skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People have been trained to fetishize "new" technology and dump on "old" technology. Frankly put: new is not always better. A technology is just a technology, and "new" technologies almost always introduce regressions along with whatever benefits the they bring.

For instance: paper documents are generally more robust/reliable (as a practical matter), easily attached to physical items, and easier to annotate than any kind of digital document. Digital input methods are usually pretty awful, especially when you don't have the luxury of fumbling around for a few seconds (or more) with each input.

IMHO, any reasonable-aware tech professional should be able to understand that. Especially given how frequently computer technology objectively sucks.
And if you get more than $10 in interest from your bank in a year, your bank will tell the government the amount of interest earned through the 1099-INT form. This can be used to infer what your average balance was for the year.
"Enshittification" is not a hard word. It's describes itself: "En-" to make, "shit" bad, "-ification" the process of; in sum the process of making something bad. I think everyone understands that the products and services they use daily are getting worse and now they have a word to describe that experience. I think that by basing itself on the mild swear "shit" it actually distances itself from academic jargon or other fancy words to try to be something that is closer to the common person.
I used bash and netcat for a queue like this once. I stashed the on disk if the database was down and read them back if far end was down.

The think Kafka really brings to the table is trusting the pipe -- in a case where writing to disk queues would occur often enough, I would run into reliability building my own system, instead Kafka handles that type of indexing.
That kind of severance is a pipe dream for many if not most engineers in the bay. I am happy for you but the rest of us have to make our own severance by never taking an hour of PTO until we’re laid off or a project ends. It’s nice to hear your story because it’s a reminder that it’s not all bad and some companies value in house talent.

Edit: a word
I've never used one. I know they're popular with artists but I have very little concept of how they're used. I would not have guessed that anyone uses them to crop images.
for everybody still on physical medium (be it paper, board, whatever), did you try to leverage digital tools thinking it would allow wider expressiveness, faster iteration, more precision and yet came back to paper ?

if so do you think it's due to cultural habit (being raised on pen and paper) or maybe a neurological need (paper requires more psycho/physical stimulation, you have to draw geometries, letters, organise.. that cost might be actually beneficial for your brain way of working)
No idea, but IIRC some are. The text is legalese so hard to make out exactly. Then also it's per country, even more complicated. Filing a case also is per country.
Looks like GitHub is handling Passkeys smoothly. I added one on my Mac stored in 1Password with no problems.

Note that not all sites are handling it quite as well. For example I tried to add one at Home Depot. As part of this they emailed me a verification code. I entered the code, and it then asked if I wanted to enable login by Face ID or Touch ID.

I'm on a Mac which has neither Face ID or Touch ID so said no. It continued and I was logged in.

It turns out that if you say no it doesn't actually make a Passkey. It just does a one time password free login via entering that code that was mailed to you.

To actually make a Passkey for Home Depot you have to say yes to Face ID or Touch ID.
Where can we read more about this? I'm at least curious to know who that competitor is.
interesting, I didn't think users of tiktok read books.
The root problem with KSP2 is that they needed to make the core of the game perform much better than KSP1 in order to pull off the scale of what they intended to achieve. And then the they shipped into EA with significantly worse performance than KSP1.
I'm grateful for giving me a good answer, it really makes me want to continue this project
Most of the 14 minor releases since 2014 have addressed security including 4.1.14 this past February. See https://www.openoffice.org/security/bulletin.html

For instructions on how you can report an actual security issue: https://openoffice.apache.org/security

We do wish to know about security problems. We are an all volunteer project. AFAIK No one is paid anything to work on Apache OpenOffice
https://github.com/mikaei/mouthful/
You are bringing data from a transactional (OLTP) system into a reporting/analytics (OLAP, lakehouse, data warehouse, data hub) system.

The analytic database is expected to maintain a list of all customers and their transactions going back years. The transactional system stores a more limited history for operational performance reasons.

You daily pull the list of customers from source transactional system and upsert/merge it into your analytic database. Over time the source transaction team removes old unused or mistakenly created customers.

If you use a pure upsert without awareness/handling of source-side deletes, your analytic list of customers grows without any way to indicate to reporting users which customers are still in your transaction system (or when they got deleted from the transactional system.) But various analytics and/or APIs from your analytic system need to exclude such no-longer-present customers…

“Why am I seeing these customers in analytics that aren’t in the source system?” “Can I just get the current customer list from the analytic system?” “Can your analytics component X quit transmitting to me these old/bogus customers I don’t see in the transactional system?” people will ask you…
Besides Reddit, do you have other examples ?
Affordable living can be had, where only the citizens can buy land. E.g. the philippines has quite affordable housing. And magically only filipinos can buy land. Coincidence?
OnePlus debuts OxygenOS 14 as a buzzword-laden upgrade to Android 14
Each time I have been laid off, the opportunity afterwards has been significantly better. Perhaps, I have just been lucky.

After my first lay off, I got a job at Sun Microsystems in 1999. I was able to buy a house. After my second lay off from Sun in 2007, I was able to receive a significant promotion as a director. After my third lay off in 2017, I was able to find a great opportunity at Walmart where I no longer have management responsibilities.

If I hadn't lined up my next job so quickly, I definitely would have started my own company or consulting business. The most important thing is to believe in yourself, stay current, and prepare to ride the next wave in technology. :-)
YouTube is a great resource for this. Channels like The QB School, Football Analysis, and AllexRollinsNFL just name a few examples. Getting a 22 man view with a knowledgeable guide is a great way to understand the thought that goes into each play.
Romi’s Revenge: Notorious Manga Pirate Launches Explosive Book, Demands Retrial
I guess it's a gamble on whether you could gain users faster than you'd be losing them. Either way I don't think this can be the case with Unity due to how niche their product is with many alternatives (including free ones).
We have tools that do awesome for driven individual students. We’ve had them since before computers.

The problem is we expect to have a fair amount of success educating students who are not driven, which is a large majority of students. Almost anything works with driven students.
There are a few things that happen automatically to titles (removing numbers at the beginning, adding [pdf] and [video] tags, etc.) but for the most part two things seem to hold:

1. There's a preference for using the original title (mostly) as is

2. BUT, ultimately it's up to the mods' discretion. If they don't like a particular title because it seems misleading or clickbaity, they will sometimes change it. Sometimes they'll even change the submitted link - for example, changing to a better source for the story.
Another paper user checking in. I even have two different types of pads. One with thin paper for taking notes in meetings and such, since they will be deciphered to better paper later, and the thin paper will be recycled. One for more robust paper to which said notes will be deciphered and arranged, which is also used for real work. Plus I find it very hard to read from screens, even e-ink, so I tend to print things out if it's going to be a long read.
Can we get the link changed to the GitHub repo? There's no such link on the given page.

There's also no additional info such as if this works on SPA type websites, or if it's just doing naive curl scraping. How does it handle link depth determination?

Lots of questions, few answers.
Umm... significantly less than that? US telecom isn't a shining star of good value and fair pricing, but a median speed of 210 Mbps with a roughly $75/mo bill is a lot better than Saint Helena Island.
> It's not exactly a conspiracy theory.

The anti-Semitic conspiracy theory is that Jews are perceived as power brokers controlling global financial markets and having massive sway. And that the ADL is some powerful lobbying group with the ability snap it's fingers and get multi-billion dollar corporations to do it's bidding.

No one is denying that the ADL is pressuring groups to boycott platforms and organization that are supporting anti-Semitic messages. The disconnect is that "Conservatives" think it is completely unfounded because they are incapable of self reflection. "Conservatives" feel that their entire ideology is being unfairly attacked by global Jewish power brokers while ignoring the blatant racist white nationalist venom spitting maggots infesting their ranks.

I say "Conservatives" because they aren't true conservatives and haven't held or are sacrificing most of those ideals for decades to "own the libs". Politics in America are no longer a divide between about progressive vs conservative ideals, but rather between a divide between those that would embrace people who are different and those that would rather hurt them.

Modern "Conservatives" are so blinded by hate that they are willing to forgo Individual Freedom, Limited Government, Fiscal Responsibility, and Human Dignity to hurt others. They cry foul when anyone attempts to uphold the Rule of Law, demonstrate Peace through Strength, or leverage the Free Markets against them. They are no longer conservatives but rather hate mongers who want to win at all costs.
You make a good point, enough for me to realize that I misunderstood the comment. Still, the last sentence of the GP comment veered into nationalistic putdown.

Flamebait in a comment has to do with the most inflammatory thing it contains, not the most interesting thing. When a house is on fire, people don't admire the décor.
As a very crude analogy, if someone got access to my brokerage account and used to money in that to buy a Ferrari and got caught, do I get my money back or get the Ferrari (and presumably have to sell it)?
Looks like that should be the example rather than promoting unsafe coding.
This kind of makes sense, but then wouldn’t you be interested in designed functions too.

If I crash land, I definitely want to know edible mushrooms vs poisonous. But if there’s a cooler full of supplies with a sign that says “help yourself” that’s useful too.
I was on vacation when this came up, so playing some catch up. I work for Google Search. I've been very involved with the concerns raised about quoted searches last year, especially because they never stopped working. They do work.

We did make an update last year to better reflect where quoted content appears on a page in the snippets we show. We did this because sometimes it's hard to find the quoted material on the page itself, leading to the "quotes don't work" issues.

This post explains more about this:
https://blog.google/products/search/how-were-improving-searc...

The post also explains things like how with punctuation, we'll ignore that -- which leads to the "example.com" type of issue you might be having. If you're quoting a domain name, we're likely seeing that as "name com" rather than a request to just search within the domain. If you want to just search within the domain, that's what site: is for such as [site:example.com whatever you want to search for]
Did you miss the "generative AI" in the headline? All the examples you list are general applications of NLP's, not of generative AI. Your argument would be similar to defending nuclear missiles by listing all the good things that a nuclear power plant can bring.

Do I need to cite the math textbook that I used to learn algebra when I write a book on calculus?

Yes, you do, if you put verbatim snippets of those textbooks in your own work.
Rust situation reminds me of US military aphorism:

“amateurs talk strategy and professionals talk logistics”

Rust community is endlessly talking and obsessing with strategy where as average Rust user suffer from lack of logistics concerns about libraries / runtime usage etc.
It's obvious that advances in technology have been "taking away jobs" for centuries. The automobile must have been hell on farriers, leather workers, stables and hay suppliers, but it obviously created mechanics, gas stations and all the rest. Asbestos miners lost their jobs en-mass, as are coal miners now.

The writing is on the wall that self-driving vehicles are coming (taxis, transport trucks, etc.). We could argue all week about the timeline for when exactly, but the important thing is they are coming.

The really important part of this is how will society handle the "loss of jobs". Are we already preparing for this eventuality? Are we gearing up to re-train truck drivers, are we gearing up to not have thousands of taxi drivers per city and all the stuff that comes along with that (added taxes, medallions, etc.)

Do we want the protection of jobs to limit our use of technology?

Should we block progress just so people can keep jobs that are not healthy for them in the first place?
ChatGPT is the killer product for text. It has rough edges, but in a lot of cases it is far better than Google. Maybe it won’t kill Google but it will hurt. If you think it hallucinates too much, well I have bad news for you about the future of content on the open internet too.

I’m pretty bearish on all of the other ChatGPT API call apps: I don’t see how limiting ChatGPT to a specific use case is adding value for me.
Because the government seems highly regressive and is almost certainly controlling and monitoring the one cable they've allowed?
I don't know the poster specifically, of course, but this is a very common view.

It's known, at least by its opponents, as "The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics".
Because there is no such thing as a "new construction low end market". The finishings of a house or apartment aren't the expensive part of construction.

Look at the inputs to construction, there's no difference between low end and high end. Everything has to meet building code up to an extremely high standard due to modern building regulations. New laws mandate things like low-e glass, tougher insulation codes, solar panels (California requires them on new builds now), seismic, radon mitigation, AFCI, firewall requirements, etc. The average 50 to 100-year-old apartment has none of those things, and it would be illegal to build such a thing today.
First. Don't read too many of other people's opinions. Or I better say, follow your own path!

I knew a guy in late 90' who worked in a factory floor. He started tinkering with computers trying to fix them, install software. He had no idea what he's doing at the beginning. He was 40 years old. In the coming years he became a tech wiz. Moved from factory floor to QA camera assembly and programming and on the side had a computer repair business. He started programming on the side as well and became pretty good at it. Real problem-solver guy. The kind of person you want if you're building something no matter hardware or software or both.

To answer your question: No, it's not to late!
Reminds me of something I once heard a VP say at a very old, established company. Something along the lines of, "Our brand is trust. It took 90 years to build it, but it would take just one day to destroy it."

The point he was making was that this old, established company's biggest asset was its brand, and its brand identity was just "trust" (they made professional products, and others could undercut them, but pros would always return to buy from them because they knew they would get what they paid for).

It's the kind of attitude I think every toolmaker (software or otherwise) should keep in mind. Professionals value trust more than they do dollars in their pocket, and the companies with the best reputation and longevity understand that.

But also that company was privately owned by a family, and their name is still over the front door. I think that when the execs answer to people whose name is synonymous with the products and culture of the organization, avoiding short term profit motivated garbage strategy is part of your MO.
Tesla Optimus Update
> You give those immigrants legal protections

They already have legal protections for this. The problem is the workforce is poorly educated immigrants who, who are fleeing desperate circumstances and have different expectations compared to native born Americans. They’re much less likely to strike to demand better conditions when they’re just grateful things are better than in back home.
> Be frugal, save money

Whether or not the future looks bright, this is sound advice for everyone. As an immigrant to the US, one of my biggest culture shocks was how little the average American saves, and how little it's emphasized in the culture. Perhaps it speaks to how much faith the public has in government-provided social programs, despite the popular notion that the US does very little for its poor and elderly. (Are things different in Western Europe?)
If you want to do this why don’t you put your money into triple the number of bug fixes in releases, and focus on the quality of Firefox instead of the adventure projects.

If you want to see an example of a very complex software project with an impressive release schedule that’s focused on quality check out the release notes for the JetBrains IDEs.
High-End Prostitutes might make the highest money/minute (many charge like $1200/hour, obviously fully tax-free), short of things like pro-football players if you only count the minutes that the game clock is ticking.
Data Mess*
However that doesn't matter when you have an existing game title already in the market. You just maintain your title, which you need to do anyway.
The FAQ is just the FSF's wishful thinking, and not a legal document.

If your program can fork and exec another GPL-ed program, and exchange complex data structures with it, that is neither here nor there.

All that matters is whether or not you are redistributing the program, and if so, whether that is in accordance with its license, which restricts the manners of redistribution.

If you are not shipping that program, but your own GPL-incompatible program needs it (your program cannot be used unless the user has an installation of the GPLed program) then you're likely in infringing waters, because it could be seen as redistribution anyway. Though it you aren't physically redistributing the GPLed program on the same medium, redistribution of that GPLed program, carried out by someone somehow, has to take place for your program to work. It's as if you are redistributing it "by proxy". If the user doesn't have that program, you have to instruct the user on how to obtain it, thereby turning that user into an agent of redistribution, acting on your behalf.

But if you ship another program which is drop-in compatible with that the GPLed one, which allows your main program to run, then in all likelihood the GPL doesn't have a leg to stand on against you.

If you don't redistribute a GPLed program, in any manner, whether directly or "by proxy", you cannot be infringing on its license.

A GPLed program being combined with yours by the user, in their installation, has nothing to do with you, if that combining isn't a condition of your program being able to usefully execute. That is not redistribution but use, which the GPL does not restrict.
I'll take you up on that offer, since it's pretty clear you don't have any answers and I love donating to the EFF.

My terms are as follows:

- you must write a clear, concise policy proposal

- you must post the proposal on HN

- A randomly selected (my selection) HN reader of that post will grade if your proposal is clear, persuasive and well cited. If you fail to pass, then I owe you nothing. You may keep retrying as long as you wish.

- your total billable hours for this concise policy proposal should be no more than 4 hours.

Are these terms acceptable?
Wouldn't using an AGPL license be better for this than just GPL?
Always happy to see more internet infrastructure coming online. Has anyone built a fun interactive map of all the subsea cables?

(disclosure: googler)
There are a ton of situations where it’s really a good idea to have a paper backup. Traveling, especially internationally, and you lose your phone in a taxi? Do you know your itinerary and where you’re staying?

I’m not religious about it for simple trips where I know where I’m staying but I definitely make a printout for anything more complex—but I bet a lot of people don’t.
> I can’t even get it to consume an entire chapter at once to generate notes or flashcards yet.

Anthropic’s Claude 100k is your jam, then. And Amazon just invested $1 billion in them.
I wish I had a large enough Twitter following to make a public claim about this before Unity "went back" on the first version of the recently-announced pricing changes, but I was nearly certain this was an intentional move to make the "Update on our update" second version more palatable.

There's probably a wiki link somewhere to the Proper Noun PR phenomenon in business school for this strategy, but the "terrible plan then less terrible plan but still worse than before the initial terrible plan" strategy seems like essentially a confirmation Unity is not to be trusted for small developers. It's sad to lose a great dev community but it sounds like BUG is making the right call here.
Sometimes I want to get more into paper, so I have an excuse to buy pretty notebooks. I do that about once a year and never end up using it right now.

Secondarily, hearing about our risks of EMPs from solar flares (or even in war scenarios), or in case of electrical grid collapse (a not-impossible scenario in some countries), paper is the only way I'll have survival knowledge available to me.
What you’re saying doesn’t make sense at all.

If that was true that would have been just some marketing campaign.

There would have been no need to divert the attention from the free software foundation.
Hey, at least Getty handed over some money as the basis for that claim, OpenAI et all are leaning on "our scraper brought it back" to maker their version of that exact claim.
Yeah their new pricing model is quite literally more expensive than Unreal for many of their customers (mostly the ones who make less money - for massive studios it's cheaper) and it's ALSO more complex to comply with. A simple "we're doing revshare now, and the per-seat fee is going away" would have been viewed more favorably I think.
Taylor Swift concerts are much more common than super bowls. Maybe a playoff game is a better analogy? ;)
My SO got TikTok for this reason. There’s a big community on it for reviewing the latest fiction and YA novels. I suppose many readers aren’t looking for lengthy reviews when they choose what to read next, but rather a person suggesting related content to a genre they enjoy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorico
Is there a reason to believe Amazon is more trustworthy than OpenAI?
Lmsys-Chat-1M: A Large-Scale Real-World LLM Conversation Dataset