skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it is happening in America, which is very puritanical, but my feeling is that when people highlight elements that would not be accepted today in historical people, the goal is not to paint them as the devil, but to understand that nothing is all white and all black, and help learning to have a smarter approach to history than those lazy "heroes vs bad guys" depiction.

> But his reputation has been harmed like almost anyone who's been in the public spotlight for long enough.

These kinds of affirmation are really easily the result of the bias. You see a lot of public figure in the spotlight having their reputation harmed, but you don't notice the ton of people who are just "normal" or "not unlucky" that are not and will never be harmed.

For example, it is true that when Trudeau dressed in black-face, it was not such a big deal. But then, the probability of dressing in black-face was still very small. How many innocent people just dressed in black-face just for an innocent joke at the time? So, people who are "unlucky" are statistically a minority.

As another example, behavior like Stallman or Roiland are not "normal". "normal" people are just not that abusive or inconsiderate. So, people who are "not normal" are also a minority and to some extend even deserve it a little bit (they should have known better than being jerks, having their reputation harmed for being a jerk is not a bad thing, it is a normal consequence).
I have a friend who has been suffering from blood cancer for about 7 years now. Her father died around the time she was diagnosed and she was a 25 year post office employee, so she was able to retire with an inheritance and live her life. She's spent more time on ships on vacation this year than the total vacation time I've taken in my 40+ years on this planet including childhood trips.
You should be. HN buried Mastodon as a viable social media platform a year ago.
I am blocked from discord also.
ah. i am not alone. yay.
Maybe your sample is biased towards companies that track individual badge-in rates.
I'll share a small secret. I don't know how replicable this is but I'm curious. Ad sets work really well for a while and then the numbers start getting faker and faker. So what I do is duplicate sets and everyday pause one and start another. This has given me better numbers although never 100% reliable numbers. All ad platforms fake some data and charge you for it.
It's not just board games BTW. I used to play volleyball a lot. Yes, I played competitively, with strenuous drills during the week and tournaments on the weekends. But I also played pickup, and that was almost entirely social. I've gotten a bit of that with tennis too, but never played that as much. Now I'm in two pickleball groups. One is kind of competitive, but the other is a mix of "let's improve together" and pure socializing. They're both fun.

So I sort of disagree with the OP. The point of a game is what the participants want it to be. Yes, it can be something other than winning, but if it is winning that's OK too.
Bunch of newly created accounts in the replies
Web Scraping Using ChatGPT – Complete Guide with Examples
The Pentagon themselves admitted that they helped setup 46 biolabs in Ukraine

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/us-asked-explain-a...

Robert Kennedy Jr also confirmed this. Not surprised - this is the same crap that occurred in Wuhan Institute of Virology. Since U.S. laws do not permit this stuff, the U.S. does bio weapons research outside the nation.
The irony is they your comment is the one so far off that the concept of comparing options is foreign to you.
Are there any HDMI ports that let you use it as a regular TV?
> https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3546068

There are multiple analysis of that breach available. Pick one.

Here’s a starter.
How else would you define how much a dollar is?
> If you’re wondering why you have trouble selling to enterprise and government clients, this type of gap in perception is a big part of it.

Most HN founders aren't on YC anymore aside from their 1 free Show HN post and the account you make for the YC app.

Speaking from experience, they have much healthier discussions on Bookface, Twitter, and in person.

You're basically stuck talking with salty burnouts on here (to paraphrase a YC friend of mine who has publicly hated on HN)
I am running JAX version of "ctoraman/hate-speech-bert" over here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37696033 and its pretty efficient
For on-prem or cloud, you need some engineers (either SRE or SysEng) to handle your hosting infrastructure. So, not much difference in cost there. Then, there is all of that compute. Currently, an AMD EPYC 7551 system can be put together for about $2.2K USD. That’s 64 threads, 256GB of RAM, redundant 2TB NVMe in RAID1, plus chassis, power and such. The equivalent amount of compute being available 24/7 is going to be extremely pricey over time.

My current employer handles things where internal service at the org are on-prem while customer facing services are cloud. Even the cloud stuff backs up to an on-prem storage system (though it also gets backed up to an off-site S3 provider).
That's just autism
RFC 20 [0] defines an 8-bit "ASCII Format for Network Interchange". The older documents are careful to call it "network ASCII" or "ASCII-8" (or the related "NVT-ASCII" for TELNET), but some newer documents (e.g., [1], [2], or [3]) abbreviate the name to "ASCII" in the context of network interchange. (Though I don't mean to refute that "ASCII" or "7-bit ASCII" or especially "US-ASCII" can refer to rhe 7-bit codeset, only to note that the unqualified name has been overloaded to refer to 8-bit ASCII as well.)

[0] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc20.html

[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc822.html

[2] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3797.html#page-6

[3] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7997.html
this was posted here and flagged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37701476

I don't know why it's flagged tho,
because it's true. I can confirm my desktop client is blocked (same screen as in the article), but funnily enough I can go to discord.com and login through the webinterface. Maybe they disabled the cloudflare CDN as an emergency measure in their webapp?
To all Visual Node Graph editor developers, I have a request: Can you guys make nodes snap to a grid?

This would make graphs a lot cleaner AND could be made browsable by keyboard.
In collapsed societies gold isn't great either. You would want to have things that people actually need. Some gold might buy you some antibiotics but the valuable thing isn't the gold and the antibiotics seller would know that.
systemd-analyze plot gives me the following numbers:

Startup finished in 17.642s (firmware) + 9.467s (loader) + 20.168s (kernel) + 12.175s (userspace) = 59.453s graphical.target reached after 12.102s in userspace.

Subtract the slow motherboard firmware (17.642s) and me typing in my password (about 5s, nowhere close to the 9s+20s that the loader+kernel is taking to boot before systemd kicks in) and I get about 45 seconds of "this is what Linux and tools is actually doing before I can log in".

All Windows version from XP up to 7 were horrifically slow until modern SSDs came along. For years, you could take any Vista (or even XP) era computer, double or quadruple the RAM and insert an SSD, and it would feel like a completely new machine. You can still pick up a second hand high-end Windows 7 computer for cheap and use it for what you would otherwise spend $500-700 dollars on after ripping out the hard drive and installing an SSD.

Having used Windows 7 from a HDD for years, I can tell you for sure that Windows 7 sure didn't boot this fast when I first got it :)
The worst part of the story to me is —- those were not even the right keys, those were something issued to a client and scoped, but scoping check was broken. It’s unbelievably bad all around
Russia have thrown everything they have at Ukraine over the last year-and-a-half. Cruise missiles, hypersonic missiles, their best troops and naval assets.

Now they're buying equipment from Iran (!?) and North Korea.

Russia, in their deep USA envy thought they'd have their own Shock and Awe! 3 day SMO.

Instead they overestimated themselves, and massively underestimated Ukraine.

The cupboard is empty. The only thing they have left is nuclear weapons, which they're quite rightly terrified of using. All that remains now is a long slow and grinding defeat as Putin expends every available Russian male in his desperate attempt to remain in power and not back down.
Typical JRPG. Start with saving a cat, end with fighting Microsoft.
In this case it’s likely the ratio of units sold rather than “millions” that expresses GP’s point. You have a point that Samsung is the only company really competing in this space though. See https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2023/08/29/top-10-...
No. The pins are still there. My guess is most peole don't have a need for it.
Pretty awesome for first Show HN. Multimodal search is very fascinating. I am using SDXL + LoRa model over here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37696033
Surviving Burning Man
I don't think his position is extreme, just impractical to implement for the time being.

Time and time again showed me why free and open source software is important, but they keep lagging behind their competitors in term of funding.
I never said "Proton is just wine". I said "Proton is basically just Wine". Leaving out that qualifier makes a big difference.
>My new take is the govt will bail out the masses in some instances, so just follow the trend.

Unless they are too incompetent or corrupt to keep the ship sailing. Which you could also reword into the problem becoming too complex and the process missing means to counter steer.

Especially with the later framing it becomes clear that one might have unrealistic expectations for the process the problem got delegated to. Stuff is complicated and checks and balances in form of the fourth estate are currently dysfunction due to a lack of a financing.
US Justice Department Urged to Investigate Gunshot Detector Purchases
Bro it's the end of the world...
The Tyranny of Nits
The hard work I'm referring to is all the effort to get to place where you have even be "lucky" or serendipitous.

For example, professional networking is a tremendous amount of work. But in meeting, bonding and potentially working with those people opens so many possibilities for serendipity / luck what have you. Sure there are those with Daddy's money, but more importantly the relationships, networks and resources that Daddy has are more important than just the cash.

Nepotism, sure, but that's how the society has pretty much always worked.
The only viable alternative to iOS/Android apps are web apps.
Apple fights it by limiting number of features you can use in the browser on mobile phones and no alternative browsers.
Google - by saying, ok, go with it, you will use tech, that we control anyway.

The current amount of hacks needed to make the native desktop apps compatible across even the same operation system, but different versions, is kinda scary.
Pretty sure the similar situation for mobile apps too.
Did the same with those $1 US coins when the mint was allowing you to purchase them for $1 free shipping. We would get as much as possible and then turn around and deposit into the bank.
People fled from mainframes to client server. Running a Windows Server with BackOffice in their IT department and having Windows clients. Now they are flocking to the cloud.

I remember when the Network Computer was going to put Microsoft out of business. It was Sun providing the NC and JavaOS, Netscape providing the Web Browser and anyone who wanted to license the NC to make their own. Internet was too slow then as everything was stored on the Internet, which because the Cloud model. Microsoft bundled IE with Windows to destroy Netscape and made Dotnet destroy Java.

This is embarrassing for Microsoft. All their cloud services have been hacked. Data has been leaked. Could lead to lawsuits.
Are there companies that don't keep track of whether or not their employees are showing up for work?
On-prem hardware may become fashionable but simple server hosting most likely not. If it ever becomes fashionable then most likely it will be some form of container (or Kata Container) orchestrator on top of on premise hardware.

Also even for softwares deployed on on-prem hardware, big orgs will still need single sign on, which will still be open to these kind of attacks.
I'm wondering if these are exempt from costco's legendary return policy.

I'm just imagining someone walking in and asking to return some items, then plonking five of these on the counter. Granted, From what I've heard, ~$10k sales/returns at costco are not that uncommon.
TI's WEBENCH interface is like this. You tell it what type of converter you need (DC/DC or AC/DC), the desired characteristics (input voltage range, output voltage, output current, EMI filtering, isolated output, ambient temperature, etc), tell it what you want to optimise for (efficiency, cost, footprint area), and it will give you everything it can that fulfills those criteria (including schematics and bill of materials), allowing you to then sort the results by e.g. consumed board area, component count, features (enable inputs, automotive qualifications, ...).

What it can't do is tell you how to lay out the board to get the result you want. The switching IC datasheets typically have layout examples, and these are sometimes complete nonsense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYUYOXmo9UU
I mean fostering and nurturing any reason at all for these people (and people like them) to stay in the EU and not work for US based "exploitative mega corporations". Why do so many EU citizens see working for (or trying to start) a US based "exploitative mega corporations" the best way to achieve their tech goals.
They replaced Windows NT with Classic Mac OS?
If you believe that I have some magic beans to sell you.
Windows is enshittifying so rapidly that I firmly believe that, if Valve really wanted to, they could eat Microsoft's lunch when it comes to the non-enterprise desktop market, which is almost exclusively gamers these days. Fortunately for Microsoft, Valve seems content to officially position and market SteamOS as just for its handheld, even though it's entirely possible to run it on other hardware.
> "But in 2005 Linus Torvalds invented git, which would fairly rapidly obsolesce all previous version-control systems"

> (cries in Perforce)

> Git was a huge improvement over CVS and SVN. Claiming that it rendered everything that came before it obsolescent just suggests massive ignorance of chunks of the software industry.

But this article is for common knowledge. It explicitly says that it does not deal with all parts of the software industry just parts that any hacker would know.

So yes now git is the only version control used for distributed collaboration of source code.
> Games which you arent supposed to or cant win are called toys.

This list includes Tetris, Pac-Man, and Minecraft, among many others. Are you sure this is a meaningful distinction?
I was just texting somebody then that happed, but its fine since I reported it to them that there was an issue.
I feel like the sender is more at fault in these cases. BCC exists for a reason.
I'm not 100% sure that being wealthier explains it all. Over the past 15 years I've owned Android and iOS/iPadOS devices and I've spent a lot more in the Apple App store.

During that whole time I've also owned a Windows computer and I've spent even less in the Microsoft app store. I'm not sure I've ever spent a dime on Linux (other than ordering some distros on CD before I had a good internet connection).

> It’s remarkable that they can release a phone for $1600.00 (pro max with 1TB storage) and sell millions of them every year.

It's not that remarkable. I keep my phone 3 years so it works out to a little more than $1 / day factoring in trade-in or resale at the end of that time. A lot of people can afford that.
Security researchers agree with OP and disagree vehemently with your assessment.

Cloud is centralizing. Centralizing, instead of distributing, is bad.

Centralization broadens and expands the attack surface and creates a honey pot for attackers.

This isn’t hyperbole nor is it alarmist. This is reality playing out before us in real time.
> It's very easy to pick up some small but niche artist that is not on Bandcamp, and upload their music pretending to be them.

Yes, quality control is something else where Bandcamp could drastically improve. New releases are riddled with questionable stuff. Blatantly copying an existing artist is one thing, but often it's popular stuff just slightly modified, usually pitched up/down with some new drum loop and then called a day. I know there's a whole artform in remixing/mashups/etc., but there's a line somewhere where it just becomes a lazy rip-off.
Ask HN: Why isn't Phoenix/Elixir more mainstream?
Hey all!

I've been a frontend developer for years, primarily working with React and Vue, connecting them to REST or GraphQL APIs. Lately, I've been diving into Phoenix/Elixir, and I've been intrigued.

From the docs and examples, Phoenix seems to offer a significant amount of built-in functionality, potentially providing a more streamlined and robust approach than the separate backend/frontend architectures I've been using.

However, I know there's always more to the story. For those experienced with Phoenix/Elixir:

What are its pros and cons compared to popular frontend frameworks?

Why hasn't it gained as much traction as other frameworks?

Appreciate your insights!
iPhone 15: users of Pro and Pro Max models complain of overheating issues
This is especially weird because there’s another usage of pirate in the form of “pirate radio.” This refers to radio stations that broadcast illegally, without a license. They also have a kind of swashbuckling reputation!
Show HN: Built a Tool to Automate Tedious Tasks with AI, Without Coding
Hey, Lorenzo here,

Started to work on this side-project for a week or so, I’m curious what y’all think! Coflow connects AI to your current platforms and automates any repetitive/manual task without coding. How it works:

- Specify the trigger/input the AI should expect

- Tell the AI what to do

- Specify where to send/store the output

- Deploy and let it run

Would love your feedback :)

Early access: https://www.joincoflow.com/
Maybe the use case isn't chat, and people need to stop looking at evolving tech solely through the lens of status quo applications of earlier incarnations?

$4 to run two research papers through GPT-4 asking it to identify differences in methods in order to accelerate directing focus during a meta-analysis seems like a pretty amazing price point even if that same price point is expensive for a chatbot to answer a customer query about on a website.

Which itself may not be an expensive price point if the good in question is an automobile or a travel package even if it is for laundry detergent.

Markets tend to find an equilibrium pretty quickly, and I've yet to see any AI products priced such that I can't think of any applications where they'd be welcome as long as performance was adequate.
It's a bit more complicated than that. The routes I'm talking about are the North Atlantic Tracks, which are used for most traffic between North America and Europe. There are multiple tracks and SLOP is used within each track. All of the tracks run in the same direction at the same time, switching directions twice a day. They go eastbound at night, westbound during the day. SLOP is a mitigation to prevent aircraft in sequence on the same track from colliding. There are, of course, many other systems and procedures in place to prevent such collisions, but it's belt-and-suspenders up there.
I guess I'm more surprised that these were anonymous at some point. That seems like a pretty normal thing to track when you pay employees hourly. Were they in the building when they claimed to be working?

Like I realize this is charged up by the work from home discussion, but I'd expect any building with a badge to get in the door to be tracking those events, at the very least to detect unauthorized access, but also to detect folks claiming to be working when they're not even there. Basic fraud prevention stuff really.
CodeWeaver is the major force behind wine, wine devs that aren't volunteers are employees of CodeWeaver, aren't they?
In light of recent AI advancements, deciding not to buy a search engine seems like it might have been a good decision.

A lot is going to change in how search, and the associated business model, works in the next few years.
Yes, I think Zapier is a B2B version of IFTTT.
Imagine what the CA/Browser Forum would do if they discovered that a PKIX CA had lost control of its signing keys, didn't revoke them and in fact carried on using them for 2 years without telling anyone...
Fascinating insight. This is not dissimilar from other megacorporations that become too bureaucratized over their lifetimes. When growing quickly, bureaucracy helps to organize people and hold a team accountable for their own mistakes. As time moves on, these different teams begin to act as independent entities who no longer successfully communicate or collaborate and the entire business becomes both fragile and ossified, hence that “not my problem” attitude.
> This article is brilliant actually and really brings home just how crazy this year has been and still is.

The entire website is fantastic. I've been subscribed to their RSS feed for several months now, it has quickly become a favorite in my feed reader. Science-based, in-depth weather nerdery without clickbait/sensationalism.
Locking someone’s bank account means you can’t pay your rent/mortgage (become homeless), can’t buy food, can’t purchase your medicine, can’t work.
It's because HN is the first result when searching up "discord cloudflare blocked", there's a lot of people looking for help for this one it seems.
Most chemo nowadays will make you feel sick for a day or two, but they also usually give you something to manage the symptoms. If it had been a few days since his last dosage, he was probably feeling decent all other things considered. Radiation therapy, on the other hand, is still being burned alive from the inside out, and even opioids are insufficient most of the time. My dad tried to ration my mom's painkillers during her treatments below what was prescribed for her. I told him I was going to quit my job and drive down there to keep him away from her if he wasn't going to be supportive.
But is that because vitamin d protects against cancer, or because cancer lowers your vitamin D levels?

Or is it because people with higher vitamin D levels probably spend more time outdoors, and are getting more exercise?

I wish it was easier to figure this stuff out.
I wonder where they are coming from. Has hackernews become a site status checker, and because there's no good direct link, people are linking to HN? (tbh they also do that if there's a good direct link)
I can get in via browser but not via the desktop client.
What are you responding to.
The article has

> CR (Carriage Return) = Ctrl-M
It's supposed to, but current reports indicate that battery life is the same or worse with this lineup (maybe the overheating situation is to blame)
Yes.

https://news.slashdot.org/story/99/09/10/1034202/army-dumps-...
Web browsers used to be about websites, not applications. That's my point. It took years even after Gmail discovered the XmlHttpRequest for in-browser HTML applications to even become a thing people would just use.

> What if you included "Only if you allow it"?

You'd probably hear something like "IE/Opera is bloated enough already", I just want my downloads to finish faster.
Close, but not quite. The keys were for consumer Microsoft accounts, but accepted for organization accounts as well.