skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One particular sore spot is the shell in POSIX.2 which Debian thought so highly of that they disposed of bash.

I understand that the POSIX shell must a) compile to a 64k text segment b) with clean code, but is this really the best that we can do?

Perhaps arrays are far too radical, but perhaps we could start with the simple bash-compatibility extensions that Ron Yorston has added to the Almquist Shell in the Windows version of Busybox.

Could the POSIX standard shell move that far? Or is there absolutely no hope?

https://frippery.org/busybox/index.html
The EU is looking into Meta and TikTok's handling of the Israel-Hamas war
Same.
It just works, even without Connectivity
Like yes hypothetically they could do that. But being an info sec person what I can tell you is much more likely is that 2 years ago a developer was having a bug that he fixed by downgrading the library that interacted with the database. It turned out there was a vulnerability in that version of the library allowing SQL injection, but now that is a core piece of business functionality and no cycles can be spared till "next sprint" which will never come because the company is still a scrappy startup that moves fast and break things. (Despite now having 100 developers and millions in revenue) then someone finds out and can exfiltrate your entire DB in about 20 minutes with automated tools.

Or what is more realistic is that they send an email to Sarah the the CEOs PA that says she needs to grant access to "John Smith" and she puts in her username and credentials in the corresponding link. Then those credentials are used to access GitHub (of course the secretary has GitHub access because one time the CEO wanted to look at something and couldn't so now he demands his secretary has full GitHub access) and then they find the root db username and password because after it was accidentally committed the intern decided just to delete it and put in a new commit because he didn't want to get in trouble. That attack took 10 minutes and an email.

My point being is if you are running something that is so secure it needs to be protected from this kind of hypothetical attack, while in that case you're probably already paying for a dedicated instance in the first place.
>Reuters leads by saying the reports come from "health officials", "Gaza health authorities", and "Palestinian health authorities", as if these are reliable third party agencies.

Hamas is the government of the Gaza strip. Anyone following the story should know that. Unfortunately, they're the most reliable source we have for much of this information.

I will admit that it could be made clearer. There are readers who are starting from a place of ignorance. A story should be written such that a 12 year old child could understand it. Also, there are two Palestinian governments and it's not always clear which is being referred to.

But the problem here is, I think, simply that writing is hard.

>They had a front page story about the hospital showing a completely different bombed building from the other side of Gaza as if that was the hospital that was destroyed [1].

The way you are framing this is inaccurate. The same picture had been on the front page for hours before the story of the explosion was published. It was not a part of that story. Here's a capture from hours before the story broke:

https://web.archive.org/web/20231017154440/https://www.nytim...

The caption for the picture also states that it is of a different city entirely.

I won't dispute that the design could be confusing. Also, I don't think such a picture belongs in a newspaper at all. It's useless and voyeuristic, serving more to shock than to inform. But this is clearly not a problem of dishonesty.

Besides, why would they lie? The actual pictures of the aftermath don't look any prettier.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/18/world/middleeast/gaza-hos...
Bigger, longer, and uncut can all refer to a human penis, or to a movie release.
I believe most work from home. Certainly there are many “work from a cafe” or “work as a footloose traveler” people, but I think they are a small minority in practice.
I was hoping someone would chime in with something like this. Thank you!
> I'm the most pro-union person you'll ever meet, but this is so cringe. Strikes work when you can shut down a factory and physically keep the scabs from getting in with a picket line. Not so much when you're a remote tech worker who can be instantly replaced by an equally competent third-worlder for $2/hr. You gotta know where your bargaining power lies, or you're just being an idiot.

You can't call yourself "the most pro-union person you'll ever meet" if your opinion is equivalent to "unions are only appropriate for those who already have structural power".
> Threats to release proprietary source codes if additional payments are not made;

This is "a sign"? In what company is that not grounds for immediate revocation of all access, termination?
I have been building them my entire career and there should be no sync involved at all tbh.

Everything is remote but you work in a local IDE and everything feels local
This is a great read, and a situation where an astute IT entrepreneur could make a fine business in return for doing much good. The main superhero power needed here is "software developer". I've been in the same position as the author and bounced off of the difficulties almost immediately. People are dying to find a better way to search a .gov site.
It's ironic isn't it? On one hand we lament the plight of the OSS developer getting a pithy amount of donations relative to their value added, on the other hand if someone dare try to charge for their work, out come the pitchforks.
Good point. Here is the Extended Version [1] used in ℌ𝔢𝔩𝔩 𝔚𝔬𝔯𝔩𝔡 4 that YT censored

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRzxpIa6U8o [video][30 mins][metal]
'Focusing on customers' = selling them piss?
All existing pandas are owned by the PRC so the chance of somebody selling a panda for real, vs selling some sort of panda themed toy/book/etc, is virtually nil. No human would make this mistake; their filter is braindead.
Snapdrop works on everything that has a Browser
Would that be because they are dealing with an uneducated public? I gave up discussing privacy of late...too darn depressing.
How do you do a drug test on a remote worker?

And why? If they can’t do the job you fire them.
It's fine to have options but telling people not to build from source is suss.
Link to the blog post that was removed https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4740497/gnome-foundation-hir...
On a slightly different note, there is an "alternative medicine" stream popular among the right- in India called urine therapy. Some advocates of it suggest cow urine and some for drinking their own urine. The most famous and vocal advocate for drinking your own urine was the former Prime Minister of India, Morarji Desai.

- Miracles of Urine Therapy - https://www.amazon.com/Miracles-Urine-Therapy-Desai-Morarji/...

- “60 Minutes” Interview (June 4, 1978) With Former Prime Minister of India Morarji Desai - https://infiniteunknown.net/2016/12/29/60-minutes-interview-...
I just read Part 1 of your Teeny Tiny Compiler series and thought it was fantastic.
The standard deduction is now taken close to 90% of the time in the US. Most people no longer benefit from the mortgage interest on their taxes.
CodeCrafters co-founder here.

You're right, we could present it as just the articles.

Our overview is publicly accessible and doesn't require a paywall.
https://app.codecrafters.io/courses/bittorrent/overview

All the "content" is also available on our GitHub
https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-bittorrent

If you'd like us to run tests against your code, show you progress, community examples, hints, and so on, then you can do the interactive experience, which requires signing up.
From what I understand it's their friendly interface that differentiates them from RClone mount. I've only read their documentation but otherwise I can't see any benefit and only the risk of getting involved with a less tested tool.
Any more information how are you running this?
My personal favorite irony is that by default “write” on windows is more posix compliant than any Linux install using ext4. If you need write atomicity, as posix guarantees, avoid ext4.
And you are not. When I visit the page I see "download for Linux" with an element immediately below for "other".

My only criticism is "other" could be called out more.
> They acquired the company for no logical reason, did nothing with it, and then dumped it rather than spin it out because they don't care and want their money back.

They acquired it to use as a tool in their antitrust lawsuit against Google.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/04/epic-games-drags-ban...
I genuinely envy your ability to do this. I find that it's simply impossible for me to engage in any meaningful work during commutes. I can't focus.
I used to do it with just the 1040 and a spreadsheet.

The problem with that is that there are literally 100 crazy-assed questions that I have to answer in order to fill out all the supplementary worksheets, etc.

For instance: I bought a used EV. Do I take the tax break? Is it a deduction or credit?

Figuring that out will take at least 10 minutes after you find the right IRS bulletin.

Also, we have a roboadvisor, which means we hit all the corner cases for investment income.

Even with turbotax, it takes about 8 hours for our moderately complicated taxes. Just getting the basic stuff that any homeowner with a family has to do takes 2-3.

On top of that, the first year I used turbotax, I found out I had been overpaying ~$200-500 the previous 4 years.

Filing amended returns wasn’t worth it, but paying the intuit mafia would have saved me time and money in the long run.

If I had my way, we would move to a UBI and a flat tax (on income and capital gains).

That reduces the tax code to a two variable equation of a line.

I’d take a scatterplot of the 30-90th percentile of the US’s effective tax rates, and fit the line to that data set with a linear regression.

In addition to creating basic income, this would ensure that the ultra wealthy actually pay taxes.
Elon Musk Says the Work-from-Home Crowd Is 'Detached from Reality'
https://archive.ph/B9Ban
Buying an 8000 pound electric truck to avoid burning gasoline.
My understanding of it (and IANAL) is that while the board could potentially vote to change it, the shareholders can take legal action for failing to pursue the public benefit obligations. I can't say whether trying to remove the public benefit obligation alone is grounds to bring a suit, but I think they'd be able to make a case for it. My hope is that being a PBC will scare off predators and encourage like-minded people from day 1, leading us to a point where a future board is made up of people who are 100% committed to the mission from the start.

That's a long way of saying what you said: I want it to protect against future enshittification. I want it to work.
This is such a ridiculous sentiment. You're blaming these people for Antivirus now? Your whole post is just a nonsensical rant.

If you want to say "I'd like to see software like this audited for security" just say so.
Europe's Largest News Aggregator Orders Editors to Play Down Palestinian Deaths
But what do you do when you need to work without internet access, or with limited internet access?
Unless prices drop below your mortgage balance.
Maybe another factor is being the right age when you first see it.

I really liked it in my early 20's, but I've found that my taste for silly / absurdist comedy has diminished over the years.
Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere.

(https://indieweb.org/POSSE)
Can you? I don't know that I've seen anyone try, but I would expect the PR blowback for "pay us $1 to appeal" to be worse than "you're just not allowed to appeal".
Is anyone having flashbacks to when fat was vilified and the food pyramid put bread at the bottom?
Hi, author here.

Yes, we've had to do a lot of things to deal with object storage latency. Since cunoFS is running inside a given process itself, it has greater visibility into what actions it can take and is likely to take. This means we can make huge improvements in our prediction logic, so that we can prefetch within and across files much better, thus hiding latencies. For POSIX metadata, we have a caching mechanism which is shared between processes, and we've invented a better way to encode this metadata so that it is retrieved alongside the LIST operation.
I'll be damn. Thanks!
Yeah, often times, it wouldn't actually be getting a beer. It'd usually be going out and getting a coffee. For a while, I'd have coffee runs at 2 or 3 PM and take a walk with people.
That's a bleak perspective that is not borne out by the facts. The greatest source of protection for any individual is the group.
There is also Phind and WizardLM, but I found their performance to be quite poor tbh. It's hard to match gpt-3.5 quality.
In a well functioning org that is not the case. That's my point.
I skimmed the linked code. Is there enough info there to run the same benchmark with numpy? And then if we find out that numpy is also 90000X faster then it's fair to conclude that numpy and Mojo have the same performance on this task? I'm a benchmarking n00b, go easy on me. Just trying to see if my basic understanding is correct...
> Actually, you get Cherenkov radiation and ionization in air, too.

True, but it's a thousand time less luminous, and actually it's still not the rod that glows.

> You might want to familiarize yourself with the dangers during the lifeycle.

In fact, I studied nuclear engineering before deciding to do computer science. There I met a bunch of good friend who works a several place of the nuclear supply chain, and also my wife who's now working at the plant 8km away from were we now live. So I'm very, very familiar with nuclear stuff.

> Perhaps you might want to work in a reactor for a bit to get more of a feel for the danger

Fortunately, nobody works “in a reactor”, as it would be indeed by dangerous (300°C and 155bar isn't compatible with human life, without even talking about the radiation levels ;).
I recently resolved a long standing issue with Loblaws by working with the Competition Bureau. It takes a long time though. Maybe that will help
What a fun live-stream
Ask HN: Recommendation 12" Laptop
Hey I wanna know what is available for me.
I used the x230 with classic keyboard a lot, so I am used to 12” laptops.

I sold it now and the prices are high for it specs.
Anyone can recommend me a laptop for browsing and doing office?
It could be nice when I can upgrade it too like a x220/230 dunno if I should use a framework.
Are there old MacBooks laying around with gentoo support?
If there’s no 12” I’d take a 14” like a t440p.

I also thought about getting a skulls/librebootable laptop.

What are your thoughts?

Thanks in advance.
I don't understand how the counter-proposal makes WebAssembly a worse compilation target.

Take the simple example of memory.copy. How is it worse to compile memcpy() to import+memcpy() rather than memory.copy?

Why can't a string type be efficiently GC'd via an imported type?
"Fire and rehire" in the UK British Gas (former gov owner entity, privatised) tried this in 2021.

They were told if they didn't sign a worse deal they would be fired, causing a fight with the union.
Another good business opportunity: some truck drivers use stimulants. Some of those stimulants will end up in the urine, where they can be extracted and re-sold.

During WWII, there was a limited supply of penicillin (discovered in 1928 but not used on humans until 1941/1942). Since ~99% is excreted in the urine, it was collected, cleaned up, and re-used.
Why not? It's the main quest of humanity. Make yourself obsolete
In ancient Egypt, soul houses and false doors connected the living and the dead
So why am I still using and recommending VLC? Because it doesn't have to be that way.

In before the true scotsman of software lifecycles.
Interesting… I now (nearly 30 years later) have a condition that is considered a vestibular/neurological condition called mal de Debarquement. I also believe I suffer from vestibular migraines, but that is not diagnosed yet (seeing a specialist next week). I doubt that dominos hot sauce was the cause, but maybe I am susceptible to such things? I never thought to link these two things before.
Casio Created a Console for Girls in the '90s
Meta could also use reminding: https://lerner.co.il/2023/10/19/im-banned-for-life-from-adve...
Safari bug leaks cursor position between overlapping windows
> if you're going to invest a significant amount of your life into something, ideally it should also have the potential to earn you some money.

This is a sad, sad way to live life
Thank You for even standing and speaking up. On a subject and topic that is relatively heated and tends to draw flamewars.
Often, just knowing the filename or that you have the file available somewhere, is enough. I think this is something catering mainly to data hoarder and especially the more shady ones who download not so legal stuff from everywhere. Just being able to know whether you already have something, can be useful.
Bread doesn't have fructose, right?
>Amazon actually used to be the world's most customer-centric company, and Google used to try to not be evil.

Well, power corrupts people, and corporations are people.
Show HN: Autotab – An AI-powered Chrome extension to create Selenium scripts
Autotab is a Chrome extension that writes Selenium code to mirror your actions as you navigate the browser. See it in action: https://youtu.be/UypAcozIaoo

Autotab lets you create browser automations that actually work. We designed it around two principles:

1. Show, don’t tell: In a domain like web automation, it's often easier to *show* the model what you want rather than to explain it in sentences.

2. Code is the best output: Code is easy to inspect and enables manual tweaking of the model’s suggested actions. On top of that, code output avoids lock in and is straightforward to extend and integrate with larger projects.

Autotab runs as a Chrome extension. As you navigate in the browser, autotab generates the Selenium code to reproduce your actions. You can copy that code into your own project or use our starter GitHub repo to get your automation up and running in <5 minutes: https://github.com/Planetary-Computers/autotab-starter.

We'd love to hear what you think!
The Big Bang Theory - 01x09 - Turn on a lamp through the internet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onZ4KMM94yI
Quirk / Deliberate design decision

Potato / potato
They do in many cases, it doesn't help because it's such an easy PR story. They just ask for more. The objective can never be "stop this group from wanting more money" because human desire is infinite.
Past human expansions shaped the spatial pattern of Neanderthal ancestry
Most bread sold in the grocery store has high fructose corn syrup
Exactly! So why would a AI company who want the music itself bother themselves with buying the company first? Just scrape it like everyone else.
I thought someone did try to claim their bitcoin back after the original Silk Road bitcoin seizure, after they deposited bitcoin and the site got seized before they could spend anything (plausible deniability of anything unlawful), but still lost.

Gov isn’t going to make it easy to “prove” you had no criminal intent, even if you didn’t do anything yet. Though it should really be the gov’s job to prove every deposit was criminal before seizing it imo.

Unlikely someone would succeed now either. And the gov would probably claim they only owed you the dollar value, not the bitcoin back (but does the opposite when they claim you owe them stolen bitcoin and that’s favourable to you).

Maybe it was a claim on a libertyreserve deposit?

Brian Krebs himself tried to put in a claim, but no updates since his initial contact from IRS in 2020 (7 years after the seizure): https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/02/a-light-at-the-end-of-li...
Not smart enough to comment on the science but a pet peeve of mine is

> When humans are hungry and running low on active energy, our bodies enter survival mode

We are always in “survival mode.” Using that term instead of describing the changes occurring (do our cells change their metabolic pathway? Are certain processes suspended?) is very lazy writing.
Bitcoin Might Get Ethereum-Style Smart Contracts Under 'BitVM' Plan
> Each print has to be manually scanned in

Seems like it would be easier long-term to just keep a copy of what the browser sends to your server, then display that instead of the scanned print itself.

Even if you generate the printer bytestream in the browser and just `cat` whatever comes in to your printer device, it would probably be faster (again, long-term) to write software which can render that data stream to an image.

but as an art project, it's perfect. is the source code anywhere?
Ask HN: Is Google Alerts still your go-to for monitoring web searches?
I've been relying on Google Alerts for quite some time now for both professional and personal monitoring of search results. While it generally serves its purpose, I've found a few points of friction:

* User Experience: I sometimes find the UX not as intuitive as I'd like.
* Quality of Results: The relevancy and accuracy of the alerts can be hit or miss.
* Search Term Selection: Picking the right search terms to get the desired results can be a bit tricky.

Are these concerns unique to me, or have some of you experienced the same or other issues with Google Alerts?
Posix is actually pretty terrible. It is funny how Linux people still defend it. My criticism.

Inflexible.
Poor ACL management.
All this recursive bs that I still can't wrap my head around.
User groups, not a flat hierarchy?
Poor observability.

Windows is terrible in many ways but with files and in comparison to Posix Windows actually got it right.

EDIT: I did not mention the article. It is silly to compare S3 to Posix. However. Azure and other cloud providers that did offer Posix storage have dropped those offerings.
Just found this in HN before:

https://app.codecrafters.io/catalog

You can get any of those projects and chop it down to fill the time you need.
Chris has a pretty solid reputation. I doubt he’d throw that away.

Sometimes it’s okay to trust people in this space. To me, this is one of those times.
Developers do not typically get to choose.
The Hacking of the American Mind [video]
There's a full text PDF (I think a preprint?) of the study over here:

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2022.023...

Abstract:

The fructose survival hypothesis proposes that obesity and metabolic disorders may have developed from over-stimulation of an evolutionary-based biologic response (survival switch) that aims to protect animals in advance of crisis. The response is characterized by hunger, thirst, foraging, weight gain, fat accumulation, insulin resistance, systemic inflammation and increased blood pressure. The process is initiated by the ingestion of fructose or by stimulating endogenous fructose production via the polyol pathway. Unlike other nutrients, fructose reduces the active energy (adenosine triphosphate) in the cell, while blocking its regeneration from fat stores. This is mediated by intracellular uric acid, mitochondrial oxidative stress, the inhibition of AMP kinase and stimulation of vasopressin. Mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation is suppressed, and glycolysis stimulated. While this response is aimed to be modest and short-lived, the response in humans is exaggerated due to gain of ‘thrifty genes’ coupled with a western diet rich in foods that contain or generate fructose. We propose excessive fructose metabolism not only explains obesity but the epidemics of diabetes, hypertension, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, obesity-associated cancers, vascular and Alzheimer's dementia, and even ageing. Moreover, the hypothesis unites current hypotheses on obesity. Reducing activation and/or blocking this pathway and stimulating mitochondrial regeneration may benefit health-span.