skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I said it in another post and it got downvoted but the fact is democracy just simply does not exist. This political apathy from the masses is the outcome of people being slowly ground down over the past decade+ and is intentional.

Whether it is by carefully curated news articles aimed at pushing a specific agenda via complex algorithms, or just the complete omission of important current events (London Riots, anyone?) we have all been getting moulded into apathetic sacks of flesh and bone, spending the majority of our lives accruing tax bills to pay the salaries of those whom avoid tax altogether.[0][1]

We have allowed ourselves to get into a situation where a paedophilic monarch walks freely and part-takes in elaborate, televised, celebrations while those whom call him a paedo end up being arrested.[2]

We are in a situation where our most vital services are underfunded, their staff are grossly underpaid/overworked and our government have the audacity to tell people to go outside on a Thursday night and make some noise for them. All the while refusing to pay them what they are worth.[3][4]

We are in a situation where a young girl gets kidnapped, raped and killed by a police officer which then leads to protestors being arrested[5]

How can the 'will of the people' be enacted when 'the people' are constantly lied to and manipulated?

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/09/rishi-sunak...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-64360260

[2] https://www.insider.com/heckler-arrested-after-calling-princ...

[3] https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/information-for-the-pub...

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/28/clap-for-our...

[5] https://theconversation.com/sarah-everard-vigil-shows-the-ur...
> To accomplish this in a similar way in the GUI, I think you need to design a toolkit that intentionally constrains the rendering target and input mechanisms that the GUIs can take advantage of.

I like to think that software developers are very smart people, and only need a little nudge to steer in the right direction. If all you have is PutRune(x,y,r) and intentionally omit PutPixel(x,y,p), you'll indeed just make a worse terminal emulator.

Any decent UI toolkit focuses on a high-level description of the user interface (that's how you get a11y, basic keyboard navigation, etc almost for free), and only provides the low-level operations as escape hatches. This has to be the default route, even for complex or highly customized interfaces (spreadsheet, DAW, etc).

I think our nudge could be direct support for terminals as a fallback rendering backend. Best of both worlds: you get a well-behaved GUI app, that you can also use over a serial console (with gradual loss of functionality) if things get dire.
Ask HN: Has Gmail dropped BIMI / verified checkmarks?
Investigating some deliverability issues and went down the BIMI rabbit hole to see if it would help. And then I realised that I couldn't see any blue tick marks anywhere in Gmail? Or my personal hotmail account. Has it been quietly dropped?
It's pretty active, actually. Look at the release notes for FreeBSD major versions. Some folks think the release engineering team is too active and that major versions should be supported for more than ~5 years.
> Where does that local water come from? Rain

There’s an equilibrium that’s achieved in a given watershed with local weather patterns. There might be ebbs or flows over the course of a year, but it’s reliable and predictable, and can be used sustainably.

If local weather patterns change and there’s a significant strain on a watershed, the water table will drain to a level that’s not recoverable within a human lifespan.
I’m in the 10% and I think if we were required to go more carbon-neutral, there would be businesses to service that need economically at our income.

Carbon recapture businesses are already available and the costs are already down to the point where someone earning $50k or so can comfortably buy some offsets, just not their complete offset. That will come, I believe.

I’d be happy with an outcome where we are more regulated, and I think climate change needs to be solved, and the top 10% is most capable.

There’s no class warfare here. Just facts. The top 10%, myself and many readers of HN inclusive, can move the needle more than most.
So, one of my favourite stories is Witggenstein's Phd viva. He submitted the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus as his PhD thesis.

Apparently on the way into his viva he said to Bertrand Russel "Don't worry, I know you'll never understand it.".[0] He passed with flying colours.

(Note: I tried to google and didn't find a primary source, but post saying the same thing I remembered, so possible citation needed here)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33910633
For OpenBSD on a server in particular, many useful tools (web server, mail server, pf...) are developed by the same team and better integrated in the base system. This means consistent documentation, behavior and syntax (e.g. for configuration).

In contrast, Linux distributions are a collection of software taken from different sources, with all the quirks that may derive from this.

(I don't want to imply that the BSDs have only advantages over Linux and not the other way round, but the OP asked specifically why _BSD over Linux_).
I've been using Organic Maps more lately and quite like it!

However, one thing I don't understand is why they don't make the history show the things you actually routed to alongside the things you searched for? Sometimes you search and have to scroll a bit to see the actual result or you searched multiple times and it's a little confusing which one to click if you don't remember what worked.

I guess I'll dig around github and see if I can find an answer.
Json is simple, but the common idiom is to read it al at once into memory and forget the difficult stuff (which encoding is this json in anyway). Then don't do the other difficult stuff (is this a string or a date type)... so it's faster (maybe) to parse but it doesn't scale for large datasets and your application will need additional deserialization logic. A broad sweeping performance statement like this is just spreading fud.
It was an internal tool for my employer, although I would have loved to make it open source.

Anyways sure. We can talk.
And statistically, considering how easy wood decomposes, the fact that we find one means there was probably a lot of worked wood.
A lot of these operations have a full fledged office and everything. Unsure whether it's corruption or incompetence or both that prevents them from shutting them down and arresting everyone involved.
> Im not learning science when I learn about evolution; rather Im learning a theory, very likely to be true, that is almost impossible to put under scrutiny using the scientific method.

the very definition of a "theory" in the scientific sense of the word (e.g. "theory of evolution") includes the ability to test it using the scientific method.

the wikipedia page goes into great detail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_theory

and this is a good brief explanation: https://web.archive.org/web/20170709065046/http://science.ke...
And Scaleway.
(I have no experience using Kubernetes on Scaleway, I use their Elastic Metal, Managed DNS and some other smaller offerings)
Health risks of travel in post-modern Britain.

A nation awash with sewage and corrupt leaders leading to episodes of ill-health and death.
It seems to me that they're about to force the users to hand out personally identifiable information that is not strictly necessary for the product to work (as evidenced by the fact that it did work without for several years). So there should be an opt-out.
Nobody will fault you for learning programming through an online course. They will, however, mark you down for listing that on your resume as your sole programming experience.
Haven't tested their offer, but also Vultr and Scaleway have managed Kubernetes service.
You'll end up like meta/threads is duing in eu: even with vpn you can't access their site
It resembles the big data technology wave of roughly 10 years ago, when we had a plethora of players in the space, all offering relatively immature technologies for storing, moving and processing data at scale.

The difficulty now, as back then, is landing on the technology complement that proves the most technically no-nonsese and financially viable in the long run.
That’s not at all now this works. It’s a convenient myth for senior executives to absolve themselves of their own failure to build incentives and sustainable culture.

Managers don’t get headcount without allocation. It needs to be budgeted and approved.
Yes, We'll just have to update your account with the latest passport/OCI proof.

Your account balance and history will remain consistent and untouched.
Show HN: An auto-generated database admin panel for Spring Boot apps
Hi HN!

I'm sharing here my latest project which is a library for Spring Boot apps that exposes a full database admin panel generated automatically based on your JPA annotations. Similar to the Django admin panel, if you're familiar with that. It doesn't require to adapt your existing application's code; it works by including the JAR and performing a couple of configuration steps.

I've already developed a considerable amount of features, but I still have to test it thoroughly with different Spring/JPA configurations and this is where it might still break frequently. User feedback would be invaluable on this aspect, but even if you don't try the code I'll gladly accept feedback about the idea or features you'd think might be useful.

Cheers!
Removing bad abstractions. And you don't have to use such tools "blindly"

For me, such a tool, for other languages would have been useful many times as a way to make refactoring less tedious.
I don't know what the definition of "sexy work" is, but rewarding work in programming is solving interesting problems.

Backporting fixes isn't generally interesting problem solving.
China: Look at our internet, users only do what we want.

UK: Hold my beer, I'm going to do this for the whole internet.

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All the companies that said they would stop operating in the UK if this bill was passed, need to now do so. There are provision in place that say companies won't be forced to do so unless technologically possible. But I think we all know how that plays out.
If you have 2 years of SWE experience, your lack of degree is not likely to be a significant barrier, assuming you can pass the interview. If you had none it might have been since it can be difficult to get past the resume screen without one. In my experience online certifications are basically useless. Feel free to take classes you like to learn things you want to learn, but listing them will probably not help.
Ivermectin isn’t an anti-viral…

People weren’t disputing that ivermectin is generally safe. They were arguing that it’s not going to help you with Covid unless you have parasites like worms.

There is a real cost of lives when people eschew current best medicinal knowledge for homeopathic blog recommendations, like how Steve Jobs died of a preventable pancreatic cancer because he thought he just needed to eat fruit.
I guess I'm not the target audience either because all I did was use the archinstall script that comes with the ISO and had an arch installation on btrfs with KDE up and running in about 5 minutes tops.
> You do know that this paper is published in Nature, right? Unless you're an archeologist with a credible track record I doubt that you have the expertise to effectively argue that this is find is not credible.

> I don't think researcher would just confuse bonfire and modified wood :) That's their expertise.

Appeal to the authority. I'm not scared, baby. I'd go anywhere. If is printed in nature then is true, right? gods speak...

noope

We need to understand that articles published in nature can be retracted. Here is a small list of five pages:

https://www.nature.com/nature/articles?type=retraction

There is a detail in that photo that opens a door to the possibility that the datation could be incorrect all the way long. I wrote yesterday about it at home, but will reserve my opinion until ruminating a little more about it.
I am so disappointed by this.

I moved to the UK from Eastern Europe and it's hands down better in almost every way if you consider personal freedom, in my opinion.

In terms of policing, it's better than most EU states. See this for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUxiTdRTPMg The argument in the video is that French police is brutal because of the remnants of Nazi collaborationists in the police, and this applies to everywhere in Europe occupied by Nazis. And then you have Eastern Europe with its brutal communism.

I hear a lot of British people complain about how bad society has gotten etc. I'm not saying it's perfect, but it's something to still be proud of. But this kind of shit will break it.

To the people saying it's the fault of people being apathetic, what would you have done?

:(
No, they don't even have witnesses. The people that "accused" him haven't come out publicly which doesn't build a strong case, only a strong case for the court of public opinion.
Since I don't see it mentioned here I would like to suggest z-wave (protocol) and the accompanying ecosystem as an alternative.

I have multiple lights, power plugs and sensors operating on z-wave being controlled by Home Assistant. None of these require me to log into a third party app or service.
I hope one day Organic Maps will make it easy to automatically sync bookmarks. That's really one of the biggest features missing for me.

https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/issues/622
Ask HN: Job offer too good to be true?
I have about 5 years of web dev experience and recently got an offer from a small company based in Seattle.

I overall enjoyed the experience of interviewing with them and it seemed like the people there were talented and down to earth, but after reading some Glassdoor reviews it made me stop and think again.

There are a good number of reviews about the company complaining about executive leadership, how the company has had a lot of attrition and hiring engineers has been slow, etc…

The offer I received from them was definitely above market rate for my level of experience, and after reading some of these reviews I’m starting to think that the company might be in a pretty bad situation that I didn’t pick up on while interviewing, and that’s why they are paying me about 40k over market rate for the base salary and being very generous with equity

I’m not sure if it would still be worth trying to work here or not, I was impressed with the people I met with and the product the company makes is related to satellites and would be interesting to work on, it’s just not very encouraging to read a lot of negative reviews before starting something. Not sure if it’s worth the risk or not for the extra money
https://smart-life24.de/ perhaps? They do sell light bulbs. They're not particularly expensive. I think you might need an account with the Smart Life app, and my girlfriend appears to have a proper account using her e-mail address, but my user ID appears to be a random string, so I guess that's somewhat private?!
A movie short descriptions website (2010year)
Very cool. I tried using PNG compression, it does actually do better, slightly:

PNG : ~15.1 seconds, 83% accuracy

I also tried dropping in zstandard compression:

Zstd (level=3) : ~3.5 seconds, 88% accuracy

Much faster than gzip, at least. And iff I use (x1-x2)*2 instead of x1+x2 to calculate Cx1x2 that pushes zstd up to 93% accuracy.

I'm somewhat interested in the fact that if I stack the two arrays on top of each other instead of adding them together, I get absolutely garbage performance (<20%), however as far as I can tell that actually works well when classifying strings.
It depends on the subject. You can get feedback from tutors/professors, and evaluation of your work. If you study proofs, you can't verify by yourself if they are good/correct.

Apart from that, if you go in a traditional uni (which is not my case, I do online degree at Open University of UK), you also have great networking opportunities.

Not saying about other subjects, like medicine, physics, biology where you need access to a lab to learn something.
> I remember a time when online certificates was an anti signal.

I have never interviewed someone with many certifications and thought the person would be a good addition to a team, and I have never worked with someone who has many online certifications and thought they are good at the things they are certified in.
So any SWE with >0 YOE?
Spam is an interesting choice, given that the US Republicans are having a lawsuit about Google spam filtering blocking their campaign emails.

Regardless of the merits of the particular case, the possibility of doing so exists and this is bad enough even when it is a private company and isn't being kept secret by court order like LavaBit, nor likewise when we have evidence of agents misusing their powers to spy on people they fancy AKA "LOVEINT", nor likewise when we have evidence of legally required technological measures becoming abusable by hackers e.g. the downgrade attacks to the 40-bit "export grade" cyphers from the 90s still popping up in the 2010s.
Is the idea here that saving the data from the cookies will speedup things, because requests become smaller? Or does it have some impact on caching or something else that I am not considering right now?

I would expect that unless you have exceptionally large cookies, the saved roundtrips from another TLS handshake matter more than the data transmission for the cookies.
no mention of revenue generated by this activity, but it's not far-fetched to suggest it's a significant source of income for locals and thus a blind eye is turned to it, willfully or via bribery
AFAIK, it is no longer unsound, and even that was just an academically interesting property - had zero real life impact.
It's true for software engineers, too. There are a lot that get by without college degrees and do well, but for many others it can limit their initial job prospects (most roles at FAANG with have a CS degree as a soft requirement, with some relenting with "equivalent experience").
I cant log in when I stand up
I know you're being silly, but I think Harris now works for Segovia Technology, a payment processor geared toward people living in extreme poverty.
Amazing that this is possible, and shows how much more support Android has for PWAs
There can be no good studies on keto since it has only recently resurged.

Also big pharma and big food won't be sponsoring it any time soon.

You can find many examples of people who cured what their doctors told them "uncurable illness" by following keto or carnivore diets.

You can find 105 pages of testemonials how keto/carnivore helped people:

https://carnivore.diet/category/success-stories/
Labour is worse if you look at the past years. They were pushing for harsher restrictions in the pandemic and they said this bill is 'watered down' by the conservatives.
Do you have specific industry areas you want to get into? I was hiring for 5 year for some EU companies (startups to 1k) as an engineer, I _never ever_ looked at the applicant's degree - if you have any university degree, it's a plus ("you are willing to learn") but not much more. CV/past (own) projects will get you all the way.

If you are targeting fintech, ML or "rockstar" corps that might be different.
When was the last time you made an online payment? Whether it was just moments ago when you ordered food or yesterday during shopping, online payments have become an integral part of our daily lives.

In fact, according to Juniper Research, 4.4 billion people worldwide will be using digital payments by 2025, accounting for more than half of the global population.

Among all online payment methods available, digital wallets stand out as electronic versions of your physical wallet, providing a secure and convenient way to pay for purchases without physical cards or cash. As the number of digital wallet users continues to rise, it's worth noting that 32% of them have multiple mobile wallet apps installed on their devices. Despite prominent players like Apple Pay, Google Pay, and PayPal dominating the market, there are still plenty of opportunities for innovative solutions.
Cops are paid a share most probably for them to continue scamming.
Do you that course that I refer to?

People within companies are all different, so we can't say.
Some hiring managers might, others actually prefer no degree, others might focus more "shipped".
It depends
Digital Ocean seem to do this too. At least at my tiny spend level.
why not https://github.com/freedit-org/freedit

No JavaScript at all
There is nothing you can do, because the "opposition" also supports this.
My opinion is that 6 years is not enough, I would target 10 years.

But I guess the core of the issue is planned obsolescence in linux internals. Namely the fear of missing out some features which require significant internal changes and which if linux is without could lower its attractiveness in some ways.

It all depends on Linus T.: arbitration of "internals breaking changes".
I feel as follows:
- You are standing on a basketball court, on your own ...
- 3 guys enter the court with very big buckets ... filled with ping pong balls ... (each pin pong ball represents a new AI idea)
- They empty them towards you
- (and your task was to hit ONE ping pong ball ; that's the one you will work on)

Good luck ... ;)

Bart
"Meanwhile, minimizing the risk of CVD, the leading cause of death worldwide, does seem like a good idea, no?"

This is the problem of modern medicine in a beautiful shortcut. Everyone is concentrated on their own domain. Oncologists treat cancer, cardiologists treat CVD. Few pay attention to the survival of the whole body, which is what you actually want.

Reducing the risk of CVD only makes sense if you reduce all-cause mortality at the same time. A therapy that would protect your heart at the cost of, say, increasing cancer risk, would be almost criminal to administer.

Now I don't want to claim that this is what now happens. But 12 million people in the developed world is an enormous statistical set and there likely won't be any weird outliers dragging the total result into implausible values.

Reading quickly through, I also notice that the overall effect of cholesterol on mortality seems to go significantly down with increasing age, which is something that has already been observed.

I certainly wouldn't be so favorable towards contemporary medications and at the same time so dismissive towards the observational studies. Quite a lot of CVD mortality reduction since the 1960s comes from surgery (stents etc.), from reduced prevalence of smoking and from early treatment of high blood pressure. Anti-cholesterol drugs are pretty deep in the list of interventions by total efficiency.
Equity in a small, private company is essentially worthless.

You'd want to ask about their plan and timetable for an IPO or an acquisition before you can even consider if that is a gamble with non-zero chance of a positive outcome.
NATS: Connective Technology for Adaptive Edge and Distributed Systems
Home Assistant https://www.home-assistant.io/

It's a quite powerful tool to integrate a variety of different smart home devices into one location and share them between ecosystems.

I have a wifi thermostat that requires a dedicated app and does not allow for Apple Home integration. With Home Assistant I installed an integration for that thermostat, then shared it with the Apple Home bridge (also an integration) and quickly was able to allow my iphone/automations etc, to modify the thermostat. And that's only scratching the surface and something that took a few minutes.
Array API Support in scikit-learn
JSON is hardly very simple given that is a subset of JavaScript. There's also problems with different behaviors of JSON parsers: https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/research-how-json-parsers...