skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you have this growing up? If not, would you rather your parents did see everything you did in school too?

I didn't. I didn't even have helicopter parents, but I greatly appreciated not feeling watched by them at home and school (~90% of my life at that age). I couldn't have imagined how terrible that would be if they could see everything
Same here. Rust should be the "new C". Because you can code in C doesn't mean you should produce large quantities of complex code in it for "performance", "portability", or "legacy compatibility" "reasons".

C/C++ as well as dynamic languages create huge surfaces of undefined behavior and subtle bugs that are too difficult to lint and too burdensome for even the most astute coders.

Fundamental libraries should also be formally verified in a manner similar to seL4.

Also, another problem is a pervasive attitude of unprofessionalism and dismissiveness of rigor, quality, correctness, and security in FOSS. The current approach of building empires on quicksand is foolish.
If you want to experience a rude guest checkout Gene Simmons on Terry Gross. I think it was the only time Terry Gross almost lost her cool.
Confusing correlation and causality is probably the most effective form of viral propaganda. Most people don't know what causality is and even when they do they can't easily spot when it's proven or inverted.

For example in this article, let's take the numbers and statements that provide at face value. The article claims: there is a rising number of LGBT+ individuals being outed because of technology. The claim of course carries forward the lie that LGBT+ has always existed naturally in the same proportions over time and therefore concludes that the rise of outings must be because of the technology. No need to consider any other possibilities because the article doesn't even make it sound like there's any doubt. Propaganda payload successfully delivered.

The claims that LGBT+ individuals are being targeted specifically is absurd in any case, because schools in the Western world have been force feeding the LGBT+ agenda with vigor as of late.
This sharing is also promotion for what they are selling: shovels and dreams
Isn't the whole "airtight hatchway" concept mostly invalidated today by "defense in depth" an "zero-trust networking" paradigms? Effectively, the airtight hatchway often isn't, so you do have to think about cases where the attacker is behind it.

E.g., it used to be an effective security measure to have a daemon listen on loopback only. But then browsers relaxed the same-origin policy and today every sleazy banner ad can get the browser to open a TCP connection on loopback and at least send a TLS handshake - and, if the daemon accepts that, an OPTIONS request with an attacker-controlled URL. So a daemon has to perform at least some basic validation on incoming connections to be secure.
That’s why the IKEA 365+ glass containers are the bees knees for freezing and microwaving your food.
The key comment is at the end of course. A random TSA officer may decide it’s not allowed. Probably better not.

One of my main peeves—aside from the general which I mostly avoid with TSA Pre—is a hiking pole which I often want to use at a random destination I’ll just use carryon for. But it’s not allowed in carryon.
Seriously. There are at least four different comments on this thread about how the author was lucky, is showing his lottery ticket, pulled the right lever and is writing about making money without doing anything.
I want to see a podcast co hosted by her and lawrence krauss.
it's actually very old! Even older than React
Where I live we already have property taxes indexed to the value of the property, and a tax on secondary dwellings that are not rented out.
RIP. I loved reading this article last night. I don't understand the disdain expressed here in the comments, but there's much I don't understand about the HN comments. Here's a great video of Sweet Jane from a concert in Paris, 1974: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc26EFI1_nw
Prehistoric fish fills 100M year gap in evolution of the skull
I feel like there's room for C++ without headers or includes — a completely clean break.
In that paragraph, the words "of various degrees" is load-bearing.

I don't think you're making a coherent case for the security or insecurity of an iPhone with any of this stuff. Real security in complex products simply has nothing to do with the CCTL process. Which, I'm sorry to say again, is farcical.

If it's not clear: I've had the displeasure of working with this process in my career, most of which I've spent in vulnerability research.
Men aren't free though. If you have an erection in a public space and it's visible (e. g. Public pool), you are at serious legal risk, even if the thing has no "sex" involved (blood circulation and such). Isn't that the case?
Maybe I am a very sceptical person... but every time I see a similar story I can't help thinking about survivorship bias.
I used KDE and absolutely loathed it.

Admittedly this was fifteen years ago, but I was blown away by the developers’ inability to make any actual design decisions, instead punting literally everything to a mountain of configuration options.

Case in point, the taskbar system clock. There were no fewer than six full tabs of options to customize its behavior, including the ability to use Swatch Internet Time. Everything else bought into this philosophy too, to the point where I have to believe its users spend more time configuring it than actually doing anything useful or productive.

Hard pass.
who is lulu
Thanks.

Lately I've been finding it useful to write bash scripts with some marcel, e.g.

#!/bin/bash
echo ...
pushd ...
marcel <<EOF
...
EOF
There is always a competitive advantage to be had; products, especially software products, are not commodities.
If it doesn't end any time soon, it wasn't a Ponzi scheme.
Out of curiosity, where did you move?
> If you're pushing, why would the other instance pull from you?

Because instances are not always assumed to be online, or you don't want to push to all the connected instances...

> I have systems at work that have no problem gossiping thousands of updates per second to hundreds of subscribers.

So, I agree with you [0], but it seems that the Lemmy devs think it is not necessary. Be a kind soul and show your PR?

[0]: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3245#issuecomment-1...
Fair enough, but here, we are considering the situation where Lou Reed chose to perform before a paying audience.

Dave Brubeck, who performed almost to the end of his life, never seemed tired of playing 'Take Five' as the finale to his set, and it was not even his composition.
If there's no encoder, then what is being decoded?
Well, it fits in with the bunch of folks that deem system tray icons, application theming, fractional scaling or window title bars unnecessary to arbitrarily limit their terminal's performance, while the competition has no such penalty.
How many different life forms have there been on earth? Billions? How many of these have made von neumann probes? Zero. All these assumptions about how intelligent life should look are always so anthropocentric and rooted in assumptions we make based on supposition or even sci fi stories. Meanwhile, your dog is an example of intelligent life, and it engages in none of these pursuits.
it's not a Australian specific problem

we have a nearly world wide city housing crises (if you ignore cities which are falling apart and consider affordability)

and as far as I can tell a major driving fair is how in recent years a lot of people with a lot of money increasingly did invest into residential land not for self use or for substainable renting but instead as speculative investment or land bank

giving his a crisis of affordable housing in the population centers can easily lead to civil unrest and even be a thread for democracy I would argue both should not be allowed (for residential land/apartments)
I did an unscientific comparison more than 1 decade ago... yep D was pretty fast (at least compared to g++). Of course FPC was faster.

BTW, there are several D compilers:

- DMD (the de-facto compiler written by Walter). Previously written in C++, now is self-hosted. It has it's own code codegen.

- LDC (using LLVM)

- GDC (using GCC)
godsend indeed

here's more:

https://github.com/localjo/awesome-text-only-news

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35313232

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17787816
This is actually not the case in credible acting class. No acting teacher will tell you to act like a buffoon for the sake of being engaging unless you're trying to be a children's programming buffoon. Even then, if you look at what's popular for longer than a hot minute in children's programming, the people don't act like that. The people on TV that act like that are usually trying to sell you something. People believing "over the top == good" probably grew up liking JarJar Binks.
No, it takes longer, it’s messier, it’s less consistent.

You can make the argument that the end product is better, but that it’s superior in “all ways” doesn’t pass the sniff test even a little.
Don't you think it'd be a lot quicker if multiple people were filing a ticket for the same issue then to build the entire product yourself?
It never was.

Are you trying to make a (crime) racket/larceny pun? From what I've heard, they named it Racket because a racket is an organized group of schemers.
*gestures at all the legal system things*?
"Consider the source" is always good advice.

In interpersonal life, you have more to go on about the source. He or she is obviously an opinionated know-nothing loudmouth. Online, you either have to know the sender, or guess from the community.

StackExchange is especially infested with those, so you can safely assume anyone trashing your idea is one of them. Reddit, too, pretty much. HN has some of those, but not everyone is like that.
Something about that rolling marble is so satisfying. Haven't seen or even thought about this animation in decades, and yet it's completely familiar. It's amazing to think about memories just lying dormant in the brain for so long, consciously inaccessible without the proper stimulation. What other random stuff is hidden up there?
Ask HN: Firefox issues – is it only me?
Err.. on iOS browsing in firefox often the bottom bar with the buttons disappears and there is no way to bring it back except killing anx restarting the app.
Are the people that develop Firefox ever even use it?
Is it only me experiencing this?
Am I the only Firefox user on IOS?
Sabine seems to believe any intellectual darkweb-esque argument she hears as long as it makes her feel heterodox. Her coverage of autism, transgender issues and capitalism were embarrassing.
If you made something wonderful and people are using it, do not mess it up.
> Took me a couple minutes to verify that

Both pages say “made by devographics” at the bottom.

Not that I’ve personally heard about either State of HTML, State of JS, nor Devographics before.
Ticketmaster has something called Official Platinum seats where the prices are dynamic and roughly reflect market prices. See https://ticketmaster-us.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/978244...

Not all events have this though.
Serious question: is there any desirable city right now that doesn't have a housing crisis? A few weeks ago the discussion on HN was about Canada, this week it's about Australia, take your pick of coastal US cities and it's the same. I've heard people moving to parts of Europe for lower-cost housing are doing well, but that presumes you have a mobile job (and visas to go with it) and banks on the fact that many parts of Europe are losing population rather quickly.
1 in 4 inmate deaths happens in the same federal prison. Why?
It was shit for a very long time, but it's actually been improving, slowly but steadily, for years. It's honestly pretty good these days.
The article's title is a misnomer. (I can't tell whether that is intentional on the author's part or not.) The article describes making something you, the maker want, because you find it interesting--but then says that other people will end up wanting it too, because they also find it interesting. So you're not making something nobody wants: you want it, and you're not nobody, and others end up wanting it as well.

What the article really seems to be advising against is making something, not because you want it, but because you think others will want it. The article is basically arguing that that doesn't work. But why doesn't it work? Because in fact doing that ends up making something that nobody wants! You don't want it, and once you've made it, you find out others don't want it either.
I started with text file, which is often the best way for me for any management thing as JIRA/tools get too complex and I often miss things in UI
Text file was also great as it was straight in my IDE and I could move it to done at the bottom of the page.
Now I migrated to Asana/kanban, becouse text file got to big, but only after half of year of development.
I think about agents as being an entity that you can collaborate with. Among other things, it needs 1/ memory, 2/ ability to create and execute long-term plans. One of the best papers that I have read on this topic is the Generative Agents paper by Park [1]

Today's LLMs are kind of like Dory from Finding Nemo - you have to recreate the context every time you do a slightly different task, or when the context window for the LLM is no longer sufficient to remember previous turns in a conversation.

An agent can sit on the other side of a piece of collaborative software that was designed for human collaboration. This is why chatbots are the current "killer app" for AI, we already understand how to collaborate with other people via chat.

Now imagine what we can do with more sophisticated pieces of software like Figma or Excel. Disclosure: I work on the Python in Excel feature and we just announced Copilot for Excel a couple of days ago. [2] Other modalities that excite me are tools like Vision Pro which will be an interesting test bed for multi-modal generative agents.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442

[2] https://twitter.com/john_lam/status/1704886164753363261
Even the Fed is cutting jobs – for the first time in more than a decade
Cross-Compiling Rust on GitHub Actions
Why was TV so great in the 70s? What happened?
Food prep? No. Reheating leftovers? Yes. Mainly because glass containers for storing leftover food are more expensive.
And the audience should be aware that he didn't like playing those songs. There are many artists that are like this, and it's fine. You're not entitled to the artists playing your favourite songs.
How would you define an entrepreneurs? I think risk-taking correlates with entrepreneurship, but I don't think I'd use it in a definition.
It’s interesting you call out GNOME Terminal, it’s always been my favorite terminal.
My concern is that people will actually start acting this way in person every day. I've known a few people that are larger than life over the top whenever they do anything, but they luckily have been rare. These type of people would definitely make me refuse to RTO if my coworkers were like this.
I had a buddy fly international out of the US just two weeks ago and TSA made him check his lightsaber and wouldnt let him carry it on. Of course the airline lost it though...
Turn it off completely. It’s hard to test what combination or settings/silent modes will actually suppress an alert like this
The Minneapolis Public Schools data breach is bad
This so much.

It’s a little like democratic elections. A single vote has negligible impact, but all those single votes combined? They have the power to make or break the future of a country. An individual decision not to use plastic is not unlike that.
I wouldn't put them in the same bucket though exactly. Yes in the broad sense Challenger and Columbia were "organizational management failures", but the basic organizational failures was the whole federal process leading to the Space Shuttle in the first place. It was simply a fundamentally bad design made far worse due to political forces, and not because it was doing something cutting edge and nobody knew better. It was made to work through heroics, but the human condition being what it is, building a system that depends on continuous perfection is a bad idea. Why were the SRBs in sections that needed all O-rings in the first place? Because they were made in freaking Utah and then had to be transported thousands of miles. Other rockets will never have Challenger's failure mode at all regardless of organizational problems.

Or even more fundamentally, the Space Shuttle was unique(ly bad) in having the important payload section on the side of the rocket, instead on top like everything else from Mercury to Apollo to Falcon 9. That harmed both escape modes and debris. When the payload/passenger bits are on top, escape, no matter what stage of launch/flight you're at, effectively boils down to: go faster. Which is aided by an emergency needing escape tending to result in all the boom-y bits below you propelling you in the direction you want (forward, faster) while simultaneously slowing down the rest. And any ice or foam or whatever else that falls off will be falling down, away from the top. Any boom has lots more stuff between compartment at the top and it.

So F9 or even Starship are just never going to face the Challenger or Columbia failure modes in the first place no matter. The entire class of issues has been simply negated at the engineering level. If they do face problems, they will have full envelope escape options that the Space Shuttle simply never could. When it comes to reliability, the default best part is no part. Organization should be on top of sound engineering foundations.

For the Nedelin situation, while yes politics screwed that up too, they were at least doing something fundamentally hard and new. It's easy to say that there were better engineering solutions there as well, and indeed moves were made by all sides towards solid fueled ICBMs. But it's not like they consciously chose a junk given better options, liquid was the best for speed at that point and hypergolics in turn for military usage. The Space Shuttle was always a series of tragedies waiting to happen and so utterly unnecessary.
Maybe, but LLM are trivial to integrate, it does not take any special knowledge or experience. Integrating in-house trained models is difficult, but LLMs really changes that.
From Mar 2023
This is how it works in my country (Sweden). Everything that provides any sort of personal benefit to an employee is taxed as ”benefit tax” which simply increases the taxable income. Very few exceptions exist for small yearly gifts, health benefits and a few other things.
Where in southeast Europe are we talking about here ?

I'm from Croatia and what you're describing only checks out if you live in rural/undesirable area IMO.

This has huge implications on QoL :

- social circles

- schools/kindergarten and socialisation for your children (if you have them of course)

- usually worse pollution than city ironically, unless you're really isolated (a lot of these villages have terrible wood burning chimneys, usually some dirty factories etc., smell from farming/primitive animal styes in the area and zero regard for ecology/enforcement of environmental standards)

- bad infrastructure (common electrical outages, terrible internet), transportation options (highways are decent), hospitals

For example a 100m2 newly built apartment in a middle class area will cost you ~400k€ (can be a bit less but expect significant tradeoffs).

A house of similar quality will probably be 5-600k+.

Realestate inflation changes the equation of living here substantially - it used to be you could remote for 30% less money and live way above the standard you could get in more expensive countries.

Now the lifestyle is not significantly more attainable and everything else is worse than in richer countries.
Kids today will never know the awesomeness and terribleness of Swatch Internet Time. I remember when they gave a bunch of money to CNN and for a brief period the time listed on articles was Swatch Internet Time.

Late 90s and early 2000s were strange.
Hmm wonder if that applies to https://www.hacksmith.tech/lightsaber :D
It's difficult to not use Google products. Particularly Gmail, YouTube, Maps, and Search.
> Stacks dynamically grow

I think that stacks grow using pagefaults, so you might still run out of address space.

I.e., you can't have two programs running where (arbitrarily) one of them consumes (nearly) all of your memory on a system where address space size equals memory size.
What a big assumption to make though. Billions of years of life on earth and an object was first put in space what 80 years ago? This technological age of ours could very well just be a blip. Its far more likely based on our own planet that intelligent life does none of these things. We might not have civilization at all if we didn’t happen to farm, we could both be preparing for our morning hunt and foraging just as easily as we are preparing for work today, if events happened only slightly differently. N=1 here. Our trajectory is no generalized model.
If Australia can open doors for immigrants, so many qualified folks from the third world can immigrate to Australia to replace the exodus.
The era of America’s subminimum wage for tipped restaurant workers may be ending
“You’re just jealous” has for a while now been HN’s go to any unwelcome criticism, whether the criticism is valid or not. I suppose that’s what goes for “thoughtful and substantive” comments nowadays. In that spirit l, I suggest these people are just mentally underdeveloped, to the point where the best weapon they have are childish quips.
The first is the hardest. After that you can leverage your brand
I forget who said it, but a good programming language should have two features:

1. Make simple problems easy.

2. Make difficult problems possible.

Python is an outstanding language on both scores.

Prolog, alas, is much better at #2 than it is at #1. For example, prolog is a great choice for writing domain-specific languages, and modern implementations (like scryer prolog, mentioned in a comment above), can generate very efficient code for them.

Prolog's "killer ap" is how well it does on a third feature:

3. It makes virtually impossible tasks "merely" very difficult ;-)

And it has a steep learning curve; it took me years to really "get" it, and I only persevered because I was facing one of those category #3 problems.

Its not a deprecated language, but alas, it is destined to be a niche language. But for those niches, it is still the best, hands-down.
As others mention already, the problem is the plastic, not the microwave, even the article ends with "Go with glass".
There have to be many alternatives but I happened upon cookanyday and never looked back. I almost never used the microwave oven before but these make it not only convenient, I actually like the results. Well, most times.
Like many products (pressure cooker, air fryer) they want you to just do _everything_ in your new toy, but everything has its sweet spot. I use all at least once every week.
On the front page of HN right now as you posted this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37623479
A lot of the most severe recent exploits have been from attacks embedded in images like Webp and EPS.
What are you talking about? You can put a whole Bash script into a single step.
many rual areas in the EU are quite affordable

through local rual infrastructure e.g. doctors, hospitals, Kindergarten is in many areas in decline

depending on where internet on the other hand can often be good enough

through material and personal cost for renovation can still be a problem
Billy Joel had something to say about this. "Oh, you're an artist, not an entertainer. No-one made you sign a record deal. You made plenty of money. Just shut up and be happy for your fortune."
>"how I achieved financial success", because it kinds of gives out this illusion to others that they can as well

Why do you think this is unachievable for others?