skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you!

Integration with Python: Xonsh defines a language that is a superset of Python and shell, as I understand it. Marcel takes a different approach, defining only a bash-like shell language. Any customization is done in Python, delimited by parens. The separation between shell and Python is much stricter. Also, Marcel provides a Python API so that you can write shell-like marcel commands inside of a Python program. Shelling out from Python is notoriously ugly; the marcel API fixes that.

Sublanguages: In bash, there are lots of sublanguages, e.g. the arguments to 'date', awk, find, sed, and so on. Marcel's idea is to use Python as the sublanguage, because so many people already know it. I guess xonsh has a similar approach here.

Pipes: I think that xonsh, like more familiar shells, pipes strings. Marcel pipes python values in streams. So if you run ls, you don't get a stream of filenames, you get a stream of File objects, and you can operate on them downstream.

Database access: A stream of Python tuples is very similar to database query output. So database access is simple. There is an sql command which produces a stream of Python tuples. And a stream of tuples can be piped into the sql command, e.g. to populated a database.

Remote access: If you have a cluster, you can use marcel to upload a file to all nodes of the cluster, download from the nodes, or to execute the same command on each, streaming results back as streams of python tuples, each with an element identifying the node from which the data originated. I don't think xonsh does this.

https://marceltheshell.org has lots of information and examples of all this.
If a SaaS is approximately as unreliable and insecure as self-managed software, the only reason to still choose it would be for liability reasons. You get to legally blame someone else if things go wrong.

I'm curious whether companies have faced this hard reality and decided that buying liability insurance + doing things inhouse is more economical & better for business.
We really need a points based and much simpler system in the US
That's the grab right there. Elon fired the people that would be needed to keep any semblance of security wrapped around user's financial information.

Right now they're surviving on residual control held over (but possibly not maintained) from more than a year ago, and simple pure luck.
But is it possible to make this work for bookmarks (or better yet, links) that already exist? It will be great if it can.
There isn't such thing a global "free market". Other than that, you've accurately described why there are sharp political divides about globalization manifesting in many nations today.
Municipal fiber in Chattanooga is the same way and it’s nearly 15 years old at this point.

Customer service and speed hasn’t declined and prices haven’t gone up (they haven’t even kept pace with inflation) like the naysayers predicted.
> The FizzBuzz test came about for similar reasons in 2007 - long before government pressures for DEI quotas[1].

Government pressure for hiring quotas goes back to the 1970s.
Not OP, but Cleveland is kinda great kinda terrible. I spent a few years there in my early adulthood.

It was once one of the nicest richest cities in America, and it has some of the best cultural institutions in the country as a result. It has every major sports franchise. It has some great architecture. It’s extremely affordable. The food is much better than comparable midwestern cities.

There’s a reason it’s so affordable. Jobs are not plentiful. The weather is terrible. Infrastructure is lackluster. It’s somehow a city of townies, not somewhere like SFBA/NYC that’s full of people that have big goals and ambitions and worldly experiences. Good and bad.

It does really seem like a city on the rise. At least when I was there last. They’re really investing in themselves, but the population has a really gloomy self image that honestly got me down.
Show HN: Free big glossary ebooks to help job-seekers
Hi HN, the recent post about job-seekers having turbulent times reached me. I maintain a handful of ebooks for technical topics, where each book is a big glossary of terminology created by ChatGPT and my proofreading, sanity checking, and editing.

The topics cover software programming, project management, UI/UX, business lingo, innovation partnerships, etc.

You're able to download them for free, or pay what you wish. If you would like to suggest topics to be added, you can email me at joel@joelparkerhenderson.com or do a GitHub issue.

Good luck out there!

https://github.com/sixarm/?q=big+glossary
Installing Summernote (https://summernote.org) was easy. ProseMirror and Lexical seem much more complicated.
It’s a bad time for being in the market for a car.

ICE cars don’t make sense. Tesla is a no because of Musk. The other brands are not there yet in EV(in terms or range or charging network).

I concluded the best car to buy today is a Prius. If you can find one…
The system was never “worse” it’s been always bad, taking the power from people and gave it to the banks, who happens to be real owner, in fact, even if you are wealthy and bought it with the whole price upfront, the system still requires you to pay hefty taxes that if you don’t, the municipal can have a lien on your property and claim it, aka: they took your home.. the whole system is rigged, especially when money from bankers is theoretically unlimited since they can print more in any “crisis” to keep the system up while you, grind your whole life on something you never owned.
This sounds more like a PE Exam equivalent for software engineering which I honestly think should be put into place since most traditional engineering industries have this already.
I imagine the temperature gradient across the car might be +/- 3degC, ignoring the actual sensor.
That's already supposed to be the case, but the problem is that it is ridiculously easy to abuse as companies will just do stuff like low-balling salaries and putting really specific requirements on the job posting. Instead, we really need to be giving visas to *people* and not *corporations* since this whole program is predicated on the idea that certain industries have shortages of skilled workers.
How to Build Your Own AI-Generated Images with ControlNet and Stable Diffusion
You can say that you signed an NDA or your employment agreement with the company forbids you from sharing those details. It might also be the case the interviewers are testing you and assessing how easy it is go get proprietary information out of you. If the HR insists, be polite and repeat your message. Explicitly mention that you are not comfortable to disclose information related to your previous company and happy to share more details about your expertise.
This post really reminds me of Keahi Seymour. I forget where I first learned of him, but it may have been an HN post because he was the subject of an article about pursuing a dream for 30 years and failing. But basically, the story is that he wants to produce and sell “bionic boots”. I forget the exact challenges he has faced in getting his goals met, but apparently he does have a working prototype of some sort that is used in a YouTube video.
> discrimination on immutable characteristics is bad no matter what.

Why?

I feel like "immutable characteristics" is a thing people reach for as an attempt to generalize/rationalize things like "suspect classification" and other groupings of protected characteristics into a simple rule without understanding the rationale that goes into the thing they are generalizing, without a really good reason (and even though it doesn't fit the established categories; e.g., two of the four standard things that qualify as a "suspect classification" for government discrimination are mutable associations -- religion and alienage -- while the other two are, at least normally conceived as, immutable -- race and national origin.)
https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Unicode+and+UTF-8 This is what I referred to, which makes it look like emoji support is spotty. But that's all I read!
I’m confused why 1Password publicly reported this if there was no damage.
> a world leader saying something very dangerous and scary. i.e. Putin could announce an all-out invasion of the US, Biden could announce aliens have landed and are here to exterminate us, etc. etc.

Who needs deep fakes when you have hot mics?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_begin_bombing_in_five_minut...
> If you jump in to advocate support of Palestinians / Gaza, but didn't express any support for Israelis / Israel when Hamas

The vast majority of people are doing the opposite. Advocating support of Israel without expressing any support for innocent palestinians. The media seems especially bad about this, focusing exclusively on people who didn;t condemn Israel hard enough while ignoring the thousands of Palestinians that have been killed in settler terrorist attacks, which are implicitly supoorted by Bibi and the current regime. Israeli settlers continue to massacre palestinians in the west bank. Terrorism is never acceptable, but it unfortunately will continue as long as palestinians feel they're not respected by israel. That's just reality. I'm not advocating for naive peace talks, but you can't continue to be surprised when the prisoners rise up. And I struggle to think of any other word to describe gazans.
Have you tried using prescription-strength probiotics such as Visbiome to maybe help out-compete the candida? Also, have you tried just getting her on nystatin or some other antifungal? That might make the special diet unnecessary.
In a sense; yes. On the other hand, there are a surprising number of aspects where the parties inexplicably agree to do something, or not do something, when their constituents don't agree ("Uniparty" behavior). Note that I am not talking about what they vocally support, but what they choose to do or not do.

Examples: Right to Repair. Housing affordability. Inflation. Surveillance state. TSA ineffectiveness. China. Etc.
So they just choose to rig the market by limiting the supply?

I find this motivation, misguided. The more people work, the more prosperous the place is. You can’t just limit the number of workers and create prosperity because you’re paid in something that you can’t use directly.

Do you think that you can limit the number of workers to 10% of population and get incredibly high salaries, and just tax them so high and distribute the money to the unemployed? If you can do that, then you will have a bohemian society where everyone is having a great time or being paid amazingly. However, you can’t have that your society needs to produce as much as consumes.
I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think that hiring a SaaS provider shields you from any liability that you would otherwise be subject to. If 1Password were to suffer a massive data breach as a result of this, historical precedent says that there'd be no liability anyway, but if there were liability I can't see them getting out of it by blaming Okta.
The headline is clearly meant to give laypeople the impression that it makes permanent changes to pest (and presumably human) consumers, so I think it does need to be pushed back against.

You're also assuming humans have homology to the RNA being used here, which they don't. You can find the paper describing it here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8650841/

I BLASTed the sequence against the human genome and it found no hits at all, so it's not clear to me how this would have any effect on us. You can see the results here for the next two days: https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?CMD=Get&RID=KE1GEND...
> The disturbing thought is "would they be in jail had they succeeded in dragging
Pence bodily out and hanging him?"

We're fully into the realm of hypotheticals now, but I suspect not,
and we would be in a new history written by the victors - terrifying
as that would be.

> As an engineer, that makes me question the robustness of the
protections.

Rightly so. And maybe we would be in another rotten phase of bloodshed
and chaos. But as a fellow engineer, maybe with a little more
scepticism, I question whether an engineering approach to human destiny
is such a great stance. Without asking "Protection of what, for whom,
from who, and to what end?" we're trying to engineer against change in
the abstract, without a full understanding of what that might be.

After all that's happened, all those people who supported Trump are
still around, and still harbouring their disaffected ideas. We must
deal with them as we find them, as fellow humans.

Silencing any group, no matter how much we disagree with them is only
a road to more trouble.

Anyway, I'll probably miss further in this thread, so an interesting
and thoughtful exchange, Thankyou.
I'm one of those people with two Apple IDs that I'll never be able to merge. One is my original iTunes account which has all my media purchases. The other is my iCloud account. The ordeal for merging them if you wanted to do it manually is this:

https://www.brianstucki.com/blog/how-to-manually-merge-two-a...

I don't know how many folks are in this situation, but obviously not enough for Apple to care about offering a solution.
I saw one on a PS/2 once, long long after it was top of the line. Kept it around as an amusement piece for awhile but had no disks for it.
I wrote a test automation component for executing a distributed peer-to-peer application in the browser. You could adapt it to fit your needs.

All aspects of the tests are defined as a TypeScript interface so the code editor literally tells you how to complete a test object with the required properties and what the choice of values are.

Here is an old video about it from Feb 2021. It’s much faster and improved now.

https://prettydiff.com/share-test-automation.mp4
Labor shortages in highly paid and sought after jobs are a myth. We have a massive labor force in the US, and any "shortage" could be addressed by training paid for by the employers. Of course they would rather import cheap foreign labor, but we are under no obligation to allow them to do so.
I don't see why we are a long way away. At the sandstorm end, we need to get to the point, where all updates (of both sandstorm and the apps) on the user machine are automatic. Much like they are automatic on various OSes (mobile OSes in particular but also MacOS/Windows). This is not impossible if a single OS like Debian-testing is targeted.

Mailinabox [1] almost does it. They target Ubuntu stable, and upgrades are mostly silent. But they needed user intervention when Ubuntu had to be upgraded from 18.10 to 22.04, which was quite challenging.

If sandstorm can get there, then putting it into a RPi box is simple. What's difficult is helping the general public understand the importance of protecting their data, so such a product has a reasonable market.

[1] https://mailinabox.email/
This reminds me of the adult "strip poker" games that were so popular in the 80's. Only now it would be way more like sitting in the room with actual humans instead of pixelated cartoons.
> only reason to still choose it would be for liability reasons

That’s not a reason. Haven’t you read any terms of service and user agreements? The vendor never accepts responsibility.
I'm encouraged by this, and the steps they took to implement additional precautions for the future. I would guess that was the goal of this release.
I think you’re underestimating the agony of a overland trek through Central America…
That idea is covered in the bottom of the article.

The problem is that it also biases towards much more senior roles.

One scenario we generally want to handle is: a person comes to the US, gets an advanced degree in a high-demand field at a US university... and then is immediately kicked back to their country of origin. H1Bs can help that person stay here and put down roots. But a fresh college grad is never going to be able to compete in a salary-based auction like you're describing, so pretty much all young, ambitious, well-educated people will get the boot.
>or being paid less and remaining uncredited because AI was used to write/edit (a portion of) a script, respectively.

Here are the demands from the WGA:

https://www.wga.org/uploadedfiles/members/member_info/contra...

Their proposals were:

>Regulate use of artificial intelligence on MBA-covered projects: AI can’t write or rewrite literary material; can’t be used as source material; and MBA-covered material can’t be used to train AI

I agree some aspects are about writers protecting themselves from being replaced by AI, but the outright ban on use of them (ie. "can’t write or rewrite literary material") and prohibiting them from being trained seems consistent with the parent's claim of "There is a large group of people who don’t willingly uses new tools when those tools enable all comers to make better, “competing” work product"
There isn’t, but there should be. Not very long time ago there was. The visa regime is something very new.
> There were all these utopian ideas getting floated

Funny how the sales pitch and reality collide, eh?

The sad part is that stupid sales pitches like that are required to get movement. Internet access is 21st century dial tone, the vast majority of people need it to function in normal society. Universal Service was the sort of socialism a fast-growing capitalist society needed; internet service is the same now.

People seem to think of it as a luxury. They're wrong: it is a control mechanism that comes with access to videos of naked people. To the extent you want the machinery of society to keep working, you should want everyone attached, including those smut-loving poor people you seem to want to judge.
He had a kid come out as trans, and a girlfriend leave him for a trans person right before he made this shift as well.
This has specifics: https://blog.1password.com/okta-incident/
What particular killer app do you think is missing?
I was on an H-1B for 10 years. Please don't minimize the ordeals unauthorized immigrants have to go through.

https://www.cfr.org/article/crossing-darien-gap-migrants-ris...
They can remedy a labor shortage by paying more.
Lol someone flagged his comment.
I'm more referring to SLAs and the like.
George W. Bush. Hilary Clinton.

Legacy admissions exist.

There are of course a million other ways people fail upwards.
The H1B system isn't about getting bright minds into the US, it's about filling gaps in US worker skills. It's not meant to benefit immigrants, but US companies.
These are not "Apple One Premier issues", these are "I didn't read" issues, so it surprises me that the guy went and wrote nearly 2000 words expecting others to read about it, but hey, it's his life.

> I didn’t read the fine print on Apple One’s product page that their Individual Plan at $16.95 a month was truly individual.

There are three plans: Individual, Family, and Premier. There's all of nineteen words describing the Family plan, of which "share with up to five people" makes up six. It does not take a degree in literature, scanning the EULA and its fine print, or searching for the scroll of truth in order to understand that the individual plan is for individuals, and the family plan is for families.

He clicked a button that says "not a family plan" and was horrifically shocked to discover that his family was no longer included on the plan. Quelle suprise.

After he realises that his clever plan of closing his eyes and clicking on the cheapest labelled button has not gone as well as he hoped, he contacts support. The support person kindly refunds the plans but that doesn't cancel services until their monthly roll-over date, so he's stuck with extra storage for a month.

> You can save $10 a month by forgoing News & Fitness giving your family 200GB of iCloud+ data before you purchase 6 or 12 terabytes of data but do it in the wrong order and you’re going to have a rough day.

This is not the correct takeaway from the experience. The correct takeaway is "at least read the name of the thing you're purchasing before purchasing it". I have about as much sympathy for this situation as if he had eaten an air freshener instead of an orange because it was cheaper and said "citrus" somewhere on the packaging. No one can help you if you can't help yourself.
Cute. Except SpaceX's rockets are demonstrably the most advanced in the world.

(Hint: Musk didn't program them himself.)
1500 tabs easily touches enough RAM that average computers will keep swapping if that's actually your working set. Which is why any good browser should be completely freezing tabs that haven't been active in a while so their memory can remain swapped out, or even completely unloading them.

Though, 1500 tabs in one window is beyond the point at which it impacts Safari's responsiveness, but that's completely unrelated to the contents of the tabs and is instead the fault of taking way too long to update every NSView in the tab bar.
The video is missing some important parts of the story. To launch a new games platform you have a chicken-and-egg problem where you need developers and users to show up at the same time. The video mentions that Ouya removed some barriers to develop and sell games, but their plan was to pander even harder to users. They hoped that making things extra-appealing to customers would entice more developers to show up. For example, they initially required all games to have a free demo. This was an extra hurdle for developers, especially ones making little indie games that are hard to split up into a free tier and a paid tier. Eventually that requirement was removed.

The hardware was not the problem. Anyway if the business model had been more successful, a follow-up with more powerful hardware at the same price point would have been feasible after two or three years. The failed experiment pointed the way for future indie consoles like the Playdate: you have to pander super hard to developers first, and secondly to customers.

Edit: Oh and if you want to check out what was available, check out the Ouya Collection at https://archive.org/details/Ouya_Compilation_2019_09 It includes APK files for probably every app available on the store at the end of the Ouya's life.
Ah, yep. The original nosql. Variable and fixed length record based storage, that comes with the OS.
Not really. I don’t like the output of GPT-based LLMs. The output sounds too flat. It puts me to sleep. So it will likely have the same effect on the readers.

I find LLMs useful for research. If I want to understand a new term or a new area, asking the LLM a few questions is a quick way of getting a broad overview. Frequently specific details are incorrect but I still get a decent overview. Sometimes I ask it to summarize popular books. In the past I would skim through the reviews on Amazon or skim through the table of contents. The LLM’s summary of the book gives me a quick idea of what it is about and if it is worth investigating further.
You can walk through as well, or rather drive. Just have to plan ahead and have a plausible asylum story. After the war with Ukraine started there was a wave of Russians coming in through the South border. They fly to Mexico or other nearby country, buy a used car with California plates and pretend to be Americans while in line. As soon as they get a over the border to the checkpoint they say “we request political asylum”. Them they get detained for some time and released into the US. There is a whole network of “helpers” who get paid to organize all of it.
What spyware does iOS force on you?
The article is mostly about the lottery, which is really anybody who submits an application. Not necessarily the best and brightest.
I used to be one of those people that had no clue why anyone would need more than 256 gb of storage for anything.

Until I started recording 1-2 hours of 4k video per week (40-80 GB / week). That comes to about 2-4 TB per year if I keep up at this rate.
I'm sure they did and worked on .NET
I love his videos over the podcast despite being the same audio. The imagery he puts up is spot on and in no way filler. I find it aids my understanding of the topics.