skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you forgetting about the Kosovo war? How about the second Chechyan war? What about the Second Intifada? I could come up with a dozen other examples. It was not an era of peace.

That peace only looked like that for Americans? In their little corner of the world? Because their dominance at the time was basically unchallenged for a short period of time.

As for prosperity, yes, it was so for our industry. But it was a bubble. A really bad one. And for most other people it was actually an era of wage/income stagnation. And then a lot of people lost a lot of money in the .com crash.
Network flow monitoring is GA, providing end-to-end traffic visibility
It seems like it would cost X more than $1 in fees to process such a small amount.
2% on apple pay, 1% otherwise. So many other cards offer more cash back.
Love the idea, not so much that price unfortunately. It is out of reach for average people. It is set so high that even if you'll want to lower it you'll piss off the ones that paid that high price.
True, absolutely

It's not just throwing machines out there without proper UX studies and adapted to each case
Neat! Thanks for the detailed writeup.

I had long wanted to understand the interplay between -funwind-tables, -fasynchronous-unwind-tables and -fexceptions since the last is language specific but the first two are not. GCC docs are not of much help in understanding what exactly is going on in each case so i guess i need to do some research and experimentation.
> The system uses a construction adhesive that's stronger than mortar and dry within 45 minute

Notably absent from this demo. And probably a harder problem than just placing bricks down.
As far as I'm aware it is. He's been a great fit for Lotus. Replaced Mike Rempel around 2020.

I saw Lotus in February and they absolutely slayed. One of the tightest live shows I've ever seen. Stage lighting was also some of the most impressive I've witnessed. And Tim can friggin shred.
What about this is creepy or fucked up?
London's Green Cabmen's Shelters
This has internet-time-sucked me like it was 20 years ago.

At least now I can put a name to 'What the frak is Worf sitting on?'
Getting Started in Type Design (2018)
Continuous Integration Survey
Hello everyone,

I'm currently conducting a survey on CI usage and tooling in development teams.

Would you mind filling out this quick form? 5 minutes, non-mandatory answers, and anonymous (unless you want to give me your contact details ^^).

Why am I doing this?

To be honest, I'm actually working on a brand new CI tool, and I'm looking for insights from CI users and experts.

I hope I can count on your help :)

Have a nice day.
Sometimes goal can be extracted from the outcome. Maybe Elon wanted to destroy Twitter. That is a win to humanity. He should acquire tiktok now.
> It’s not like this is some crazy money-making idea from Elon.

It's going to give him real name, street address, and zip/postal code for these users; for a company that makes most of its money off ads, that's absolutely money-making.
It's visible from this video, at least:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPhRb2AF92I&t=78s
Google Adwords already does this, for example.

THere was a period where spammers would run up high charges on prepaid cards and (of course) not actually pay for the ads.
Rush by west to back Israel erodes developing countries' support for Ukraine
You need to follow up the payment barrier with identifying bots and the info (cc+contact) they used to verify their identity.
This doesn't give much more than the other article recently here. Even mostly the same pictures: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37877605
Is It Wrong to Cure Blindness?
Fun fact: the MARC format, used for bibliographic metadata by the majority of libraries that have digital catalogs, included supporting the printing of catalog cards as one of its use cases [1]. To this day a properly maintained library catalog based on MARC could, with some effort, be used to generate an equivalent set of printed catalog cards.

However, printed catalog cards as a backup to the digital catalog have practical problems. For one thing, they are heavy. A full card catalog of a large public library could easily weigh tons [2] and take up space that would be better used for other functions. For another thing, the expense would detract from other library services, and many libraries already suffer from budgetary challenges.

A proper backup strategy is the way with the risk of losing the digital catalog. Besides, libraries have more fundamental problems to deal with regarding the permanence of electronic resources. For example, the fact that libraries largely do not and cannot _own_ the ebooks they circulate causes numerous problems.

[1] https://www.allpurposeguru.com/2021/03/henriette-avram-and-t...
[2] https://blogs.loc.gov/preservation/2022/10/moving-card-catal...
Acled Dashboard
It's the discipline vs passion effect. Discipline can only power you so much. It taps from your willpower reserves, which is limited, and then wait for your willpower to recover.

Passion is the opposite, you have to expend willpower to not do the thing. Once you do the thing, you end up with more energy.

Passion can be destructive in many situations though, especially jobs where your work may be writing docs, meetings, demos, and not doing the thing. So highly passionate people in "the corporation" end up feeling more drained than disciplined people.

But basically what you're seeing is a comparison between the two, instead of seeing it as a normal thing like the sleep/wake cycle.
> For warehouse operations, not everyone needs to be a user in AD

Do you agree that every employee needs work email access and some sort of a user account (for managing their benefits, interacting with payroll systems, etc.)?

If yes, then sure, it can be technically accomplished without AD. However, AD is an extremely well-suited system for managing incredibly large swaths of work accounts. And what’s the other option, running two separate user account management systems in parallel? That’s an insane amount of overhead managing and making sure it actually works. On Amazon scale, it would be a ton of money spent with very questionable results. Things aren’t that simple, and AD is an extremely powerful tool that can handle quite a lot of really quirky and intense scenarios.

> there are a million employees with 2-3 degrees of separation to finance in terms of exchanging spreadsheets

Finance employees are far from the only ones needing tools like spreadsheets/powerpoint/etc. What do you think devs use for writing and sharing design docs? What about presentations (which are used by pretty much everyone working in the corporate)? What about email? Do you think warehousing doesn’t use those at all?

Office is just straight up a good overall deal. You pay for a seat and you get all the Office tools (word/excel/etc), Teams, AD, Outlook, Onedrive/Sharepoint, etc. If your user touches even one of those, it makes sense to just say screw it and get a license seat for everyone, even from just the overhead costs perspective.

I am not saying that MS Office is the end-all. My current place uses Google offerings instead, but the general idea is the same.
This is such a long-winded way of saying "newer CPUs are faster than older ones" that it feels like spam. I have to hit the flag button on this.
Nuclear reactors startups with Cherenkov radiation
The test to me is M&S on Waterloo Station. At 6pm it seems the world is in this slightly claustrophobic but big enough supermarket. There is one queue (as there should be) and it is a steady walk. At the end are a big array of self service tills, always several to spare, and several staff guiding people. Something that feels like it should be a nightmare is actually a good experience.
When I explain database indexing to new folks I start with a mini-lecture on card catalogs, complete with images. Even young folks who never saw one can _very_ quickly understand what it's for and how it works. And then when you point out that a database index is pretty much the same thing a light bulb goes off.

"Why does a new index cost disk space?" "It's a whole new wooden cabinet"

"Why is re-indexing expensive?" "Look at all those cards! Each one needs to be regenerated"

And so on.
I was on the same boat and did not buy one either. As they seemed to have hit some funding issues (even with Vitalik's investment), maybe it was a self fulfilling prophecy...
And payment processors can also identify these. And most of them you have to purchase with a minimum amount on ($10 or $20 afaik).

Virtual debit cards however are interesting. My bank lets me set up as many of those as I like and I don't even have to use my real name or billing address with them.

And yeah, there's also the stolen credit card / debit card market. I really can't see this adding that much pain for these bot handlers. It might make it a bit easier to identify the patterns at least.

I think this will just end up moving the problem further down the line and end up with twitter accounts being bought / sold.
For USA it's old. Our country is not even 300 yr yet and some of this New England stuff was settled in 1630s.
CDC Changed the Way I Build Software
Why don't bricklayers use this magical substance? If there's nothing to even out the courses, then unless your bricks have absolutely perfect dimensions, it's going to go all wonky quite quickly.
Sakrete makes a surface bonding cement for building mortarless walls: https://www.lowes.com/pd/Sakrete-50-lb-Cement/3340656

I doubt that's what the robot is using, but it is a faster way to build block walls by hand.
https://youtu.be/p_ZopnZ94Uc?feature=shared
What we have with the old Wired / Kevin Kelly article (which was ridiculous at the time and I and others lambasted it at publication BTW), and also with the recent Andreesen thing is textbook ideology: I insist that what makes my livelihood possible and makes me prosperous and powerful is what is true and universal and natural for everyone.

It's not surprising or anything that people would think this in these patterns, but it betrays a lack of critical conscience.

It's a class of people mostly centered around California, who have strong interests economically and politically and who benefit directly by promulgating that vision to the whole world. Whether the rest of the world benefits is always a matter of dispute -- some will, some won't. Both this and Andreesen's recent screed lack any subtlety on this matter.

I commented elsewhere about how that era was by no means some neo-liberal utopia. There was war all over the world and there's clearly in retrospect nothing prophetically smart about declaring a "long boom" right on the cusp of the insane .com crash and the 2008 blow-up right after (arguably part of a contiguous economic crisis.)

It's no different than climate change denial by people working in the energy sector.
No, it’s not a guarantee, it’s just a noisy filter with a very high false negative rate and a high enough false positive rate (as visible in malpractice insurance).
I remember having to send a euro for a service (can't remember which, only that I was building my rack at the time, but it might have been for a car pooling service), but it was immediately reimbursed upon reception from the service provider.
One of the main points of Llemma is being an open-source reproduction of Minerva, so basically that's the only comparison they "need" to make. Besides, isn't WizardMath trained on GPT-4 output? They may want to be comparing only among models that can be used commercially
I won’t go over their history, but they’ve saved me in the past.

Here’s to hoping we get a modern FS soon!
I haven’t visited your website but just the title makes me think of IBM Lotus iNotes groupware (or whatever it was called) that had many integrated apps such as calendar, email, schedule, to do list manager, notebook, some sort of forms manager for filling expense reports and such, etc etc and was an absolutely nightmare to use. IIRC it had a web based interface as well as a stand-alone program. It was so bad I have blocked out all memory of using it!

Invariably all in one products fall behind as new capabilities are needed as the user base grows and their needs evolve. Integrating new functions gets harder and harder. What I’d like to see is a graphical version of the Unix philosophy of making it easier to connect together programs, each of which handles one kind of thing, with a “shell” around them. May be come up with a richer, self describing data structure to interconnect these apps.
FTA: Top five hottest

1. Pepper X: 2.69 million units

2. Carolina Reaper: 1.64 million units

3. Trinidad Scorpion Butch T: 1.46 million units

4. Naga Viper: 1.38 million units

5. Trinidad Moruga scorpion: 1.2 million units
Maybe it will live on with the advent of fantasy consoles/computers. PICO-8 and similar systems provide the same kind of time and space limitations as the old systems, which still encourages a certain amount of creativity and ingenuity.
Thank you. Never thought of doing quick'n'dirty CSS changes through uBlock.
Just finished reading the bio so I can clarify this a bit. Despite what it sounds like out of context the take away was that he did know the App Store rules but he was under the (wrong) impression a company of that scale could speak with Apple and get the data anyway.
I think the best way to consider it.. is as a 3-d cloud of individually addressable pixels. The size of the cloud is dimensions of real-time rendering.
build2 use the module mapper API which was available long before 2021: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C_002b_002b-Module-Mapper... You can try the examples here https://github.com/build2/cxx20-modules-examples/ with GCC 13 or 12 to confirm, if you wish.

> given communication APIs for GCC just landed in its main branch a month ago

Can you elaborate on what are these "communication APIs"?
What hide and submit links are near each other? Submit at top of site... Hide in the individual post headers... Huh?

...oh do you mean the individual post's link in the timestamp? Right. But why are you clicking that? To copy link maybe?
We ran a $12K experiment to test the cost and performance of Serverless warehouses and dbt concurrent threads, and obtained unexpected results.
New Exosuit Improves Runners Sprinting Speed
A Third of Organizations Not Ready to Comply with NIS2
This isn't a criticism of the practice but I did think it might be more effective to use something in safety green or orange, maybe with reflective surface, or maybe blinking lights. But I'm not an expert with this, and I can see how a straw bale might also catch your attention.
One CC.

Only Twitter will know that the 10,000 accounts are bots. It'd be up to them to ban, but why would they ever ban a high-paying customer who is paying literally 10,000x more than the typical user?
I had exactly one customer that used and loved Chime. For their use case, Chime was also cheaper than getting all their user base on O365.

I also did not dislike Chime when I worked at AWS. Turns out that I have never updated my Chime client from version 4. After I left, I got into a call with somebody at AWS and hoooo boy, what piece of crap the new client is.

The funny thing was people complaining about Chime's call quality and praising Slack's. It's exactly the same thing, Slack video call is a Chime SDK implementation.
Scroll’s mainnet became available to the public this Tuesday, October 17, adding a new option to Ethereum’s list of second-layer networks. Scroll hardens the security-centric approach using zero-knowledge (zero knowledge or ZK) proofs.
>Employers don't require their employees to be members of a professional order because they think professional orders are nifty

I didn't say they do it for nifty-ness. At risk of repeating myself again: if it is a requirement of my position, I get my employer to pay for it. Why it is a requirement doesn't matter to me.

If you want to pay for and do continuing education things on your own time and dollar, I'm not going to stop you.

>But I feel like one could argue that the informal expectation of software engineers to care about software

I didn't say I don't care. I just have plenty of other things that I care about that take priority when I am not working (spending time with my family, friends, doing other hobbies, etc.).
Couldn't have you just used `X-Frame-Options` header to disallow usage of your game in another origins' <iframe>?
Interesting. It could be that I never noticed before because I wasn't as active (and have gained a couple followers in the meantime, thus becoming a slightly more attractive target). In any case it's now bad enough to make me reconsider using the platform at all (that and the promoted replies and tweets by blue checkmarks). Related to your remark about reports: my last few spam reports got the reply that the tweets didn't violate the "sensitive content policy", even though I reported them as spam, not sensitive content. So something seems to be broken about the report system now too.
Can keep the confirmation link in the same place as the hide link (e.g. make Sure clickable). Then it's just double click.
In some cases I agree, but in this case it might be that making the top text darker would contrast too grossly with the bright white background of the textbox below, making it painful. I actually think it's rather balanced.

It could also be observing the necessary humility of offering a submission to be judged and engaged with by the larger community. In this community "light slate gray", or thereabouts, is the "Hessian sack of humility".
It’s all relative. There was conflict. But the Cold War was over and 9/11 hadn’t happened yet.

It was a very optimistic time.
There’s a few ways to skin a cat. The more I research, the less popular side-chaining seems in general. What’s more common is side-chaining with ghost notes or manually ducking by drawing envelopes in automation lanes.
You mean like this?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13387723

(app.net)
If meta adds a head automatically to everyone else you interact with that is wearing one such that you can not tell they aren’t also in VR, that would be awesome for party games.
I saw this yesterday and was thinking a little about this last night.

In traditional software you write explicit behavioural rules and then expect those rules to be followed exactly as intended. Where those rules are circumvented we call it an "exploit" since it's typically exploiting some gap in the logic, perhaps by injecting some code or an unexpected payload.

But with these LLMs there are no explicit rules to exploit, instead it's more like a human in that it just does what it believes the person on the other side of the chat window wants from it, and that is going to depend largely on the context of the conversation and it's level of reasoning and understanding.

Calling this an "exploit" or "prompt injection" perhaps isn't the best way to describe what's happening. Those terms assume there is some predefined behaviour rules which are being circumvented, but those rules don't exist. Instead this more similar to deception, where a person is tricked into doing something that they otherwise wouldn't of had they had the extra context (and perhaps intelligence) needed to identify the deceptive behaviour.

I think as these models progress we'll think about "exploiting" these models similar to how we think about "exploiting" humans in that we'll think about how we can effectively deceive the model into doing things it otherwise would not.
New Apple research highlights the health benefits of pickleball
MuJoCo 3
Acled Cast: Conflict Alert System
The other saying "if you pay for the product, you are still the product" has also been said forever, and that hope re no tracking /ads isn't grounded
Ring Cameras Have the Power to Perpetuate Bias to Police
You can bury them deeper after being laid in trenches created using undersea ploughs or water jets. They will always be vulnerable where they came to shore though, unless you're going to bury them deep all the way to the equipment hut on the shore. There is undersea concrete available for vulnerable paths (both articulated blocks and a mix that can be grouted and will set underwater), but I believe that likely draws more unwanted attention to the asset's route without providing much more protection.

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/re...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9tRmJLOCdg
Make life multi planetary? Nah.

Try to clone WeChat in the US but with more trolls? Now that’s important to the human future.
The people making those charges don't care about the accounts; they're using the $1 charge to test that the stolen card details work before going and buying a $500 gift card somewhere else.

The victim eventually does a chargeback, which are expensive and risk your merchant account.
It is nice to see the store doing well. Unfortunately, my partner and I are pretty much all-in on ebooks at this point, aside from the odd graphic novel or coffee table book. I did manage to convince her to switch away from her Kindle to a Nook, with the idea that at least B&N would continue to get a cut of the sales when she stops buying physical. But even then, it's unlikely that a purchased Nook title would benefit our nearby store specifically, unless B&N somehow tracks the store from which the device was purchased.

Meanwhile, I'm rocking a Kobo, so, the only recurring business from me they're getting these days is the tin of tea I buy at their cafe.

Nonetheless, I still enjoy going there to browse. The new management seems to have a better "vision" of what the store should be, whereas the previous few years just screamed desperation. The place was starting to feel like half bookstore, half Toys 'R Us.
I don't agree that it should be forestalled but this is an update to non api users. The default text only model has been replaced.
My gut reaction (pun intended) or guess on what causes Long Covid is a viral reservoir, possibly in the gut, that the immune system cannot fully clear. Low serotonin is then a downstream effect from the chronic stress on the body. Approx. 90% of serotonin found in the human body is located in the (GI) tract. So people and doctors will throw SSRIs at the problem, and maybe that will relieve some symptoms, but will not address the fundamental cause. Reference: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10171832/
Starlink enters the chat.

Most people don't know but Starlink's ambition is to capture only a small part of retail market (a person buying a starlink terminal) but a big chunk of backbone traffic.

That's why latest version of the satellites have lasers to beam data between satellites so that they don't need to go back and forth between satellites and base stations.

That business will be direct competitor to under sea cables.

Fun fact: light travels a bit faster in space than in an optic cable.

Microsoft has already did partnership with Spacex for Azure: https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/digital-transform...
Couldn't you say the same about undersea pipeline which did get attacked?
It’s a long manifesto, so I only quickly skimmed it.

But I didn’t see any mention of negative externalities and how to best mitigate them.

That’s a pretty damning flaw.
For added aviation realism, the shuttle seats should have been worn and stained and covered by fake sheepskin seat covers.
not sure if this is what you mean; but you can make a backup file (ova) of your VM and it'll run on any platform that Virtualbox supports. As far as I know, qemu doesn't have an option like that, nor does VMWare Player. I don't know what Workstation does or doesn't have in that regard.
also it would make little sense to build walls around it
TBH this highlights even more how out of touch they are -- too used to living in a bubble where the rich can get what they want and bypass rules that apply to regular folk.
Qemu might actually be easier for that use case?