skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certain bits of Python were red, but not because of an error… it was just the color scheme.
Comcast to appeal against ad watchdog's call to modify its misleading 10G ads
Interesting rejection of reality
Show HN: Postgres Security Educational Tasks
I've created few Docker-based educational tasks to try yourself in exploiting historical vulnerabilities. I'm not a realy docker-pro, many parts can be implemented in a wrong way. However I've checked that all 3 containers can be pwned. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Same goes about PRs with other CVEs.
Originally, this tasks were developed for PGDay Israel 2023, but now conference is postponed.
one could argue that the most important criteria is that if you take any interval between 0 and 1 you get the same density... at least that would be a uniform distribution, since even a normal, exponential or whatever could have mean 0.5 and simulate that instead.
>>> I suppose you don't get a lot of hurricanes in Madrid, do you?

It works different in Spain. No standard home insurance policy will cover any natural disaster. Instead, there is a higher state organization (Consorcio de Compensación de Seguros) that will cover damages from natural disasters, terrorism, riots, revolts, etc
I get all of my syntax highlighting, autocomplete, integrated terminal, test panels etc in vscode. Vim is great too with the right configuration and tweaking.
The need for creative and effective app production solutions is more than ever in the quickly changing digital ecosystem where apps have dominated our everyday lives. With their AI assistant Natasha, Builder.ai, a pioneer in the software development sector founder by visionary entrepreneur Sachin Dev Duggal, has upped the ante and changed how apps are imagined, planned, and developed.
It's great for lawyers if everyone thinks like that.
That's incorrect. Plenty of high-performing people were laid off from key projects in the last 2 years.

Most tech layoffs had directors needing to meet a quota, so no matter how good people were or how core their work were to the company, they had to pick people to be laid-off.

Once software is built, it takes much less effort to maintain it.

Middle management is vunerable because it's operational(not tactical or strategic), you can increase a lot the wingspan of a manager of managers without having big consequences and tech companies have done it and cut out the managers that didn't have the minimum wingspan.

Job prospects for managers of managers at the moment isn't good, but I'm guessing any of them can still jump back one step and go back to a manager of ICs and still do a good job.

I'd recommend that anybody that works in tech, no matter what rank they are (even director), still keep their tech chops up to date to a certain degree, you never know if you'll still be perceived by your peers as somebody that can bring value.

And it's simpler to prove you can deliver value by being a senior engineer than a VP.

Overall, for those that were laid off from big tech, I hope they end up actually founding new businesses or moving back to startups, building real stuff.
I just submitted a but report within the Arc with the steps to reproduce the bug and a link to my uploaded screen recording.

I found that the process used 6GB of RAM is "Arc Helper (Renderer)". This bug could potentially related with how the browser render the google docs.

I also noticed that if I have the Arc opened in the background, the bug shows up every 6 hours.
Peak end of history era.
> playing off the same clichés and subdividing itself so much such that the most minute production details are catalogued

Agreed. It’s unnecessary and in my experience the music creators themselves dislike it. It’s largely the hobby of stamp collector and trivia-oriented minds who are inhibited in enjoying the music itself. That said, the terminology can be useful for liberal associative descriptions. But humans love strict hierarchical taxonomies, stuffing artists into single buckets.
Thanks for pointing out the issue with the 'Learn More' link. It is now fixed and should take you to the Privacy page.
Add volumetric sound, integrate VR and you almost have recreated braindance from the Cyberpunk 2077 game. Doesn't seem that far off in the distance.

The missing component from complete braindance would be integrating physical senses. AFAIK we are pretty far away from having anything revolutionary in that domain. Would love to be proven wrong, however.
You don’t want unified mangling because different compilers make different default decisions on laying out data. While that’s mostly been stamped out in C++ (mixed feelings about that), their library implementations are quite different, which Is a good thing.
Is that really true? Section 51 of the London Hackney Carriage Act 1831 (to which the article refers) doesn't seem to require that; it (among other things) forbids a taxi driver feeding another driver's horses with anything other than corn or hay - but doesn't say anything about requiring them to carry hay for this purpose. There is no other reference to "hay" in the act.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1831/22/pdfs/ukpga_1831...
There's a few albums I love listening to all the way through every time. But for the most part I want to listen to the songs I like. I think about all the times I've found one song that really moves me on an album I don't care for, your suggestion is kind of like "well you should miss out on those gems".

Physical media doesn't support the artist much better either, that's been a topic of conversation since I was a kid.
In my experience on Aliexpress, 3 stores aren't unusual. Most of the stores I buy from on Aliexpress (mostly 3d printer parts) have at least 2 stores. Even the reputable ones like BigTreeTech which is a pretty popular for 3d printer control boards have at least five stores by my last count. According to them, Aliexpress don't allow multiple accounts to manage a store, so they make a new one for each salesperson.
In terms of new features, for me that's ok. However, the amount of bugs in their bugtracker goes up and up. Also, the CPU/memory usage of their tools is a shame.
If you like this kind of generative art, check out Evolvotron, an open source generator. https://github.com/WickedSmoke/evolvotron

edit: a sample gallery is here http://www.bottlenose.net/share/evolvotron/gallery.htm
I think they are refering to the fact that variables are always strings. You can write stuff like i=0;i=$(( i + 1 ) which looks like you are dealing with integers, but in reality, the shell only deals with strings.
The root of the word "degree" basically means "units" or "subdivisions" or "measurements" or "amounts".

We didn't really have a better word for units of temperature, as "Celsiuses" or "Farhenheits" didn't become a thing, so "degrees (of) Celsius" or "degrees (of) Fahrenheit" is kind of what we're left with. We could have chosen to say "degrees (of) kelvin", but we decided to go with "kelvins" (like "meters" or "seconds") instead. It's just a choice of language.

Temperature does have dimensionality, but it's weird because it's a bulk property of a particular material. If you consider two stars, you can add their masses, or their volumes, and the resulting values are meaningful. But you can't add their temperatures. You can't even average their temperatures meaningfully without knowing the relative sizes of the stars and a bunch of other information either.

That said, I can't think of a situation where degrees (of temperature?) would disappear in a mathematical operation. Can you give a specific example?
PHP as a language and ecosystem is great. Far more suitable for web development than python and trivially easy to scale.

But PHP developers, boy oh boy, are a different story.

My favourite is how they all still debate setter and getters and almost none know the language but only the framework they use and code usually turns into a huge pile of unmaintainable crap. But hey they use ORMs just in case they’ll swap database engines (happens so rarely not even worth mentioning).
At least you get English videos. A couple of times I've gotten videos in... Hindu, I think, by searching in English and clicking on a video with an English title. And it was a technical video, not much language-independent content.
No, it might be funnier than that.

I know some folks that do management in one of the FCs and they had went from Chime to Slack earlier in the year so I can’t wait to see the sudden dump from Chime to Slack to Teams…
"We are a diverse team of aviation enthusiasts with the right skill set, experience and attitude to support your success."

Seems like a bit of a marketing fail to have that under a team photo that appears to include no women.
>> Oh its here. Metro Detroit. It gets cold.

Lol. Detroit doesnt get cold. My local bank closed its ATMs after hours due to homeless people sleeping in the vestibule. Strangely, with real winter comming soon they are going to re-open the vestibules to provide emergency shelter to all people maybe caught out in the cold. It hits -30 and -40 regularly around here. Drive thoughs are a norm because at those temps nobody wants to turn their car off. People regularly leave cars/trucks running while they shop in stores, if the parking lot doesnt have plugs for block heaters.
Mentioned in the article; this was their previous hail-mary strategy, which the new guy is now dismantling.
I don't know if you've ever been to London, Rome or Kyoto, but Americans actually fucking love old stuff
Nice. I am not surprised that the approach presented here was discussed in Julia circles already some 5 years ago. So it was about half as fast, if I interpret the thread correctly.
My embedded team is falling one by one to vscode. Main problem is education/documentation. None of us know what or how to do all the great things or even the simple things in CLion. It also guzzles memory. Also name recog: everyone wants vscode on their resume. 3rd, setting up embedded targets is not clear.
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So the bmi file is the replacement for the header file and the module the replacement for the lib? Got it.

I’d like to have the option to have a bmi section in the module file itself; that of course would mean that most people would either have to have a writable /lib &. /usr/lib etc or constrain the compiler flags available. I wonder how many people would actually be inconvenienced by the latter.
This isn't just an old tradition. It's a coded signal - and one that the river users can be assumed to understand. There's no principle difference between this use of straw to caution navigators on water, and the use of (for example) "
300 status codes to signal redirection to to navigavators of the internet.
For scripts I use Python, but I like to use PHP for short quick scripts when a database is involved since all it takes is to install php and php-pdo to have a consistent api for db access to get started with, which for python is not the case.
But from time to time I am reminded how bad PHP and outright dangerous can be. Just the other day I had an array like this: ["123"=>"foo", "321" => "bar"] on which I used array_keys expecting to get ["123", "321"] as a result. Surprised why my script was not working the way it was supposed to I found out that the result was actually [123, 321] instead. Yep, PHP casts strings to numbers in this case when it can. I will hit a "gem" like this every now and then, there are plenty of such dumb things scattered in PHP that will bite you the least expected way that makes me stop and think to use something else.
Are there any modern "package manager" for C?
Um, yes. Spies do this thing called "spying". And the general tone of China's foreign policy has turned much more aggressive in the past decade.

But skimming through the article...I get the sense that a few baby sitters are trying to convince a crowd of toddlers that they need to put clothes on, before they go outside in the winter. And the baby sitters aren't succeeding.
Honestly, this story is just unsatisfying with the level of details provided, and ends up with action that is opposite to its title - don't work with asshole, but pay them off when they make ridiculous demands?

Seems to me like the author signed a bad contract and was forced to comply, even though the services rendered were underwhelming.
> So what did it save me over the way US taxes are done? The form prefilled the numbers, that’s it. All the rest is the same. Same collecting forms, same doubling checking math.

I'd wager that ~90% of people where I'm from where we have pre-filled tax forms does their taxes in less than 5 min (ah, looks reasonable, click).
And yet that is absolutely the kind of bullshit you are pulling. Thank you for denouncing yourself.

Some terms were defined by a community and their use defended.
Others were defined by a community, appropriated by others, distorted by others and subsequently abandoned by the original community.
And yet others, were abandoned and then reclaimed by the original community.

"Open Source" is in the first category, defined by OSI and defended by the FLOSS community. It is actively being defended, and fish much bigger than you have failed to topple the community.
silk road
Definitely Stephenson. He has a tendency to write one-and-a-half books where the main drama resolves, then a lot of new context appears full of fresh challenges for our protagonists, and then the book ends.
I like my hybrid. It is very economic and very convenient when I live in an apartment building, without easy access to recharging.

Had zero maintenance problems in two years.
live.com vs microsoftonline.com
Chewing gum artist makes plea to save London Millennium Bridge works
An Open Source Kafka/Pulsar Alternative Based on K8s
Nice!

I am really enjoying htmx. Being a developer from 2005
- using jquery around 2010
- using C# mvc (rather than webforms.. eww) around 2011
- taking client frameworks seriously (knockout, angular) around 2014

At this point, I was starting to question the direction web development was going.

Between 2017 to 2023 - I was hardly doing webdev. I jump back in and.. well:-
- React
- Node / nvm
- grunt
- etc

I just couldn't understand the extra layers to build a "proper" website with React or variants. I had a class on the server-side, I then need to duplicate on the client, etc.

I just want my preferred programming editor without all the fluff. Admitting defeat I was close to joining a React course but about 5 months ago came across HTMX. I grabbed a website I did a few years ago using knockoutjs and rewrote it in htmx. It was just so much easier, less code.. less work. Less 'data' on the client. More usage on Sessions on the server. additional javascript was used purely for the visuals.

Its like we are back in 2005, but not forced to use Classic ASP, PHP4, etc

For me its a massive win!
> the main reasons for not rocking the boat on that in julia were: Everybody generates rand floats wrong, so doing it right breaks expectations and compat

Ugh, I’m sorry they had to deal with this and am sorry with the (understandable) choice they made.
I think you mean white pages.
Despite what the parent comment said I'd still recommend Shadow of The Torturer, the first book in the Book of The New Sun series. If you like the idea of being immersed in a world that you don't fully understand, but gives you the impression that there is a richness of lore behind every minor detail, then you'll enjoy it.
I'm definitely bookmarking the site, thanks!

Any plans on adding other features that Acrobat offers like censoring texts?
In the same way as Yandex is Dutch and Kaspersky actually used to be British for some time. Where the holding company is registered is not that important these days
Tech sector boycotts Web Summit conference over its CEO's comments on Israel
The city adjacent to me has a law that all heads of households must have a firearm. In response to the gun law, the next city over created a law everyone need to have a rake for leaves. Unlike the straw bale laws, we don’t take it seriously.

It’s also illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp. In another city it’s illegal to eat fried chicken with anything but your hands.
Yes, I understand; but no one would have expected GPT4 10 years ago, technological evolution is exponential, not linear.
Great discussion.
Worrying implications for western society though.

If Caplan is right, and the data says he is, the declining birth rate among the wests richest and smartest is a death knell.

Also, it would suggest we radically re-evaluate the usefulness of almost all redistribution programs.
If outcomes are almost entirely genetic, we get far more efficient results by getting the rich/smart to have more kids than by trying to uplift the downtrodden.
The deal with network shows is they were designed so you can start watching at any time, even mid-episode.

"Yeah it gets good around season 2." So you start watching around season 2. You don't slog through the dross first.
Founder personality could predict startup success: study
We haven't built the enterprise plan yet and are open to suggestions!
Ask HN: What are the best / most accessible languages for blind programmers?
I'm asking both from a technical perspective, and from a mental perspective. From the technical side, are there programming languages that, due to things like code syntax or structure, are either especially good or especially bad because of having to be read through a screen reader?

And when it comes to just being able to grok the code, are there languages that are simply easier to keep a mental model of than others? Are there properties, attributes, or types of languages that you would tend to gravitate towards? For example, are functional languages easier or more difficult to keep in your head than a procedural language? Is it even any different from a sighted programmer who can see a whole screen's worth of code at a glance? From my position of ignorance, I could see arguments for or against any language, but would appreciate the perspective of anyone that actually has experience with this.
You can write for your own and other's edification. I use GitHub README.md to host and easily have access to my blog everywhere. It is effective.
I think my problem is not entirely in languages that are not fully typed (although I do prefer them), but rather in languages that are half typed. Either be dynamic or static, not some awkward middle point. Perhaps PHP will get there eventually, but as it is right now is a bit strange to me.
“UV1 is a therapeutic cancer vaccine used to generate an immune response against the enzyme human telomerase (hTERT). The enzyme is essential for the ability of cancer cells to proliferate. Telomerase is present in 85-90% of all cancers, across the stages of the disease.”

It’s a protein epitope vaccine against a normal human protein. Not stated here, but it may also target normal stem cells needed for repair and renewal processes. This risk may be reduced by the cessation of checkpoint blockades, but, the immune system can’t forget a target, and autoimmunity is an unsolved problem. HLA binding is also not perfectly specific, and any immune response is likely to generate more immunity from the target cell. This universal targeting of normal peptides may be an acceptable last-line defense, but I would be more comfortable targeting a somatic mutation with some significant differentiation from anything in the human exome.
That's a good reason why low income people stay low income.

It's your money. You'd be smart to spend more than 5 minutes to make sure it's 100% right
Okay, but who actually walks into a physical book shop and expects to find a highly technical book relevant to less than 0.01% of the population? Unless it's attached to the CS/EE campus of an university.
I've worked in both, top-down and bottom-up + as a manager. I think both have their merits, and different people want/need different styles. For me, it was fun to be able to drive my own backlog, do my own discoveries, talk with stakeholders and feel like I really owned the product as well.

Now I work as an IC again at a more top-down place where I work fully remote and only 4 days a week. It's honestly quite nice to not have to talk to anyone and just wake up at 6am, have my task assigned, get it done and then go focus on my hobby projects/go hiking/exercise/spend time with my girlfriend. I don't have to be online 24/7 and I have maybe 2-3 meetings a week. The org sets the direction and we decide how to implement it. It works for me because in many ways I drive the requirements by telling the org what I need to execute properly. I can also still drive infrastructure improvements, and the org. is mature enough to prioritize them. I still grow, just in a different direction than I did as a manager. I get the chance to really focus on the technical parts of a solution.
If it's behind a pay wall it's not available, it's closed.

But you may call source-available software whatever you want, just not open source unless it's under and OSI-approved license.

You can use any words other than the phrase "open source" to be as unambiguous as you want.
>For all my life (and I am not spring chicken) I noticed one thing: criticism, cynicism and pessimism sell. They are attractive.

Not as much as the multi-trillion dollar industry for "how to make it big" advice, business and startup hussle culture, magic bullets and/or grind p0rn, and so on, all built on optimism, and aiming at an ever renewable supply of fresh naives.
Yes, back when it was actually costco. Everything changed after the merger. I dont think i saw any pneumatics afterwards.
> The macos `open` / nushell `open` conflict

Hm, I see there's an issue and a recommendation to move nutshell open to nuopen - won't that get in the way of cross platform support? I would probably prefer to alias MacOS open (or xdg-open... Etc) to something like ”mope".

I'm guessing things like Emacs can be configured to point at an absolute path for open?

https://www.nushell.sh/book/configuration.html#macos-keeping...

https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/9220
Those samples don't look like 4k to me.
My iPhone XS with A12 bionic still running Asphalt like a beast in 2023.
What's even more remarkable to me is the other context where it's said, Matthew 13:11:

"To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. For to him who has will more be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away."

This is harder to explain, but imo more relevant to TFA, since it seems to refer to knowledge and learning.
These funds make more money if the company they attempt to turnaround is a success, but the turnaround strategy tends to be high risk as they load the company with debt. So we mostly hear about the failures.

Further, I'd observe that most of the companies getting bought by funds for turnaround are.. in need of a turnaround. So many of them were on the path to failing if left to their own devices anyhow.

That said there are structural legal/tax issues that benefit "corporate raiders" in these these take-private deals.
This is kind of a weird take.

I don't have petrol at home to fill my car's tank either. Obviously if ammonia engines took off, it would be available for refueling.

That said, I have no problems with alternative fuels being researched. I am not even sure if EVs will ever be practical enough for widespread adoption. Many people don't live in single family homes with easy access to recharging.
> British people love old stuff like Americans love cars and guns.

As a British person who was involuntarily dragged around countless ruined Abbeys, castles, and monestaries for hours as a sprog by my parents, I can assure you that there exist plenty of British folk with an active disinterest in "old stuff", as you put it.
Like on almost any topic, the majority of people doesn't care (and looking at media coverage, less so in the EU than in the US). If you force people via a survey to have a view on something like that the answers are not meaningful.

Some hobbyists caring and going down rabbit holes just doesn't mean much as far as what actually happened is concerned.