skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a fan of Electron or native-ified apps in general but I usually have a very easy decision matrix:

If it's one of my main productivity drivers (IDE, Browser, E-Mail, Messenger, Note-taking app, whatever) it can be massive and I am willing to update it constantly.

If it's a tiny tool that sometimes offers one functionality and otherwise sits in the tray: No, I don't want it to gobble up 200MB of RAM if you can quite literally draw the window and the 5 checkboxes and 3 buttons with 30 lines of WINAPI code. I might have 10 of these running, a browser-based UI does not make sense for this, yet people keep doing it. Electron is good at UIs, if I only open the UI once per month (but the app is running 24/7) it should optimize for resource usage, not developer happiness.

Some things are in between, even for me. Music player: I prefer foobar2000 or the likes, no images, just a list of songs I can doubleclick. Not a web app. A text editor that does not render mark down, is not an IDE, etc.pp. Not a web app. But for some people these can be really feature rich, not for me.
I have worked with some of those people, and I can say that the agency is in really good hands.
And if you're the kind of person that travels in one of these, you likely also have a few additional vehicles in front of and behind your vehicle filled with highly-paid professionals ready and willing to carry you the last mile if your vehicle stops reason for any reason, to include mechanical failure.

The whole armored vehicle market is a relatively small one; it's interesting to learn that BMW is direct participant; I previously had no idea. I foresee a lot of wasted time scouring eBay looking for a project my family will resent me for later in my immediate future!
You control the population through psychological isolation, not physical isolation. In general, people driving cars are no harder to control than people without cars. They are no harder to track. Like, at all.

You also have to realize that the only car that increases your freedom is your own: everybody else's reduces your freedom. They take a lot of space, they make a lot of noise, they reduce visibility, they hinder pedestrian and bicycle movement, and so on. If you believe in freedom, you have to be holistic about it and learn to make some compromises.
Tons of people live in those neighborhoods
Why Rust is the most admired language among developers – The GitHub Blog
Enterprise ETL/CRUD stuff and (some) native Android applications.
mainstream journalists are incredibly unreliable. it's absolutely clear to everyone that you cannot trust nyt and similar publications. i never read them anyway, and when I do come across articles on topics I'm knowledgeable about, i'm appalled by how wrong they are.
There was a big discussion about Svelte recently, here’s one of many comments that may be relevant:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37380980#37382287

TLDR: Svelte is like Rails, lots of magic to do pre-ordained stuff quickly. If it can do everything you need your UI to do it will be very productive. But if you have UI requirements that don’t exist in Svelte (or Sveltekit) out of the box, you may be better served by a more primitives/toolbox-based framework like Solidjs.
PDF to Text, Done Right
An optical-character-recognition- and computer vision-based approach, better then anything else commercially or open-source available.
Plug and socket types around the world
If you pinch the rubber tip (or chew on it) gravity will make fluid come out even if you don't suck.
What is that minefield? How is avoided by repackagers? Do they take legal liability of Oracle lawsuits related to Java?
...at what cost tho
Comparing it to Java 1.5 is a better baseline since before that, Java didn't have a defined memory model so was an implementation-defined 'wild west'. Also, we can then skip the basic has/not-has generics.
Five years of Rust – a full-stack programming language for the future (2020)
my edgerouter ER4 has a cavium processor =(
So, Marvell bought the company that backdoored all my Ubiquiti gear.

Since it was never working as advertised, do I contact them or Ubiquiti to get my refund / warranty replacements?
Hello everyone,

We just launched a new way for investors to find startups to invest in.

Completely free for both sides.

How it works:
- Founder signs up and enters company details
- Top deals are anonymized and listed on an open page
- Investor can browse deals and request intros
- If founder accepts, then the details are revealed to the investor

We beta tested with 50 investors and generated 50 qualified calls from 200 "request" clicks, all with zero human intervention from us.

I was surprised this didn't already exist. Seems simple enough, but it could create a new deal flow channel on top of warm intros and cold emails.

Thoughts?
Our media companies are rife with intelligence agents. Corporate / State media has no incentive to make you the wiser.
> What can a server running Java 21 do that wasn't possible in Java 1.4.2?

Virtual threads
I'm going to keep using Zapier for my link blog
Ask HN: How to get over my constant fear of inadequacy
Hi HN, I have constant fear whenever I start a project. Recently, I started to try to code a game from scratch. This was because I believed I wasn't improving at work, since the projects are very similar every release.

Every time I make progress on any side project, self-doubt and fear creep in. It demotivates me from working. Usually it starts when I hit a snag in development, either a bug I can't figure out, not being able to decide how to design something, a major refactor is needed, or the realization I have to learn a lot before proceeding. I know logically everyone has to go through this and I need to push through, but my mind focuses on failure so much that it cripples my ability to try and complete anything. This is compounded when I see someone else's success on a similar project, I get even more demotivated and start to believe in my own inferiority.

This same fear makes me not want to practice leetcode, and thus stops me from trying to pursue another job. Does anyone have any coping tips? I just want to improve my skills and enjoy coding again.
In case you are using snap and don't mind using a beta version, I was able to get rid of the same issue by updating to the beta channel which has the 4.34.120 (sudo snap refresh slack --beta). Wayland + window sharing works (with XWaylandBrige)
Wow. This is surprising and exciting.
Happened to Yahoo as well, IIRC:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/11/yahoo-nsa-laws...
Because it was trained on news sources that say "Over 80 fatalities in tornado outbreak"?

I can't say I'm sure, you'd have to know the training data involved, but it is quite common for mass casualty events to have "more than" or "at least" in their subjects along with multiple articles where the count increases over time. Remember and LLM is not wikipedia. If it has confidence of a more exact answer it will most likely give you that, but it's not guaranteed.
FedEx for your cells: this biological delivery service could treat disease
Most CPUs don't have BCD math instructions, so you need multiple instructions, with probably around a 10-100x slowdown in math.
Law firms aren't terribly entrepreneurial. Absent somebody paying them their hourly rate, I suspect not a single document would be read. Newspapers regularly take risks deploying humans to investigate issues without any assurance there will be a story at the bottom, but even the newspaper business has less appetite for that these days (as an aside, I suspect it's that margin that the financial investors have exploited -- at the expense of high quality reporting).
Charging per install would have been the death of free to play gaming, or just the death of Unity as a mobile games engine.
How does machine guns = defensive warfare make the "Schlieffen Plan" impossible?

The Germans were able to advance to the doorstep of Paris. They continuously tried to engage the Entente in a decisive battle (from the Frontier all the way to the Marne). They were unable to do so because the Entente refused to be engaged that way, and because the Entente had superior strategic/operational mobility (they were retreating onto their own logistics and infrastructure (railroads)). At the Marne (Paris), Germany was at or near it's logistical limits. Germany also transferred 200,000 troops to the Eastern front.

The Battle of the Marne itself was not "Germany face tanks into prepared defensive positions and is stopped cold by Entente machine guns and fortifications". The battle was a retreating Entente force, bolstered by re-inforcements, turning around and attacking into the pursuing Germans.

The "Schlieffen Plan" failed before the whole 'static warfare' thing started. In fact, it was the failure of the plan that induced the conditions for the race to the sea, and the whole western front shitshow.

The "Schlieffen Plan" failed because Germany outran it's logistics, because Germany panicked when Russia mobilized faster than anticipated and transferred over a sizeable body of men, because France was able to use it's position (retreating onto its infrastructure) effectively (and they weren't dumb enough to try to engage the Germans at every opportunity), and I'm sure for many other reasons as well. Machine guns may play a part, but I think it's overly reductive to claim that "machine guns - defensive warfare" made the plan impossible.
Everyone is correcting you, but no one is pointing out the real culprit. Floating point operations are not the same as math operations (i.e. +, -, *, / behave differently).
I've simply stopped going to businesses that abuse their customers in this way. Most recently, a fast food place near me changed their POS system such that if you want to leave less than a 20% tip, you have to engage in three extra button presses that are reasonably well hidden in the UI, leading me to just hit the 20% button in order to stop holding up the line.

They're the latest on my "will never do business with them again" list.
There won't be a big wave again until something happens to cause one. Innovation is still happening, but it usually takes a big event to really spur things again.

Back then it was a combo of Napster going away, filesharing apps typically sucking, and the invention of BitTorrent making access to content really easy. Digital music and movies were new too and ahead of their physical media counterparts.

There are many great brains trying, and it will just take one of their ideas to takeoff and become another household name.
Dense cities are by far the most popular in this country and indeed the entire world.
This is just a wrapper of pytesseract...
GitHub copilot has created something (still in beta) that does this.
Android doesn’t follow the Oracle Java though, right. So all these new features are just not there, right
I interviewed with them way back in 2006, but regrettably did not get the job. I was also interviewing with a lot of other banks and hedge funds at the time but these guys really stood out. I was impressed just how friendly and seemingly happy everyone was. It felt more like a university research lab than a trading firm. Everyone had their own private office and they ate lunch together at the cafeteria. One guy told me with eyes wide open: "If you get this job you'll never want to leave".

Interview questions were standard fare, the usual brain teasers; one guy was really obsessed with calculating covariance matrices. They had a wood-panelled library with all the scientific journals where I spent the time between interviews. The gentleman who was guiding me through the interview process told me how their brokers were constantly front-running their trades so a big issue for them was keeping their market impact minimal.

During the interview I offered some potential ideas for alpha: having done some research on these guys before the interview I knew they had experts on voice recognition so I suggested they could put a microphone in the trading floor and gauge sentiment via spectral analysis. They really liked the idea. Trading floors no longer exist so this alpha is long gone, if it ever worked at all!

But alas - their alpha is simply skill and hard work - there are no shenanigans or insider trading going on there. It's just time-series regression done perfectly. I bet at the time they were not using anything fancier than linear regression. But considering how large their data team was they probably had access to datasets (even today) which give them tremendous edge. Data is oil in this field.

The book "MindF*ck" [0] briefly describes a project within RenTec to build a statistical behavioural model of every individual citizen the USA, fed by enormous public and private databases. From this behaviour they could anticipate consumer patterns which could predict the markets way ahead of anyone else. The insane level of ambition in these projects gives you a clue as to the level of technology they potentially might have.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/52269471
Ask HN: Do you have a family code word? (AI Hostage Scams)
Does anyone have a special code word that you and only your family members know? A word that you can use to verify a real emergency situation.

I've been seeing more examples of people using AI voice cloning tools in money scams. [1]

Seems like a pretty effective and low effort strategy or am I missing something?

[1] https://nypost.com/2023/04/12/ai-clones-teen-girls-voice-in-1m-kidnapping-scam/
More likely an IC plant in the editorial office that said "NSA Backdoors Don't Share."

NSA also pays the owner of the Washington Post upwards of $10 billion for cloud services
Aren't hash collisions supposed to be extremely unlikely in general?
Huawei stuff is proven to be compromised, just not by NSA, instead by China.
I think the question is more where is not...
The only good defence of low effort art is the very likely apocryphal Picasso anecdote when a lady see a drawing and exclaimed it only took him 30 seconds.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/01/14/time-art/

I think the moral of the story that whatever the domain, you can pull the low effort stuff in a profound way provided you put in the enormous leg work needed in proving your reputation in the high effort stuff.
I don't think that's true - the pay is still good for eastern germany and outside of bigger cities and if there would be an honest effort I'm sure they'll find qualified personell. Additionally it's possible to have a non-profit company or a corporative.

And maybe that keeps the enterprise java and cloud architects away so projects could actually succeed without complexity or cost explosion :)

I guess it's because the state is forbidden to compete with the private sector by law/regulation (thank you neoliberals / capitalists...) so it just can't start something like this and the other big problem is due to the federated nature of german governance everony like to be the king in their area of control and collaborative projects tend to fail due to that. That was a huge problem during covid when every health department did their own thing regarding managing the data...

Additionally lot's of the personell that would be in charge for that is unfortunatly either delusional or incompetent from my limited experience so this could also backfire and turn into a subsidy for the buddys of the person.

But it's even basic things that are broken. Why has every city / municipality reinvent the wheel and organize their it stuff on their own... a non-profit or coop on the state level could just support them, do procurement and initial setup - this would result in more security and stability and less costs. There now some talks in that direction - it's 2023
I’d pay if the app bundled useful communication features and gave me control over my data. Also if there were no ads. Surely this would be reasonable.

Instead it looks like we will be paying AND they will be selling our data and shoving adverts in our faces willy nilly as before.

Stuff ‘dealing with bots’, this is worse.
Not quite! This goes one step further to serialize the text for complex layouts in a sensible manner, using a geometry-based approach as specified in the blog post :)
Both - Kotlin's coroutines are a runtime for green threading. The implementation of that runtime could use Java's green threads for many things and where the developer UX or guarantees aren't there, fall back on other primitives. But users of Kotlin could also just use Java's new virtual threads if they don't need anything fancy from Kotlin's coroutine runtime.

You probably wouldn't want to _mix_ these threading approaches in a single codebase unless Kotlin's coroutines become a literal "dev UX facade" because otherwise things like ThreadLocals (and whatever Kotlin provides as an alternative) can get out of sync.
> JavaScript isn't as fast as C++ or Rust, but it's pretty fast. Around the speed of Java and Go in some cases, which are compiled.

Indeed, JS is pretty darn fast.

Not because of innate characteristics, but because of the human-centuries spent optimizing JIT VMs.
"Bard conversation" can be different from "private information in Drive and Gmail".
Hallucinatory sources are also bad, as in when you follow the link and the content is completely different compared to what Bard said in its reply
As I said, in my view globally dominant platforms and infrastructure providers (such as payment networks, etc) should not be allowed to terminate accounts based on public sentiment alone. We're going to have to agree to disagree on that.

I want to bring up something else though. We don't actually know the reasons why Google has terminated his account (at least I don't). Perhaps the accusations and the reputational risk were not the only reasons.

Google could legitimately want to block Brand from using Youtube as a stage to attack his accusers and run his own media campaign related to the case. That would be an entirely different matter, but in my view this should be handled by more selective restrictions.
Sometimes, CD depends on CI. I trigger CD only when CI succeeds. Kargo looks confusing, but I have to dig deeper
I have not tested it, still using smtp-sink from postfix tools but there is Mailpit [1] which may fit your needs assuming that you BCC each account from the sending address to accomplish the "Sent" aspect of your requirements. meaning people would see what you sent and then the responses.

[1] - https://github.com/axllent/mailpit
Ability to afford to tip isn't the issue. Being strong-armed into it is. Screw them.
Yes. Be mad at the people using it to scam people. Not everyone is.
> One thing that makes me use a web-app rather than a native one on PC is that I know for a fact that the browser app will be very limited in tampering with my computer, something I'm not so sure about when installing native applications.

I see this as more of a failing on the part of desktop OSes than anything. I know a lot of more technically inclined folks are used to the programs they run having access to all the same things they do and may even prefer that, but it’s been proven countless times over that large commercial devs will abuse this access however they can.

It’s because of this that I’m not nearly as upset by things like macOS app sandboxing as some seem to be. It’s nice to have the assurance that these apps can’t poke their noses anywhere that I haven’t explicitly allowed them to.

Unfortunately I don’t know when sandboxing will become the norm on the dominant desktop platform (Windows) where it’d make the most positive impact. Sandboxing breaks all sorts of dev assumptions and thus backwards compatibility, which is something of a sacred cow in the Windows world.
There was an article a long time ago about their oldest active torrent:

"An episode of the Swedish comedy show “High Chaparral” has the honor of being the oldest torrent. The file was originally uploaded on March 25, 2004, and although it lists zero seeders in search results, there are still several people actively sharing the torrent."
https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bays-oldest-torrents-survive...
> which was held in May 2021 due to delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Honestly I can see how a human would also be confused by that.
Glad you enjoyed the reference!
Not yet, I believe they currently support everything (or nearly everything) up to Java 11.
> Sorry, not even remotely close. I want to see some serious evidence.

Funny that you say "not even remotely close" while providing zero evidence yourself, but then ask other people to present their evidence.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

There you go. There's the evidence. No goalpost-moving, please.

For evidence that Javascript can be used to build large, production-quality applications, see coldtea's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37568707
> There is very little flexibility in this due to equality principles.

I can imagine a lot of ways to interpret this but none really make sense in the context of your post.

What "equality principle" leads to a conclusion that a government employee doing X must be paid a fraction of what a private employee doing X is paid? I'm confused.
Is it possible to have longer retention rates than 30 day? What is the price for that?

Do you have DPA agreements for GDPR?
I mean, I wouldn't say that it CAUSED world war I. World War I was caused by political effects and the powderkeg that was European diplomacy at the time. Did it influence how World War I was fought? I'd say ... maybe, kinda, if you squint at it enough. The Schlieffen plan at its core was a classic envelopment. And, to be clear, that isn't a bad strategy. Enveloping the enemy is actually the cornerstone of modern warfare. Sure, it didn't go as expected in this case, but given the technology and doctrine of the time it was probably the most likely route to success. Or rather, it's very hard to imagine any plan for invasion by the Germans that didn't lead to the stalemate we saw, barring some massive blunder on the French side.
java async stuff is not colored :)
I'm sure they would, but this website is free by design.
exactly.
When I read things I KNOW about, it's incredibly obvious that the news entertainment business (which WP and NYT and CNN and Fox all are) exist to serve the prejudices of their audience.
A few times I made the mistake to let myself be interviewed by a newspaper who wanted an "expert" on something (flattering, but meh); something copletely benign and harmless, nothing political. They twisted my words to serve up stuff that fit what their "normal reader" already believed about the world.
All or nothing?
You're not alone. We've seriously reduced the amount we go out as well, in large part because of the tipping insanity.
Can't scroll or read the article from my phone...
If you are a head of state / billionaire who thinks they need this level of protection, you're gonna trust the security & reliability of some random rental outfit in each city you visit? Zero chance.
everything web related?
Excess is relative. When you have $$billions, $150K extra to have your custom protection vehicle at the venue is no big deal. And, are they even rentable in all locales, and do you trust those suppliers?
Summer of severe heat predicted for Australia
Is there any good docs website for Java? These release notes have such a bad design, and it seems that if you want to learn more of what are the features you need to dig into the mailing lists.
The world "primarily" is important here. Sure, you _can_ use Java for embedded and even real-time stuff. Some games are written in Java, etc. But no one would say that Java is the primary language of choice in such domains.