skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their executives make millions. They make millions because they are supposed to have unique insights and skills that the rest of us don't have. These insights are supposed to exactly avoid this situation where they probably killed the company with an absolutely irresponsible plan (from a business perspective). I think this is a historical blunder in the the industry and will be studied in business schools in the future.

There is no amount of walkback that will work here. The only possible way out, if any is even possible, would be a summary dismissal of their entire leadership team due to gross incompetence. These people don't deserve even minimum wage, much less the millions they make. A junior business manager out of school wouldn't have made such irresponsible, company-killing move. These are some of the worst executives in gaming history, to be honest.
https://dagger.io/

may be an alternative. You can run it in GitHub actions somehow as well.
this fact still blows me away
Set the trigger to add the primary key + change time to a separate table, then scan/truncate that table to poll changes.
"Your honor, I don't know human minds work, but clearly LLMs work the same way" The legal burden of evidence is on LLM proponents to establish that what they are doing is the same as the human mind and therefore should be treated the same way.
Ask HN: What are some communities like HN?
I really love Hacker News and the content I have discovered on here, but the content is mainly focused around technology and programming. As a programmer, I don’t mind this, but are there other independent sites like HN that focus mainly around politics? Architecture? Music?
The hilarious thing is that the emergency room mandate has long been used as an excuse for opposing universal coverage. People used to say thing like "nobody in America is dying because they can't go to the hospital," as if that was bar.

Now it apparently serves an excuse for claiming ER should cost more. Truly a universal policy, I guess.
Thank you, now it works :)
> Can you imagine how trivial it would have been if you could support both v4 and v6 by just supporting v6 and having 0::v4addr be literally equivalent to ipv4? It would be more difficult to not support v6.

And how are you supposed to get the packets back when the client has an address outside that range? You still need to add support everywhere, or have NAT gateways into the areas that lack support.

Automatic mapping of IPv4 addresses exists but it requires support infrastructure just as much as any other method of allowing access to IPv4 devices.
Please accept my apologies :-)
Isn't EAL1 what you get for just showing up?

Basically, here is the product. Here are some design documents. We don't have anything more. Can we get our EAL1 please?
Give it a try and let me know what happens!
Daniel Friedman / Portfolio
If you as a gamer or developer are unhappy with this outcome or are unhappy that this happened at all.

Have a reminder that Godot (an open source MIT License) game engine could use your support, Godot offers a way to address this long term instead of relying on a contract with an untrustworthy company:

Use:

Homepage with download links for Latest and LTS versions for Android, Linux, macOS, Windows, and Web (you can build for iOS but cannot write on it).

https://godotengine.org/

Code/document/contribute:

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/contributing/ways_to_...

Donate/fund:
https://fund.godotengine.org/

IMO there is nothing Unity can realistically do to regain trust, when a corporation shows you what their goals are and how they plan to reach them; believe it.
One thing that isn’t clear to me at all, is – what time scales is Edge expected to be suitable for? If I’m a tracking my sensors at home and storing them for a year and then progressively downsampling for successive years (i.e. by no means "Big Data") – is Edge suitable for me or do I need to look for an alternative? I don’t think the blog post explained this well, perhaps exactly because they're knowingly alienating this sort of the user base?
For me, it's because it's true. I really do think about the roman empire all the time! and my wife couldn't believe it.

Most "trends" from TikTok are made up, stupid, fake, or highly exaggerated. This one is funny because it's actually kinda true for a LOT of people, and has nothing to do with TikTok.
We don't need to guess at this, companies like Amazon already admitted there's no data to support RTO:

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-andy-jassy-no-data-re...

https://fortune.com/2023/08/03/amazon-svp-mike-hopkins-offic...
From the Google disclosure I can't tell what Egypt has to do with this though. Intellexa is a Greek firm founded by an ex-IDF (aka Israeli) guy. In general, while Egypt has definitely been caught using tech like this, it rarely has the sophistication to develop it itself.
Exactly, extremely boring!

Also can we talk about their software updates too? Who wants to have a device that gets so many updates years after purchase. How annoying.../s
Why would plugins have to also be GPL? The whole point of plugins is (typically) to allow distribution separately. IANAL but it would seem to me that unless you distribute your "plugin" as a statically linked binary that includes the main app, then the GPL would be irrelevant. If I'm wrong I'd love to be informed
Learning by ear can be more fun and is easier to some. It is indeed a more natural process; hear something -> replicate it. But, unless you're just playing alone or jamming with friends, not being able to read sheet music is a real hindrance when it comes to collaboration.
> FUD-filled network engineers

FUD sounds like a mean way to say unproven in production
> Having done some of this in T-SQL

Don't expect your experience with any other DBMS to give you an idea about how nice it is to program in Postgres.

It's still not as nice as creating some independent code. But Postgres is quite nice to program in.
I’m not an expert, but would’t a VPN (commercial or to a server with known exit IP) prevent such attacks? It will kick out the MITM.

Also I wonder if the lock down mode could block it.
Unfortunately it won't connect. I have a home server that I connect to through VPN (not reachable online and with a self signed certificate). The old element asked me to allow the self signed CA but element X says it can't connect. I wonder if this is by design?

Getting a let's encrypt cert is very difficult because my server can't get reached from the public internet. I have it that way because I use this one only for bridging and I'd like to keep it safe.
How is it advantageous to the customers? Are there commonly shady phone repair people doing bad work? I've never had a phone repaired(Rugged cases prevent the need pretty effectively!) so I might be out of the loop.
I haven't paid a medical bill under $1k in years ... it never goes into collections and I never hear about it after the 2nd or 3rd letter in the mail. My providers never mention it, my insurance company never mentions it.
In the harbor I currently use (renting a slip) I must pay property tax on the patch of seafloor land that is below my boat!

Note I don't even own that "land", I'm just a renter of the slip. But I get a separate property tax bill from the county every year. It's pretty silly.
Live – Unity Changes – Chat with Unity's Marc Whitten [video]
Why should people pay for food when Congress refuses to hand out free food for everyone?
ConfigDB an open source, database like, dynamic config file generator
ConfigDB is an open source,database like , dynamic config file generator. to enable more customization in your python project ,from games to ML notebooks and everything between.
A good rule of thumb is 1/3 of the energy into mechanical work, 1/3 into the cooling system, and 1/3 out the tailpipe. The actual numbers are pretty close to this across a wide range of operating conditions.
Hey folks, any of you tried with this stream=True?
It works in the playground, but it appears that you cannot actually stream completions from this model via the python openai package.

Wondering if it's a weird PEBKAC or someone else has had the same experience?
Y Combinator alumni raise $80M for DAO to back crypto startups (2022)
To this day, the G1/HTC Dream is my favorite phone I've ever had. Each phone since then has been more or less a utilitarian upgrade, but that one was just fun. I loved popping out the slide out keyboard with that satisfying click.

(It could have also been a reflection of where I was in life. I was firmly in my fun years, moved cities twice, and met my wife with that phone. I wonder if there are going to be people in the future similarly nostalgic for, I don't know, the Samsung Galaxy A9 because it's what they took to college.)
> Starting in 2022, there are new protections that prevent surprise medical bills. If you have private health insurance, these new protections ban the most common types of surprise bills. If you’re uninsured or you decide not to use your health insurance for a service, under these protections, you can often get a good faith estimate of the cost of your care up front, before your visit. If you disagree with your bill, you may be able to dispute the charges. Here’s what you need to know about your new rights.

https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/no-surprises-unders...

https://www.cms.gov/NOSURPRISES

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/no-surprises-a...
I’ll repost my comment from a recent thread, but this article is a surprise to me, I thought this had already been the case for years?

Reposted comment —

As far as I can tell, this is the correct way to handle this? I haven’t paid attention to any medical bills sent in the mail since I started working 15 years ago (I generally pay what they ask at the point of service), and I’ve never noticed any consequences (no denial of service anywhere, has never shown up in any way on my credit report, etc) — as far as my experience has shown, any bills sent after the fact are completely optional to pay.
Hey Paul, one thing that is not clear for me from the post is whether InfluxDB Community will also support infinite cardinality. Thanks!
Show HN: Good Tripper Guide – AI-Powered Historical Tourist Guide
I am planning on going to Italy on a trip and i really like learning about historical things of places i walk by.

Since i am poor and can't hire a private guide i created the Good Tripper Guide, a guide that will find nearby historical places and give you details and fun facts about, and you can even listen to it, like a real guide.

I am very excited to use it in my trip and hope others can use it also!

I'm always looking for feedback and would love to hear your suggestions. Thanks!
Paramount+ has ads, and that borg’ed showtime a month or so ago.
Discriminated Records is The Way.
There is a near zero chance that being EAL4 or higher certified would’ve prevented these attacks.

CC might be better than PCI-DSS, but not by much.
I use “pocketsmith” because I like the look ahead calendar view. Does this offer that? I could not see it in the demo.
Some can plug in. I'm not sure how many, though. I thought plug-in hybrids were new in the last few years, and I thought many hybrids are still being sold that cannot plug in.
My experience with GitHub Actions is mostly managed by way of certain Azure Portal interactions these days.

When I create a new Function app, it gives me the opportunity to enable GitHub integration. The experience for this is flawless, IMO. You provide your GH credentials, select the org/repo/branch, and then it will create the workflow file for you and push it automatically. It will also update the secrets in your repository settings to match what Azure expects on its end for deployment.

By the time you get to look at your GitHub repo, the action is already running and will 100% complete successfully if you followed a standard/default project structure. The automatically-generated workflow files aren't perfect, but they're so close that it becomes trivial to tweak for additional build args or project arrangements. Just getting the secrets & related boilerplate configured makes the difference between me doing it right now vs maybe never. The consequence of always having proper CI/CD from day zero, even for the most trivial projects, seems profound to me.

There exist some really happy paths now wrt GH actions, but you gotta be willing to get pretty hammered on the Microsoft koolaid to explore them.
More expensive, for one. That's why CreditKarma and other 'free score' services often use Vantage, rather than FICO.
"unless you have a bunch of logic centralized somewhere to keep track of last know schemas per user client database"

I've been building exactly that here: https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-migrate
The comment is explicitly targeted toward those working with C or C++.
If email was a new thing trying to break into a crowded space, then yes.

Notice how WhatsApp took off while XMPP fragmented.
Artemis Accords: Changing the Narrative from Space Race to Space Cooperation
Exactly. I want an unaligned LLM to give me X potential solutions ranging in ethicality from "don't worry about it, they might be nice people" to "steal a nuke and ransom the world", and let me as an aligned human craft my prompt or chain of reasoning to weed out the useless or unethical responses, and then I can decide what is useful and suitable.

This is more or less the process that goes on inside a thinking human, is it not? I don't want to outsource ethical decision making, I want to outsource cognitive effort. By analogy, you don't rely on a bulldozer to decide not to bulldoze a populated nursing home - that's on the user, as are the consequences.

Current power structures demonstrably cannot be trusted to limit themselves to ethical solutions (Military Industrial Complex, Climate Change, etc etc etc pick your poison) - why should they be trusted to censor cognitive tools?
Ask HN: Would an easier way to scrape 100s of websites be useful to you?
In the process of building AI agents, we've found that what we built could eventually be good at dynamically scraping data across a variety of websites (10s to 100s of different sites at a time)

Our understanding is that existing web scraping tools are bad at this because you need to write custom scraping configurations per site. Not only that, but when a site changes styling, it might completely break your automation. With agents however, you can provide a high level natural language overview of the data you'd like from a website or class of websites, and the agent system will deal with the details of traversing a page and fetching data automatically.

We’re curious how useful this might be for people. If you’ve experienced issues that this might solve or have already explored the space, I'd love to hear from you!
This kind of thing has been very standard in other ML family languages for decades now. Rust is a nice language, but it’s frustrating when its proponents act as if it’s the first language to have these kind of features. ML is 50 years old at this point…
There was a huge amount of work by WINE (and others), but it really was a huge leap in how accessible Linux gaming was to people.

Going back a few years, my experience was that you had to do some research to see if a game was likely to work, install it through wine, and then usually faff around with a load of winetricks/configurations/packages/etc to get a game that mostly worked (often with some weird bugs, performance issues, etc).

Now there's a whole library of games that you can just right click -> install and they work perfectly well on Linux. And of course that wouldn't have been possible without the years of work building up to it - but it was a massive improvement when Valve threw their weight behind it and built it directly into the Steam client.
Okay, I think I am confused about how this works in JS. I've written my fair share of event-driven code, but managed to avoid working with actual async/await. My understanding was that calling an async function does what you describe, but awaiting it literally blocks the caller thread - because what else could it block? Your description sounds like something I'd expect of a yield instruction.
Virtual threads are strictly better than normal threads, no? I am thinking of any reason to still use traditional threads. Is there any downside?
You're only looking at it from the perspective of the developer. The GPL freedoms are for the end user, not the dev.
Practical and useful, yes! Stunting development is something different. I do know how to read sheet music, but I’ve never practiced it to be fast enough to sight read. I’ve never felt that this has stunted my development - if it had, I probably would have picked up speed naturally.
If Amazon is your customer, you fix the bugs; if you're Amazon using your in-house kit, you fix your own bugs whenever you want to. There are plenty of real reasons not to do IPv6, but they are virtually all politics and possibly operational ("we'd have to train our people, and we don't spend money on that"). The idea it was a vendor issue is a BS trope that's been around for at least a decade if not 2.
Here is what I do not understand:

Spyware firms and 0-day vendors both have staff dedicating to finding 0-days. Why do Google and Apple not simply poach these staff?

I am sure Google and Apple can offer very competitive salaries, so why do they not do so? Is it because the cost of basically poaching all of the skilled 0-day hunters is deemed to be greater than the cost of just issuing patches?
I wonder how much of the original B52 is actually left in a modern B52.

Like, has every nut, screw, bolt and panel been replaced over time, such that a modern B52 literally has not a single atom in common with one made in the 1950s/60s?
Consider the capital gains tax in Democratically-controlled Washington state. There's no question that the backers intended it as an overt tax on the wealthy.
And a free SEC investigation!
I generally think that we, as a society, should prioritize happiness and human flourishing. Work-from-home has been great for me, but I understand why others wouldn't enjoy it.

Workers should have a strong say in how they spend their 40+ hours a week, but we have a society where petty tyrants get to control their workers' lives. It should be easier to form worker-owner cooperatives and to organize strong unions, and generally promote more democracy in the workplace. And we should, as a society, de-emphasize work a bit. With all the automation we have, most people should be able to work a 32-hour work week and society would clip along just fine. Meanwhile, people would have more time to devote to the rest of living a life (pursuing art, socializing with friends/family, volunteering in social projects, studying an interesting subject, etc).

That's all to say, we are all individuals with different wants and needs, and we spend a lot of time at our jobs. We should restructure society to make us all happier and more fulfilled.
I didn't mention it in my reply but I was referring to the complaint in the article that the author wants to be able to debug locally without having to push changes to GitHub first. The top comment by MoreQARespect and others highlight the benefits of scripting as much as possible so that processes like builds and cutting releases can be run and tested locally.

> Obviously you could mock up the entire github actions scaffolding locally

Not sure if anyone's advocating for implementing GA entirely. You can at least automate project-specific bits as much as possible using scripts, and then have the CI environment use the same automation. That allows for more local debugging than overusing GA.
The big box stores only carry 90% of the stuff they’d need for that to be feasible, and they put local shops out of business. (At least in the SF Bay Area, maybe it’s different in bigger cities.)
I wish more devs offered shareware/demo releases. Not doing so was unthinkable in the hardware hell of the 90s.

Too much shovelware on Steam these days, and the user has to pay retail price to even try it.
Exactly, I showed here how we just write plain shell scripts. It gives you "PHP-like productivity", iterating 50 times a minute. Not one iteration every 5 minutes or 50 minutes.

https://lobste.rs/s/veoan6/github_actions_could_be_so_much_b...

Also, seamlessly interleaving shell and declarative JSON-like data -- without YAML -- is a main point of http://www.oilshell.org, and Hay

Hay Ain't YAML - https://www.oilshell.org/release/0.18.0/doc/hay.html
Truly nearly all the public transit infrastructure we have in the US was built decades ago (close to 100% if we’re talking about heavy and commuter rail).

This is a shame because comprehensive metros would transform our cities, enable infill housing, and help abate the housing crisis that is at the root of so many issues we’re facing.
I really wonder this too.

At work we're always told to use the Azure one because our CIO is elbow deep in Microsoft's ass.

But I wonder.. one funny thing is that everyone at Microsoft is referring to OpenAI as an 'acquisition' whereas as far as I know they only have a <50% interest?
My favorite ones.

"Payment is due at the time services are rendered"

So you pay what they say it costs.

Then months later you get a random bill from them for more.
The almost same question from 7 hours ago, here you go
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37611708
There was recently some research showing that people working for only 4 days a week instead of 5 were equally/more productive, and yet you don’t see companies rushing to implement a 4 day work week.

Your assumption is flawed on a number of levels, first and foremost due to the fact that it is based on the faulty premise that companies will always make optimal decisions based on perfect data, when the reality is:

- in most cases the data on whether remote work is more or less productive is murky at best, non-existent at worst. For ever study showing and increase/decease in productivity there is a study showing the opposite. Most companies struggle to even define and measure productivity in the first place, outside the context of remote work.
- productivity isn’t the sole axis of decision making. Some companies prioritize excellent benefits to retain talent in the belief the benefits of a happy talented workforce will outweigh the costs of providing it. Other companies are much less generous, happy to churn through less competitive employees to keep costs down. Similar disagreements on remote work exist, which is why there are many companies with no plans to mandate in office work
- what company leadership prioritizes is not necessarily what is best for the business. I’m not sure how anyone, after 40 years of Jack Welch-style executives destroying long-term business value for short-term profits, would fail to recognize this. Company leadership will do what is in company leadership’s best interest, whether that’s cutting long-term profits for short term share price increases that are tied to personal compensation, exorbitant spending for unnecessary company amenities like private transportation, or dictating the workforce comes back into the office because they prefer to work that way. Note when outspoken critics of remote work like Elon Musk, personally, almost exclusively work remote.
^ yep. SSNs are also terrible to collect, as they are hard to verify if the user even gave you a valid number, as there's no self checking system like credit cards, you have to check against some 3rd party database that may know who that person is, but can't be sure, or just may not know who they are. Also, if you fuck up, you screw over a lot of people.

Fun fact, until 2011 SSNs were loosely based on where you were born. If you were a bad actor and wanted to use a fake SSN, just change a couple of numbers at the end and you could get a new number of someone that was born around when you were, in the same hospital as you.