amount of ceremony isn't necessarily bad - if it helps to efficiently communicate the intent of the programmer.

I guess what I am trying to say is Java is easy to read, easier even than Go IMO because Go's verbosity is in the wrong places, i.e error handling, loop iteration ceremony, struct construction, etc. while Java's is more inherent to class/application structure which does more to communicate intent.

One thing I did like about Go though from a readability perspective though was their take on visibility. By eliminating the public/private/internal visibility modifiers as seen in JVM code it becomes simple at a glance no matter where you are in the codebase if a method is part of a public API or not just based on it's capitalisation.
I'm personally skeptical of the entire concept of autoimmune disease. I think something else is going on -- something other than the immune system losing its mind and attacking healthy tissue for no real reason.

If autoimmune disease is a flawed concept, then treating it this way could potentially go very bad places.
That sounds like you're prompting an AI there.
The issue is not the linguistic aspect of verb-noun, which does match English, but rather the difficulty of composing the range to act on after you've already started typing the verb. With the verb first, you're in a bit of limbo trying to specify the range. It's much nicer to get your range in order, then act on it.
it may utilize a few techniques as there are subdomains I am aware of that've never been published other than in the zone config on my registrar that are returned from api query
Thanks for sharing; Enron's downfall is fascinating to me (honestly not sure why) and I appreciated this perspective on it.
That reminds me of words like 'piracy' and 'jaywalking' - words coined by industries with vested interests in delegitimizing, demonizing and eventually outlawing perfectly normal practices. There should be a catalog of such words with attribution to the companies that made it. Similarly, there should be similar sinister sounding names for exploitative practices that industries follow - say 'mugging' for price gouging by publishers.
That is fairly overblown, especially post Java 9 (2017).

Generally speaking you just target a minimum version if you want to not distribute the JVM itself but these days most Java software is backend software, most of which is containerized, packaging the runtime with the code itself.
I was hoping to install pymssql from conda-forge to connect to a database server. However, the pymssql-feedstock GitHub repo links to pymssql dot org, which provides the following examples of use:

- Utilized by well-known web and mobile applications including top adult sex dating sites (link to localsexapp dot com), adult entertainment platforms, e-commerce, etc.
- Flexability of the database interface illustrated in the development of the snap fuck (link to freefuckbook dot app) feature applied to free sex hookup apps (freefuckbook dot app) and adult chat platforms operated by FFB Networks.

Did someone prank the developer? Is the package safe to use?
Embracing the Monolith with Inertia.js
I'd say it's more like a delicious lasagna, if anything. Good luck! Always nice to see different ways to do things, especially ones that take on very real front-end bloat. I used to check bundlephobia for every package. I'm playing around with LLM's in the browser now so that ship has sailed.
RAG?
Interesting that Google has no data on the number of users who switch. Meanwhile it argues "competition is just a click away."
> Right, of course. The thousands of people gathered in protest in Kiev were all there at the direction of the U.S. State Department.

Quite a few were - we will probably get a good idea of the numbers ~40 years later unless the President at the time deems otherwise.

Do remember that Yanukovych's election was certified by international monitors. https://www.oscepa.org/en/news-a-media/press-releases/press-...

A significant fraction of Ukraine voted for him - esp from the south and east. Toppling an elected government whose election was deemed valid by a vetted group of international observers is what split Ukraine and finally led to this bloody situation today.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/212663/Election_repor...

And if you think the U.S. was not involved, I am afraid that is a extraordinary act of burying your head in the sand. The U.S. was involved even in the earlier Orange revolution in 2004. At that time, the U.S. media was not as sophisticated as it was later. The Guardian and US papers proudly declared the US combating Russian influence and "protecting democracy" by sponsoring protestors! Ukraine was always a tug of war between U.S. and Russian influence but 2014 coup was what broke the Camel's back.

Remember - Nuland is even on record discussing who should hold the reigns after the coup. She didn't want Klitschko in the central government. Too moderate for her. She wanted the Anti-Russian and far-right guy Arseniy Yatsenyuk in power.

And Lo and Behold - Her Prophecy Was Fulfilled! In an interview with Poroshenko, he admitted that Nuland was in Kiev during the time of the Maidan protests. She traveled 3 times during that period, organizing support and supplies for the "democratic movement" - even going to the extent of giving sandwiches to protestors.
They can’t retire, because the minute they do, their crimes might come out. When in office they have the clout to suppress information.

Applies to politicians world over.
That’s called being a Code Gypsy
Was not expecting to see an Atari game produced in my home town today
There’s a clear distinction, from my understanding, between red and blue states on this and it’s an interesting point to discuss. Why don’t the democrats go further? Is it because so many of the tech companies lean towards their ideology? Why don’t red states punish these mostly California tech companies by imposing strict privacy laws? Etc
> If only we had a good way to test webauthn

Preach, we had to check the source of the official test suite to figure out how to test it.
"set a goal to merge a pull request every day."

This is just another version of making sure your developers are typing.

The most valuable feature I've seen implemented in a real commercial product took months to research and design. Merging a pull request everyday would have been a time consuming distraction.
Are you talking about their black coffee? Or their other sorts of drinks that are often less than 50% actual coffee? Because if anything, the usual complaint about literal coffee at Starbucks from people who like coffee is it tastes too much like coffee, in the sense of being over-roasted and uninteresting. Even their blonde roast is still at best a medium roast at any other modern roaster.
Which is honestly a shame. Even as a budding software engineer I didn't really understand the Microsoft anti-trust case at the time. It's only now that I appreciate the problem and do think it would have been better for everyone, Microsoft included, had they been broken up.
Huawei is a giant. In phones they had bigger marketshare than Apple. Their chips are nearly on par with Qualcomm. It is naive to believe they are banned for security concerns.
Cisco, Apple, Google, Qualcomm
MegaTextures on real Nintendo 64 hardware
That jumped right out at me too. Two levels of IP theft except on the remote chance that both companies allowed OP to open source the code.
You misunderstand. When he wrote the code, which was related to the company's business, the company owned it. Even in California. He couldn't have "intent to donate the code" because he didn't own it in the first place. The fact that he "intended to donate it" demonstrates that it was related to the company's business.

From a practical perspective, even if you think they don't own it, do you have the money to argue that in court if they decide that they do?

IANAL. If you are having issues like this, get legal advice from a lawyer. Not HN.
That you first led with if it was fair or not, then tacked on the law as a penalty for it not being fair (seemingly in your opinion, as you provided no particular specifics).

Which is what you wrote.

As it’s hard to find a company that doesn’t at least attempt tactics like this named in the complaint (or much worse), it seemed to leave the implication clear.

They deserved to have the law applied because you felt it was unfair.
Hell to the yes. I don’t know why these aren’t the top rated comments.
> This is not new, we are still coming out of an Ice Age from a climate perspective, and the historical record bears evidence of a warmer Antartica

> https://phys.org/news/2021-03-fossil-forests-antarctic-ice.h...

I don't know on the downvotes question.
> Publishers and studios would have an incentive to accept every script submitted and purposely ignore it for 20 and then look at them now that they are free

If publishers and studios refuse to ever publish anything for 10 years artists will be free to publish things for themselves and you can bet that they will. I seriously doubt there'll never be a studio or publisher smart enough to pay for a script or book and bring it to the market first though.

Once a property is out there and has a fanbase they'd be total idiots to wait until every last person on earth can churn out media involving that property because for anything remotely popular the moment the 10 years are up the market will be saturated with new versions and remixes of it. They don't want that kind of competition, especially from people outside of the industry. Copyright has been corrupted into the restrictive vice on our culture that it is today in part because of that fear.

If you are a studio or publisher it'd be far better to pay the licensing fee and rake in the massive profits within the 10 year period before everyone is tired of seeing a billion versions of something on offer everywhere and avoid having to spend the kind of money and effort it would take to differentiate your work and pull attention from everything else springing up.
I use Cloudflare for DNS and the only ones it found had LE certs. It's not doing a simple brute-force on common names, I don't think. Otherwise it probably would have found a lot more. Curious about how it works.
Literally today I was in a fireside chat where the speaker told us the IP law department at a previous employer brought in a couple billions in revenue by suing for infringement.
plus ça change...
I’m assuming you own the company. Because if you don’t, you don’t have that right.
I mean, doesn't it say right on the front page?

* Apache Nutch - So they're crawling either some part of the root itself or some other websites to find subdomains. Honestly might help to query CommonCrawl too.

* Calidog's Certstream - As you said, you can look at the CT logs

* OpenAI Embeddings - So I guess it also uses LLM to try to generate ones to test too.

* Proprietary Tools - your guess is as good as mine

Probably a common list of subdomains to test against too.

Seems like multiple techniques to try to squeeze out as much info as possible.
> and assuming you retain rights

It's hard for me to imagine how you could lose rights via copy pasting the code. Making a new release with a new license doesn't invalidate the rights you already had.

Publishing code sounds like a way to prove it already existed, and nothing more.
When did Apple start making it hard to download installers and security updates?

Is there a good reason for this?
Ultra-Orthodox Judaism is not like the American religious practices you mention, where faith is a matter of identity but only expressed on Sundays or whatever. Ultra-Orthodox Judaism is a total way of life, for men especially it determines your daily schedule every day of the week. The Torah study that many men engage in full-time gives them a distinct body of knowledge and perspective that makes them feel part of the same culture as fellow ultra-Orthodox, while the secular world is an alien and potentially hostile place.

That isn’t to say that attrition doesn’t happen. It does. But this group has resisted it more than other faiths.
I would assume so. I tested on one of my private domains that generally isn't linked to anywhere, and it just returned the few domains that I generate Let's Encrypt certs for, plus my nameservers.

Interestingly, I did not receive any DNS queries on my authoritative nameservers during the query, so they don't seem to be doing any active DNS probes.
Which one? All of these are nearly publicly available information or can be directly inferred. Except they are either from Annual Report, Investing Meetings, Court Documents, or actual Geekbench numbers. The problem is people read Macrumours or WCCftech and believe they have informed.
Type Constraints for LLM Output
Exactly, you shouldn't waste your time with Android any more than with iOS at this point (same for banks that only provide 2FA on iOS/Android).

And while for years the alternatives have been almost nonexistent, we do have at least two now : PinePhone and Librem 5.
From the guardian article you cite:

>About 400,000 households depend on the coca crop to get by, but in departments such as Cauca in central Colombia the price for coca base – the first step in the production of cocaine – has almost halved from £0.60 ($0.75) a gram to about £0.35.

As mentioned in this BusinessInsider article, the Columbian government has moved away from targeting growers and is instead targeting labs and exporters. Seems like a simple supply and demand problem that is hitting the small farmers.