skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As painful a read as that was, I think it's really important to understand what the social norms were at that time. Thousands of people had died and the reaction, not just from the press secretary but from the press pool at large, was to laugh and joke. Really the only widely socially acceptable response to even the mere thought of gay male sexuality was complete and utter disgust. If you were a man, to not express disgust at this thought opened the door to "you might be a fairy too", which is why you see so many of these displays of "the banality of evil".

Audio from those press conferences is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAzDn7tE1lU
What in the UI or UX of discords has this effect?
Funny that the top comment here is about poker - there's a rumor in the poker world that SBF was a whale in some of the biggest private app games, and owed the game runners north of $10m when he went down, which the winners in that game (apparently including legend of the game Dan "Jungleman" Cates) are now never going to see.
General solution isn't exactly possible, but some specific supply chains like F-35 use hashed merkle trees for tracking lifecycle of parts (specifically, KSI system most well known from e-Estonia work).
Author here, thanks for sharing your feedback. To your point, product is a high-stress, demanding role, and in reality, you might not hit every item from this list all the time. This ambitiously attempted to define greatness from when I've been fortunate to get there, see it, or be part of it. Getting to greatness can be done; it's just hard to achieve. I think it deserves that caveat up front, and I will update it.

I also agree that low-level teams might be very far removed from strategy, especially in large orgs. However, that team should have a clearly defined goal or mandate instead. So much of the product is context-driven, and the first few drafts were 3-4x longer to account for these differences between organizations, hierarchy, teams etc. I removed most of that to focus more on basic principles because this guide was starting to look like it was written by Charlie Kelly chasing Pepe Silvia accounting for all the edge cases :)
Gnome's polish is probably the best of the Linux DE's but it removes far too much configurability and features (in the name of simplification) for my tastes. I'll stick with KDE. Each release gets more and more polished, and I'm very much looking forward to Plasma 6 and the Wayland Goodness it will bring.

Having said that, I think the competition between them makes both of them better so I'm glad that both exist. And where they depend on common libraries, both benefit once again from the contributions from the other's contributions.
People underestimated how much brainpower is involved in simple mechanical tasks, and they probably overestimated how much is required for things like object recognition. Even simple tasks like lifting weights involve motor learning.
The left has enough problems to deal with.

Numerous studies have shown that liberals have higher rates of depression and worse mental health in general compared to people with more conservative views. For the biggest bang for the buck, this is the place to look for improvement.
Oldest known wooden structure unearthed, almost half a million years old
X12 ftw.
Putting on a white coat doesn't make you a doctor, the years you spend studying and practicing does.

Similarly, printing a billion tokens and trading one for a dollar doesn't give you a billion dollar market cap, even though "all the stocks do it!" Those stocks also back productive systems, have financial statements, forecasts, and a million other things that make them a billion dollar (or larger) market capped company.
I took delight in flagging this awful comment.
Not sure how wash trading sets price. My understanding is miners sit on BTC and cash, then occasionally collude using cash to pump price, short perps at the top, then offload BTC and ride the perps down.
Imho, people should always remember that the only good "type" in yaml is to quote everything.
> I'm not sure having more app stores is going to change anything for me

I'd assume this is exactly the kind of thing that would change how many apps you can get. I avoid the Google Play Store like the plague, because nearly every app is full of ads, costly, or wants a subscription. I've paid for apps previously, but have since moved to acquiring nearly all apps through F-Droid.

What happens to the number of apps you, personally, are willing to install, when an equivalent FLOSS app store shows up for iOS devices?
That’s just your opinion on what jobs are “fun” and “not fun”. The reason those people do those jobs isn’t because it fulfills their 7th level of Maslow’s hierarchy, it’s because it puts foods on the table.

So when that’s taken away from them, what’s left? Join a coding bootcamp?
>And what exactly is the solution there? For most Americans a car is literally their ONLY option for transport.

The administration has already earmarked substantial amounts for various transit programs across the country thankfully. You can find out more https://www.transit.dot.gov/TOD

These programs also include zero-emission transit as a primary focus where possible, such as school buses.

So the solution already exists and is in action. It just takes time!
Ask HN: Web 1.0 style personal websites?
One of the articles that was on the front page was from koshka.love. Wonderful website brimming with personality. What are some other examples of Web 1.0 personal websites that you enjoy?
>And where they depend on common libraries, both benefit once again from the contributions from the other's contributions.

How much of this actually exists in reality though? It seems like the two really go their own separate ways for most things.
It is actually taking inspiration from vue https://vuejs.org/guide/extras/reactivity-transform.html

They are too close for the similarities to be a mere coincidence
I spent a while trying out webcams and hdmi-to-usb (also usb-video class devices) adapters on Android.

There were a bunch of apps that could do it, but it seemed pretty obvious that Android itself was basically useless & sad, that these folks were basically writing userland usb drivers.

I was really hoping I could just open a chrome webcam test page, and everything would work. It really felt so infernal that Android, built atop Linux which makes this all so easy & simple, would have such a shitty sad state of affairs. What a terrible Linux. And the bloody AOSP docs make it sound like it should just work. Liar. https://source.android.com/docs/core/camera/external-usb-cam...
The problem with horses is that you tend to fall on your back from a moderate height, which makes them very good at causing paralysis.
Honestly, when I first heard of this integration, I'd thought that this was going to be a new way of controlling generated images - like if you could say "move the subject a little to the left" or similar - the kind of stuff you currently need ControlNet for. Instead, this is more of an automated "prompt composer" - still interesting, but I hope that they explore the idea of letting users have more control over the outputs sometime.
This is (surprisingly) almost identical to the Reactivity Transform explorations we did in Vue: https://vuejs.org/guide/extras/reactivity-transform.html

let count = $ref(0)

const double = $computed(() => count * 2)

watchEffect(() => {
console.log(double)
})

We started experimenting with this ling of thought almost 3 years ago:

- First take (ref sugar), Nov 2020: https://github.com/vuejs/rfcs/pull/228

- Take 2, Aug 2021: https://github.com/vuejs/rfcs/pull/368

- Take 3, Nov 2021: https://github.com/vuejs/rfcs/discussions/369

We provided it as an experimental feature and had a decent number of users trying it out in production. The feedback wasn't great and eventually decided to drop it. https://github.com/vuejs/rfcs/discussions/369#discussioncomm...
so has he accomplished anything big/groundbreaking other than being a child prodigy and having a high iq?

serious question. i only know his name for being smart. not anything specific
That's just the crass version of the actually good advice that goes as follows: Don't react to your emotions, instead notice your emotions wash over you, identify the why and respond rationally instead of emotionally to the why. It's basically good advice given in the worst possible way with deceptive context
Caesars Entertainment Pays $15M Ransom to Cyber-Hackers After Breach
“Nesting is bad” is such a simplistic take. Nesting is absolutely essential and inescapable. What that statement is really doing is placing a limit on what whatever it applies to can be used for. It would be better to spend a few more words expressing what you really mean.
Many blame Nestlé as the root cause of the Flint water crisis: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/29/nestle-pays-...

The question isn't if farming is technically worse on a global scale, it's whether each individual aquifer can sustain its output.
Just Think AI
One toolkit for all things AI - intelligent chat, text-to-speech, image generation and AI video.
How many people listened to you?
Depends on where the computer is at, I guess. On a desk, 6 years is a pretty long time. In an industrial setting, 6 years is not very long of a lifecycle.
It's not just Linux, it's everyone really, and for many things (not just Amigas). There are many places where people have failed to learn from the past, and reinvented the wheel badly.
IME YouTube keeps recommending videos I've seen, within minutes after I finish seeing them.

Both your issue and mine seem to be part of their brain-dead algorithms, maybe ML-based.
What kind of breaking change would take longer than 2 years to deal with? The reality is that people wait out the entire 6 year period and then do the required months work at the end. If you make the support period 2 years they will just start working on it sooner.
Nice idea, design wise I like that the page has high information density instead of pointless white space. You're missing some cursor: pointers; on things like the "Read more" and some other minor details.

The loading when going back is pretty annoying. If you're going to dynamically fetch things with JS, you should go fully SPA in my opinion and cache that stuff locally. So when I push back, it's instant. Or go full server-side rendering with caching, so when I press back, I get a quick 304 and it's _basically_ instant. Hitting the loading screen each time is really bad UX imo.

On a side note, is the data prepopulated by ChatGPT? I clicked on a few things and some of the ideas + comments look AI generated ;).
I get through most days without remembering that xslt exists and I like it that way.
> If you want config-as-code (and you want to!), just do it properly and use a proper programming language for it.

Starlark was designed for this purpose.
As an ex-Novell/SUSE employee this makes sense to me.
Upstream is supposed to keep marching onwards.

Backporting is _so_ much work. And it's unfortunately not sexy work either, so it's always going to be hard attracting unpaid contributors for it.

If you need stability and long term support as a customer, you have companies like RedHat or SUSE whose entire point is providing 10+ years maintenance on these components.
That seems to again misrepresent the rule. He’s an artist drawing 2D objects not making 3D sculptures.

The connection between the surface area of branches and overall tree structure shows that it’s the living, outer layers that guide tree structure, the researchers say. “The life of a tree flows according to the laws of conservation of area in two-dimensional space,” the authors write in their study, “as if the tree were a two-dimensional object.”

Yes, a two-dimensional object like say a painting.
Config as code is basically the default for (Python) Django applications, but for compiled language you would need to bake in a scripting engine or something. There's always sqlite, which is almost everywhere and very fast.
I like it. I've wished for something like it in the past. I'd like to see it get widespread popularity.

Some things:

I set my price at $100 per use, but I see there's a $20 per year in my listing along with it. Not sure where that came from.

Also, location info would likely be helpful- if someone opens/starts my idea elsewhere that's great for elsewhere, but doesn't help me.

At the bottom of the page where I'm scrolling through the list of tiles I can't tell there's more unless I scroll or I look at the scrollbar. The way the footer blends together at the bottom now doesn't look right to me.

I think the header should be locked like the footer is so when you scroll it stays visible, the part with the tags, not the account one. Maybe if the account one were to become visible on scrolling up from anywhere, but the tags one should stay locked visible like the footer is.

I think the items in the footer belong at the top.

This seems like the kind of thing where RSS feeds would be helpful to keep people up to date on trending stuff.
I played with this. I can see the place for it, but I like my own prompts better than the ones it makes. IIRC you could tell it to knock off the prompt composing and just send through your exact prompt with some limited success.
eg
generate an image using the dalle plugin of a bottle of water

{
"n": 1,
"prompts": [
"A transparent plastic bottle of water, filled to the brim, with a blue cap. The label on the bottle is white with blue lettering. The bottle is set against a neutral background, and the light is reflecting off the water inside, giving it a fresh and clean look."
]
}
Whatever, just give me an option to enable spacebar heating. https://xkcd.com/1172/
The moral is, don’t rely on overly complex software tools for extremely simple tasks (like taking notes). One day they will grow big, get #vcfunded and betray you
We use seaweed in production, inserting 1-4 million small images per day.

It comes with a web based UI.

We migrate from minio to seaweed around 2020/2021. At that time our minio server have problem handling hundreds of thousands small files.

Btw if you only need to store and serve a few TB, Backblaze B2 is way cheaper and easier.
Its not that hard to shop around for a doctor who agrees with you though
Alameda is a city (and an island) in Alameda County, California.

Perhaps the title could be updated to reflect that this article is not referring to the city?
This is true for so many things.
Show HN: Secure dev-friendly PDF generator APIs to solve your PDF nightmares
DFHippo is an API tool that lets you design a PDF in Excel, add functions and variables to parse dynamic values from the API to Excel and save it.

Our tool retains the styles and text formatting from Excel while replacing the variables from the API. Once the variables are replaced, we print via Unoconv, a CLI interface for the LibreOffice server. We built a script to keep the listeners from LibreOffice active and work across concurrent PDF conversion requests. To keep the pricing low, the API returns only a buffer/blob and doesn't store any data in our infrastructure.

While looking to integrate a PDF component into a no-code application my team and I were building, we went down the rabbit hole of PDF creation in the backend. I couldn't find a tool to edit/parse pdf in a simpler manner. Creating an in-house drag-drop widget for PDF was way too complex to print in PDF format. Tools like pdfkit , pdf-lib, and pdfjam were not compatible with the designs we wanted to create. Other API tools were too expensive considering our pricing models. We didn't want to pass down the price to our clients, given their intention for PDFs for the no-code product is for simpler use-cases like invoices, reports, checklists etc., which they currently solve by Excel or some version of Docs.

Do give it a go!

- website: https://pdfhippo.com

- docs: https://pdf-hippo.readme.io/reference/getting-started-with-your-api

- demo video : https://youtu.be/H_39oWEnxBw?si=JuPeZrIIS7N91j0Y
Definitely in agreement, also a big proponent of gradually increasing taxes to incentivize certain spending to speed up that process. They're not popular but very effective.

The good news is a lot of the positive change is already in progress. Bad news is the national goals for many countries are all still minimum 25 years away with people desperately clinging onto the hope that some magical technological breakthrough will happen that ensures we don't have to sacrifice anything currently.
I thought tie goes to the dealer, so they collect from everyone regardless?
That's the great thing about 'game theory'. The rules can so easily be set up to funnel 'players' inexorably into "WarGames"-like resolutions. I.e., no matter how well the game is played, everyone loses (phrased rather more effectively in the movie, though).

Realistically, though, the comparatively slow march - in "WarGames" terms, but not human lifespan terms - towards the conclusion for our species, clearly won't result in equal losing over given near-term timeframes. That is almost certainly one of the calculations* for some players who continue to push destructive patterns.

Human activity (think economic) is incredibly interdependent as well as massively interwoven with an incredible array of aspects of our planet. There are always 'externalities' - i.e., the cost of goods and services probably ALWAYS (even in really 'primitive' economies) is missing a little bit in the accounting, so-to-speak. For example, when Virginia was fairly well-settled by Europeans, with many of the original inhabitants pushed out, tobacco was king. But growing tobacco is very hard on the land - tobacco is a crop that depletes soil very quickly. The solution, at the time, was to just develop a new plot after several years. Land was absurdly abundant from the perspective of the colonists of the time - and people like Lord Fairfax had tremendous tracts (his represented a substantial part of the current state). All of the decades and centuries that went into producing soil that led to great tobacco production was an externality. The environment, original inhabitants of all types (including ALL organisms), etc. contributed to ... or, perhaps better, SUBSIDIZED the tobacco production for those who moved in. And those who moved in generally never paid any of that back. It did cause problems for some, and people did switch crops grown over time ... were generally forced to adopt more sustainable practices ... (as well as ceasing, ultimately, other ways of externalizing costs generally FAR more reprehensible), but, the debt wasn't really repaid in just about any real way be those responsible. And, who actually, in some sense, effectively stole (beyond all of the other shades and types of stealing in the whole story, as we might frame it today) a massive amount of 5hit that it's not clear they had such a 'right to'.

All of this can get quite complicated, and that itself illustrates some of the problem - there is no 'analytical solution'. There are always trade-offs of various types, and practical 'solutions' come together one way or another over time. But, a lot of current issues don't have the solution of 'just move to another plot', no matter what dimwits like Musk think or say. And, even those who have some conscience and conscientiousness are always faced with the sort of impossible problems of ethics you are touching on. But, the passage of time will always lead to practical solutions - one way or another.

* Or part of a set of rationalizations, for those with a conscience of some sort - possibly even coupled w/ true delusions or grandeur, such as saving the species as a whole. Likely delusional in some heads, outright dishonesty in others.
Prompt-fu is definitely part of it. It takes dozens to hundreds of hours of playing around before you have a good eye for it... which isn't going to happen with something you have to pay for per image, let's be honest.
Is there much evidence that eggs are good for you?

We’re still hunting dinosaurs. Wild Turkey season opens pretty soon where I am.
Don’t they generally have ties to the underworld/extralegal means of reprisals against people who owe them money? So wouldn’t they have acted by now if this were true (even if not “successful”)?
>and yet we choose to constrain ourselves to MacOS and Windows by default.

Who's "we"? Speak for yourself. I can't remember the last time I used either of those.
This is news to me. Kagi/orion just got me to jump to their paid search engine.

Previous was using 1Blocker on safari but ublock origin on Orion is much more effective.
I had a laser pointer when I was like 8 years old. They probably just got theirs from the dollar store like I did.
But a 3080 is by no means a minimum requirement - not even close. A 3080 will give you a very comfortable experience, sure, but so will a midrange card from the same generation. And people have been squeezing SD on way less powerful hardware - even most cards from the GTX 10 series (that came out in 2016) can be made to run it, although some sacrifices have to be made below 6GB of VRAM.
> the "genius" credit given to FTX, Alameda

The hype cycle marketing was targeted by geography and social class.
Literally every article is that. What’s your point?
it is an oral exam as part of a phd. this was years ago (1996?), so interesting as a retrospective.
> outside of crypto these third parties are actually trustworthy

With multiple layers of mutualised failsafes.
I can't help but feel sorry for the children and the adults of the UK. People around the world will mostly ignore this bill (and rightfully so) but the people living there will have to live with this broad, poorly defined mess.
So you buy a tomato that is 8" tall at the store. When you plant it you'll only want 2 to 3 inches of it sticking out of the soil. You bury it deeper than the soil and roots it comes with. The now buried stem will grow roots and the existing roots will also grow and reach more deep soil.
But now we know that most trees are living skin on a dead skeleton. If we assume a constant thickness of the vascular cambium, branches must conserve surface area, and not volume! Now, off to read the paper.

Edit: aha, my proof is correct! Only, my axiom was wrong: trees make broader capillaries for thinner branches. Well played, trees.
I've heard an anecdote of someone being denied entry at the border because they described themselves as "software engineer", which as far as the border guard was concerned was a fake job.

> "Software engineer" specifically is used around the world to refer to the role performed.

I don't think it is? I spent 10+ years programming in an English-speaking country and it sounds weird and cringe to me, the same way as "Code Ninja" or "Rockstar" (or indeed the "Archmage" title mentioned elsewhere in the thread).
I would guess lack of expertise? Apple purchased PA Semi a while ago and the team went on to work on their processors. Have they purchased a company specialized in mixed-signal circuit design? That's one of the key differences, a modem contains a lot of analog circuitry and analog is very different from digital.
XML is full of complexity that it shouldn't have and any competitor would be stupid to adopt.

For example, either your format is a programing language, or the data evaluation must never need an internet connection. XML isn't one, yet still requires it.