skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Intetestingly (or rather not surprising at all?) http3 is eating away the http2 traffic, while http1 just stays on a very slow decline.

HTTP1: the OG, meant for a much smaller individual scale. So great even today for smaller websites. Where smaller right now, with modern hardware, can actually still mean hundreds of requests per second and millions per day...

HTTP2/HTTP3: BigCorp optimization primarily for problems they're facing and not that many others are.

So viewed through this lens it's clear what's happening.

BigCorps are just moving from HTTP2 to HTTP3 and mom and pops don't give a crap, HTTP1 is good enough.
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The CVE severity scores kind of make sense in absolute (Daniel's post clearly shows that this isn't always the case) but many companies have an inelastic, inflexible, unthinking approach to them which really frustrates our effort to prioritize actually relevant stuff.

A CVSS 10 on a log4j library sitting unused in a folder, shipped with an app that isn't even running, should not have prio over an unauthenticated RCE on an internet-facing service without even a WAF in front of it. But hey, that's only a 9.2. Try having this discussion with an auditor. (I don't want to lump all auditors together - I have ~12 years of collaboration with them and met some excellent ones - typically the ones we lose after a short time because they're wasted on us. And then there are those who just want to see a documented risk acceptance and will happily tolerate some criminally insecure or stupid shit).
Smoke, air, ideas, concepts, proof of concept, a Reel, a trend topic,...
All I see when I look at job postings is tech stack. I am not interested in tech stacks or tools, and especially turned off by frameworks. As a senior engineer with over 15 years I provide solutions to business problems in a given platform. A software platform can generally be described in a single word: Java, Web, Rust, AWS, and so forth.

Because of that I no longer bother looking at Who Is Hiring or Work At A Startup.

From the perspective of more junior developers this must look like a game with checkboxes and scorecards. That’s exactly how third party recruiters view it. So, I completely understand use of AI boilerplate. Recruiters are the only way most of us are getting past resume submission now and they will game the hell out of your resume to get their commission.

Look, hiring is broken. It’s not clear what most employers are actually looking for if it’s not addressed in the job title. I just won employment with this big rocket company and it comes down to Java, test automation, cucumber. The interview was 30 minutes and I was selected because of my experience knowing I have never written Java. A tech stack never came up, but the requirements and expectations are clear on all sides.

In order to fix hiring employers must be willing to hire competent people to solve problems, not replaceable cogs to fill a seat. Most developers cannot communicate in writing, so make that part of a job filter that a candidate must write some essay in real time and must demonstrate some super trivial code solution (not leet code nonsense) in real time. Require they have code online somewhere if they pass all the filters. Garbage in, garbage out.

I also suggest reading about shovel vs spoon. The requirements for hiring in software are so failingly low that it resembles job placement. If you want candidates to take this seriously then don’t cast a wide net.
Ash HN: What if we use file system as database?
For example:

users/{user}/index.json

users/{user}/projects/{project}/index.json
It’s a delightful product with attention to detail you don’t tend to see other places. You don’t get that by buying the parts from AliExpress.
Nope, static typing triples the average bug count of a piece of software. Using static typing add complexity to your code and complexity leads to more bugs.

Static typing is where you significantly decrease your development speed and significantly increase your bug count in order to increase the performance of your software.
> Why hasn't Apple rewritten libtiff, libpng, libjpeg, libwebp, et c in Swift?

Because they're shared libraries which other programs have linked to.

Additionally they've had decades of work and rewriting them increases chance that it will break something.
Indeed, while the greenhouse gas effect is almost trivially simple science, it is acting on a global climate system that is complex in ways far beyond human understanding (though as you say, collectively we have put some impressive work into comprehending it). Given that our lives and civilizations depend on said complex system, I would consider it wise not to fuck with it.
> Every new iPhone, Pixel, or Samsung phone basically claims the camera is marginally better and hey, look at these software features that have very little to do with the hardware and should not fundamentally be a reason to upgrade to this phone.

But the software development is driven by the profit from hardware sales. Why would they improve the software if it doesn't make money?

I guess in the ideal world the phone's software should be pay-to-upgrade but free-to-stay-as-is.
It causes minor annoyances with ssl + maven as well, which can be fixed by -Dmaven.wagon.http.ssl.insecure=true.

Well, at least they tried I guess.
Same in video parsers and tooling frequently, expects a whole mp4 to be there, or a whole video to parse it, yet gstreamer/ffmpegapi delivers the content as a stream of buffers that you have to process one buffer at a time.
It is not "why" versus "what". It is "why" versus nothing at all, just a sudden disappearance with no information at all. My guess is that most people would prefer that. After all, ghosting is considered to be very hurtful.
And Apache?

Edit:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60324166/is-there-any-wa...

No plans as of right now.
1. e^x, sin(x) and cos(x) can each be expanded out into an infinite sequence of fractions (Maclaurin series), each fraction of the form x^n / factorial(n). This relies on differential calculus, Taylor series, theory of limits, convergence etc.

2. The e series fractions contain all the integers in the numerator (x^0, x^1, x^2, etc), while the sin series has only odd integers and the cosine series has only even integers. Also, e series terms are all additive while the trig functions series alternate adding and subtracting each successive fraction.

3. Introducing complex numbers (i = square root of negative one), we can generate the series for e^ix, which can be shown to be equal to sin(x) + i * cos(x). Note that introducing i into the e series means we generate a negative term for the even fractions in the e series (squaring i gives us -1), which is why i is so necessary here.

4. Solving e^ix for x = pi, using sin(x) + icos(x), we get -1.

Mathologer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dhHrg-KbJ0

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoAbA6rXrwA

As far as why an exponential function like e^x should have anything fundamental linking it to trigonometric functions like sin(x) and cos(x), it is rather strange.
Seems very similar to "Language Models Implicitly Perform Gradient Descent as Meta-Optimizers"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10559
There's always a good reason to fire a CEO
Yes, it's difficult to maintain the 'giant pile of scrooge mcduck gold' aesthetic in the apple corporate vaults if users aren't railroaded into buying a new phone every few years.
HN search engine now shows Google's 404 error page
Also screenshoted at https://web.archive.org/web/20231005115750/https://hn.algoli... and https://archive.ph/JLqBo
Somewhat related, several months ago I read Karen Armstrong's "A History of God" based on a recommendation in a similar thread. While not the most influential book I've read (I'm not even sure what that would be), it provided a nice perspective on the history and evolution of Judaism/Christianity/Islam and changed a lot of my opinions on the matter. Would recommend a read for anyone interested in the matter.
I do wonder how long it will be before VS Code eats Visual Studio for lunch.

If it does then I really hope they can reproduce the integrated experience I'm used to, with VSC plugins etc. Not looking forward to spending a lot of my day living in an electron-based environment though.
Meta aligning themselves with open source makes me feel gross.
You're making a straw man argument. That it's inadvisable is something we already agree on. That it's impossible has nothing to do with that. It's POSSIBLE despite being inadvisable. Choose your words more carefully next time.
We are a Series B startup <150 people. We use corporate cards but have limited it to VP+ only. Nothing else.
Ask HN: What Defines a Beta?
Is there a definitive definition? Is it almost production ready but working out bugs, is it a percentage like 50% or 80%? Should it be feature complete?

If so then what defines an Alpha release?

Is there some authoritative source and defintion for something so commonly referred to across our industry?
Thanks for wiping my hard drive
I looked at netflow data for the last 10 days from my router. 75% of the HTTP traffic is HTTP3, 23% HTTP1.1/HTTP2(over TLS) and 2% is plain HTTP.
Terry Pratchett he was so ahead of his time, he has a huge corpus of work it is funny, well written and timeless.
4/1-4/3+4/5-4/7+4/9...
There obviously are levels to being intimate. You can be more intimate with someone than with someone else. It also varies with time.

A better way to look at those categories is that they are dominant archetypes (like eigenvectors) that are variably fractionally fulfilled by each relationship. The archetypes are "real" in the sense that they accurately describe/compress reality, much like many datasets can be quite accurately compressed down to some major eigenvectors.
He most certainly didn't. I am pretty sure it was used in ML in early 2000s, especially in vision.
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There's a mountain in Bosnia that many believe is an artificially constructed pyramid (I wanted to say 'man made' but thats misleading, we don't know that..)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_pyramid_claims

There are also the Gornaya Shoria megaliths, also known as the Surak-Kuilum megalithic complex, in Siberia .. these are fascinating structures, I wish we'd get more exploration of this area.

Its very likely we're going to keep discovering things like this around the world - and especially in our oceans, where it is believed that similar pyramids exist around the Bahama's and in the oceans near Portugal ..
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No ide how it is in the US military, but the military supply chains I know face the risk of having obsolete parts, parts not being compatible with certain aircraft configurations, reused parts, used and damaged spare parts... And, in case of civilian hardware (e.g. AWACS engines, Poseidon aircraft...) also counterfeits.
Making the earth’s surface darker contributes to climate change, yes (that’s why sea ice loss is particularly bad). When you use the sunlight to make electricity usually the net effect is still positive.
It's returning a certificate for *.a.run.app rather than hn.algolia.com for some reason. I dug around a bit and you can (temporarily?) use this to access it: https://hn-search-web-main-3hmwcuxzqq-uc.a.run.app/

Edit: And it's back! Edit 2: And it's gone again!
Scientists stunned by planet’s record September heat
Numpy uses FORTRAN, so it might be a good place to start.

https://numpy.org/doc/stable/f2py/python-usage.html
There is an "albedo effect", yes, but it's not cumulative while CO2 in the atmosphere is.

Arguably there should be a "white roof" campaign for urban areas, it would be a cheap way of reducing the urban heat island effect.
Can you explain how you’re doing this? I’m in a very similar spot, using next JS with a special external folder that I use as an “outlet” for publishing
I don't know why people always comment this on posts about renewables as if it's some kind of gotcha.

When there's no sun, then other countries probably have sun. When there's no sun, there's hydro. When there's no hydro there's wind. When there's no wind, there's tidal. When there's no tidal there's geothermal. And when there's none of those, there's stored energy in batteries.

And if for some reason all of those combined can't satisfy the demand, then there's nuclear as a last resort.

And if there's none of any of those at all, then we've probably got bigger problems anyway
What you are complaining about is completely solved via microservices.
RLHF also drops GPT3.5’s chess elo from ~1800 to ~800 which i confabulate to be connected
A third option is very simply about focus. Yahoo experienced this itself under Verizon, wasting years on useless 5G-oriented initiatives, a completely irrelevant focus for Yahoo itself. If the focus of a company's leadership isn't aligned with what benefits a subsection of that company, spin-out is a good way for that subsection to gain an aligned focus without detracting from the parent company's goals.

Vespa's been a technology built with search & ad-serving in mind, while Yahoo's other recent moves have been ad-tech layoffs alongside acquisitions in sports, finance & tech journalism, so the focus shift makes some sense here.
I suspect that the more intricate/technical the skill is, plus the bigger the ROI of that extra technical know-how then the more likely a role will exist for this. So for example, if any person can get the same results as a dedicated prompt eng, then the less likely a prompt engineer role will exist. Also, if the prompt eng can get very different (and higher quality results) than any person, but the results are not that profitable, then less likely a prompt engineer roles will exist.

Bonus points for the likelihood of a dedicated prompt engineer role if the engineer can apply their wizardry across many aspects of the company. This kind of reminds me of the OSS (operational systems support) team I used to be part of, and still miss. In this team we applied mostly custom software solutions to any team that needed it. We worked hard to find customers within the company to earn our keep, else we would get laid off at the next convenient chance. I imagine prompt engineers, if given the chance, should work hard to find value and not just wait for the work to come to them.
TV Business in Further Contraction as Marketplace Reopens Post-Strike
Blame viruses, malware, phishing, ransomware, etc. IT has a responsibility to keep the network secure. Google is already experimenting with no Internet access for some employees, and that might be the endgame.
The most effective way I know to learn
Oh, is that why the page doesn’t have any text for me, just images, blank buttons, and an occasional “undefined”? I suspect it’s trying to translate it on the fly and failing?

EDIT: Clicking the semitransparent blue rounded square next the word “undefined” reveals a choice of languages. I have to choose one to actually see any text.
If itnis the same UK based company, we do know: criminal fraud and intentionally selling counterfeit parts.
>>>> feature factory, I think of an engineering team that has zero input into the product process and just builds whatever PMs or leadership says is important.

Yep, this was what I had heard referred to as a feature factory. No input of the engineering team, just take stories and churn out code.
Yes. It's 1.6/100k vs 6/100k. That's pretty damn close.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intenti...

And let's not compare a slice of the US the size of the UK or it will be zero. Maybe the better comparison is US vs EU. Or would that be too unfavorable for your argument?
From the article: "However, I have already bought this product and the other pieces for my car mount."

The black ring is probably one of the "other pieces for my car mount".
Anyone in the threads I collapsed should buy a speed square and read the booklet. Possibly over beer or tea.
Hopefully, IT doesn't notice when I use my `kill-zscaler.sh` script. It's horrible to work around when you arrive on a new company using it.
It's pretty strong in this list.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intenti...

Crime and poverty being linked is not poorly understood. It's pretty well known.

Therefore importing poverty increases crime as it increases poverty, regardless of your moral sentiment.

The US is simply more successful at importing poverty and assimilating class disparity than other countries.
Something I just thought about:

On a Last-Write-Wins CRDTs, can I just set my computer's time to like 100 years in the future, and thus make changes that can never be reverted by anyone?
Is it me or aren’t there a whole lot video specialists in general? It’s just something I noticed here and there on github.
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GPS never had leap seconds. Your hell is imaginary. It is a myth and a lie perpetrated by those that never looked beyond the convenient lie to children that is UTC and tried to understand the true nature of timekeeping.

GPS Time signal = TAI minus 19 seconds

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/a/90844
So either unapproved parts are of very high quality or airlines have been extremely lucky so far?
The "attack" was deciding that I live on a bubble of rich parents. In fact, my own mother wouldn't be hungry during dinner many evenings while we were growing up... only years later did I realize why.
In the case of websockets that is already handled for you.

I think GP talks about how to think about communication (client server).

Stateless request response cycles are much simpler to reason about because it synchronizes messages by default. The state is reflected via this back and forth communication. Even when you do it via JS: the request data is literally in the scope of the response callback.

If you have bi-directional, asynchronous communication, then reading and writing messages is separate. You have to maintain state and go out of your way to connect incoming and outgoing messages semantically. That's not necessarily what you should be doing though.
LLMs Are Interpretable
I'm still unable to tell from the page, what is the purpose of the database feature? Is this not a static website generator? I guess I misunderstood
There were such sites actually. Germany used to have one, it even looked just like Facebook and had some modest success for a time, but soon disappeared. I can't quite remember the name.

Mostly in Europe people just don't set up social networks at all. The laws just aren't compatible with the concept.
Like computing, having high uptime has a value all its own compared to an unreliable system. Countries which do have regular brownouts you find people buying their own (inefficient, polluting) generators to get round it.

Smart demand-response may yet become a thing, but it's not yet a commodity product. You need a system to send out "turn off" notifications, and a system for measuring that in realtime, and a system for paying people. Some grids _do_ have this, but only for very large consumers.
I think we follow different "creators" ...
Statements like: "The fact that strong static types makes the code self-documenting is the reason I vastly prefer it."

is exactly the reason why you shouldn't be use static typing.
We have a developer here who doesn't document any of their code and thinks that a good thing. Whereas in the dynamic typing world, they would be forced to use the good practice of documenting their code.

Code is never self-documenting, there are research studies on it.
So the US is less unequal despite having the highest immigration rate from the poorest countries. I agree.
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Unit Testing WebGIS in Angular
tags: Maplibre GL, Angular, Karma, Jasmine, Docker
The site doesn't render any text in Firefox.
Smart Programmers Write STUPID Code (2022)
I hope this service doesn't die as it's a really good search for HN comments
I just recently found out that even if browser supports up to http3, it still up to the browsers to decide which protocol to use even if the browser supports http3 too, this was dishearten to find out that you don't have control of forcing the browser to use http2 or 3 specially if you have features that only worked on http3 and was broken on http2, I guess I should have just fixed the implementation on http2
She seems less... aware. There's a video out there where she answers a question about their use of math that makes it seem like she was more of a figurehead who was in over her head rubber stamping all sorts of stuff that made her uncomfortable, but doing it anyway because 'it's working'.
Getting shit done is the antithesis of progress because it goes hand in hand with "if it was good enough for my father, it will be good enough for me, who are you to disrespect (the methods of) my father!"
Think of what you can do as International Earth Rotation Manager! Probably not much, but what a job title!
No, it's not Spain.
Freedom of information is a joke here. Ask what happens to fingerprints and the reply would be that the grass is green, 6 months later.
Trail of Bits Introduces Invariant Development as a Service
Well there you go, so it seems there were records of the word's usage around 1820s. Nice job. I can tell you one thing though. In colloquial Persian, achar for pickle is not used. It sounds odd and usually signifies some relation with Indian style pickles
There must a right angle to look at it...
OP meant Advent of Code I assume, in reference to programming on Christmas Eve.