skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a social network that was leaked. I would be somewhat surprised if the same attack didn't also get quite a few of someone's "friend network" on Facebook and the like. Certainly was more likely in the past, but with some of the modern botnets, I have little faith some of my elderly family haven't been hacked in this way.

To that end, I'm curious on how they could have protected this better? Almost certainly doable, but I don't know of many ways you can protect people that are on my contact list from getting leaked if my contact list is leaked. Which is essentially what this is.
they used a Thule or Yakima (don't remember) car roof box (something like that) https://www.thule.com/en-us/cargo-carrier/car-top-carrier/th... as a casket :D
That would eat into their profits.

All the relevant parts of IntelliJ that could be turned into Java language server are already open source so monetization would be tricky.
The makita ran at 1500w and leaf at 1000w, are they moving the same amount of air?

I could build a leafblower with a noctua fan, it'd be real quiet but quite useless
Completely doomed, mostly due to artificial constraints.

When you dig into why it takes 10-20 years to get one built, you arrive, more or less, at the feet of incompetent regulators, that order changes during construction, after plans are initially approved, and then they can/do order more changes before they'll allow the plant to operate.

Now, don't take that as "loose nuclear regulation good", that's not really a solution, what we need is much, much better regulation, so a plant can get approved and then built without interference provided the plan that was approved is followed.

And, realistically, once you have that, you can come up with a plant design that you can copy/paste in a bunch of locations, instead of building them as one-off's, and that not only reduces costs significantly, but also improves safety significantly because if one plant has an issue, you can also copy/paste the solution/mitigation/prevention elsewhere.
I am ignorant of the law here, so I want to be clear that I am asking out of genuine curiosity, not out of malice or some thinly veiled political ideology. I do not live in a location where unions are common.

The bargaining team was 8 people. Is it really illegal to fire them all? Does being a member of this team guarantee some members immunity? Can the team consist of former employees or can the remaining union members perform these functions?
Humans suck at systems thinking.

A snowflake is harmless. A million of them and you might freeze. And a trillion of them may bury your entire city under an avalanche.

Add in the AI-effect where when we learn how something works it's no longer AI, and eventually we'll get to the point of having super capable 'intelligent' digital systems where a huge portion of the population is in denial of their capabilities.
It’s unfortunate. An opportunity for a new org if Bandcamp dies. Looks like a bunch of folks are available for such an enterprise.
>Nuclear is completely doomed

How do you maintain a nation's baseline? Coal and gas plants or massive battery storage, which raises many questions about environmental impact and resource requirements, hydro is not viable everywhere, is that the future you're hoping for?
You can love the amazon link too, looks better ?
It's true that there are many high quality USB-C cables, but they are utterly swamped by an order of magnitude more low quality USB-C cables. A particularly tech savvy person might be able to wade through the muck, but most normal people won't even know to.
> You're asking me to believe that this man feels a certain way and committed a racist murder based on a general tendency?

No, no. This man might have had other motives for his murder too. I’m merely saying a contributing factor is that society (and the law/police in specific) seem to be more accepting of violence when committed against minorities.
I am also skeptical it will "level" the playing field - at best it seems like it will "extend" it? Now athletic ability is the aggregate of natural ability and the ability to select & use drugs - but the genetic predispositions around these new areas won't be evenly distributed either! In addition it makes the gulf created by money even wider.
The time-scale is so long that there are no geological formations that last that long

Geologist here, highly skeptical of this statement.

Most of the land area of each continent has had essentially no seismic/tectonic activity for tens to hundreds of millions of years. With sufficient burial depth (which doesn't have to be super deep, less than a kilometer certainly) there is little reason to suspect that in most areas that haven't been disturbed in 200 million years, they will be disturbed in another 200 million years. The surface of the earth has had cycles of erosion and deposition associated with climate variations (i.e. ice ages) but the effects of these aren't always that deep.

This isn't to say that the other issues aren't important--communication of dangers to future humans (or other intelligent creatures) that may not share our language, especially. However it's a social/political problem, not a geological one.
For sure! Looking forward to you getting back to VPE now that the whole DMD thing is sorted thanks to your efforts. Do you have a rough idea of what things you'll be focusing on next? I know there was mention of a dedicated player a while back...
At Coherence (withcoherence.com) we are building a slightly different twist on this where one configuration can drive different environments across the SDLC - Cloud IDE for dev, full-stack branch previews, CI/CD, staging/qa/UAT, production - with deployments in your own AWS/GCP account.

We generally see a ton of velocity increase in dev from teams that adopt the Cloud IDE alongside the rest, as exhibited by lots of comments. Internally, we dogfood them 100% and the team would never go back to the old "local-first" ways. So we are using them and love them. The key qualities we love are ephemerality, parallelism, and accessibility. But in general there is a lot of resistance for various reasons, as seen in many comments here.

We wrote up some of our POV in our docs here: https://docs.withcoherence.com/docs/explanations/remote-deve...

[I'm a cofounder of Coherence]
https://www.wired.com/story/23andme-credential-stuffing-data...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna119324

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/06/23andme...

https://www.jta.org/2023/10/13/health/23andme-sued-after-ash...
Supplemental memo

https://ia902501.us.archive.org/21/items/gov.uscourts.dcd.22...
Was this due to reduced flows in the massive European drought?
Article (with interactivity!):

https://www.lumafield.com/article/usb-c-cable-charger-head-t...

Discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37929338
Functional Source License
The Functional Source License (FSL) is a source-available non-compete license that converts to Apache 2.0 or MIT after one year.
> pay a shit load of insurance if dealing in this type of business with lots of personal data

Chubb's and AXA have been offering this for a couple years now and I know some large companies have taken out a policy.

The issue I've heard is the large providers rarely pays out as the pools are small and the risk profile for breach insurance is still actively being worked on so the exposure is potentially massive, so a lot of companies are forgoing Cyber Liability insurance.

There needs to be active regulatory work to solve this chicken-and-egg situation
I suppose I provide value to clients on terms they're happy with.
Yeah, knowable and known are two different things for sure - I guess you could create some elaborate tracking system that would measure it (yes, I have done this in my own systems ;) but I realize that will be going quite a ways above and beyond for most situations.

Just having some breakdown of the task and some however crude percentage allocation to them would still be a huge improvement over the status quo.
It seems obvious that for symmetrical distributions, like the normal, winsorizing does not change the mean.
Maybe I have a case of "wishful thinking", but I think developers are smart enough, and kind enough to get something like this working without too much corruption, and bureaucracy (since you can never eliminate it completely).

I mean, look at us, we have OSS. And that might not sound like much for someone who's been industry long enough, but I feel like it's a statement of the freedom we all seek when we use our computers, the power we have (not me, I could stand to loose some mediocrity :P).
I (and other Texans) can remember plenty!
Bandcamp provides ALAC as one of their format options, too.
If a vendor is making an electric and ICE version, but the electric models just do not sale...is it a marketing problem? is it a shelf space problem at the places people buy? is it performance issue? is it they already own ICE models and don't need to buy new? a 2-stroke engine is super simple to maintain, and i'd imagine any landscaping company getting the eye of Sauron in this thread has someone on hand that can repair them.
The Landlords of Social Media Seem Happy to Play the Villain
Ah so Vector4
Advanced geothermal and thermal batteries.
FYI I just learned that Fooocus-MRE has been depreciated, but many of the same options are now in the debug menu upstream.

...Yes, it is impossible to keep up, lol
Yes, but currently there is a project called Aya[1] from Cohere4AI that I think it is trying to create multilingual models.

[1] aya.for.ai
> The key insight with LSP is that languages are _way_ too different to have that notion of language capabilities.

And yet the very opposite of this is the source of JetBrains success.
My brother and I are almost ready to launch Guava, a tool for real-time grocery price comparisons using crowdsourced data. As we approach our launch, we hope to hear feedback from the HN community. What are your thoughts on the challenges and potential of such an app? Here's our website: www.downloadguava.com
Ask HN: Project Management for Side Projects?
I've accumulated a lot of projects/ideas that I started but never finished. I'd like to get a better view on each project's progress so I don't get overwhelmed when I decide to return to a project I haven't progressed on in say a year.

GitHub (Issues) falls a bit short for me. I've been trying to use Azure DevOps, but honestly neither SCRUM or Kanban really work for me in the context of a hobby. I'm interested in hearing your tips and favorites.
I don't have a VR setup but my understanding is it is really good. Best to check out the Visual Pinball Discord where there is a channel dedicated to VR.

https://discord.gg/B7pG7pRD
Setting Empty-String Jsonb Values to Null When Sorting with Ransack (2022)
I agree with the intention. This has been part of the design constraints of a plant for at least 30 years... I reckon it is possible older plants didn't take steps to cool down the open water loop, but it is indeed relatively straight forward to tackle: cooling towers, open air reservoirs, and again heat exchangers...
I would love to see the numbers for this for an existing commercial installation of grid scale.

Everywhere I've looked, sufficiently inexpensive storage is either theoretical or using some tech nobody has really built out en masse before.

I know there's a few desert installs that do well, but the best places for solar tend to also be the least populated.
I wish I could buy you a beer.
This is sensible, as demonstrated by MIPS.

But ARM hasn't shown signs of intelligence in the executive, for a long time now.

Thus, I wouldn't count on it.
But the waste is just SO small and just needs to stay inside of concrete to be considered contained.

I would rather burden future generations with this rather than continuing to produce CO2 at the scale we are doing now.

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

It feels more solvable than trying to figure out how to reduce CO2 without nuclear (to me)
I think also in hot summers - not an entirely new phenomenon and also something that happens with fossil fuel powerplants.
Should an identical twin be required to get their twin’s consent? That would be 100% of their DNA. What about their twin’s children?
I'm a self-employed highish income person, no stock options (that was long, long ago), interest, dividends, capital gains, rental property income, a spouse who also has to file schedule C twice.

Takes me about 2 hours on ffff ....

.. mostly because I've done my own taxes for the whole 34 years I've lived in the USA (including the first year when I got the US government to pay me the excess of what I'd paid the UK government, and the year I paid taxes on amzn stock that exceeded everything I had ever earned until that time).

This stuff is not as complicated as people make out, though I would concede that it is likely easier for a software developer-type person than a personal grooming specialist or firefighter. There's a whole industry out there predicated on the idea that you can't do this yourself.
You can't fire Zuck because he owns the company, same as I can't force you to let me drive your car because it's your car.

You are, however, free to work for yourself or any other company.
xVal: A continuous number encoding for large language models
I hate zinc! I wish God had never made this cursed element!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1iCZpFMYd0
Prefixes: yes

Allocations: make _alloc() and _free() functions for ADTs. Use Valgrind.

IDEs: pretty much anything from ed(1) upwards will be fine.

Modern C: just don't. There's very little in "modern" C that's actually good.

Errors: return a pointer or an int. 0 = success. If you need more info, pass an error struct pointer as the last parameter, and fill it in if it's not NULL.

Tools: compiler warnings (you should be clean with pedantic), valgrind
Oh great! Thanks, I'll check it out.
I know you got down-voted, but the whole website is definitely fishy. At first I was expecting it to be a campaign for selling "enhanced" supplements, but a high-effort satire to say "well, see how rediculous it is to let trans people compete in sports???" is plausible, sadly.
No it is not enough given growth demand and the decrease in supply from some of the dirtier plants shutting down.
I don't find that very relevant to the investor context, nor the competing with ARM context.
Whoa! Delay line is awesome, never heard of it before.

Vaguely reminds me of the spool with 38 miles of fiber used to thwart high frequency traders. https://www.iexexchange.io/technology
Thank you! It means a lot to me that so many people were able to use VB both to get their start in programming, and to develop applications that businesses relied on.

"Thunder" was the code name that Microsoft adopted for Ruby/VB early on. Its tagline was "The Power to Crack Windows".

As you know, window class names existed in a global namespace, so you needed some kind of hopefully-unique prefix or something to avoid collisions.

Did you ever happen to see an early VB version with "GSK_" prefixes on window class names and such? My colleague Gary S. Kratkin developed much of the forms editor, so he used his initials as the disambiguator.

It was a tradition back then to use your initials like this. Mark Zbikowski may be the most famous example. To this day, every Windows EXE file begins with his initials.

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

Here is an article from Scott Ferguson about Thunder:

https://www.forestmoon.com/birthofvb/birthofvb.html

And a great long-form article from Ryan Lucas of Retool:

https://retool.com/visual-basic

For the curious, that article has the origin story of "fire an event".

I also want to mention Frank Raab and Mark Merker, who both did a ton of work on Ruby, and of course Alan Cooper gets credit for coming up with the idea and developing his Tripod prototype.
Where does this idiosyncratic definition of “republic” come from that means something incompatible with “democracy”? I’ve heard it before (always in a US context), but the more usual definition of “republic” is just “a country whose head of state is not a monarch”.
Yep. $1 today, $50 tomorrow.

On the same HN page: https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/18/23922319/netflix-q3-earn...

I don't subscribe to either X (Twitter) or Netflix. NO GREAT LOSS
It's not really about the technology - that could likely be assembled in very short order. Platforms like this are intimately tied up in network effects, as well as platform inertia.
> where a bearded man both poured water from one jug to another and taught me how to code.

Thank you for this image :D
> Pro grade mowers are upwards of 10k and run hundreds of miles a day

Guarantee you that the guys mowing lawns around here in their beatup pickup trucks didn't drop $10k on a lawnmower.
Fortunately macOS apps don't have to be installed through the Appstore system. There are third party stores.
It's absolutely insane that the realtor cartel has managed to maintain 6% fees in light of the internet and skyrocketing house prices. I'll vote for any politician who takes steps to breakup the cartel and empower the middle class to buy and sell homes without getting ripped off.

They're the worst parasites, but they've rigged the game so that people pay tens of thousands of dollars in commissions for someone to do a couple hours of paperwork and tell them whatever they need to hear to close the sale.
To be fair, do you know what else they are using that truck for when it's not within your eye sight? Maybe they are pulling larger trailers and equipment, but this day it only needed to pull the small trailer.

Also, you act like it is the landscaper's problem for driving the trucks. We haven't even mentioned that fleet deals can be made for the larger trucks so they are actually cheaper than the F150 pricing. That leaves the F150 inventory for the soccer moms.

As if it is a single button that needs to be pushed to "solve"
I certainly hope it is!
We used DC++ in the mid-2000's
After seeing Krebs' post the other day, we now have a call scheduled with my partner's parents who still own a Windows laptop.

I'm going to tell them that they should no longer use it for any sort of financial work. No banks, no shares, nothing. Ever, for any reason.

This stuff is too good now. Most of us -- and I include the tech-literate, because we all slip eventually -- are basically helpless at this point.

Solution? iOS apps, or, I'm sorry, use a Mac. I know it's not immune to malware but for all practical purposes it might as well be.
My pride and joy: http://lipsislips.com
> People are completely fine with the brain damage caused by sports like (US) football

This is totally untrue.

Football is currently in decline, with the greatest drop in youth participation[1]. A major factor seems to be the NFL's inability to keep the stories of brain damage quiet. These things take time but I think there's a good chance the brain damage is going to kill football as a popular sport.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerpielke/2020/01/28/the-decl...
As perhaps with some other HNers, I'm in specialized, technical line of work (robotics) and the SNR for most of content sources is absurdly low. There's just no way for me to put in a reasonable amount of curation effort for subject matters involving my field _at the degree of specialization I need it_ and get meaningful insights back.

Maybe later when my focus or responsibilities have changed, but that runs the risk of keeping a library of curated content that I can't validate at the time I capture it (_because I will have to validate that content later when it aligns with whatever-later-task-is-relevant_).

And this says nothing about the creativity that's sapped by the organizational inefficiency, the clumsy handoffs, the incomplete understanding of what is truly wanted and/or needed at the end of a creative endeavor, and all of the other things that are the sources of hundreds or thousands of cuts at your psyche.
Being 6'3" (190cm) probably made it a whole lot easier to do that, too.

Also I think the last scene in that youtube link is from the 7th season (looks like the admiral from The Pegasus) so I'd hope any uniform issues would be fixed by then.
Hi! Thanks for the thoughtful question.

>List operations just work:

Fair point. Will change. What I really meant here was "(Many) list operations just work" (just like above I said "all kinds of things just work".

> All updates reach the server at the same time. What is the solution to that? Timestamps? Fallback to LLW?

There are a number of issues you might be pointing out, and I'm not sure which one you mean.

In general, you can't use list indexes as identifiers for edit/delete in Reflect because they aren't stable. That's why in this example I commented to use the item itself (if atomic) or more likely a stable ID: https://i.imgur.com/IKzmf0q.png

There is also the potential issue of User C's inserts getting deleted. This seems like a problem at first, but in a realtime collaborative context, nothing can fix this. User C's insert can land just before User A or B's delete. In this case, sync would be correct to delete user C's insert, no matter the protocol. But User C might still be sad. From her perspective, she just wrote something and it got deleted. This is the nature of two humans working in the same place at the same time and potentially having different intentions. For these problems, undo and presence indicators go a long way to avoid these problems through human/social mechanisms.
> Reinforced concrete crumbles after a few decades due to steel expanding under corrosion

This is caused by pore water. By comparison, mud bricks crumble instantly if they get wet, not "after a few decades".

> Reinforced concrete doesn't make buildings earthquake-proof, (properly enforced) earthquake safety regulations do.

Compared to mud bricks? Yes, yes, it does.

I'm sorry, reinforced concrete is a better building material than unbaked mud bricks by every possible metric, except maybe cost..
Really well written article, better than any mainstream news coverage I've seen in a while.